AC/DC
Let There Be Rock

With this review, I would like to convey what I believe is the best hard rock band from '75 onwards.

With the end of prog from Genesis and Yes (finally...), and the breakup or crisis of various underground bands like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath, hard rock experienced a moment of stagnation. To destroy and sweep everything away like a tidal wave came the English punk of the Sex Pistols or Clash or the American punk of the Ramones, Dickies, or Germs. They left nothing behind, but the phenomenon was so destructive that it lasted only a few years (months?). The only alternatives were the glam of Kiss (say whatever you want) or what many consider hard-rock-blues from Aerosmith and AC/DC.

Honestly, hard rock bands like Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, and even Guns n' Roses or glam like Motley Crue or Poison, see AC/DC in terms of charisma, production, and technique with a binocular, and Let There Be Rock is the definitive proof.

The album starts exploding right away with the legendary "Go Down", although with "Dog Eat Dog" the pace slows down. "Let There Be Rock" is the masterpiece within the masterpiece: Bon's voice, accompanied by the bass, screams 'let there be guitar' (Angus) and LLLLLETTHREBEROCK!!!! and the explosion of the brothers is fantastic. It continues with "Bad Boy Boogie", another magnificent song (with the bad boy, guess who it will be... old Bon!) and "Problem Child". Here the chord progression repeats infinitely. "Overdose" is perhaps lesser than the previous ones, but it ends with the two most fun songs of the Australians: "Hell Ain't A Bad Place" and the sublime "Whole Lotta Rosie", the best of the album.

So if at the World Cup I was somewhat rooting for Australia, even against Italy, the credit goes to them.