Kicked In The Teeth and Walk All Over You are two of my favourite songs of theirs.” 47. A good riff you can play over and over again, and Malcolm wrote a lot of that music. A riff is a cyclical melody, and if it isn’t good, you’ll know. “Prior to that, rock and roll was all strumming chords and not playing riffs. Although both date back to sessions from six months previously, but only the latter sounds like it comes from an earlier era, with Bon literally screaming over the intro about a ‘two-faced woman’ telling ‘two-faced lies’.ĭave Mustaine: "I was in a band that did a bunch of AC/DC covers and doing those songs introduced me a totally different approach to playing, where you don’t have billions of layers. The brilliant Powerage's yo-yoing dynamic - rock monsters followed by seductively mid-paced strollers - was perhaps best exemplified by Up To My Neck In You and Kicked In The Teeth. ![]() It’s our way of saying the world’s not perfect and never will be.” 48. And you can see now that it’s not that way. And while the result was an album that was very much back-to-basics, the ominous-sounding title track was that rarest of AC/DC songs, a rumination on global politics (‘ There’s fighting on the left and marching on the right…’).Īngus Young: “The world was at peace again and everyone thought: ‘Ah, the Berlin Wall’s come down and it’s gonna be a party every night’. “I want you to sound like AC/DC when you were seventeen,” he said. Producer Bruce Fairbairn, the man who had revitalised Aerosmith’s career three years before with Permanent Vacation, took Angus Young to one side before the band started recording the follow-up to Blow Up Your Video. "I remember everything, from that first millisecond, the little crackle before ‘ga-dun-GAR!’ in Go Down." 49. Most records are all around you, but this one was right there. To me it sounded like something was wrong, like it was too close to my face. Written and recorded fast, before the vibe had time to fade, full of blood and spittle and anger and put-a-fuck-into-you fun, fuelled by cheap speed and cold beer, topped up with expensive whisky and at least a million cigarettes, some of them smelling distinctly ‘funny’.ĭave Mustaine (Megadeth): "The first time I put on Let There Be Rock I was looking at the back cover and wondering ‘What the Hell’s up with that dude’s lip?’ But hearing the music, my life totally changed. ![]() It's a song about a real-life friend of his named Ruby (as in Ruby Lips, though her actual name was Wendy), known for her fondness for ‘lickin’ on that lickin’ stick’, and it sounds exactly like what it was. The swaggering opening track on Let There Be Rock starts with the sound of a whisky-guzzling Bon counting in the intro.
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