Let There Be Rock

As good as any rock `n roll cd can be. Good old ac/dc stuff. can`t be better. want more. chaps

You better F'in believe that the sounds that come from the Young brothers axes on this bit are the absolute rawest guitar sounds ever put down on wax. This is an album that demands volume. I've put it on once or twice, just to play as background music at a low decible... and it's never long before the switch is cranked. This music is meant to engulf a room with pulsing bass, thumping drums, and guitar that shredddds. Some guitars shred, but this F*KKKKKKIN SHRRRRRREDS!!!! You can feel it right against your eardrums... it feels awesome.Now, as far as imports to domestics go, the only reason to buy an imported AC/DC album would have to be for the tracks that were never pressed on US versions. The aussie release of LTBR has a track called Crabsody in Blue, but it doesn't seem to be on this import, therefore I recommend looking elsewhere for this track (try the version with the different album cover), or just getting the domestic print. ***FYI: I have all of AC/DC's recorded material, and in my opinion Crabsody is pretty much garbage/filler. For an album that plays out entirely with loud, raw, and twisted chords and sheer intensity, the slow bluesy Crabsody is completely out of place, and almost sounds like a poor demo tape. Prob my least favorite track out of the Bon years. I say, Fuh-get about it! Crabs.Otherwise, this is a must have album. It bridges AC/DC's earliest punk like basement productions, to their later more polished productions of the Bon era. With Let There Be Rock the idea was to blow up speakers. This album almost puts Bon Scott in the background and focuses on the Young brothers completely... however Bon still makes himself well noticed on tracks like BAD BOY BOOGIE and PROBLEM CHILD.[*imported to domestic 101 revisited, Problem Child was actually on Dirty Deeds originally, but since LTBR was released in the US before Dirty Deeds it wound up on this album,... if you find the import release with Crabsody on it, it will be in place of Problem Child... ironically the U.S. release of Dirty Deeds, released in 1981 also includes Problem Child, so you can work around it if need be.]BUT SERIOUSLY, if you are unfamiliar with this album and are a fan of Angus Youngs riffs on other AC/DC albums, this is his prime masterpiece. Get it anyway you can! This is music you can truly FEEL! Thank the production team of Vanda/Young for putting this unrelenting and absolutely amazing noise onto tape!

Five instruments, one molten guitar tone, and one awesome, charismatic front man - this is metal minimalism. It takes talent to pull something like this off, since if you don't know what you're doing it'll just sound boring. And while it is totally repetitive, seven of these eight songs spatter blood, guts, and dangerous levels of wattage everywhere. You know that scene in Back to the Future where Marty plugs into that huge amp, plays a power chord, and is sent flying backwards? That's this album. If you like the style, you'll probably appreciate this album - if you don't, there's a good chance you'll disdain it. But I like it! You got the guitars shooting sparks and lightning bolts everywhere, Bon Scott parodying the cocky machismo of most rock frontmen, and not much else. But you don't need much else! The tone is set for this album by the overwhelming rock power of "Go Down," which makes the best of its simple but absolutely catchy riff. It's about the tone, man! And Angus' solos. Bon Scott's funny on it, too, singing about a girl with lips that "make a heathen pray". And it's not because of the way she talks, either. Or the way she kisses. Actually, it depends on where she plants that wet one. *Drummer does the "ba-doom, crash!" thing*. And it doesn't let up, either! Check out the chugging, birth-of-rock title track (a classic!), the retro Chuck Berry boogie of "Whole Lotta Rosie" (another classic!), and the twenty-kajillion ton payload of "Problem Child" (a third classic! Noticing a pattern?). "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be" is a fine song, too. It also got the group into some trouble with the evangelicals, who took one look at the title and flipped out. But don't they know a metaphor when they see one? It's about freakin' unconditional love, not literally hanging out with Satan! "Bad Boy Boogie" also kicks out the jams, parodying "Hoochie Coochie Man," "I'm Ready" and any other macho blues anthem you can name yourself. "Dog Eat Dog" is fun, too, because of Scott's cool "barking dogs" vocal. The one song that doesn't work, and the album's biggest problem other than redundancy, is "Overdose" - a single riff, and two or three lines of lyrics, repeated for six minutes. If you can somehow ignore it, you have one of AC/DC's finest albums. Oh, and listen to the guitar solos! It's Angus Young unchained, this is!

I payed the extra money based on reviewers saying crabsody is on this version but it's not.