page_title: Ballbreaker
section_title: Composition
hierarchical_section_title: Ballbreaker / Composition
caption_attribution_description: Phil Rudd, taken in 1995 in Seattle during AC/DC's Ballbreaker tour.
context_page_description: Ballbreaker is the 13th studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was the band's twelfth internationally released studio album and the thirteenth to be released in Australia. It was released in 1995 and was re-released in 2005 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.
context_section_description: "Burnin' Alive" was written about the cult followers in Waco, Texas, who were burnt to death in 1993 during a raid by the authorities, while "Hard as a Rock," the album's first single, dated back to the Who Made Who sessions  The music video for "Hard as a Rock" was directed by David Mallet and was set at the Bray Studios in Windsor, Berkshire.  In the video, which is reminiscent of the Mallet-directed "Thunderstruck" from 1990, lead guitarist Angus Young is seen playing his Gibson SG on a wrecking ball, which destroys a building.  "Cover You in Oil" features a typically licentious lyric ("I see a young girl in the neighbourhood...I must confess I'd like to run my hands up and down her legs..."). "The Furor" and "Hail Caesar" also see the band making an uncharacteristic dip into social commentary.  Malcolm Young stated in an interview:
  I think: stand up and be counted.  If there's anyone that takes it like we want to promote a Nazi regime or something, these people are usually the ones that want to promote a total Christian regime.  I don't like this politically correct thing on the planet at the moment, to be honest with you.  I don't mind it if it doesn't interfere with you on the street, but the day they screw around with your cigarettes and everything else - and there's a lot of cigarettes smoked in AC/DC in all that music you hear - it might not be the same if it was all gone.  I just don't like being told what to do, basically like anyone.
caption: Phil Rudd performs at the KeyArena in Seattle on 12 August 1996 during the Ballbreaker World Tour
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