AC/DC. " POWERAGE " ATLANTIC UK 1978 LP. ORIG.

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AC/DC ?– Powerage Label: Atlantic ?– K 50483, Atlantic ?– SD19180 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 05 May 1978 Genre: Rock Style: Hard Rock Tracklist A1 Gimme A Bullet 3:00 A2 Down Payment Blues 5:50 A3 Gone Shootin' 4:19 A4 Riff Raff 5:14 B1 Sin City 4:40 B2 Up To My Neck In You 4:58 B3 What's Next To The Moon 3:15 B4 Cold Hearted Man 3:15 B5 Kicked In The Teeth 3:45 Companies, etc. Published By – EMI Music Ltd. Phonographic Copyright (p) – Atlantic Recording Corporation Copyright (c) – Atlantic Recording Corporation Distributed By – WEA Records Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Made By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Produced For – Albert International Music Recorded At – Albert Studios Pressed By – WEA Records Pressing Plant, West Drayton Credits Art Direction – Bob Defrin Bass – Cliff Williams Drums – Phil Rudd Engineer – Mark Opitz Guitar – Angus Young, Malcolm Young Lacquer Cut By – Porky (5) Photography By – Jim Houghton Plated By – EG* Producer – Vanda & Young Vocals – Bon Scott Written-By – Scott*, Young*, Young* Notes Cat.# in brackets on sleeve: (SD19180)
An Albert Production for Albert international Music Recorded at Albert Studios, Sydney, Australia, February/March 1978. (c) 1978 Atlantic Recording Corp.

AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine 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.

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