Who Made Who (1986)

Who Made Who (1986)

One year after 1985’s Fly On The Wall, AC/DC were asked by longtime fan Stephen King to soundtrack his debut as a director, Maximum Overdrive, a not-very-good movie based on his short story “Trucks,” about trucks that come to life and start running people over. The group cobbled together a collection of catalog tracks (“Hells Bells” and “You Shook Me All Night Long” from Back In Black, “Sink The Pink” and “Shake Your Foundations” from Fly On The Wall, “For Those About To Rock (We Salute You),” and one Bon Scott-era song, “Ride On”), and wrote one new one — the title track — and two instrumentals, “D.T.” and “Chase The Ace.” Five more instrumentals were written and recorded for the movie, but don’t appear on the album. Including all of those would have made for a much more interesting and worthwhile release. AC/DC may be the only band of their stature to never release a greatest hits or best-of; this and the Iron Man 2 soundtrack are the closest they’ve ever come, and neither does a great job at summing up their career. “Who Made Who” is a pretty catchy song, though. (Note for ultra-completists: the mixes of “Sink The Pink” and “Shake Your Foundations” are a little bit cleaner and poppier than the Fly On The Wall versions.)