The four hundred and twenty-seventh album: #427 AC/DC - Highway to Hell
With the bank holiday giving us a chance to do some extra traveling, I ended up starting the week more tired than usual - and AC/DC's Highway to Hell (together with a good amount of coffee) helped shock me out of that. You've got good and proper hard rock, no fancy tricks or big compositions, but a whole lot of volume on top of well constructed songs. I understand this is the first album of backing vocals (this album convinced me to dive into their back catalogue when this project is over) and it really helps add to the tracks by giving it the extra power it needs. The tracks aren't high art, the lyrics not incredibly insightful, but the simple subjects of the lyrics, wrapped in more vivid imagery, and the straight forward music that builds on that simplicity as well, makes for a really compelling album.