AC/DC – Who Made Who [HDtracks Hi-Res Remastered] (2020)

AC/DC‘s mid-80s album ”Who Made Who” has been recently remastered 2020 and reissued in a Hi-Res Audio quality. With ”Who Made Who” AC/DC definitely entered into the American mainstream industry, as this is the soundtrack to the Stephen King film Maximum Overdrive.
While there’s only 3 new songs on the album, you need this 1986 release: most tracks are different from the originals – newly mixed – and “Ride On” sounds better than never here.
And of course, the title track: ”Who Made Who” is one of the greatest in AC/DC’s career, and a true ‘Eighties’ bass-pumped melodic rocker.

The title track for ‘Who Made Who’ is a pumping, thumping track totally in step with the commercial hard rock of the era. The drums are so echoey and over-processed they recall Mutt Lange’s production on Def Leppard’s Pyromania. While the rhythm is remarkably simple – even by AC/DC’s standards – Angus Young lets fly with some hammer-ons and pull-offs similar to the ones in “For Those About to Rock,” and he even plays some Eddie Van Halen-style finger-tapping during the lead.
For AC/DC it wasn’t an era for originality, it was a time for rejuvenation and it worked. ‘Who Made Who’ was certified gold by the RIAA on Aug. 19, 1986 and is currently quintuple platinum.

Amazingly for such a successful album, there are only three new songs on ‘Who Made Who’. And the other new tunes are both instrumentals. “D.T.” is a booming, bluesy belter that sounds like it should have vocals, but the band didn’t have time for Brian Johnson to record them, and “Chase the Ace” is a stone(d)-hard, droning jam propelled by some fleet-fingered leads.

The rest of the songs range from the familiar “You Shook Me All Night Long” and “Hells Bells” to the two somewhat obscure tracks from ‘Fly On The Wall’: the new mix to “Sink the Pink” – enjoyably brash and bawdy – and “Shake Your Foundation” – a crashing hybrid of Chicago blues and overdriven firepower – are benefited for a new treatment on Brian Johnson’s vocals, now clearer.
The only song on ‘Who Made Who’ to feature Bon Scott is the sultry, downtempo cruiser “Ride On”, and the new mastering did miracles with this fantastic song.
A MUST

01 – Who Made Who
02 – You Shook Me All Night Long
03 – D.T.
04 – Sink The Pink
05 – Ride On
06 – Hells Bells
07 – Shake Your Foundations
08 – Chase the Ace
09 – For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)

Brian Johnson – lead vocals
Angus Young – lead guitar
Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Cliff Williams – bass guitar, backing vocals
Simon Wright – drums
Bon Scott – lead vocals on “Ride On”
Phil Rudd – drums
Mark Evans – bass and backing vocals on “Ride On”

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