No concept albums, disco-flavored single, grunge makeover, or virtue signaling.
Just raw, stadium-filling songs about good times, hot gals and hotter Hell, delivered with razor vocals, lighting guitar and mattress grooves.
All hail AC/DC, hard-rock's ultimate no-frills superstars.
Since emerging from Sydney, Australia in the mid '70s, AC/DC has given us a continent of immortal tracks. "Highway to Hell," "You Shook Me All Night Long," "Sin City," "Hells Bells," "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)," "Whole Lotta Rosie," "Shoot to Thrill," "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)," "Thunderstruck," "T.N.T.," and more. That's just a start.
"Now, as late great AC/DC frontman Bon Scott used to sing, let there be rock."
The 10 Most Underrated AC/DC Songs
Many consider 1983's "Flick of the Switch" a lesser AC/DC album. Released after "Back in Black" and "For Those About To Rock", it didn't match its predecessors' sales or cultural impact. Still, as heard on the single "Nervous Shakedown", most bands would kill for this wallop.
"Rocker" is speed-blues bliss. The song first appeared on the 1975 Australian version of AC/DC's debut album "High Voltage", later surfacing on the "Dirty Deeds Done Cheap" album internationally in '76 but not in the U.S. until '81.
"AC/DC music is usually about tuneful nose-breaking concision."
The band has stretched out a few times on recordings including the six-minute-plus "Overdose", off "Let There Be Rock". This track goes from arpeggiated ache to headbanging boogie—a guitar tangle specimen brothers Angus Young and Malcolm Young blueprinted in AC/DC.
The Drumming Legends: Phil Rudd & Simon Wright
Phil Rudd's tasteful oomph is integral to classic AC/DC albums from 1975 Australia/New Zealand LP "T.N.T.' through Flick of the Switch". But on 1985's "'Fly on the Wall'" through '88's "'Blow Up Your Video'", Simon Wright admirably manned the drumkit proving that even post-"Appetite for Destruction", AC/DC could still hang with young guns they'd inspired.
Bon Scott had a brilliant wry way of writing about life as a rocker trying to make it: "Show Business", off AC/DC's lone EP "'74 Jailbreak", isn't as famous but gives Jimmy Reed-style blues shuffle Angus acceleration while Scott howls lines like:
You learn to sing; you learn to play.
Why don't businessmen ever learn
to pay?
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