#Dirty deeds done dirt cheap album series#

It became so popular because it was released in the USA soon after Back in Black. The album sold less than Highway to Hell (1979) and, of course, Back in Black (1980). Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was the most-sold AC/DC album in the USA. I just can’t help but think that, had this song been shorter it’d been better. The album sold more than 15 million worldwide. Some of Bon’s spoken vocal parts are just darn funny. The song does have a faster part that seems more typical of the band’s time with Scott. 'Big Balls,' ostensibly a narrative from the perspective of an. Two tracks-'Love at First Feel' and 'Squealer'-are ruminations on the morality of sex with schoolgirls. The arpeggios also seem to be something more common during Brian Johnson’s time with the band, and this suggests growth, although this seems to be an experiment not often indulged with for several years. 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. AC/DC is more of a band suited to three-minute songs rather than seven-minutes. “At nearly seven minutes, this is AC/DC’s longest song. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Album has 9 songs sung by AC/DC. Ain’t No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire) Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is a English album released on. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (CD) 9.99 When purchased online. The band boasting about their sound and success, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a cover of some old rock and roll number, but that’s how true it is to it’s influences it is.”ĥ. He writes other stuff, lives in Chapel Hill, and thinks music is very, very important.“Another piece of Berry-influenced rock and roll, it’s not as menacing as most of AC/DC’s other material of the era, but it’s still AC/DC at heart. Jon Ackley fronts an Americana band that’s better than yours called Slingshot Cash. Well, what can you do? Sometimes the most seductive things are the most destructive. I don’t blame Bon Scott for that, only for pointing it out to me. Though it’s still out there, right behind me, making me go to another lonely night. Bon didn’t out run it I have for the most part. That impulse to Ride On, to know that which is darkest in you and not be able to do much about it other than try and outrun it, that impulse would and still does cause me a lot of grief. I didn’t know what Bon Scott seemed to know, but I wanted to. That dead guy sounded so certain of something & resigned to it & sad. Bon Scott stayed up late at night lonely and sad too, although much less sober than I was. I want to get out of town, another town, another lonely town, another lonely night. Some vague blues-isms about evil and such… but Shit. It was bluesy and there was not much to it. It was slow, like actually slow, one of about three such songs Acca Dacca has ever put out. The rest of it wasn’t even as good as the title track except for one on side two. It strikes me now as a bit silly, but I still think it’s catchy. The title cut was kinda cool in a stupid/catchy Rawk kinda way. In my dull childhood, that was exactly what I wanted to see. To me it meant they were hiding something, and whatever it was, it was no good.

Mine was a troubled and quirky childhood). People in a parking lot of a bland motel, a cop, an old lady, a nurse, a dog – but all of their eyes were blacked out (Though oddly, or not so oddly, I can never decide, not the dog’s eyes) like words missing from the Nixon Tapes or some crazy shit (Yes, at nine I knew about the Nixon Tapes and redacted words, but not about the logistics of rock stardom. I saw it at a friends house, and decided I had to have it. All of the dads in the neighborhood were no stranger to the can curls, but these guys died drinking. It was then that I learned they were Australian or Scottish and drank a lot. The next year though, they put out another album, an older one with the dead guy singing. This was a source of both confusion & embarrassment, cuz like, how did they put out a record with a dead guy? But it was then explained it was a Tribute to him, and so okey. And it was about the band’s dead lead singer. The lettering was raised but otherwise, nada. I thought that was cool cause hey, the cover is ALL BLACK. My next door neighbor who was older & cooler, with feathered late 70’s/early 80’s hair and a cool name (think Viking), had played me Back in Black the year before. I got a few records before this for Christmas & such, but the first one I went out and bought was AC/DC’s Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. If you’d like to submit, please see the guidelines here. A new piece runs every Wednesday, and sometimes more often.

#Dirty deeds done dirt cheap album series#

The First Album I Ever Bought is an occasional guest post series where friends, family, and strangers talk about, well, the first album they ever bought.