Only jerks don’t love AC/DC, but that doesn’t mean we have to pretend that their rockingest rock isn’t 30 years old. The problem isn’t so much that they’ve re­released the same album forever; it’s that their beer-barreled groove turned clunky (and their bawdy puns plummeted) after Brian Johnson replaced the late Bon Scott in 1980. Half of their new truckload feels typically phoned-in. But sometimes they surprise you, nailing the signature sounds of their ’70s boogie-metal brethren: Led Zeppelin in the pensive high-water blues “Rock n Roll Dream,” ZZ Top in the barbecue-fired “Decibel” (rhymes with ­jezebel), Scottish sons of bitches Nazareth in the uncharacteristically overcast “Stormy May Day.” Plus, by-the-book AC/DC isn’t ­always bad AC/DC—Angus Young’s solos feel hardy even when the songs drag, and “Anything Goes” and “Big Jack” rev up like fast machines with clean ­motors.

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