Totally unnecessary, this double disc captures a single concert — December 4, 2009, at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina — from the Black Ice tour. The band played three nights at the stadium (which holds roughly 67,000 people), selling out all three; a DVD from these shows was also released.

I saw this tour twice — once at Madison Square Garden and once at the O2 in Dublin, Ireland (a fantastic, Thunderdome-ish venue with tiers of seats running high up the walls of its bowl-like interior). AC/DC were performing with fierce energy and delivered a set that was a great mix of classics and five songs from the then-new album. (Yes, they played “Big Jack,” but the other four were all good choices and didn’t do anything to sap the momentum of the set.) Still, if If You Want Blood You’ve Got It was the Bon Scott-fronted version of the band saying “Come to our show, we’ll kick your ass,” and AC/DC Live was the Brian Johnson-fronted version saying “We’re the biggest hard rock band on the planet,” the message of Live At River Plate is something on the order of “We’re still here.” None of the songs are transformed in any unprecedented way — this is AC/DC we’re talking about, after all — and while the whole band sounds really good, particularly Johnson, there’s really no compelling reason to own this album.