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Track Listings
| 1. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap |
| 2. Love At First Feel |
| 3. Big Balls |
| 4. Rocker |
| 5. Problem Child |
| 6. There's Gonna Be Some Rockin' |
| 7. Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round To Be A Millionaire) |
| 8. Ride On |
| 9. Squealer |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
While Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap sounds like every other AC/DC album, it is distinguished by a lyrical puerility spectacular even by Bon Scott's standards. Two tracks--"Love At First Feel" and "Squealer"--are ruminations on the morality of sex with schoolgirls. "Big Balls", ostensibly a narrative from the perspective of an aristocrat socialite, is actually a somewhat laboured excuse for the band to chant, "We've got big balls." This juvenile posturing was, to a large degree, AC/DC winding up their burgeoning foreign audience by playing to stereotypical expectations of Australians. On Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, however, AC/DC try too hard. Only on "Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round To Be A Millionaire)" is Scott's laconic wit deployed to real effect: the sheer glee in the line "Get your fuckin' jumbo jet off my airport!" is almost worth the purchase price on its own. --Andrew Mueller
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is one of the "real" (as in Bon Scott) AC/DC's best. The price is justified alone for the wonderful blues of Ride On, surely the band's finest musical moment. Big Balls and Ain't No Fun just add to the pleasure of a great Rock'n'Roll experience; just a shame that they were never the same after Bon Scott left us. By the way why doesn't "Crabsody in Blue" appear on the CD versions of "Let There Be Rock"?
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Well, I've always considered DC to be the best rock band ever. I have had a number of albums, and enjoyed them live but for some reason I missed this album.
BUY IT.
Ok it is 'raw' - none of the clean produced Back in Black (still one of my favourites) but it is fantastic.
Dry, powerful and oozing quality - Bon at his best - as good as his fantastic Highway to Hell.
The band play in an 'older' rock and roll style but the DC drive is there. Angus may not shine through as he does later but that lets the tracks be balanced.
Above all, this just shows what a quality act AC-DC is and is a fitting tribute to Bon Scott - I hope he is down there, beer in one hand, women in another with this playing at full blast in the background.
I am not worthy...
BUY IT.
Ok it is 'raw' - none of the clean produced Back in Black (still one of my favourites) but it is fantastic.
Dry, powerful and oozing quality - Bon at his best - as good as his fantastic Highway to Hell.
The band play in an 'older' rock and roll style but the DC drive is there. Angus may not shine through as he does later but that lets the tracks be balanced.
Above all, this just shows what a quality act AC-DC is and is a fitting tribute to Bon Scott - I hope he is down there, beer in one hand, women in another with this playing at full blast in the background.
I am not worthy...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is quintessential AC/DC; simple pounding guitars, raspy vocals and clever lyrics. Dirty Deeds is a snapshot of AC/DC's best work with Bon Scott and it's a wonderful album.
The guitars in this album provide us with some of AC/DC's catchiest tunes. Songs like "Rocker" will stick in your head for days. It amazes me how a band can make such a great song off of what is actually a very very simple guitar riff.
Lyrically, this is some of AC/DC's greatest work. The title track sets the tone of the album, with its story about a guy offering various "dirty deeds" all for "dirt cheap" prices. Songs like "Big Balls" (a self-explanatory title) are just plain hilarious and show Bon Scott at his best as a songwriter; basing the entire song on one big innuendo. I've listened to the song hundreds of times and I still laugh out loud every time I hear it.
All in all, this is quintessential AC/DC. This is how their unique sound evolved and grew into their bigger albums. In a nutshell, it's a classic.
The guitars in this album provide us with some of AC/DC's catchiest tunes. Songs like "Rocker" will stick in your head for days. It amazes me how a band can make such a great song off of what is actually a very very simple guitar riff.
Lyrically, this is some of AC/DC's greatest work. The title track sets the tone of the album, with its story about a guy offering various "dirty deeds" all for "dirt cheap" prices. Songs like "Big Balls" (a self-explanatory title) are just plain hilarious and show Bon Scott at his best as a songwriter; basing the entire song on one big innuendo. I've listened to the song hundreds of times and I still laugh out loud every time I hear it.
All in all, this is quintessential AC/DC. This is how their unique sound evolved and grew into their bigger albums. In a nutshell, it's a classic.
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astouding
this is one of the best albums i have ever heard and any rock fan will need to have this in there collection
Published 4 months ago by jonah
Problem Children
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Published 4 months ago by ratmonkey
Dirty Deeds
I don't feel this one is as good as their debut, it is not a bad album by any means, but I just never felt myself as drawn to Dirty Deeds as I have with other albums, I think some... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Lord Anon
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Published 16 months ago by Victor
dirty deeds indeed
I think that sometimes its too easy to ask if you are a bon scott fan or a brian johnson fan , i think the real question is which ac dc albums do you rate above all else. Read more
Published 22 months ago by sean paul mccann
Classic ACDC
My favourite album of the early Bon Scott ACDC years.
I started to type which tracks were the stand outs but theres not a weak track on this album. Read more
I started to type which tracks were the stand outs but theres not a weak track on this album. Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2009 by Mr. Chris G. Waterfield
Worst Scott album but still very good
The Aussie version doesn't contain "Problem Child" & "Love at 1st Feel"
but "Jailbreak" & "RIP". Too patchy but it's still a good album.
but "Jailbreak" & "RIP". Too patchy but it's still a good album.
Published on 14 Aug 2009 by Riccardo Esposito
It ain't big and it ain't clever... but it rocks
I first heard this album back in the summer of 1982 and it sounds as good now as it did then. I was already familiar with For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) and I'd heard bits... Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2008 by Some Random Guy
Kerrrunch!
When you first put this CD in your player, the volume of the opening chord will (if your stereo is loud enough) make the windows rattle. Read more
Published on 17 July 2007 by J. Norrish
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