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After 37 years, you'd think it might sound dated in light of modern production. It sounds flawless as least in term of the mixing, everything is right where you'd expect it. This isn't an attempt at high art, it is pounding hard rock and about as good as it gets. "Hells Bells", "Shoot to Thrill" are my favorites, but you can't really get yourself in trouble with any of the songs. I'm not a huge fan of "You Shook Me All Night Long" and "Shake a Leg", but those two songs still sound terrific, just don't appeal to me as much as the others. Ten tracks with eight of them getting my foot tapping along, that's way above and beyond. As befits it's status as a classic, it is a great, great album.

I'll be using this little corner of the internet to rate all of my records, in alphabetical order. In the interest of fairness I'll avoid greatest hits and box sets, as the albums I'll rate will contain the hits anyways. New albums of note that I may get will be slotted in as I can get to them. I'm listening to all them on a pretty nice set of computer speakers complete with a big sub-woofer that blasts the bass under my desk. All the albums will be consumed in the same manner, one sitting run straight through. Some of them I will have listened too hundreds of times, but I will attempt to judge everything with fresh ears. The scoring system is one I can't lay claim too, it's borrowed from the Rock and Roll Geek Show (where it was borrowed from someone else). It might be borrowed, but it's simple and effective. I'll rate a song a +1 if I like it, one/half if I kind of like it, zero if it's flat out terrible or I just don't feel it. So with a ten ...