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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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Although it wasn't released stateside until '81, DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP is an Australian compilation recorded in the mid-70's. By the time of its U.S. release, singer Bon Scott had already died of alcohol poisoning and the band had emerged from the tragedy with new singer Brian Johnson and thestunning BACK IN BLACK. This album then, perhaps inadvertently, serves as an epitaph for the late, tattoo-emblazoned singer. And there is no more fitting eulogy than the title track, which captures Scott in all his raunchy glory.
Full of ill will, Scott snakes his way through a nasty tale of revenge. He's only too happy to provide TNT, concrete, cyanide,whatever it takes really, to get the job done. As he snarls, growls, and finally squeals, "high voltage!" Scott is immortalised in complete reptilian glee. Though the title tracksalone makes the album essential; there are other significant merits. The utterly tasteless hilarity of "Big Balls" is anot-so-subtle pun Beavis and Butthead would undoubtedly have worshipped. "Ride On" is a toned down blouse groove that is complete out of step with AC/DC's usual onslaught. All in all, DIRTY DEEDS is a fine collection that shows these Australian bad boys doing what they do best.
Full of ill will, Scott snakes his way through a nasty tale of revenge. He's only too happy to provide TNT, concrete, cyanide,whatever it takes really, to get the job done. As he snarls, growls, and finally squeals, "high voltage!" Scott is immortalised in complete reptilian glee. Though the title tracksalone makes the album essential; there are other significant merits. The utterly tasteless hilarity of "Big Balls" is anot-so-subtle pun Beavis and Butthead would undoubtedly have worshipped. "Ride On" is a toned down blouse groove that is complete out of step with AC/DC's usual onslaught. All in all, DIRTY DEEDS is a fine collection that shows these Australian bad boys doing what they do best.
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