This will be #1 of an ongoing bi-weekly "showdown" series.  The question and choices for each showdown will be left for two weeks and the winner announced at the end of this two week period. After the winner of the respective showdown is announced the next showdown will start!  Should be fun!  Once you have made your choice and casted your vote give your "argument" as to why you chose as you did.

I choose Bon Scott hands down.

Why?  Both Bon and Brian had the "right" voice for the band and both had some staples in the history of  all-time best rock albums.  Brian Johnson's Magnum Opus with the group would be Back in Black while I would say Bon Scott's was Highway to Hell.

Comparing the two albums I would probably give a slight edge to Back in Black although both are definitely solid.  The deciding factor for my choice of Bon however goes beyond the "best AC/DC" record, it came down to the catlogue under each frontman.

In my opinion only two records really were excellent with Brian, those being Back in Black and The Razor's Edge.  Back in Black was pure gold but it took exactly a decade for AC/DC to put out another album that was anywhere near the brilliance of Back in Black.  In between there were a couple of decent albums but nothing amazing.  For Those About To Rock was as close as a "solid album" they came up with in between 1980's Back in Black and 1990's Razor's Edge.  Since then what have they really done...I can't remember either. Enough said.

With Bon Scott you have the excellent Let There Be Rock, High Voltage, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Powerage, Highway to Hell and one of my top ten best live albums of all time, If You Want Blood...You
Got It.  None of these top Brian Johnson's Back in Black (or possibly even The Razor's Edge) but ALL of these are BETTER than anything else AC/DC has ever done and they did this in a period of about 5 years.  Six VERY solid albums in five years with Bon vs two solid albums with Brian in 28 years! 

Bon wins easily in my mind.