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August 6, 2009

Black Ice is AC/DC’s first studio album in over eight years, since 2000’s Stiff Upper Lip. Deluxe edition includes 30-page booklet with lyrics and exclusive photos.
Track listing:
1. Rock N’ Roll Train
2. Skies on Fire
3. Big Jack
4. Anything Goes
5. War Machine
6. Smash N’ Grab
7. Spoilin’ For A Fight
8. Wheels
9. Decibel
10. Stormy May Day
11. She Likes Rock N’ Roll
12. Money Made
13. Rock N’ Roll Dream
14. Rocking All the Way
15. Black Ice
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August 3, 2009

essential recording
What Highway to Hell has that Back in Black doesn’t is Bon Scott, AC/DC’s original lead singer who died just months after this album was released. Scott had a rusty, raspy, scream of a voice, like he might break into a coughing fit at any moment. In other words, on crunchy, hook-heavy metal classics like the title track, and on “Get It Hot” which is more roadhouse rock than metal, he had the perfect instrument for such wild-living anthems. Too perfect, it turned (more…)
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July 26, 2009

essential recording
Most critics complain Back in Black, the album AC/DC recorded after the death of their original lead screamer Bon Scott, is ridiculously juvenile, obvious, snickering, bludgeoning, derivative, single-minded about sex and booze, a big cartoon. All true, of course, and–on rock ‘n’ ragers like “What Do You Do For Money Honey,” “You Shook Me All Night Long,” and the title track–all great. As Scott’s replacement Brian Johnson reminds us, loud and crunchy, no-holds- (more…)
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July 1, 2009

Lesser bands might have been put off their stride by the death of their lead singer, but not AC/DC. No sooner had Bon Scott met his whiskey-sodden end in 1980 than AC/DC recruited a new singer, Brian Johnson–who sounded almost exactly like Scott–and released, in Back in Black, the biggest-selling album of their career. For Those About to Rock…We Salute You is a suitably triumphant follow-up. The cannon-punctuated title track–the most auspicious marriage of music and artillery (more…)
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June 3, 2009

essential recording
AC/DC’s second U.S. release took the raw energy from their debut, High Voltage, up a notch, producing another huge collection of driving, intense songs for serious headbanging, but adding a bit more professionalism into the equation. The songwriting and production are tighter and more focused, and standouts such as “Whole Lotta Rosie,” “Problem Child,” “Let There Be Rock,” and “Bad Boy Boogie” almost have to fight with “filler” like “Go Down” and “Hell Ain’t a B (more…)
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May 25, 2009

Digitally remastered European vinyl LP pressing of this 1988 release from the Australian Hard Rockers, reissued to coincide with their 2008 studio release and world tour. 10 tracks. Sony/BMG.
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May 22, 2009
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May 21, 2009
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May 19, 2009
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May 16, 2009

Black Ice is AC/DC’s first studio album in over eight years, since 2000’s Stiff Upper Lip.
Track listing:
1. Rock N’ Roll Train
2. Skies on Fire
3. Big Jack
4. Anything Goes
5. War Machine
6. Smash N’ Grab
7. Spoilin’ For A Fight
8. Wheels
9. Decibel
10. Stormy May Day
11. She Likes Rock N’ Roll
12. Money Made
13. Rock N’ Roll Dream
14. Rocking All the Way
15. Black Ice
(more…)
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