1976 was a fine year for the
rock world. At one end of the planetary axis the Ramones made their debut, and
at the metallic pole AC/DC unleashed their first album, High Voltage. But unlike
the Ramones, these gnarly Aussies--Young brothers Angus and Malcolm, bassist
Mark Evans, drummer Phil Rudd and singer Brian Johnson (who replaced original
frontman Bon Scott when he died in 1980)--have never won critical respect.
Working with a similarly limited palette of chords, AC/DC tapped into the same
primal rock vein as the Ramones, but whipped their take on the trusty old I-IV-V
into a much raunchier rhythmic pitch and imbued it with an irrepressibly (often
hilariously) libidinous outlook. The music is raw, monomaniacal and full of
essential rock spunk.
AC/DC's prodigious discography (they've recorded some 15 albums in 21 years) has
its high points and its fair-to-middling moments, but by and large the disparity
isn't that big. Even their weakest albums are energetically executed and usually
pack at least one memorable song. The exception to that rule is Back In Black,
an absolutely pristine slab of rock 'n' roll no matter how you slice it. The
songwriting is as acute as the playing, the production keeps it all in line
without damping the sizzle, and for a band whose stock-in-trade is yer basic
down 'n' dirty bump-and-grind, the material is amazingly diverse--ranging from
the saucy anthemic thrash of the title track to the most "sensitive" song AC/DC
has ever recorded, "You Shook Me All Night Long," an oddly moving combination of
luggish double entendre and poignant melodicism.
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