1. Sound:
The mid-90's were the worst reverb and synth escapades survived and then bring out the guys this album. It is dry. Drier than dry, it is gandenlos, brutally honest No delay, no reverb. Malcolm's guitar was no longer hunted as on the 90's tour through a Mesa Boogie, but by a wizard or an old Marshall. Hardly Zerre but vapor without end. The bass sound is similar to the en of the 70's bass sounds. The drum sound is wummernd that snare pleasantly quiet, but unmistakable Rudd's Groove is definitely out listening. One even hears his foot on the hi-hat pedal (the beginning of "caught with your pants down"). Angus' sound is a bomb. Again, it is relentlessly, but not with a delay pumped full (as in "Black Ice", or "Rock Or Bust"), nor is the solo sound with a high humming accompanied (As on the album "Stiff Upper Lip". Here was used another amp for the solos, the high pitched always accompanied).
The song is also dry, but his vocal color (I would here as a mixture of "Rusty Nail" and "stone grinds stone" call) comes out super.
2. The Songs:
Fast, slow, texts below the belt, absolute boards ("Ball Breaker" or "Caught with your pants down"), then songs that are better with each listening ("The Fury", or "Burnin 'Alive"), the Album has no Füllsongs that you skipt each time you listen.
3. The way:
Everyone has a different opinion about AC / DC, has special albums, or memories, but one thing is certain: They are the working-class heroes. And this album sounds exactly then. It sounds like the shipyard workers to build the sweating and oily the largest and heaviest tanker, it sounds like the workers who toil 6 days a week and in the evening like a ferret smelly come home from work. It sounds like the guys who smoke during smoking yet.
It sounds like the steaming locomotive, according to the "Rock 'n' Roll Train", after the "Ball Breaker", after the "Baptism by fire". It sounds like "Rock or Bust," by "TNT" and according to Angus, Cliff, Malcolm, Brian and Phil, long before the antics of Phil and before the failure of Malcolm. It sounds like the sweaty, bluesy sombre Something to Song 11 always accompanies you from song 1 and you reminded at every riff, every time cry of song and every pounding thunder of the bass drum, that you just the best rock band of all time listening - and this album stands for everything that makes this colossus.
