The original album delivered by the band was deemed to have no clear-cut single, prompting “ Rock ‘n’ Roll Damnation” to be rush-recorded and added to track-list the U.S. If Powerage tops the AC/DC canon in any way, it’s in respect to Bon’s lyrics, which benefitted from unusually long recording sessions, and produced amazing results on all of the above, plus the poetic “ What’s Next to the Moon,” the sinister natural born classic “ Sin City,” and the underrated masterpiece “ Down Payment Blues.”įinally, I’ll support my arguments here with Powerage’s checkered release history, so follow along, if you please:

Sure, bluesy shuffles like “ Gimme a Bullet” and “ Gone Shootin’” may rank among AC/DC’s Stonesiest songs, but I’m not listening to AC/DC to hear the fucking Stones I’m listening to AC/DC to hear AC/DC!Īnd AC/DC, my friends, is a HARD ROCK band, so their loyal, long-term disciples know this means frantic head-bangers like “ Up to My Neck in You,” “ Kicked in the Teeth,” and the sonic typhoon that is “ Riff Raff.”

On the 40th anniversary of its release, Powerage has come full circle, from being the most overlooked, worst-selling AC/DC album of the Bon Scott era, to one of the most talked-about and critically-acclaimed.Īmazing what a casual comment from Keith Richards – who said this was his favorite AC/DC LP – can do, because that’s all it took to transform Powerage into a critical darling.ĭon’t get me wrong – I love Keef, but I can guarantee you that I’m a much bigger, more knowledgeable AC/DC fan than he is, and, much as I love Powerage to bits (I’ve been championing it way longer than Richards has), I’d rank it no higher than fifth or sixth best AC/DC LP (*).

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