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AC/DC - Powerage flac album
  • Performer AC/DC
  • Title Powerage
  • Date of release 1994
  • Country Australia
  • Style Hard Rock
  • Other formats WAV ASF AU AUD FLAC AHX AAC
  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1606 mb
  • Size FLAC 1645 mb
  • Rating: 4.7
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Powerage is the fifth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was the band's fourth studio album released internationally and the fifth to be released in Australia. It was the first AC/DC album to feature Cliff Williams on bass, and it was also the first AC/DC album not to have a title track (aside from the Australia-only High Voltage album). Powerage was re-released in 2003 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.

AC/DC - Powerage (1978). Авторы текста и музыки. Malcolm Young, Angus Young, Bon Scott. SME (от лица компании "Epic"); Alberts, ASCAP, Abramus Digital, LatinAutor - PeerMusic, UBEM, ARESA, LatinAutor" и другие авторские общества (6). Композиция.

Powerage was a first in the sense that it debuted bassist Cliff Williams, but it really is more of a final curtain to the band's early years. As such, it's perhaps the most overlooked of their '70s records, also because, frankly, it is the most uneven of them. Not that it's a bad record - far from it, actually.

Дата релиза 05 Май 1978. Лейблы Atlantic Records.

That Powerage is the only AC/DC album title not to feature in a chorus of one of their songs speaks about one of the record’s key virtues: subtlety. Granted, there’s little that’s subtle about the throttling riffs on Riff Raff or the crunching Kicked In The Teeth, but elsewhere – on the beautifully lachrymose Down Payment Blues, the playful What’s Next To The Moon, the plaintive, in-the-pocket Gone Shootin’ – AC/DC display a discipline, control and restrained power that only the most mature and confident of players. Emphatically, it’s late frontman Bon Scott’s album. Experiencing fully for the first time the intensity of AC/DC in the studio, bassist Cliff Williams, for one, was convinced that Powerage was special. When they started work in the studio we got there and got down, and did the long-hour days, he said. It was really a tremendous experience.

Album · 1978 · 9 Songs. Bon Scott, Angus Young and Malcolm Young hit on a new level of songwriting maturation with 1978’s Powerage. You can hear it straight from the first track, Rock ’n’ Roll Damnation, which throws in some handclaps and back-up singers to flesh out their tale of eternal punishment, while What’s Next to the Moon pushes the band out of their lyrical comfort zone with its mythic storytelling. This album marks the debut of bassist Cliff Williams, who keeps the rhythm nailed down as Angus tears through complex new songs like Riff Raff.

Tracklist

A1 Rock 'N' Roll Damnation 3:35
A2 Down Payment Blues 6:00
A3 Gimme A Bullet 3:21
A4 Riff Raff 5:14
A5 Sin City 4:40
B1 What's Next To The Moon 3:28
B2 Gone Shootin' 5:04
B3 Up To My Neck In You 4:10
B4 Kicked In The Teeth 3:52

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded At – Albert Studios
  • Mastered At – Sterling Sound
  • Duplicated By – Specialty Records Corporation

Credits

  • Art Direction – Bob Defrin
  • Bass – Cliff Williams
  • Drums – Phil Rudd
  • Engineer – Mark Opitz
  • Guitar – Angus Young, Malcolm Young
  • Management – Michael Browning
  • Photography By – Jim Houghton
  • Producer – Vanda & Young
  • Remastered By – George Marino
  • Vocals – Bon Scott
  • Written-By – Scott*, Young*

Notes

Originally released in 1978.
Recorded at Albert Studios, Sydney, Australia
Digitally remastered from the original master tapes at Sterling Sound.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Text): 0 7567-92446-4 2
  • Barcode (Scanned): 075679244642
  • Pressing Plant ID: SR

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
APLP.030, APLP-030 AC/DC Powerage ‎(LP, Album) Albert Productions, Albert Productions APLP.030, APLP-030 Australia 1978
0218 AC/DC Powerage ‎(Cass, Album, Unofficial) Delta 0218 Poland Unknown
781 548-2 AC/DC Powerage ‎(CD, Album, RE) Atlantic 781 548-2 Germany 1990
ATL 50483 AC/DC Powerage ‎(LP, Album) Atlantic ATL 50483 Germany 1978
EK 80204 AC/DC Powerage ‎(CD, Album, Enh, RE, RM, Dig) Epic EK 80204 Canada 2003

Tracklist

A1 Rock 'N' Roll Damnation 3:35
A2 Down Payment Blues 6:20
A3 Gimme A Bullet 3:00
A4 Riff Raff 5:14
B1 Sin City 4:40
B2 Next To The Moon 3:15
B3 Gone Shootin 4:05
B4 Up To My Neck In You 4:58
B5 Kicked In The Teeth 3:45

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded At – Albert Studios

Credits

  • Art Direction – Bob Defrin
  • Bass – Cliff Williams
  • Drums – Phil Rudd
  • Engineer – Mark Opitz
  • Guitar – Angus Young, Malcolm Young
  • Management – Michael A. Browning*
  • Photography By – Jim Houghton
  • Producer – Vanda & Young
  • Vocals – Bon Scott
  • Written-By – Angus Young, Bon Scott, Malcom Young*

Notes

Pressed on heavy red vinyl with red center labels.

Originally released in 1978.

Recorded at Albert Studios, Sydney, Australia, February/March 1978.

Tracks A2, A3 and B2 to B5 of the Australian and New Zealand version are different to the rest of the world.

®Albert Productions
©1978 J. Albert & Son Pty. Ltd.

On sleeve: Manufactured and Distributed by EMI (Australia) Limited
On center labels: Manufactured by the EMI Music Group - Australasia

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: none
  • Matrix / Runout (Etched (Side A)): APLP 030 A.1
  • Matrix / Runout (Etched (Side B)): APLP 030 B.1

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
APLP.030, APLP-030 AC/DC Powerage ‎(LP, Album) Albert Productions, Albert Productions APLP.030, APLP-030 Australia 1978
0218 AC/DC Powerage ‎(Cass, Album, Unofficial) Delta 0218 Poland Unknown
781 548-2 AC/DC Powerage ‎(CD, Album, RE) Atlantic 781 548-2 Germany 1990
ATL 50483 AC/DC Powerage ‎(LP, Album) Atlantic ATL 50483 Germany 1978
EK 80204 AC/DC Powerage ‎(CD, Album, Enh, RE, RM, Dig) Epic EK 80204 Canada 2003