AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
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Artist: AC/DCEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-02-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
- Love at First Feel
- Big Balls
- Rocker
- Problem Child
- There's Gonna Be Some Rockin'
- Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire)
- Ride On
- Squealer
Music reviews of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Music Review: Not a punk album but pretty close
Rating: 5 Stars
The original version of this brilliant album came out in Australia in 1976. I was just a nipper living in Melbourne Australia, where AC/DC were based at the time, when i first heard this album. I use to see and hear AC/DC alot on music shows like Countdown and even in the news as they were causing a furore in Australia. They were not a punk band and they never will be a punk band but i can see why, at the time this album came out, that they were mistaken for being a punk band. This album is raw and dirty rock`n`roll at its best and some songs were banned from the radio down here (Big Balls, Ain`t no fun). Believe it or not but the same outrage that the Sex Pistols were causing in England, AC/DC was causing the same outrage here in Australia. They were making headlines in our mainstream media like "the dirtiest group in town" and a headline from a newspaper from 1975 saying "Australia has punk bands too." Yes, from 1975. The band would travel from town to town in Country Victoria only to be met with protests from outraged parents not wanting them to play in they town. They had the media and police constanly follow them. And many complaints were called into television staions when AC/DC were aired. Despite all this the Australians loved them and AC/DC soon became a monster in Australia. They out grew this country and the whole world deserved to see and hear this talent from Australia. Unfortunately some mindless idiot/s from their American record label, Atlantic, didn`t like this classic album and they decided not to release it. Had this album been released in America when it first came out AC/DC`s success would have come alot sooner than 1979 (highway to hell), and maybe Bon might still be alive today as the band had to then work alot harder and longer to obtain their world wide success. This would have obviously cause alot of strain and stress on Bon and the band. Bon, i think, needed a bit of a break after the highway to hell tour to sort out his problems. But, unfortunately, the music industry, especially in America, is a tough market to crack and they want up and coming bands to constantly work towards their success. This version of Dirty Deeds is different to the Australian version. For some reason this version hasn`t got "Jailbreak" on it and Jailbeak`s arguably AC/DC`s best song. There is a different song on this release too, a song called "love at first feel" which was only released as a single here in Australia. Love at first feel wasn`t even recorded at the dirty deeds session. It was recorded, along with about 4 other songs, in between dirty deeds and Let there be Rock. Hopefully these songs will one day see the light of day. Some already have. Another song recorded from this love at first feel session was called Carry me Home and only ended up on the b-side of the single Dog Eat Dog, and only released in Australia. It`s a great song too so hopefully it will see the light of day again. Dirty Deeds is, i think one of AC/DC`s best album. It has everything an AC/DC fan loves. Loud chunky guitars, great guitar solos, brilliant and very clever lyrics by Bon (Big Balls comes to mind) and even something a bit different, a ballad called Ride on which is up there as one of AC/DC`s top ten best songs. Long live Bon Scott and long live AC/DC.
Description of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC's 1981 album digitally remastered and reissued in a special digipak plus a 16 page full color booklet containing all original album art, many unpublished photos, classic memorabilia and new 2003 liner notes. Epic.While Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap sounds like every other AC/DC album, it is distinguished by a lyrical puerility spectacular even by Bon Scott's standards. Two tracks--"Love at First Feel" and "Squealer"--are ruminations on the morality of sex with schoolgirls. "Big Balls," ostensibly a narrative from the perspective of an aristocrat socialite, is actually a somewhat labored excuse for the band to chant "We've got big balls." This juvenile posturing was, to a large degree, AC/DC winding up their burgeoning foreign audience by playing to stereotypical expectations of Australians. On Dirty Deeds, however, AC/DC try too hard. Only on "Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire)" is Scott's laconic wit deployed to real effect: the sheer glee in the line "Get your fuckin' jumbo jet off my airport!" is almost worth the album's purchase price. --Andrew Mueller
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