AC/DC were performing in a wool pavilion at Memorial Park in Deniliquin, NSW in May 1975, the next month ‘High Voltage’ was released and by the end of that year they were charting in the Top 10 in Australia and then spread out across in a run that has lasted decades.

There are more good AC/DC songs than space because no reader wants to end up reading a novel so other songs that are also good to me are ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’, ‘Big Balls’, ‘Jailbreak’, ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’, ‘Shoot to Thrill’ and ‘Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution’

Thunderstruck

The Thunderstruck music video is cool, from the camera looking down the drumsticks to another camera looking down on Angus Young’s guitar, the closeups on the band in action.

The song peaked at No. 4 in Australia with a No. 1 scored in Finland, it was 10x Platinum in Australia and Diamond in America.

The song was used in a scene of the 2012 movie ‘Battleship’, it can be said that the song was far more successful than the movie and it had also improved the movie.

Highway to Hell

1979’s ‘Highway to Hell’ is a song that has popped up on the charts around the world a couple of times throughout the decades.

It had charted in 1979, 1980, 1992, 2012, 2013, 2021 and 2022, it peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in 1992 and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs in 2012.

It peaked at No. 4 in the UK in 2013 after a push to get to No. 1 on the charts at Christmas.

It had originally peaked at No. 24 in Australia and No. 47 in America during 1979/80 which is surprising but as seen above it has enjoyed a long life.

T.N.T

T.N.T, the song with Oi in it years before the ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi’ chant started and The Energizer Man saying ‘Oi’ were popular in the world.

T.N.T peaked at No. 16 on the Australian charts across 1976 and 1977 and The Guardian ranked T.N.T at No. 19 in their forty greatest AC/DC songs list.

The 2002 game ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 had ‘T.N.T’ on the soundtrack for the game, nobody could have imagined that the song would end up being a great song for a video game about skateboarding especially when video games were just starting out in 1975, far from the graphics 2002 had.

Who Made Who

‘Who Made Who’ from 1986 peaked at No. 9 in Australia and reached No. 1 in Finland, it had done alright in America with a peak of No. 23 on the US Mainstream Rock chart.

The Guardian has the song at No. 23 on their list of 40 Greatest AC/DC songs, not a bad result, surrounded by Heatseeker at No. 23 and ‘If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)’ at No. 24.

It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)

I love this music video; you get to take a look at Melbourne in the 70s before giant Skyscrapers became normal in the city.

Bagpipes and Australian based performers seem to go hand-in-hand, this song and of course John Farnham’s ‘You’re the Voice’ had bagpipes, both songs ended up being iconic songs.