“Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” by AC/DC

"Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is the title track of AC/DC's 1976 album, written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott and produced by Vanda & Young for Albert Productions. It's sleazy, strutting hard rock, and the menace is in the details: a heavy-breathing backing vocal thumping on the downbeat of the verses, the title spoken at the end of each chorus, a scream to close it out, and on the full-length cut, the title chanted four times on the way out.

Americans had to wait for it: the album didn't come out in the US until 1981, and the single followed it there. VH1 later ranked it among the greatest metal songs and, in 2009, named it the 31st best hard rock song ever.

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