AC/DC - High Voltage (Dlx)
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Free Music Review: High Praise for High Voltage
Hit: 5 Stars
I did not grow up in Australia so this is the only version/arrangement of High Voltage that I have ever known. Frankly, griping about this record being a hacked up version of TNT and the original Australian release of High Voltage seems silly at this late date but maybe I'm missing something. My first exposure to this record was seeing it in a friends bedroom that he shared with his older brother. It was fairly captivating - grown man in a school boy outfit holding and electric guitar with what look like devil horns in front of a lightning bolt - how could a 12 year old look away! What's inside is captivating as well. The first track is particularly interesting and while the Pogues get most of the credit for the celtic punk genre a great debt is also certainly owed to AC/DC. A great idea is a great idea - Rock and Roll with bagpipe accompaniment was a great idea! Rock and Roll Singer and Little Lover are classic examples of the wry and juvenile sense of humor of Bon Scott and are two of the best on this record. The only real let down persent is She's Got Balls and the short track list. For me this is one of those records that has a distinct foot print in a time in my life. Even as the years go by I can still hear my buddy Mike chuckling at the question, "was it Coca Cola?" If you love AC/DC this is a must have and if you suspect you might like them you should start here.Free Music Review: Possibly their best
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is virtually the same as the Australian version of the TNT album. Around this time, 1975, AC/DC in Melbourne Australia had a very big skinhead following. They`d come to their shows wanting loud and tough rock`n`roll, and AC/DC would deliver all the time. That`s why, i think, this album has a very loud and tough sound. There`s nothing nice and fluffy about this album, it`s just loud guitars and loud vocals. I personally think this could be their best album. The vander and young production is fantastic and they really captured the AC/DC live pub sound on this record. I never saw AC/DC in Australia in the seventies as i was too young but many older people here that i`ve met have told me that this album TNT/High Voltage sounds very similar to what they sounded live in Melbourne pubs. TNT is probably my favorite song on the album. It`s only 3 chords and it works brilliantly. AC/DC were the first band to chant Oi Oi Oi in this song and they were the first rock band to use bagpipes in a rock song (long way to the top), 20 years before great bands like Dropkick Murphys tried it. I don`t know why bagpipes aren`t used more in rock music. They sound heaps better than trumpets or saxaphones. This album helped introduce AC/DC to British and European audiences who loved it as much, maybe more, than Australians.Free Music Review: Lock up your back door and run for your life
Hit: 5 Stars
Being a rock guitar freak of two decades' standing, it is with acute embarrassment that I confess to only having heard this record right through for the first time in my 39th year.
Clearly I went to the wrong school and hung out with the wrong, self conscious types, and stupidly we looked askance at this bogan rock. More fool us.
What a remarkable, single minded, self-assured, exuberant record this is, and what a master stroke for a bunch of scot-inflected teenaged Aussies to have settled on such a perceptively observed formula and executed on it so flawlessly (and stuck with it for the thirty years since!). All of rock's evolved extravagant frippery is discarded or reduced down to its elements. The drums mark out a thumping 4/4 on-beat; stereo guitars crank out a primordial syncopated boogie. Bon Scott wails talentedly and indulgently - even cretinously, as the Amazon reviewer puts it - about rogering everything that moves and getting the clap.
All of rock's anachronistic knowingness is jettisoned and in its place the sort of smutty wailings you'd expect from a bunch of teenage dirtbags. The result: a hilarious, ecstatic, and utterly irresistable rock record.
Olly Buxton
Free Music Review: AC/DC...THE FIRST KINGS OF ROCK 'N' ROLL
Hit: 5 Stars
It is time for my informative annoying unnimformitive song by song review (here we go):1.It's A Long Way To The Top (if You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)-Despite having a long name,this is a great song and it got them many places in the music industry.10/10
2.Rock 'N' Roll Singer-Not the best from ACDC,Bon Scott doesn't sound great on this,but it still stands out.8/10
3.The Jack-These lyrics are so friggin cool.10/10
4.Live Wire-A popular song that is really good but it still doesnt seem as enjoyable as some of the other songs.9/10
5.T.N.T.-My personal favorite,this has got to be one of my favorite songs of all time.It never gets old and has great guitar riffs,the bass is amazing,drums are super good,and Bon Scott is at his best.10/10
6.Can I Sit Next To Your Girl-Probably the worst song on the record it gets very catchy in a bad way.6/10
7.Little Lover-Definitly not their best,but OK.8/10
8.She's Got Balls-Cool name,Cool band,Cool song.10/10
9.High Voltage-My third favorite on this album...it is really a true acdc classic.10/10
The final score for AC/DC's High Voltage gets:81 out of 90.This is a truly great cd and the cd your looking at is digitally remastered so you should get it.PEACE OUT!
Free Music Review: A Classic that never sounded so good
Hit: 5 Stars
this remastered copy of HIGH VOLTAGE really gives us something to sink our teeth into. This album was the first American release for AC/DC and with this release, they started down their path towards the legendary status their have now acheived. The first time I was exposed to this album was when I was 8 or so hearing TNT on the radio. Even though I didnt know anything about music at that young of an age, this song just blew me away. boy was I ever so happy to find out a friend of mine had this vinyl. 20 odd years later, I am still blown away by this album, we have 9 mind boggling tracks that are required listening for any fan of hard rock. Besides TNT, in my opinion the other standout track on this album is THE JACK. It is a slow blues number that just hooks you in. With the bonus of being remastered, we also have a booklet with some never before seen pics and some killer liner notes about this album. I highly recommend this album for all you rock fans out there. Every song on this is great. There isnt a single piece of filler material here. You have the brothers YOUNG laying some killer riffs down while you have the great vocals of the legendary BON SCOTT out front. go out and get this now