![]() Heatseeker (1988)Įven on their most disappointing albums, there was always at least one absolute cracker. In fact it’s great: the interplay between the guitars, with actual arpeggios, makes it sound just like AC/DC were evolving. ![]() ![]() #AC DC T.N.T. SONGS MOVIE#Recorded for a movie (Maximum Overdrive), and given a terrible mid-80s production, Who Made Who should be a throwaway. #AC DC T.N.T. SONGS FULL#The Highway to Hell album is full of those moments: Get It Hot, Girls Got Rhythm, Shot Down in Flames. If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It) (1979)īorrowing the title from their live album of the year before, If You Want Blood showed – with the help of Lange – that AC/DC could marry their piledriver force to actual pop hooks. Although AC/DC always disdained punk, they could easily have fitted in had they any interest: no band sounded tougher and rougher in 1977. Listen to the way the chords chop off, how nothing is sustained in the verses. The best AC/DC songs make the bassist play root notes. This deep cut from Let There Be Rock has a guitar sound so filthy you could spend the rest of your life scrubbing it with industrial-strength cleaner and you still wouldn’t get the muck off. What shall we write a song about?” “How about having a great time drinking yourself insensible?” “Great idea!” Only in AC/DC’s world … 26. “Lads, our old lead singer just died of acute alcohol poisoning. No idea what a nervous shakedown is, though. It should always be remembered that AC/DC roll as well as rock. The lazy slowness of Nervous Shakedown allows the listener to really hear how the pieces of the AC/DC machine interlock and swing around each other. It Is hard to describe anything AC/DC do as out of character – rarely has one band maintained a single character trait with such devotion – but the opening and chorus melody of Moneytalks is peculiarly reminiscent of latter-day E Street Band, melancholic and triumphant.ĪC/DC in 1979 (from left): Malcolm Young, Bon Scott, Cliff Williams, Angus Young and Phil Rudd. Only Scott would have considered opening a single with the line, “There was a friend of mine on murder, and the judge’s gavel fell …” It’s thrillingly minimal, and it’s well worth having a look at the compellingly terrible video, too. #AC DC T.N.T. SONGS PLUS#Oddly, it has never been played live, although, given that AC/DC sets tend consist of three tracks from the new album, plus the setlist from 1980, maybe that’s not surprising. Big Gun (1993)Ī rare one-off, from The Last Action Hero soundtrack, that really deserved saving for an official album: terrific riff, good recording. This gains its place not for the melody – which is almost nonexistent – but for being one of Scott’s best lyrics: “I’ve got patches on the patches of my old blue jeans / Well, they used to be blue / When they used to be new / When they used to be clean.” 31. Ain’t No Fun (Waiting ’Round To Be a Millionaire) (1976) On the twisting, tumbling Hail Caesar it worked, though. ![]() Rick Rubin should have been the perfect AC/DC producer, but Ballbreaker sounded oddly emasculated, without the jet roar of the guitars. This eponymous song is good, but not classic. It wasn’t an album of huge riffs – it was more concerned with the texture of the sound. The Youngs’ older brother George – who, with Harry Vanda, had overseen their early albums – returned to produce Stiff Upper Lip. Evil Walks (1981)Ī monstrous opening for a deep cut from the last of the Lange albums: it sounds like being engulfed in an avalanche – and a slightly incongruous introduction to the bouncy riff of the verses. A little muddy, perhaps, but this is a great riff. Viewed as underwhelming at the time, it now sounds like a masterpiece compared to much of what followed. Bedlam in Belgium (1983)Īfter three albums with Mutt Lange, the Young brothers took control for Flick of the Switch. The lead single from – to date – the last AC/DC album, assembled from Angus and Malcolm Young’s offcuts: the one song from Rock or Bust that really sounded like it might have fitted on to Back in Black without too many raised eyebrows. It is hardly imaginative musically – a simple boogie shuffle – but feel the hard dryness of the sound. ![]() “And you ask me why I’m in a band / I dig doin’ one night stands,” sings Bon Scott in one of his many considerations of the life of the struggling rock’n’roller. That was the case on 2008’s Black Ice, though I would direct you to the version on Live at River Plate, just for the force of the band’s entry. For many years now, the best AC/DC track on any given album has been the lead single. ![]()
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