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Nov 22, 2019 · Legendary Songs from the Early Days by AC/DC released in 2019. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
- Soul Stripper
- Rock’N’Roll Train
- High Voltage
- Play Ball
- Bedlam in Belgium
- Evil Walks
- Stiff Upper Lip
- Hail Caesar
- Ain’T No Fun
- Big Gun
In their infancy, AC/DCweren’t tied to one style. Their first Australian album even featured this intriguing example of a kind of troglodytic hard-rock funk, with cowbells and bongos, neither of which were to become staples of the Akker Dakker sound.
For many years now, the best AC/DC track on any given album has been the lead single. 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.
“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. It is hardly imaginative musically – a simple boogie shuffle – but feel the hard dryness of the sound.
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.
After three albums with Mutt Lange, the Young brothers took control for Flick of the Switch. Viewed as underwhelming at the time, it now sounds like a masterpiece compared to much of what followed. A little muddy, perhaps, but this is a great riff.
A 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.
The Youngs’ older brother George – who, with Harry Vanda, had overseen their early albums – returned to produce Stiff Upper Lip. It wasn’t an album of huge riffs – it was more concerned with the texture of the sound. This eponymous song is good, but not classic.
Rick Rubin should have been the perfect AC/DC producer, but Ballbreaker sounded oddly emasculated, without the jet roar of the guitars. On the twisting, tumbling Hail Caesar it worked, though.
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.”
A rare one-off, from The Last Action Hero soundtrack, that really deserved saving for an official album: terrific riff, good recording. 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.
Nov 22, 2019 · Released. 2018 — Netherlands. Vinyl —. LP, Unofficial Release. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2019 Vinyl release of "Legendary Songs From The Early Days " on Discogs.
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- Fraser Lewry
- Thunderstruck. Introduced by an electrifying Angus Young riff - he said recently that he’ll retire when he can no longer play it - comprised of hammer-on and pull-off fingering on an open B string, the track builds dynamically using terrace chants and new drummer Chris Slade’s brutal but simplistic poundings to emerge as a state-of-the-art stadium leveller.
- Whole Lotta Rosie. When Classic Rock’s Geoff Barton launched a new heavy metal magazine in 1981 – named, of course, Kerrang! – it featured a poll of the 100 greatest HM tracks of all time, as voted by the public.
- Highway to Hell. Angus on the cover with devil’s horns and a Satanic tail? Highway To Hell? Devil worshipping metallers eh? Nope, a song about what life is like being in a band.
- You Shook Me All Night Long. The first single AC/DC released after Bon Scott’s death didn’t sound like the work of a grieving band. ‘ She was a fast machine, She kept her motor clean’ leered Beano in a manner Bon Scott would have been proud of.
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Jun 4, 2021 · AC/DC in London, 1976(Image credit: Michael Putland/Getty Images) Two of Angus Young’s schoolboy outfits have just arrived back from the dry cleaner’s – one red, one black, each is folded neatly inside rustling, protective clear plastic. Coral, AC/DC ’s publicist, holds up the tiny velveteen twin-sets and casts a critical eye over them.
