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High Voltage [Original recording remastered]

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  • Audio CD (3 Mar 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Sony
  • ASIN: B00008AJL3
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,281 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
2. Rock 'N' Roll Singer
3. The Jack
4. Live Wire
5. T.N.T.
6. Can I Sit Next To You Girl
7. Little Lover
8. She's Got Balls
9. High Voltage

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Even this early in their career, AC/DC realised that their brutally reductive take on rock & roll amounted to perfection of the form, and they've been reluctant to tamper with a winning formula ever since. High Voltage, their debut album, is remarkable in the context of AC/DC's vast, awesomely single-minded discography for containing what remains AC/DC's lone foray into experimentation in nearly three decades: the delightfully incongruous bagpipe solo in the opening track, "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock & Roll)". Elsewhere, business as usual: drums like the plods of a lumbering dinosaur, bass like the ominous rumbleof a waking volcano, the 17-year-old Angus Young's guitars as crude and effective as circular saws. Vocalist Bon Scott is on fine, defiantly self-aggrandising form: the title track and "TNT" were two of the most irresistibly, cretinous anthems he would ever write, which is high praise indeed. --Andrew Mueller


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HIGH VOLTAGE was the first chance America had to glimpse the raw power of Australia's best hard rock outfit. From theirearliest days, lead guitarist Angus Young, a spastic dwarf-like riff-monger who wore nothing but traditional schoolboy attire, was leading this band of hooligans with gleeful perversity and balls-out ambition. The group's intent is perfectly clear from the disc's opening power chords: to distil rock and mutate the blues down to its barest essentials in a pulverising whomp. Riding over the top of the battering rhythmsection is the all-to-true sneer of vocalist Bon Scott, whobrings sexist anthems to a previously unachieved high (or low, depending on your reference point).
With over-the-topstoppers about gonorrhoea ("The Jack"), HIGH VOLTAGE is notfor the faint of heart. The single from this record, "T.N.T", got AC/DC into rock radio rotation and gave metal fans a template of the brand of molten lava the band would later weld into perfection. The formula for which the group would eventually become famous--songs based around three crunching power chords and the high pitched squeal of a man who sounds like he's just been unleashed from the reformatory--is firmly established here.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars AC/DC`s 1st European Release & Its Great., 15 Sep 2006
This album drips with classic song after classic song. Even today they still play songs off of this album. The Opening track "Its A Long Way To The Top [ If `Ya Wanna Rock `n`Roll] is simply one of the Rock/Metals best most single minded tracks ever. A classic that has been wheeled out at every Heavy Metal disco around the world since it was released. And it`s got Bagpipes in it as well !!!
"Rock`n`Roll Singer" is one of those tongue in cheek moments that Bon Scott did so well. "The Jack" shows the bands & Bons sense of humour off perfectely a song about VD deliverd as a tune about playing cards. This song is still played in the bands set even today its simply a legend of a track "Live Wire" has one of the greatest intros to a Metal tune ever a pumping bass line leading to a light chord delivery before they turn it all up & go for it. This used to be the song the band started there live set of with for years & it still gets aired at gigs occasionally. "TNT" was one of the bands encore numbers for years & they wheel it out even now. "Can I Sit Next To You Girl" has Bon back on his Tongue in cheek form again, Great tune with a great Rock`n`Roll intro. "Little Lover" & "She`s Got Balls" the titles say it all really fun fun fun. before there anthem "High Voltage" ends the album. This is one of those simple tunes you wished you`d written & has been in the bands set for 30 years. This album is better than most of the modern Metal Stuff we`ve been getting for the last decade & it`s 30 years old !

In an era of overblown souless metal this takes you back to a time when Rock/Metal was fun. Simple as Hell but dripping a great sense of humour & loads of great stomping fist pumping air guitar playing fun. If you don`t have this in your Rock/Metal collection then your collection `aint worth anything'!!!Go buy
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Where it all began, 25 Sep 2003
By "steven_reid69" - See all my reviews
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This is AC/DC's first album, and may be their best. The riff's, oh man, the riff's on this album are some of the best you'll ever hear. Stripped to the bone , they are the most catchy AC have ever writtin. And with all great albums, there is not a bad or weak track on the album. From the faster High Voltage and It's A Long Way To The Top to the sublime The Jack, the band push all the right buttons. And we have Bon Scott on vocals, one of the best rock singers in history. Do yourself a favour if you have yet to get into AC/DC, start here. The later albums just don't compare to their early work. Even Back In Black is a weak album in comparison. The song, T.N.T. was on the latest Tony Hawk game, and shows this album is as vital today as it ever was. Also check out Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Powerage, Let There Be Rock, If You Want Blood You Got It and Highway To Hell all of which capture AC/DC at their very best, before the tragic death of Boo Scott. They have made some good albums since he died, but nothing beats the Bon Scott era. And the Angus Young's solos and riffs are just dead on the money. Checccck them out. Your life will not be complete without them.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The only true rockers, 15 May 2006
By D. Mitchell (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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As a late 40's sort I was into AC/DC in the 70's and hadn't listened to them in years. Bought this assuming that it would hurt my "older ears" and sensibilities. Not a bit of it. This album is fantastic. Hard to pick a favourite track probably the title track just wins it. If you love rock as its meant to be played buy this album!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Its a long way if wanna top an album this good!
I bought this on the back of delving further into AC/DC catalogue and was not disappointed with the result. Read more
Published 2 months ago by M. I. Watts

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute classic
If you don't buy this album for the sublime tracks TNT or It's a long way to the top (also known as: It's a long way to the shops if you want a sausage roll), then buy it for the... Read more
Published 7 months ago by R. Lewis

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Rock
Good solid rock music, simple as that. If you have never heard of AC/DC then starting here would be good. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Shaky Hands

5.0 out of 5 stars Lock up your back door & run for your life
Being a rock guitar freak of two decades' standing, it is with embarrassment that I confess to only having heard this record for the first time in my 39th year... Read more
Published 15 months ago by O. Buxton

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Rock Album
This is the only AC/DC album i have and i plan to get Let There Be Rock soon. I mainly got this for the song TNT and i was'nt dissapointed i really liked this album, it's a pretty... Read more
Published 17 months ago by MrMetalheadO'Hagan

4.0 out of 5 stars Sets the blueprint for subsequent AC/DC albums
Although the international release of High Voltage is by no means AC/DC's best album, it definitely set the blueprint for what the next AC/DC albums would be like. Read more
Published on 8 Aug 2007 by Mr. J. Mcnally

5.0 out of 5 stars The birth of the AC/DC lengend
If you are like me, there will always be certain bands and certain movies ect which remind you of your high school days and the first place you worked in your early 20's ect,... Read more
Published on 3 April 2007 by Neil Keogh

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good
I think this album is slightly over-rated. I bought it mainly for the first track, and found that the rest of it was distinctly average. Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2007 by Aerofrog

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the coolest albums I've seen for ages
considering it as their european debut, high voltage is probably one of the rockin'est albums of the early seventies. Read more
Published on 16 May 2006 by S. Pledger

5.0 out of 5 stars The Perfect Getaway
The phone rings.....it's her mother......make your way over to the stereo.....put your headphones on....slip High Voltage into the machine....sit back....press play.... Read more
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