Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
	Produced by Vanda & Young
	Released on December 1976
	US CHART POSITION #3 . . . PLATINUM RECORD (6/3/81), 6x PLATINUM (1/22/01)
	Find it at GEMM
SD 16033 cover [high resolution photo]

D irty Deeds unwittingly became Bon Scott’s swan song when Atlantic Records released this for the first time in the US in 1981, changing track selection slightly in the bargain. We got a live version of “Rocker” (thanks for nothing) and Let There Be Rock’s “Problem Child,” which starts with the challenge to “Top this” and then proceeds to show you how impossible that is. Dirty Deeds is classic AC/DC, brilliant and banal at the same time. There’s a salacious genius at work on “Big Balls,” some self-mythologizing with the title track, and the mature statement of “Ain’t No Fun Waiting Round To Be A Millionaire,” any one of which is worth championing. In between are meat-and-potatoes rockers, presumably fueled by their working class ethos. And, yes, I feel very silly right now. Silly because words like “presumably” and “ethos” have no business being here. AC/DC is all about simplicity. For example, when you buy an AC/DC album, you don’t get any of that extraneous “concept” crap. The albums are named for a song on the album, usually the one that kicks the most ass. And forget about fancy arrangements; they just lay it down and let Angus light it up. Sharing the spotlight with Angus is the inimitable (eh, I don’t feel so bad about that one), irreplaceable Bon Scott. You hang on every slurred word when he’s singing. It’s too bad he didn’t wait around long enough to be a millionaire, but some people simply weren’t meant to grow up. He’s ageless here, incorrigible, and probably having more fun than you right now.

SD 16033 back cover	SD 16033 lyric sleeve

TRACK LISTING

US 1981 reissue track listing

1. DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP    3:46
2. LOVE AT FIRST FEEL    3:05
3. BIG BALLS    2:39
4. ROCKER    2:46
5. PROBLEM CHILD    5:43
6. THERE'S GONNA BE SOME ROCKIN'    3:14
7. AIN'T NO FUN (WAITING ROUND TO BE A MILLIONAIRE)    6:57
8. RIDE ON    5:47
9. SQUEALER    5:12
   
   All songs written by Young, Young and Scott

CREDITS

MARK EVANS --
PHIL RUDD --
BON SCOTT --
ANGUS YOUNG --
MALCOLM YOUNG --
Hipgnosis -- sleeve design & photos
Paul Canty -- inner sleeve photos

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