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Bulldozer -like, rock -hard riffs. More ambiguities than you can imagine. A strange tight school uniform. These are just a few of the ingredients that have made AC/DC one of the most iconic rock ‘n’ roll bands for the past 45 years. Songs such as “Highway to Hell” and “You Shook Me All Night Long” are classics on rock radio. Your LP “Back in black“ The best -selling album ever would be from 1980. If it “thriller“Don’t give.
The secret of her success has always been her authenticity. When they got out of Sydney in the mid -1970s, the predatory original front man of AC/DC, Bon Scott, sang about the personal sacred trinity of the group. Sex, alcohol and rock ‘n’ roll. And since Brian Johnson took over the helm with his rough voice after Scott’s death, they continue to worship the same altar. “We were accused of doing the same album 12 times”, said Guitarist Angus Young once. “The truth is that we did the same album 15 times.”
The best songs from AC/DC are overloaded with raw, rough riffs and offensive formulations. Regardless of whether Scott browses with his “Big Balls” or Young the “Highway to Hell“Along rest and bluesy, highly voltage-charged solos. As a band, they are relentless and freely. Nobody had to ask themselves whether AC/DC had fun. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Back in black‘ Let’s look back on 25 of their biggest songs. For everyone who wants to rock: we salute you.
“It’s a Long Way to the Top (IF You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll)” (1975)
It was covered by everyone. From Lemmy Kilmister to Lucinda Williams. From Jack Black to Pat Boone. But the first song on the first album of AC/DC published in the USA will always belong to Bon Scott. In fact, out of respect for his predecessor during his more than a quarter of a century, Brian Johnson refrained from performing him at AC/DC.
And despite his rocky riff, “It’s a Long Way to the Top” is undoubtedly a masterpiece by Scott. Starting with the brilliantly blossoming texts that convey the fame and dirt of the rock-‘n ‘roll lifestyle (“Getttin’ Had/Gettin ‘Took/I Tell Ya Folks/It’s Harder Than It Looks”), to his exuberant vocals to his, of course, not particularly skilful bagpipe game.
“Bon could actually play the flute, not bagpipes,” Malcolm Young once opposed Billboard to. “So he played the melody. Then we picked up and added the on -board tune separately, and it sounded fantastic.” –RB
“TNT” (1975)
The title song of the second Australian album of the band (which also on the international version of High voltage was included and later in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby was heard) AC/DC is in its purest essence. The band pounds and grunts through the trimmut with a three -part reef like cave people who disassemble a woolen mammoth, while Bon Scott draws a hilarious, tongue -in -cheek portrait of itself as a “dirty, common and powerful impure” villain with explosive tendencies.
When producer George Young Angus Young heard along the song quietly in the studio, he suggested his little brother to incorporate his “Oi!” Calls into the track. “I was never the best background singer in the world,” Angus recalls in Murray Englharts and Arnaud Derieux ‘ AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll. “So George said: ‘Hey, that’s more your thing.'” –De
“Live Wire” (1975)
This title from 1975, which only in Australia on the album Tnt appeared (the following year he was overseas High voltage published), was never published as a single. But he had such a thrilling groove and reflected Bon Scott’s crazy personality so strongly that he became the band’s standard opener in 1980 until the death of the singer.
“He was loud, clear, deep, threatening and full of rhythm,” said bassist Mark Evans about the song. AC/DC took “Live Wire” out of his repertoire in 1982. But as soon as Axl Rose started as a front man in summer 2016, the song celebrated its glorious comeback. –AG
“Dirty deeds Done Dirty Cheap” (1976)
Despite the lascivious, violent and even murderous services, the Bon Scott in this stamping title song from AC/DCS third Australian album – which finally became a hit in the USA five years after its original publication – offered the song as a kind of homage to the cartoon series Beany and Cecil for children.
“It was a cartoon series when I was a child,” Angus Young told the magazine in 2009 Guitar World. “There is a figure named Dishonest John. He always had a card with him on the ‘Dirty deeds Done Dirt Cheap – Special Rates, Holidays’ (dirty deeds at ridicule prices – special conditions, public holidays). I remembered many of these things. –De
“Big Balls” (1976)
Bon Scott, the always generous host, who sounds both dignified and drunk, brags into “Big Balls” with his expertise in terms of event planning. Or does he speak of something else? The song that was first in 1976 on the album Dirty deeds Done dirt cheap appeared and later became a classic of Classic Rock, the cheekiest (or maybe most courageous) proof of the Scots’ double meanings.
“My eggs always jump/my ballroom is always full/and everyone comes back and come back,” is one line, while another explains: “Some balls are organized for charitable purposes/and some for costume parties/But if they are organized for pleasure, these are the balls that I like best.” The best thing is that Scott says that he could “hardly wait” to tell them about his great eggs.
But even he couldn’t maintain the pun. In an interview with the Rock Australia Magazine From 1976 Scott broke the irony by replacing the interviewer: “I also have [große Eier]. I just checked. ” –Kg