There’s some exceptional guitar licks to be heard on Squealer and it encourages me to play the album again, specifically Side Two, while also pondering which other AC/DC album I’ll listen to next. Squealer is a great closer and the decision to delay its start, following Ride On, is welcome as it allows the mind to reset. Ride On is pure gold and is one of the greatest songs AC/DC ever recorded. Regardless, this is one song that I adore.Īin’t No Fun (Waiting Round To Be A Millionaire) follows on beautifully and while I still declare the cymbals are too crushed here, as they were in Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, I don’t find it nearly as distracting. There’s Gonna Be Some Rockin’ is a great blues-based tune that is arguably more 50s/60s rock and roll than Rocker was, simply because of its more moderate tempo. Plus, that little guitar riff outro is just weird, isn’t it? It is AC/DC 101 and while there is nothing wrong with that, it has a habit of blending in rather than standing out, especially when listening to digital versions of the album where flipping the record isn’t required. Problem Child is a solid rock and roll tune but really doesn’t offer anything unique. Rocker is an old-school 50s/60s style rock tune that is a throwback to some of the original blues-based masterpieces of that era. The vocal style and backing vocal element is terrible and the lyrics are cringeworthy. Love At First Feel isn’t a bad song and was well-suited to Bon Scott’s vocal style and persona.īig Balls is one song that I can’t stand. It’s too shrill and crunchy and, in my opinion, damages the overall tone of the song. Regardless, whichever edition you choose to listen to, you won’t be disappointed.ĭirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is rhythmically charged and is a great start to the album, but the moment that first cymbal hit enters the mix, I cringe. Yes, there will be some of you that will have a very strong bias and I have to admit that I lean a little more to the vinyl release in this particular case because I feel it is a little less treble focused and the analogue distortion, that I love, simply makes it a little more enjoyable than the digital counterpart. At least when all releases are derived from the same mastering session, you can rest easy knowing that the streamed version is going to sound just as good as the vinyl release and vice versa. Of course, that is not necessarily a bad thing as consistency is one aspect of music collecting that I feel drives many of us to the brink of insanity as we search for that ever-elusive perfect copy of the album we know and love. That said, the cymbal crunching is less jarring on the vinyl release, making it a more enjoyable listen. That could be due, in part, to the recording of the album rather than the mastering as the Apple Music edition, an Apple Digital Master, has the same crunching cymbals as the vinyl counterpart. The record itself is a heavyweight 180-gram release and sounds rather good, although I’d argue that other re-masterings in the AC/DC back catalogue are superior. As with all other AC/DC reissues, from 2003, the presentation and artwork is about as good as you’ll ever get and while I lament the strange album artwork, the quality is beyond reproach and the included liner notes, on the inner sleeve, is a value-added proposition for fans.
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