Music : Powerage
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0696998020429
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Sales Rank: 658
Studio: Sony
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2003 remastered reissue of 1978 album packaged in a digipak with 16 page full color booklet containing all original album art, many unpublished photos, classic memorabilia, and liner notes. Epic.
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AC/DC's fourth album is the lull after the triumph of Let There Be Rock and before the mighty peaks of If You Want Blood You've Got It and Highway to Hell. Powerage contains all the familiar AC/DC trademarks: Bon Scott's rather less than Yeatsian lyrical vision ("Rock & Roll Damnation," "Up to My Neck in You"), Angus Young's brilliantly minimal guitar playing, a rhythm section as relentless and efficient as an infantry regiment, and the astute production of former Easybeats Harry Vanda and George Young; however, it lacks a truly transcendent moment, a "Whole Lotta Rosie" or a "T.N.T." Of course, even an average AC/DC album is an eloquent lesson in the fundamentals of rock & roll, and by that token Powerage still blows most opposition out of the water. Bon Scott's exultant declaration of working-class solidarity, "Riff Raff," is worth six Bon Jovi albums on its own. --Andrew Mueller
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this is a short review, its classic ac/dc with the original members. this is a good example of one of the greatest rock bands ever, i really like this cd. what a great rock album.
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AC/DC had one more stop before they exited for Highway to Hell. It was on "Powerage" that they continued spiralling upwards, tightening the twin guitar attack, picking up new bassist Cliff Williams and having Bon Scott perfect his infernal yalp. Once again, the songs were amped up sagas of bad love, wicked women and hard living, and this time the band dropped a pair of classics in "Sin City" and "Riff Raff."
Had the band not come up with a masterpiece on the next try, "Powerage" might not be such an overlooked record in the AC/DC canon. "Rock and Roll Damnation" is as good a three chord concert blaster as the band's ever come up with, and "Down Payment Blues" is the kind of funny/scary only Bon Scott could deliver. ("Can't even feed my cat on Social Security" being my favorite.) When the album closes with the loud and angry "Kicked In The Teeth," you're once again shown that AC/DC were stampeding towards the top of the arena rock heap. "Powerage" is a really good album that arrived just before a great one, but it's still worth a spot in your collection.
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I think even Malcolm Young said it, that this was their most forgotten album. It`s definately one of their best. It`s as good as Let there be Rock and sounds just like it. After the brilliant Let there be rock album you`d think that no way they could top that but they did with this album. Everything let there be rock has, this album has it too. A rare song appeared around this time too. A song called "Cold Hearted Man' which appeared briefly on the b-side of the single Rock`n`roll Damnation. It could have only been released in Australia too. This album should have been the album that broke AC/DC into the American charts like what highway to hell did a year after, but some stupid people at their American label, Atlantic, weren`t confident enough in the band, and even more laughable is that their American label didn`t like Bon`s vocals, they even wanted the band to get another singer way back in 1976. How wrong these American people from Atlantic were. Hopefully they got the sack after highway to hell went gold in the U.S in 1979. it just goes to show that the fans know more about music and what people like than some business people in suits and ties. Down Payment Blues is my favorite song on the album, it`s a great rockin` tune and not a very well known AC/DC song
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Outside of Back in Black and the new Black Ice, this is as good as it gets if you are a AC/DC fan.
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I consider this album my favorite AC/DC album! I just gave this to my nephew for his birthday because he wanted to hear some different AC/DC.
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