But by God, did Vanda and Young throw everything at it to make it a hit. The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC book claims that George Young played bass on all tracks. What's Next To The Moon 7. AC/DC bring it home proudly with the mid-paced "Gone Shootin'", the rippin' "Up to My Neck in You", and the smash-mouth, chaotic closer, "Kicked in the Teeth". GONE SHOOTIN' Lyrics (1978) (Young, Young & Scott) Feel the pressure rise Hear the whistle blow Bought a ticket of her own accord To I dunno Packed your heart in a travellin' bag And never said bye bye Something missing in the neighbourhood Of her cryin' eyes I stirred my coffee with the same spoon Knew her favourite tune Gone shootin' 26 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time".[11]. And yet, and yet, and yet …, And yet there's some germ of truth in what they say. Loaded with sex, drugs, satanic panic and plenty of fight, it remains an iconic album from 1978. "Gone Shootin'" was featured in the movie Beavis and Butt-head Do America. Tracks: Rock'N'Roll Damnation, Down Payment Blues, Gimme A Bullet, Riff Raff, Sin City, What's Next To The Moon , Gone Shootin' , … This album is a must-have for fans of the band.Tracks:1.1 Rock 'N' Roll Damnation 1.2 Down Payment Blues 1.3 Gimme a Bullet 1.4 Riff Raff 1.5 Sin City 1.6 What's Next to the Moon 1.7 Gone Shootin' 1.8 Gone shootin' She's gone Gone gone gone Gone shootin' My baby's gone shootin' Gone shooting, how am I gonna get her down ... "Powerage" (1978) Rock 'N' Roll Damnation. Powerage is the fifth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. Powerage was re-released in 2003 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series. Eddie Van Halen and Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards have stated that Powerage remains their favourite AC/DC record. Kicked in the Teeth Lyrics. This mix is still used on all AC/DC, This page was last edited on 11 January 2021, at 23:12. It was the first AC/DC album to feature Cliff Williams on bass, and it was also the first AC/DC album not to have a title track (aside from the Australia-only High Voltage album). "My brother George said: 'Your first album and your second album, these are a lot of songs you've had for years, and you've worked on them and refined on them, so when you hear them you go: That's a band playing that.' That Powerage is the only AC/DC album title not to feature in a chorus of one of their songs speaks about one of the record’s key virtues: subtlety. [8] In 1994, Bon Scott biographer Clinton Walker opined in his book Highway to Hell that "altogether, Powerage just seemed to lack the uncompromising coherence and relentless body and soul that was its predecessor's greatness." Needless to say, when AC/DC handed in Powerage to Atlantic, the label didn't hear a hit single, and this was meant to be the point at which the band started producing hit singles. It's Keith Richards' favourite AC/DC album; when Axl Rose replaced Brian Johnson in the band, two tracks from it – 'Riff Raff' and 'Rock 'N' Roll Damnation' – suddenly appeared in the live setlist; it's the one the hardest, corest of hardcore fans always go on about, Even within the AC/DC camp, it appears to have a special status, albeit one that might baffle non-converts. However, "Powerage" is a totally different album all together. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of Powerage on Discogs. Track 1 akkurat gelesen (Zuversicht 7) [D1CDA9FF] Track 2 akkurat gelesen (Zuversicht 8) [445E54D9] You'll look long and hard for extended modal electronica interludes, and you won't find any. Some cassette copies, such as the original Canadian issue, had an alternate track listing. 133 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart in the US, eventually achieving platinum certification. "That was unknown. Mark Opitz, who engineered the album, told the writer Jesse Fink: "In a way it was AC/DC's Sgt Pepper's. "Bon was a street poet – he described it as 'toilet wall' poetry," former AC/DC manager Michael Browning explained to Peter Watts of Uncut in 2013. Band biographer Jesse Fink cites the album as containing "their best ever collection of songs" and deems it "a high point creatively for the three Youngs, an album arguably superior to the commercially successful Mutt Lange circuitbreakers that followed, Highway to Hell and Back in Black. Powerage proved to be the end of one road for AC/DC. Gimme A Bullet. magazine listed the album at No. The footage was taken from a recording session in 1996 at London's VH1 Studios. Download Pdf. Fink also notes that the band were having a hard time in Australia, which had not embraced Let There Be Rock, and that further fed into the album's bleak mood. Although the album features the same ferocity and live feel that had characterized the band's previous LP Let There Be Rock, Atlantic Records executives in the United States complained that the album did not contain a radio-friendly single. In an interview with Bass Frontiers, Cliff Williams recalls the sessions fondly: "The guys had already been in the studio for a while and we went in to do what turned out to be the Powerage album. Crucially – I've made this point before, but it bears repeating: Powerage is the only AC/DC album entirely free of sexual innuendo. Tonebridge. Atlantic felt Powerage was too hard for US radio, which was where the label wanted the band to be, and Malcolm and Angus Young were perfectly willing to shake up everything surrounding the band to become the biggest rock band in the world. For the album of AC/DC cover songs, see, "Kicked in the Teeth" redirects here. All other tracks appear in the order of the original Australian/US release. Musically, Powerage contains some of the band's fiercest rockers, including "Down Payment Blues", "Riff Raff," "Kicked in the Teeth", and "Up to My Neck in You", and, as with previous albums, the songs were recorded as live as possible (on "Up to My Neck in You", Angus Young can clearly be heard changing from rhythm to lead for his guitar solo). 'Sin City' is a growling and dare I say forewarning look at Las Vegas infidelity, while 'Up to My Neck in You' and 'Gone Shootin' (a true classic) are superb. Rock 'n' Roll Damnation 2. They used to have a sort of tit-for-tat thing going, but nothing that I would have ever thought was going to be gig-threatening." Down Payment Blues 3. On Powerage he stripped away the bawdiness, and reined in the malevolence: he seems more like an observer than a participant. The Powerage sessions officially got going in January 1978 and stretched over a period of about eight weeks. 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I think that's the most under-rated album of them all. Powerage, still, is peerless. Gone Shootin… Lyrics to Gone Shootin' by AC/DC from the Powerage album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more! According to Browning, the Young brothers were seriously considering Colin Pattenden of Manfred Mann fame. [10] Kerrang! Crank it up for the full fury of hard rock at it's primal best. "Gone Shootin" might have the best groove of any AC/DC song and sees Angus dropping down with an incredible, bluesy solo. "[9], In 2005, Powerage was ranked number 325 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. To find out more, click here. Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus. 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