At 52 years old, AC/DC has achieved every milestone a rock band could dream of.
They can sell out any stadium in the world, their 1981 miracle of an album with a brand new singer is the best selling rock record of all time, they've won Grammys, and their lead guitarist can still shred while wearing a schoolboy's uniform.
The last thing they need to do is take advice from a music writer who adores them. And yet, they should consider making an unusual live album during their forthcoming 2025 Power Up Tour.

These are the songs that should go on it, respectfully, while being recorded during their tour around North America this spring.
They can interject one of these songs on every stop - somewhat like what the Rolling Stones did during their most recent tour, except there wouldn't be a game attached to it, it would just be a special nugget in the middle of the set. It would be something that would keep them in the news every third day or so.
"Shake a Leg" & "Let Me Put My Love Into You"

Because of the embarrassment of riches the band had with the Back in Black album, at some point they had to draw a line at how many tunes from the mega smash they'd perform live.
"Shake a Leg" seems to have drawn the short straw, which is a bit odd because it's such a fun rocker with a great solo.
The omission of "Let Me Put My Love Into You" might make a little more sense. Even though they cut a quickie little video for it (that has 11 million views), the song's tempo is much slower than a lot of the what they usually play live. And also the title sounds like something straight off of Spinal Tap's Shark Sandwich.
But it's a solid groove that leads into a signature Angus Young solo. Let the kids hear it. Show them that not everything with AC/DC was a freight train careening down the tracks with no brakes.
"Money Talks" & "Mistress For Christmas"

Let's do the math here. The kids who were in their early teens in 1981 when Back in Black came out were just getting out of college in 1990 when The Razors Edge dropped, proving the band still had it even though most of the '80s did not bear the most delicious fruit. But those Gen Xers are now the ones buying concert tickets for themselves and their kids.
"Moneytalks" became the band's highest charting single and yet after the tour they stopped playing it even though there was a video, Angus bucks would fall from the sky, and there was even a fun picture disc of the single backed with "Mistress For Christmas" which AC/DC has never played - and that should also be rectified.
These are good songs. AC/DC should honor their biggest selling single one last time, even if they re-arrange it in a bluesier way.
"Touch Too Much" & "Beating Around The Bush"
Let's start with the obvious: Highway to Hell's "Touch Too Much" has only been played four times. It's magically catchy song -- too catchy according to the gripes of some of AC/DC, it has been said.
But the fans love this song. Its video has been viewed 75 million times. That might not seem to much to a band that has two videos that have eclipsed one billion views, 75 million is still a ton for a song that came out 46 years ago.
Also from that landmark record was "Beating Around The Bush" with it's insane riff - which might be the workout Angus would rather not engage in every night.
The Highway to Hell songs took a back seat to the Back in Black tunes over the years for many reasons including the fact that the band wanted to try to distance themselves from the Bon Scott era as much as they could. Though sometimes they'd have to dig back into that glorious past.

But they should honor Bon by finally playing the song live. The video above is from a Spanish TV show where they lip synced the rocker and a few others as noted on their setlist. Unless it's impossible to play, in which case, ask Tom Morello to sit in.
"Ride On"
Speaking of honoring people, AC/DC only played the slow grind "Ride On," once in France nearly 25 years ago at a show where they filmed three of the songs for their Plug Me In DVD.
"Ride On" was the final song of the encore and Brian introduced it as "a Bon Scott song."
They should do it again to honor Malcolm Young, the secret weapon of AC/DC who died in 2017 and deserves far more love than he's received.
"Nervous Shakedown"
Here's another oddity in the AC/DC annals. Flick of the Switch was a bit of a flop and the video that was shot for "Nervous Shakedown" was clearly something done on the cheap to get it over with as it was filmed during rehearsals at The Forum in Los Angeles.
But the setlist, like the one above for "Ride On" is a tad deceiving because the "four" times it was played wasn't for an audience - it was for an inexpensive video that rarely got aired on MTV or anywhere.
So in my book AC/DC has never had a live debut for "Nervous Shakedown" because a live audience never heard them play it. Perhaps after their Rose Bowl gig, they can go back to The Forum and play all the songs on this list and record the live album and video of these rarely rocked gems, and come full circle.
"She's Got Balls" & "Big Balls"
In the mid-'70s, AC/DC was a bit obsessed with ballroom dancing. On their debut 1975 LP, High Voltage, the second song is the curious "She's Got Balls." It's a tune they've played live 423 times but haven't touched it in nearly 40 years.
Worse, they've only performed "Big Balls" from 1976's Dirty Deeds once.
Just look above at how joyous Jack Black was to sing it with the Foo Fighters last year in Auckland.

It's because Jack loves ballroom dancing too. Just watch him frolic like a child singing to the juvenile lyrics which are easily in the top ten of double entendre tunes in all of rock history, if not the top.
AC/DC is doing a disservice to these fantastic tunes by not playing them live to an audience who would get up and skip around with giddiness if they heard it in an arena... or football stadium.
There's 10 songs the band should slip into the 13 dates -- or they could rent a cozy, historic venue they've never rocked like The Ryman or Hollywood Palladium or The Fillmore and just play these songs with the soul and deep love of the blues they were written with.
Or they could return to a Sunset Strip club like The Whisky, a joint they haven't rocked since 1977.
AC/DC's Power Up Tour will see the senior citizens blasting their hard rock in some of the largest venues the band has ever played. Head to AC/DC's website for tickets.