Blow Up Your Video by AC/DC

Blow Up Your Video, AC/DC's eleventh studio album, came out in 1988 and put the band back in a room with Harry Vanda and George Young, the pair who had produced their first records. The songs were written at Nomis Studio in London in July 1987, then recorded at Studio Miraval in Provence, in the south of France, over August and September. The lineup is Angus Young on lead guitar, brother Malcolm on rhythm and backing vocals, Cliff Williams on bass, Brian Johnson hollering on top and Simon Wright on drums, in what turned out to be his last studio album with the band.

The title reads like a raspberry blown at the MTV age, and the music backs it up: stripped, stomping hard rock, riff stacked on riff with nothing wasted. The sessions yielded 16 tracks, among them other versions of "Heatseeker", the song that later showed up on the countdowns. The record earned AC/DC a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental in 1989.

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