![]() ‘It was love at first feel – lightnin’ bolts in my fingertips!’ ‘Love at First Feel’ proves particularly hormonal, but has all the band chime in for the willfully stripped-back chorus. 1976’s studio effort showcases some of the band’s best pre-Johnson material and doubles down on the dodgy lyrics. But nevertheless, the adolescent squeals and predatory grunts of Scott made AC/DC what they were. If anyone was going to be an apt successor, it’s Brian Johnson. Love at First Feel ( Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, 1976) – God, we miss Bon Scott. It’s a great track, all things considered – but on side two of Blow Up Your Video, it never gets so much as a look in. It’s one of AC/DC’s most apocalyptic songs, somehow fusing the concept of a threesome to a track out of a science-fiction war movie. Still, Blow Up Your Video has an arsenal of decent tunes, however ‘Two’s Up’ being one of them. AC/DC had two of those, but not the complete formula. Blow Up Your Video sounds messy at the best of times and by 1988, the world wanted glam rock big hair, big riffs and bad attitude. The band had already released two mediocre records when compared to the likes of Back in Black, For Those About to Rock… or anything that came before. Two’s Up ( Blow Up Your Video, 1988) – Blow Up Your Video is hardly the high point of AC/DC. ‘Well there’s a big storm howlin’ around here,’ promises an unrelenting sonic battery, even in the album’s final moments. It’s a fast-paced, southern riff overdubbed with Johnson’s best Brian Johnson impression. Give It Up ( Stiff Upper Lip, 2000) – Stiff Upper Lip is arguably the bluesiest the boys ever got, and a great example of this era appears in the album’s closing number, ‘Give It Up’. But while the band boast a great many singles, which headbanging tracks have – inevitably – slipped under the radar? AC/DC have released sixteen albums internationally each bristling with sexual bravado and electrifying solos. In light of the hard rock kick I’ve been on lately, I felt it high time to delve back through the back catalogue of perhaps the genre’s most defining band.
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