I have never heard of Warpig before, but they do sound a lot like Deep Purple (or vice versa). Did Deep Purple play Fireball live, before the release of the album, or did they hear Warpig? A similar thing happened with Deep Purple's Woman From Tokyo, released three months before Joe Walsh's Meadows.

As far as I know, the Warpig song came out several months before the Deep Purple effort. I guess Purple must've heard the song and thought that it fitted their sound and lifted it, but I also know that Warpig were influenced by Purple in the first place, so I suppose what comes around goes around. Warpig only ever put out one album in 1970. In fact it was a decent album and was re-released in 1973 in an effort to kick-start the band again. I may include it in my 1973 section.

Hell I never associated "Woman From Tokyo" and the Joe Walsh song "Meadows" but there is a huge similarity between the two songs.

when are you ever getting round to AC/DC......

I'm not the biggest AC/DC fan around but they put out a string of classic albums in the 1970s. The first was Let There Be Rock in 1977, so that will be the first one to make the a top 10 list, I may listen to some of the earlier efforts but even then the earliest date for the band would be 1975, so still quite some time off.

I haven't listened to all that much AC/DC beyond the usual radio fair, but I have to say that Dirt Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is a hell of an album. Raw blues rock that goes for you with a rusty knife and a raging erection.

I'll second the AC/DC addition. Highway To Hell is a staple in any fans collection.

Let There Be Rock, Powerage. Highway to Hell and Back in Black are all suure to make the top 10 lists, also for the live album section, If You Want Blood You've Got it as well.

Guess what, I think Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap to be an average album that never gave me an erection in any way shape or form. I think the songs aren't there, it's dominated by Bon Scott's juvenile humour, to the point that it detracts from the album. The reason it's such a well known album, is that it wasn't released in the USA at the time as the label didn't think it good enough, It was only after Bon Scott died several years later that it became a treasured album to get hold of, as an unknown AC/DC album and people clamoured after it. I listened to it recently and still felt it was average. I think it was with Let There Be Rock that the band hit there true potential a year after.

Not even in the shape of a flaccid penis?

I'm no AC/DC fan --- I really don't like that screaming voice, whether it's Scott or Johnson --- but when it comes to live albums, surely you can't leave out "For those about to rock"?

I share your sentiment. I've never really cared for the title track even before it was overplayed on local radio. I had LTBR (8-Track) on constant loop as a kid.