Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

The title track of the 1976 album is one of the band's most famous songs. Its narrator tells people with problems to call him on 36-24-36, which was a real Australian phone number in the 1960s, or visit him at home. The title is an homage to the cartoon Beany and Cecil. Malcolm and Angus said the album was based on a Bogartian mystery idea.

After the album came out in the United States in 1981, a couple from Libertyville, Illinois, Norman and Marilyn White, filed a $250,000 lawsuit against Atlantic Records. They said their phone number had been included in the song, and that it brought them hundreds of prank calls. Their attorney said the digits in the song were followed by what to his clients sounded like an eight.

Michael Hann of The Guardian ranked it number 17 on his list of the 40 greatest AC/DC songs, writing that the backing vocals sound like a troupe of disgruntled goblins. The Australian edition runs 4:12. On the international edition the chant of the title is heard twice instead of four times, and the song runs shorter, at 3:52. Of the 2,183 logged setlists that list songs, 1,270 include it, the earliest being a show at the PN Club in Munich on 18 September 1976.