Every band has an early song that now makes them cringe, and AC/DC are no exception. So when guitarist Angus Young, now the band's only original member, was asked to nominate the group's most "regrettable" song during a 2020 interview, he didn't have to rack his brain to come up with an answer.
"On our first album, High Voltage, we did a love song called Love Song," he told Vulture writer Devon Ivie. "That was very different for us. I didn't know if we were trying to parody love songs of the time, because Bon [Scott] wrote the lyrics. I don't even remember what the words are."
If at this point you're struggling to recall the song in question, much less the lyrics, you can be forgiven, because before it appeared on AC/DC's 2009 rarities compilation Backtracks, Love Song - or as it was titled originally Love Song (Oh Jene) - was only found on the Australian version of the band's debut album High Voltage, released in 1975, and didn't make the cut for the tracklisting of the international edition of the album which emerged in 1976. Evolving from an unrecorded song called Fell In Love by bandleader Malcolm Young and original AC/DC vocalist Dave Evans, the song was overhauled lyrically by Bon Scott, and given a sincere romantic sheen unlike anything else in the AC/DC catalogue.
