Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Get it hot (AC/DC) (LP190)

AC/DC Highway To Hell (CD - Point Classics, 1994) ***

Genre:  Australian pop/rock

Places I remember:  The Warehouse (Taupo)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Shot Down In Flames




Gear costume:  Get It Hot

Active compensatory factors: RIP Bon Scott. This was his last album with the boys, the Aussie tearaways, of AC/DC. Within a year he was dead. Another rock casualty - too young. That was nearly forty years ago!

The Youngs continued, of course. Whether it's the death of a lead singer or a brother (RIP Malcolm Young), or Phil Rudd's drug problems - nothing derails the AC/DC machine. Malcolm or Bon wouldn't have it any other way!

As a final album, it's a good one. Riffage aplenty and a tough production from Mutt Lange complement some typically robust AC/DC songs. Would we have it any other way?  

Where do they all belong? After Bon came the mega selling Back In Black but AC/DC would never be this innocent and fun again.

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