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An amazing piece of genre-defying high concept pop metal, an album of a type only five or so bands could ever dare issue, and all of them from the ’70s.
The second album is their most straight-ahead rock album, and also the weakest. The album feels like the solo work of separate artists rather than a band.
The band’s first album showcases the band’s punk roots most obviously. Despite the subject matter and the acoustic guitars, there’s no mistaking the punk roots.
Most folks know the monumental title track (the intro alone is classic), but there’re plenty of other worthwhile slabs of the band’s trademark grease-boogie.
The band’s first with quickly-drafted replacement vocalist Brian Johnson is by far the band’s most popular album, with total sales somewhere near 19 million.
Put together originally as the soundtrack to a Steven King movie that flopped, the album compiles moments from the band’s past but isn’t a greatest hits album.