Black Ice (Limited Edition Yellow Cover)

Track listing:

1. Rock N' Roll Train

2. Skies on Fire

3. Big Jack

4. Anything Goes

5. War Machine

6. Smash N' Grab

7. Spoilin' For A Fight

8. Wheels

9. Decibel

10. Stormy May Day

11. She Likes Rock N' Roll

12. Money Made

13. Rock N' Roll Dream

14. Rocking All the Way

15. Black Ice

Customer Reviews:

• One unoriginal album, three unoriginal covers!: This along with their Wallmarket promotion strategy shows you the wonders that marketing to intellectual adolescents can achieve.
  
  
  It took them eight years to just bring us some more unoriginality and childish cliches. These guys suck in their music and attitude. If you had more people like Angus, their kind of music would never have been invented. Angus would be going, 'rock? Who needs that? Check out this cool banjo solo!' *duck walks*
  
  In terms of sheer mindlessness ACDC and Miley Cyrus are in the same boat.
  
  Whoa!! How rock n' roll can you get?
• Same Old Acka Dacka: The best line in 1986's "Night of the Creeps" (still criminally unavailable on DVD - somebody wake up!) belongs to the great Tom Atkins, who, as Detective Ray Cameron, gives a houseful of anxious co-eds a heads-up: "Girls, the good news is your dates are here. The bad news is they're dead." He may as well have been talking about AC/DC in 2008.
  
  Don't get me wrong. When it comes to beer-drinking-and-singalong anthems, they are - with all apologies to Bret "The Hitman" Hart - the best there was, the best there is, and the best there will ever be, hands down. They will forever be known as the outfit that foisted Bon Scott and Angus "Schoolboy" Young on a largely unsuspecting world, inspired a serial killer (Richard "Hail,Satan" Ramirez), and, with "You Shook Me All Night Long," provided a backdrop for an army of silicone-enhanced, cosmetically-altered strippers leaving a shopping list of bodily fluids on brass poles across the planet. I say that's a beautiful thing.
  
  On "Black Ice," the band's forte remains rock and roll, straight and simple. Brian Johnston still sounds like he eats ptomaine right out of a can, the rhythm section is locked into their omnipresent thunderthudding drone, and the chunk-a-funk riffs and rhythms churned out by Young and his brother Malcolm still shoot out of the sky with engines aflame. Unfortunately, they have clearly beaten paths trod once too often, flummoxed with fitting those riffs and rhythms into arrangements that didn't sound tired 15 years back.
  
  Although mired in what looks to be a permanent holding pattern, there is still plenty here to recommend as long as you're not expecting a reinvention of the wheel. Lead-off single "Rock N Roll Train," "She Likes Rock N Roll," "Wheels," and "Spoilin' for a Fight" don't promise to reveal the meaning of life, but deliver smart-aleck jolts of gloriously arrogant rock and roll, sure-fire heavy metal insomnia cures which eschew long, thump-thump finales in favor of quickly setting your brain on fire then moving on to hump the next hard-porn blues lick into the stratosphere and beyond. And when they switch things up with "Anything Goes," the closest they'll ever get to diabetes-inducing romanticism, they inadvertently strike paydirt.
  
  Rest assured "Black Ice" will sell by the bushelfulls, AC/DC more than content with their roles as seekers of the basic musical common denominator that will lead all of our 15-year-olds into the sea, moving backward at the speed of light, their faith in the power of rock and roll to change a life unshakable. Get out of their way!