AC/DC, Black Ice
Rock like it oughta be.
I got into these guys in the ninties, when I used to to a lot of work related driving at night. They rocked me through the early morning hours many a night. Yeah, its simple , straight ahead riff-rock but, hey, r & r is supposed to be simple. "Have a Drink on Me" is the ringtone on my cell.
Heres a review of there latest effort:
"It's all about the intros with AC/DC. Listening to the infinite variety of electrifying riffs that the veteran Australian band can conjure with three chords and the dirty deeds of a pulsing rhythm guitar, you start to wonder whether there was any point at all in hard rock's burgeoning complexity over the past four decades.
With AC/DC, you get no lugubrious, snail-paced, detuned angst-rock, no hapless hip-hop embellishments, no tortured cookie-monster metal/emo screaming. (Brian Johnson's pinched, leather-lunged wails sound almost soothing in comparison.) You get primal rock with '70s power, '60s tunefulness and the wild abandon of the original '50s recipe.
Variations are few -- Rock 'n' Roll Dream nearly fools you into thinking it's a ballad before the crunch comes in, a couple of other cuts have a blues feel, and once or twice a slide guitar intrudes like some foreign objet d'art. But mostly it's non-stop riff-o-rama for 15 tracks, and for those listeners who are all about rock, nothing could be more salutary." -- Ken Barnes
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