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Artist Icon Blow Up Your Video (1988)
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Blow Up Your Video (engl. für „Jag dein Video in die Luft“) ist das zehnte internationale Studioalbum der australischen Hard-Rock-Band AC/DC. Es erschien am 18. Januar 1988 auf dem Label Atlantic Records.
Blow Up Your Video war das letzte Album mit Schlagzeuger Simon Wright, der auf dem Nachfolgealbum The Razors Edge durch Chris Slade ersetzt wurde. Bei allen Liedern des Albums ist letztmals Sänger Brian Johnson als Mitautor angegeben, auf allen späteren Alben sind ausschließlich die Young-Brüder als Autoren aufgeführt. Für die Produzenten Harry Vanda und George Young war es das erste vollständig von ihnen produzierte AC/DC-Album seit 10 Jahren. George Young produzierte der Band im Alleingang 2000 noch das Album Stiff Upper Lip.

Von Blow Up Your Video wurden die Singles Heatseeker und That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll ausgekoppelt. Beide erreichten Anfang 1988 die UK Top 40, Heatseeker auf Platz 12, That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll auf Platz 22. Als B-Seiten wurden Go Zone und Kissin' Dynamite verwendet. Auf manchen Versionen der Singles wurden außerdem die Tracks Snake Eye oder Borrowed Time hinzugefügt, die auf dem Album nicht enthalten waren. Neben den als B-Seiten verwendeten Lieder wurden in dieser Zeit auch die Lieder Let It Loose und Alright Tonight aufgenommen.
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AC/DC remained a popular concert draw throughout the '80s, although such albums as Flick of the Switch and Fly on the Wall failed to replicate their mass U.S. commercial success of 1980-1981 (Back in Black, For Those About to Rock, a reissue of Dirty Deeds). But the successful soundtrack for Stephen King's lackluster movie Maximum Overdrive, titled Who Made Who, put AC/DC back on the right track commercially. Their first new studio album of all-new material in three years, 1988's Blow Up Your Video turned out to be their most successful album since 1981's For Those About To Rock, even though it was chock full of filler. The driving album opener, "Heatseeker," turned out to be a surprising Top Ten single in the U.K., while the anthemic "That's the Way I Want to Rock n' Roll" proved to be another highlight (video clips were filmed for both songs, as well). But from there on (with the exception of "Kissin' Dynamite" and "This Means War"), it gets pretty unfocused. The album is glutted with such throwaways as "Nick of Time," "Ruff Stuff," and "Two's Up" -- completely missing the point of what made such previous albums as Back in Black so great (they simply did not contain a weak moment). Blow Up Your Video also marked the return of AC/DC's early production team, Harry Vanda and George Young, who man the boards for the first time since 1978's If You Want Blood.


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