Ac-DC – Powerage (78)

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1 Rock 'n' Roll Damnation
2 Down Payment Blues
3 Gimme a Bullet
4 Riff Raff
5 Sin City
6 What's Next to the Moon
7 Gone Shootin'
8 Up to My Neck in You
9 Kicked in the Teeth

Powerage was a first in the sense that it debuted bassist Cliff Williams, but it really is more of a final curtain to the band's early years.

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It would be the last produced by Vanda & Young, the legendary Australian production team who also helmed hits by the Easybeats, and it was the last before AC/DC became superstars.

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As such, it's perhaps the most overlooked of their '70s records, also because, frankly, it is the most uneven of them. Not that it's a bad record — far from it, actually.

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There are a few genuine classics here, most notably "Down Payment Blues" and "Up to My Neck in You," and there's a real appeal in how Bon Scott's gutter poems of excess are reaching a mythic level; there's a real sense that he truly does believe that rock & roll leads straight to hell on "Rock 'n' Roll Damnation."

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But overall, the record is just a bit too wobbly, one where the parts don't add up to a record as hard and addictive as before — but there's still plenty worth hearing here.

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