Yes yes yes. I can already imagine it. Hordes of crowds against the 2008 album made by AC/DC. They've been inactive for 8 years and now they release such a mediocre album. I don't believe it...
Instead, I believe in the genuineness that drove them. I believe that, given today's rock situation, there's a need to shake up anyone who wants to make music. And what can do it better than an electric charge...
Like the leading title "Rock 'n roll train", the album is shocking. The beginning gives you goosebumps, but the next two tracks are quite poor and have been repeated billions of times over a career as hardly matchable as that of our Australians. The fourth "Anything goes" is the breakthrough track. A simple, almost commercial track if you will, but it sounds great with AOR and Springsteen-like influences. It stays in your head for more than a day.
The monotony in this album represents a cliché and, above all, a scapegoat for all those who want to criticize them from the get-go. Yes, because the album is quite easy to listen to. Complexity has never been their strength. No one can afford to criticize them regarding superficial or easily impactful lyrics, because this is their way of making damn rock 'n roll. The hard and blues veins are strong even in this latest work of theirs, the tracks are almost excessive, but they didn’t want to leave anything out for their fans. This might be their weak point. Some cuts were essential in tracks that almost serve as filler. Moreover, the desire to emulate that masterpiece produced 28 years ago is vivid and strongly present throughout the CD. Unfortunately, this desire for emulation raises many questions about their real desire to release new work. A desire that, however, also raises questions about the affection Our Guys feel towards their fans. Perhaps it's precisely the desire to create a masterpiece at all costs that deceived them and pushed them to create an album of debatably disarming beauty, but which suffers from atypical originality that will make many wrinkle their noses, yet these are the same old AC/DC and perhaps even better than some of their decent works (see "Fly On The Wall" etc.), but we know you can't hope to find a new "Back In Black"... You knew that, right?
I know, the world tour, right? I'll be there, and I hope many of you will too. I can already imagine it. Arenas and stadiums full. Tickets selling at the pace of 200 (!) per minute. The desire for rock. The desire for damn rock 'n roll. I know. I'm already there in my mind towards that March 19 that will never come. Like that new "Back In Black" that I know will never come, but which perhaps makes it the best in their discography and among the most loved and beautiful in the history of rock.
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