10 Late Career Bangers From Huge Rock Bands

10. AC/DC - Rock 'N' Roll Train (2008)

AC/DC remain one of the biggest bands in the world. Not bad when you consider that, sometime around 1974, they decided to put some distortion on some Chuck Berry riffs and haven’t done anything much different since then. And yet, they were, are and will forever be awesome, even if it’s not entirely clear why what they do works as well as it does (a bit like Ric Flair or Bill Murray).

Certainly, by 2008 nobody expected them to release their best song since 1990 (Thunderstruck, in case you were wondering), but they did. And like a Stones song discussed later in the list, there’s just a swagger to this track that makes it stand out from the pack, even though it does nothing much different from the forty or fifty other songs they’ve recorded since 1990.

It has been said that the best songs sound like you’ve heard them before, and if you’ve heard one AC/DC song you’ve heard them all but when the muse says dance, the artist must obey and even a band as, with the utmost respect, uninspired as AC/DC can often be, Rock ‘N’ Roll Train slaps so hard it made Angus and the boys sound new for the first time since they were.