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Dirty Deeds Washed Dirt Cheap
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Studio album by AC/DC
Released	20 September 1976
Recorded	Dec 1975 – March 1976
Studio	Albert, Sydney
Genre	Difficult stone dejection rock rock and roll
Length	42:24 (Australia) 39:59 (International)
Label	Albert
Producer	Harry Vanda George Immature
AC/DC chronology
High Voltage (1976) Dirty Deeds Done Clay Inexpensive (1976) Let In that location Be Rock (1977)
Alternative cover fine art
Original Australian encompass
Singles from Dirty Deeds Washed Clay Cheap
"Jailbreak" Released: 14 June 1976 (Aus) "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Inexpensive" Released: v October 1976 (Aus)

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is the third studio album by Australian hard stone band AC/DC, originally released merely in Europe and Commonwealth of australia in 1976. The anthology was not released in the Us until 1981, more than one yr after lead vocalizer Bon Scott'south death. This was also Air-conditioning/DC's showtime album in its entirety to be recorded with the same lineup, rather than including at least one track recorded with a dissimilar bassist or drummer.

Background [edit]

AC/DC began recording Dingy Deeds Done Dirt Cheap in December 1975 at Albert Studios with Harry Vanda and George Young (elder brother of guitarists Malcolm and Angus) producing. In April 1976, the band went on their first tour of the Uk, where "It'south a Long Way to the Top (If You lot Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" was released every bit a single. According to the book AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll, Vanda and Immature travelled to the Britain to record several songs with the band at Vineland Studios for a scheduled EP, which was somewhen scrapped. "Carry Me Home" afterward appeared in 1977 as a B-side to Dog Eat Dog, while "Dirty Eyes" remained unreleased and was later on reworked into "Whole Lotta Rosie" for 1977'due south Let There Be Stone. But "Love at Starting time Feel" was used for Muddy Deeds, but not for the Australian release. A song titled "I'chiliad a Rebel" was recorded at Maschener Studios as well, with music and lyrics written past some other elder Young brother, Alex Immature.^{[i] [2]} This song was never released by AC/DC, and remains in Albert Productions' vaults. German band Accept later released it as a single, and named their 2nd album afterward information technology. High Voltage was released in the United States in 1976. Withal, hampered by visa bug and a lack of interest from Atlantic Records in the U.s., the band returned to Australia to finish their third anthology.

As well co-ordinate to AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Whorl, years subsequently, Stephen King convinced the band to do the soundtrack for his film Maximum Overdrive (the soundtrack released as Who Made Who) past putting "Own't No Fun" on the record histrion and singing along to the entire vocal line-for-line in gild to prove how much of a fan he was of their music.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Composition [edit]

The championship track would become one of the band's most famous songs. Its narrator invites people experiencing issues to either phone call him on 36-24-36, an actual phone number in Commonwealth of australia in the 1960s (then properly formatted as FM 2436 - 36 translated to FM on the rotary punch or keypad), or visit him at his domicile, at which point he volition perform assorted unsavoury acts to resolve said issues. Situations in which he offers assistance include those involving lewd high schoolhouse headmasters, and significant others who are either adulterous or who persistently observe error with their partners. The term "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is an homage to the drawing Beany and Cecil, which Angus watched when he was a child. 1 of the cartoon's characters was named Dishonest John, and carried a business card that read, "Dirty deeds done clay cheap. Special rates for Sundays and holidays." On the Alive on Donington DVD, Malcolm and Angus explained that the concept of the album was to base information technology as a Bogartian mystery scenario. This was also backed by author Dave Rubin, who stated in his book Inside Stone Guitar: Four Decades of the Greatest Electrical Rock Guitarists that Bogart'due south movies served equally the basis for the album.^[3]

In 1981, after the anthology was released in the U.S., Norman and Marilyn White of Libertyville, Illinois filed a $250,000 lawsuit in Lake County, Illinois Circuit Court against Atlantic Records and its distributors because, they alleged, their telephone number was included in the song, resulting in hundreds of prank phone calls. Their attorney told the Chicago Tribune that the song's 36-24-36 digits were followed past what to his clients sounded like an "eight", thus creating the couple's phone number.^[four]

Another fan-favorite from the album is "Ride On". Atypically for an AC/DC song, it has a sad, boring dejection feel and features Bon Scott'south reflective lyrics and restrained, soulful delivery. The lyrics concern a man ruminating on the mistakes he has fabricated in a relationship while drinking. It has frequently been cited as one of AC/DC'south best songs.^{[5] [6] [vii]} The rail is as well significant for Angus Young's guitar solo. Ac/DC biographer Murray Engleheart observes in his 2006 band memoir: "Overall, Muddy Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was rougher than T.N.T. and highlighted the difficulties of recording between increasingly enervating touring commitments. Songs similar 'Ain't No Fun,' 'RIP,' 'Jailbreak,' and particularly the lonely resignation of 'Ride On,' were about character studies of Bon and had a sense of impatience...breaking free and just plainly loneliness." "Ride On" was covered by the French ring Trust on their self-titled 1979 debut album, after they supported Ac/DC live in Paris in the autumn of 1978. Scott jammed the vocal with Trust at Scorpio Audio Studios in London on xiii February 1980, six days before his death in that city. A recording of this subsequently surfaced on the Bon Scott Forever Volume 1 homemade. In an interview with Anthony O'Grady of RAM in August 1976, Scott stated that "Ride On" was "about a guy who gets pissed effectually by chicks...tin't notice what he wants." In the same 1976 RAM interview, Scott revealed that "Squealer" was about a sexual come across with a virgin. In concert, Scott would often introduce "Problem Child" as being about Angus. "Own't No Fun (Waiting 'Round to be a Millionaire)" is 1 of the few AC/DC songs that has cursing, with Scott shouting on the fade, "Hey Howard, how ya doin' friend, my next door neighbour? Oh yeah, get your fuckin' jumbo jet off my airport!" The rhythm of "There's Gonna Be Some Rockin'" is very similar to that of "The Seventh Son" by Willie Dixon.

International releases [edit]

A modified international edition was released on Atlantic on 17 Dec 1976, although the label was unhappy with its vocals and production. (According to bassist Mark Evans, band manager Michael Browning told him he assumed Bon Scott would be fired every bit a consequence.)^[8] The band even teetered on the brink of being dropped. "The Atlantic A&R department [in the Us] said, 'Nosotros're sorry, but this anthology actually doesn't make it,'" recalled Phil Carson, who had signed the band. "'We're non gonna put it out and we're dropping the ring'… So I went to [Atlantic executive] Nesuhi (Ertegun) and showed him the sales figures that we'd got for High Voltage. They were not monumental only, because we'd merely paid $25,000 for the album, this was not so bad… Nesuhi backed me up and I re-signed the band at that point. I managed to claw it back in. Thank God."^[9]

Equally biographer Murray Engleheart observes in his book AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll, the band had not fifty-fifty toured usa yet, a market place the ring longed to conquer:

The tough stone acts only got what piffling airwave attending they did because they'd built upwards a fanbase through years on the road. Air-conditioning/DC hadn't had the opportunity to marshal troops through touring the U.S., and at the fourth dimension in that location was no way something as raw and gritty as Muddied Deeds was going to make it onto American radio playlists by itself. It was a brutally unproblematic catch-22...Americans were said to take trouble understanding Bon, and if the people working with the band couldn't make out the lyrics, how was his vox going to work on the all-important U.S. radio networks?

Following the American success of Highway to Hell in tardily 1979, copies of the album began to appear as imports in the Usa. Some of these were the original Australian edition on Albert Productions; all the same, Atlantic also pressed the international version in Commonwealth of australia, and many of these were likewise exported to the Us. Strong demand for both versions (in the wake of the even greater success of Back in Blackness) led the US division of Atlantic to finally authorize an official U.s. release in March 1981. It went straight to No. 3 on the Billboard album charts.

However, the release was as well poorly timed, considering that AC/DC had successfully reinvented itself with a new singer, Brian Johnson. The band was working on a new album, which would ultimately become For Those About to Stone We Salute You lot, released later that aforementioned yr; the United states release of Dirty Deeds was widely seen equally damaging the momentum for that album, which information technology outsold. The ring was forced to add songs from Dirty Deeds to its setlist on its subsequent tour, also taking the focus away from their new anthology.

In the book The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC, writer Jesse Fink quotes Phil Carson equally saying that the release of Dirty Deeds was "ane of the about crass decisions ever made by a tape-company executive",^[10] blaming A&R human Doug Morris and his New York cohorts:

At the time, Doug's statement was purely financial. Back in Black had already sold over five one thousand thousand copies. Because of those numbers, Doug told me Dingy Deeds would sell at least ii million. I told him he was right about that, just that it would likewise create a new sales plateau for AC/DC...God knows how many albums For Those About to Stone would accept sold had Doug waited for that to come out.^[ten]

The international release had significant variations from the original album. "Jailbreak" (which had preceded the LP's release in Australia and the UK) and "R.I.P. (Rock in Peace)" were jettisoned in favor of "Rocker" (from the 1975 Australian album T.Due north.T.) and "Beloved at First Experience". "Jailbreak" did not see a release in the United States, Canada, and Nihon until October 1984 as part of the international '74 Jailbreak EP. A promo-only single, with "Testify Business" as its B-side, was released to radio stations in the U.s. at the time. "Honey at Get-go Feel" is one of only two tracks from international Ac/DC albums not to be available on the band'southward Australian albums (the other is "Cold Hearted Human being", released on European pressings of Powerage); however, "Love at First Feel" was released in Commonwealth of australia every bit a single in Jan 1977, with "Problem Child" as its B-side, which peaked in the Kent Music Report Singles Chart Top 100.^[11] The international release of Dirty Deeds besides contains "Large Balls", one of the band'south almost infamous compositions, that finds Scott, a deceptively clever lyricist, using double entendres by using ballroom and costume parties to patently reference his own testicles. AC/DC had mined this territory before on "The Jack" and would again later on songs like "Given the Domestic dog a Bone", but "Big Assurance" could be their funniest effort at sexual innuendo, although the vocal was controversial in its solar day and drew the ire of some critics who mistook the ring's sense of sense of humour for crude perversity. Dirty Deeds Done Clay Cheap also led to more Air conditioning/DC appearances on Australia's Countdown music programme, following those in back up of High Voltage and T.N.T. These appearances included a alive performance of the anthology'due south title track, too as a music video for "Jailbreak".^[12]

Two songs on the international album were edited from the total-length versions on the original Australian album. The full-length "Muddied Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" has the title of the vocal chanted four times, starting at 3:09, but on the edited version the chant is heard simply twice. "Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire)" lasted 7:29 on the Australian album but was faded out early to 6:57 on the international version. This means they trim off the Chuck Berry licks and title chanting to the stop; however, both these total-length versions were restored on the 1994 Atco Records remastered CD of the international anthology. The most recent 2003 CD edition past Epic Records goes back to the edited versions, as originally on the 1976 and 1981 international vinyl editions. The uncut versions of both songs were released on the 2009 box ready Backtracks. On the original version of "Rocker", included on the Australian T.N.T. anthology, the song lasts 2:55 and cuts out abruptly equally the guitar riff hits its peak. Conversely, all international editions of the "Dirty Deeds Washed Clay Cheap" album take a slightly shorter version where the vocal fades out at ii:l earlier the cut. "Pig" appears to be longer past xiii seconds on the international version; this is due to information technology having a bumper of silence at the end, equally information technology is the last rails on the record. "Ride On" has a four-second difference (longer on the international version) which appears to be from a minor speed issue, although the last guitar slide can be heard amend on the shorter Australian version.

Commercial performance and reception [edit]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[14]
Blender	[15]
Christgau'south Record Guide	C+[xvi]
Classic Rock	[17]
The Encyclopedia of Pop Music	[18]
Rolling Stone	[19]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	6/10[20]

Dingy Deeds Done Clay Cheap has been certified six× platinum both in Commonwealth of australia and in the Usa, selling at least six 1000000 copies, becoming the third-highest-selling album past Ac/DC in the United states of america later Highway to Hell (7× platinum) and Back in Blackness (25× platinum). Allmusic gives the album five out of five stars and proclaims "it captured the seething malevolence of Bon Scott...encouraged past the maniacal riffs of Angus and Malcolm Immature" and that there was a "existent sense of danger to this tape."^[21] Greg Kot of Rolling Stone only gives the album three out of five stars, only states: "The guitars of brothers Angus and Malcolm Young bark at each other, Phil Rudd swings the beat even as he's pulverizing his boot drum, and Scott brings the raunch 'northward' wail. The bailiwick thing is standard-upshot stone rebellion; Scott pauses but once to briefly contemplate the consequences of his night stalking in 'Ride On.'"

Runway listing [edit]

Australian [edit]

Side ii

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Squealer"	5:15
2.	"Large Balls"	2:38
3.	"R.I.P. (Rock in Peace)"	3:35
4.	"Ride On"	5:54
5.	"Jailbreak"	iv:41

International [edit]

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"There's Gonna Be Some Rockin'"	3:18
two.	"Ain't No Fun (Waiting 'Round to Exist a Millionaire)"	vi:58
iii.	"Ride On"	5:54
four.	"Squealer"	5:15

• "Dirty Deeds Washed Dirt Cheap" was shortened from its original length on the Australian version of the album for the international release.
• "Love at Showtime Feel" was a new track non previously available in Australia. It was later released in that location as a single.
• "Big Balls" faded out on the original international LP release.
• "Rocker" originally appeared on the Australian T.N.T. in a slightly longer version without the fade out.
• "Problem Child" was included on the international release in its original Australian course, whereas the international version of Allow In that location Be Rock independent a shortened version of the song without the extended ending.
• "Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round to Exist a Millionaire)" was as well shortened from its original length on the Australian version of the anthology for the international release.

The 1994 remastered international Atco CD release of the album included the full length Australian versions of "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap", "Big Assurance", "Rocker", and "Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire)". They were afterward reverted to the shortened versions for the 2003 Ballsy remastered versions of the album with "Big Balls" remaining in its longer version. The 2009 boxed set Backtracks Deluxe Edition featured the full-length original Australian versions of "Muddy Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" and "Own't No Fun (Waiting Round to Exist a Millionaire)", just not "Rocker", which is nonetheless billed every bit the original Australian version.

Personnel [edit]

Air conditioning/DC

• Bon Scott – lead vocals
• Angus Young – atomic number 82 guitar
• Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Mark Evans – bass guitar
• Phil Rudd – drums

Production

• George Young – production, bass guitar on runway three^[22]
• Harry Vanda - production

Charts [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Year-terminate charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

References [edit]

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2. ^ NO NONSENSE AC/DC – I'Chiliad A Rebel
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4. ^ Hirsley, Michael (10 October 1981). "'Dirty Deeds' bring adapt". Chicago Tribune. p. W3.
5. ^ "Acme 10 Bon Scott Air conditioning/DC Songs".
6. ^ "Australian anthems: Ac/DC – It'due south a Long Way to the Peak (If You Wanna Rock'north'Roll)". TheGuardian.com. 25 March 2014.
7. ^ "Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Air conditioning/DC Songs". Rolling Stone. 15 October 2014.
8. ^ Mark Evans Discusses Life In and Out of Air-conditioning/DC http://ultimateclassicrock.com/ac-dc-mark-evans-interview/
9. ^ Wall, Mick (May 2012). "Allow there exist light! Let at that place be sound! Allow there be rock!". Archetype Rock #170. p. 36.
10. ^ ^{a b} Fink, Jesse (2013). The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built Ac/DC. Commonwealth of australia: Ebury. p. 126. ISBN9781742759791.
11. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book Ltd. ISBN0-646-11917-six. Note: Used for Australian singles and albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) created their own charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent dorsum-calculated chart positions for the period 1970–1974.
12. ^ Video Footage and Liner Notes, Family Jewels 2-Disc DVD Fix 2005
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14. ^ Twist, Carlo. "Muddied Deeds Done Dirt Cheap". Blender. Archived from the original on thirteen May 2009. Retrieved 6 Baronial 2009.
15. ^ Christgau, Robert (1990). "A". Christgau'south Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN0-679-73015-Ten . Retrieved xvi Baronial 2020 – via robertchristgau.com.
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17. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Curtailed ed.). United kingdom: Omnibus Press. p. 34. ISBN978-one-84609-856-7.
18. ^ Kot, Greg (25 February 2003). "Muddied Deeds Washed Dirt Cheap". Rolling Rock . Retrieved 29 November 2009.
19. ^ Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN1841955515.
20. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (International Version)". Allmusic. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
21. ^ Engleheart, Murray & Arnaud Durieux (2006). Air conditioning/DC: Maximum Rock N Roll. p. 142. ISBN0-7322-8383-3.
22. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Nautical chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.Southward.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 11. ISBN0-646-11917-half-dozen.
23. ^ "Top 100 Metal Albums of 2002". Jam!. Archived from the original on 12 August 2004. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
24. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2013 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association.
25. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (AC/DC;'Dirty Deeds Done Clay Cheap')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
26. ^ Salaverrie, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (PDF) (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Madrid: Fundación Autor/SGAE. p. 953. ISBN84-8048-639-ii . Retrieved 23 August 2019.
27. ^ "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (AC/DC;'Dirty Deeds Washed Clay Cheap')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.
28. ^ "British album certifications – AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Clay Cheap". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 19 Jan 2022.
29. ^ "American album certifications – AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap". Recording Industry Association of America.

External links [edit]

• Muddy Deeds Washed Dirt Cheap at Discogs (list of releases)
• Lyrics on Air conditioning/DC'due south official website

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