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Powerage by AC/DC

Powerage

Release Date: 1/1/1978

Recording Date: 5/1978

Tracks: 9

Length: 00:39:24 Hrs

Label: Atco

Type: CD,CS,LP

Genre/Styles:
Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Vocals, Australia, Arena Rock, Album Rock, Aussie Rock

Album Tracks (9)

Song Title
Length
1.
Rock 'n' Roll Damnation
03:37
2.
Down Payment Blues
06:03
3.
Gimme a Bullet
03:21
4.
Riff Raff
05:12
5.
Sin City
04:45
6.
What's Next to the Moon
03:31
7.
Gone Shootin'
05:05
8.
Up to My Neck in You
04:13
9.
Kicked in the Teeth
03:53

What the Critics Say

Powerage was a first in the sense that it debuted bassist Cliff Williams, but it really is more of a final curtain to the band's early years. It would be the last produced by Vanda & Young, the legendary Australian production team who also helmed hits by the Easybeats, and it was the last before AC/DC became superstars. As such, it's perhaps the most overlooked of their '70s records, also because, frankly, it is the most uneven of them. Not that it's a bad record -- far from it, actually. There are a few genuine classics here, most notably "Down Payment Blues" and "Up to My Neck in You," and there's a real appeal in how Bon Scott's gutter poems of excess are reaching a mythic level; there's a real sense that he truly does believe that rock & roll leads straight to hell on "Rock 'n' Roll Damnation." But overall, the record is just a bit too wobbly, one where the parts don't add up to a record as hard and addictive as before -- but there's still plenty worth hearing here. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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