Which AC/DC album served as the soundtrack to the 1986 film Maximum Overdrive?
Answer
Who Made Who
Who Made Who served as the soundtrack album to the 1986 film Maximum Overdrive. Released on 26 May 1986, it paired AC/DC’s hard-rock catalogue with Stephen King’s only feature-film directing effort.
The album was not a conventional collection of entirely new songs. Three tracks were newly recorded for it: the title song “Who Made Who” and the instrumentals “D.T.” and “Chase the Ace.” The rest drew from earlier AC/DC albums, including “You Shook Me All Night Long,” “Hells Bells,” and “For Those About to Rock.”
Maximum Overdrive follows machines that become hostile after Earth passes through a comet’s tail. King was a major AC/DC fan, so the film’s soundtrack uses the band’s music throughout, making the album especially distinctive among AC/DC releases. The title track was written specifically for the movie and reflects its technology-versus-humanity theme.
A frequent mistake is selecting an ordinary studio album such as The Razors Edge. Who Made Who is better described as a soundtrack and compilation album, even though it contains several previously released songs.