Released 24 May 1986 Length 37:50 Release date 20 May 1986 Label Albert Productions | Recorded December 1985 Artist AC/DC Movie Maximum Overdrive Genre Hard rock | |
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Producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Harry Vanda, George Young, Angus Young, Malcolm Young Who Made Who
(1986) Blow Up Your Video
(1988) Similar AC/DC albums, Hard rock albums | ||
Who Made Who is a hard rock album by Australian band AC/DC, released in 1986 as the soundtrack to the Stephen King movie Maximum Overdrive. It was re-released in 2003 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.
Contents
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Background
Three tracks on the album – "Who Made Who" and the instrumentals "D.T." and "Chase the Ace" – were newly written and recorded by AC/DC in the Bahamas with George Young and Harry Vanda, who had produced all of the band's LP's from 1975 to 1978. The rest were taken from the band's previous albums. Only one song, "Ride On", is from the Bon Scott era; all of the others feature Brian Johnson. During the Who Made Who sessions, five other short instrumental songs were recorded for Maximum Overdrive all written by Malcolm Young and Angus Young:
Along with the album, the band released a 73-minute video tape, which contained music videos for the songs "Who Made Who", "You Shook Me All Night Long", "Shake Your Foundations" (remixed), "Hells Bells", and footage from a live performance of "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)", which was filmed in Detroit in 1983. The video for the title track was directed by David Mallet at the Brixton Academy in London and features a multitude of Angus clones. According to the book AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll, 300 members of the band's fan club, and others who had simply heard about the event on the radio, came from all over the country and even slept out in the freezing cold to take part.
King would allude to the album's title song in the 1990 revised and expanded edition of his novel The Stand, where one of the novel's characters changes the lyrics to "Flu made who".
Reception
The song "Who Made Who" became the band's most successful single in years, reaching #11 in the UK and #33 in the US. It was also voted second best track of 1986 by the readers of Hit Parader magazine. The album has sold five million copies in the US. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic calls the album "a ripping AC/DC retrospective" and applauds the band "rescuing songs like Sink the Pink' from otherwise mediocre albums."
Album
All tracks written by Malcolm Young, Angus Young and Brian Johnson, except where noted.
Video
- "Who Made Who"
- "You Shook Me All Night Long"
- "Shake Your Foundations"
- "Hells Bells"
- "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)" [Joe Louis Arena, Detroit - November 1983]
Personnel
Charts
Album
Songs
1Who Made Who3:27
2You Shook Me All Night Long3:30
3DT2:57