Out next week some time, most of the songs are already on YouTube.
Track listing (wait for it) ... Rock'n'roll train; Skies on fire; Big Jack; Anything goes; War machine; Smash'n'grab; Spoilin' for a fight; Wheels; Decibel; Stormy May Day; She likes rock'n'roll; Rock'n'roll dream; Rocking all the way*; Black ice ...
... but the best bit of the promo video (about 20 seconds in) is this: "Will be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club". I have no idea who Sam's Club are**, but I do know that Wal-Mart are much hated in leftie circles ("Wot? Cheap goods for lower income people? Jobs for semi-skilled workers? Trade not aid? Pah!"). For $11.88 ("Wot? An evening's entertainment for under twelve bucks? Do they know how much an opera ticket costs nowadays? Pah!").
The State of Maryland once went so far as to enact a punitive law that only applied to Wal-Mart, which was thankfully ruled 'not enforceable' by District Judge Motz***, decision affirmed by the US Court of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit a year later, Judge Michael dissenting.
* On a pedantic note, why the "g" at the end of that particular present participle? And why do the official song titles miss the apostrophe after the "n" in the word "and"? Ah well, who cares...
** JP point out in the comments, Sam's Club is part of Wal Mart
*** 'Motz' is German for 'whine' or 'moan', which adds yet another level of hilarity.
What have we wrought in the UK?
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Sam's Club is a Makro type - discount, members only - operation. Also owned by the great Wal-Mart incidentally.
Pleased to hear AC/DC is back... memmories of Donnington 1981 & 84 and a not so wasted youth.
Burning alive is my fave ACDC track, They are also along with The Cult responsible for my deafness.
BURNING ALIVE ACDC
Check this out, this will make you laugh, As we descend into socialism
The Job
In their Telegraph interview, they suggested it was because Itunes didn't allow them to lock the album tracks together (they see the unit of their music being the album, not the single and so wanted it sold as such) that they went with Walmart as the second biggest music seller in the US. I don't know if part of their decision was simply contrary, as in "What's the biggest seller?", "ITunes", "Right, Walmart it is then."
JP, I have updated. PB, I like 'Hard as a rock' best off that album, PT, I think that is exactly what they said, and knowing them, they mean what they say.
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