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Title: Upping the big riff, stupid lyrics ante
Review: Deprived of their third greatest asset (assets one and two being, respectively, their gift for grimy working-class hard rock riffs and their disinclination to apply those riffs to unreasonably weighty subject matter), AC/DC's first post-Bon Scott album finds them scratching out their most convincing batch of riffs and matching them with some of their silliest lyrics. Songs like "Given the Dog a Bone" and "Let Me Put My Love into You" leave even less to the imagination than the most adolescent minds need. But the scratched-guitar intro to "Back in Black" has been stuck in my mind for nearly two decades, "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" is a title for the ages, and "You Shook Me All Night Long" is the finest song they'll ever write and a high point in the history of heavy metal.
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