Editing Flick of the Switch (section)

==Reception==
{{Album reviews
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/flick-of-the-switch-mw0000188975 |title=AC/DC - Flick of the Switch review |last=Huey |first=Steve |work=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[All Media Network]] |access-date=2020-10-23 }}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
|rev2score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/52633/flick-switch.html|title=Flick of the Switch - Blender|date=13 May 2009|access-date=18 July 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513045702/http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/52633/flick-switch.html|archive-date=13 May 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev3Score = 10/10<ref name="martin" >{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties | publisher = [[Collector's Guide Publishing]] | date = 1 November 2005 | location = [[Burlington, Ontario]], [[Canada]] | isbn = 978-1894959315 | pages= 10–11}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev4Score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2007 |publisher=Omnibus Press |location=United Kingdom |isbn=978-1-84609-856-7 |pages=34 |edition=5th Concise}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev5score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/flick-of-the-switch-19831027|title=Flick of the Switch|website=rollingstone.com|date=27 October 1983 |access-date=18 July 2017}}</ref>

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Recorded shortly after their 1982 [[For Those About to Rock Tour|European tour]] at the beginning of 1983, the album was originally released with little promotion in the US on 19 August 1983. The album reached No. 4 in UK and No. 15 in the US, and has been certified platinum by the RIAA.{{certification Cite Ref|region=United States|type=album|artist=AC/DC|title=Flick of the Switch}} In his original ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' review, [[David Fricke]] noted, "Produced by the band, ''Flick of the Switch'' isn't quite the monster blowout that 1980's ''Back in Black'' was, and the Youngs' retooling of old riffs for new hits also teeters on self-plagiarism at times." Canadian journalist [[Martin Popoff]] considered the album "the blinding furious peak of the Brian Johnson era", where AC/DC recaptured "the raw edge lost during the Mutt Lange years... even if the songs were starting to relive past glories".<ref name="martin"/> Steve Huey of [[AllMusic]] was of the same opinion, writing that "as perhaps indicated by the record's idiotic original title, the utterly generic ''I Like to Rock'', AC/DC seemed to be running out of ideas at an alarming rate, and their record sales began to reflect that fact."<ref name="allmusic"/> Malcolm Young later said of the LP, "It was thrown together real quick. I wouldn't say it's a great album..."<ref name="auto"/>

''[[Cash Box]]'' said of the title track that it "blasts off in suitable fashion with a basic hard rock guitar riff from Angus Young followed by Brian Johnson’s just-as-basic hard rock squeals" and the rest of the song follows in kind, consistent with the song's lyrics that "with a flick of the switch she’ll blow you sky high."<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Reviews|magazine=Cash Box|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1983/CB-1983-12-17.pdf|date=December 17, 1983|accessdate=2022-07-20|page=7}}</ref>