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Blow Up your Video es un álbum de la banda australiana de hard rock AC/DC, publicado por primera vez el 18 de enero de 1988. El álbum fue grabado en el Miraval Studio en Le Val (Francia) durante el verano de 1987.
El álbum fue producido por Harry Vanda y George Young, el equipo de producción de los primeros álbumes de la banda. Brian Johnson escribió todas las letras de las canciones y es hasta el momento la última vez que lo ha hecho. Fue el disco más vendido entre el material nuevo de la banda desde la publicación de For Those About To Rock, We Salute You. Sin embargo, el grupo tocó sólo tres canciones en el tour subsecuente. El LP alcanzó el número 2 en las listas británicas y su primer single "Heatseeker" llegó al Top 20 también en el Reino Unido.
El álbum fue lanzado de nuevo en 2003 como parte de la serie de Remasters de AC/DC.
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AC/DC remained a popular concert draw throughout the '80s, although such albums as Flick of the Switch and Fly on the Wall failed to replicate their mass U.S. commercial success of 1980-1981 (Back in Black, For Those About to Rock, a reissue of Dirty Deeds). But the successful soundtrack for Stephen King's lackluster movie Maximum Overdrive, titled Who Made Who, put AC/DC back on the right track commercially. Their first new studio album of all-new material in three years, 1988's Blow Up Your Video turned out to be their most successful album since 1981's For Those About To Rock, even though it was chock full of filler. The driving album opener, "Heatseeker," turned out to be a surprising Top Ten single in the U.K., while the anthemic "That's the Way I Want to Rock n' Roll" proved to be another highlight (video clips were filmed for both songs, as well). But from there on (with the exception of "Kissin' Dynamite" and "This Means War"), it gets pretty unfocused. The album is glutted with such throwaways as "Nick of Time," "Ruff Stuff," and "Two's Up" -- completely missing the point of what made such previous albums as Back in Black so great (they simply did not contain a weak moment). Blow Up Your Video also marked the return of AC/DC's early production team, Harry Vanda and George Young, who man the boards for the first time since 1978's If You Want Blood.
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