AC/DC - Plug Me In

It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock, an’ rock, an’ rock …

This beast of a release is essential for any AC/DC collection. Disc One of this Space Invaders-themed package spans 1975-80, the Bon Scott era, featuring everything from an early ’75 performance of High Voltage to the first performance of Highway To Hell, initially broadcast on Dutch television in 1979. The extras are exceptional, with a host of interviews with the band in laddish, brawly humour, as well as four songs on splashy, audience-view neo-bootleg Super 8 from one of Bon Scott’s final gigs, at Nice in ’79. All eight minutes of the scrapbook bit with the flying press cuttings is just downright scary. Disc Two has a lot of career to cover, and it does a more than decent job. AC/DC were such a reliably great band that the performances vary little from top-notch over two-and-a-half-decades of gigs and Japanese TV appearances. Extras here are also multitudinous, with a video jukebox as well as more interviews, a Beavis & Butthead cartoon and Malcolm and Angus performing Rock Me, Baby onstage with The Rolling Stones. The deluxe edition also features a third DVD with 21 more performances and facsimiles of merchandise, if five hours of DC rockin’ it up ain’t enough. Guess sometimes, it ain’t.

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Columbia | 710417

Reviewed by Joe Shooman
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