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- Powerage
- - 282,225 plays
  - 371 favs
  - 29 shares
AC/DC
Released 1978

Sin City
04:45
56,566 plays

Rock 'n' Roll Damnation
03:37
36,741 plays

Gone Shootin'
05:05
33,576 plays

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- 1
- Rock 'n' Roll Damnation
- 03:37
- 36,741 plays

- 2
- Down Payment Blues
- 06:03
- 27,426 plays

- 3
- Gimme a Bullet
- 03:21
- 27,050 plays

- 4
- Riff Raff
- 05:12
- 28,240 plays

- 5
- Sin City
- 04:45
- 56,566 plays

- 6
- What's Next to the Moon
- 03:31
- 25,473 plays

- 7
- Gone Shootin'
- 05:05
- 33,576 plays

- 8
- Up to My Neck in You
- 04:13
- 22,386 plays

- 9
- Kicked in the Teeth
- 03:53
- 24,776 plays

album review

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. It would be the last produced by Vanda & Young, the legendary Australian production team who also helmed hits by the Easybeats, and it was the last before AC/DC became superstars. 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. There are a few genuine classics here, most notably "Down Payment Blues" and "Up to My Neck in You," and there's a real appeal in how Bon Scott's gutter poems of excess are reaching a mythic level; there's a real sense that he truly does believe that rock & roll leads straight to hell on "Rock 'n' Roll Damnation." But overall, the record is just a bit too wobbly, one where the parts don't add up to a record as hard and addictive as before -- but there's still plenty worth hearing here. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide