| Product Summary | | Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records | | UPC: 00696998020122 | | Release Date: 2/18/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60590748 | | Item#: M2VHCR | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 26588 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock) ~ AC/DC |  | | 2. Rock 'N Roll Singer ~ AC/DC | | | 3. Jack, The ~ AC/DC | | | 4. Live Wire ~ AC/DC | | | 5. T.N.T. ~ AC/DC | | | 6. Can I Sit Next To You Girl ~ AC/DC | | | 7. Little Lover ~ AC/DC | | | 8. She's Got Balls ~ AC/DC | | | 9. High Voltage ~ AC/DC | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is a Hyper CD, which contains regular audio tracks and also provides a link to the artist's website with the help of a web browser. | | AC/DC: Bon Scott (voclas); Malcolm Young, Angus Young (guitar); Mark Evans (bass); Phil Rudd (drums). | | The 2003 edition of HIGH VOLTAGE includes liner notes by Murray Engelheart. | | All tracks have been digitally remastered. | | This is a Hyper CD, which contains regular audio tracks and also provides a link to the artist's website with the help of a web browser. | | Personnel: Bon Scott (vocals); Malcolm Young, Angus Young (guitar); Phil Rudd (drums). | | Audio Remasterer: Ted Jensen. | | Liner Note Author: Murray Engleheart. | | Photographers: Dick Barnatt; Erica Echenberg; Colin Stead; Michael Putland; Philip Morris. | | HIGH VOLTAGE was the first chance America had to glimpse the raw power of Australia's best hard rock outfit. From their earliest days, lead guitarist Angus Young, a spastic dwarf-like riff-monger who wore nothing but traditional schoolboy attire, led 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 distill rock and mutate the blues down to its barest essentials in a pulverizing whomp. Riding over the top of the battering rhythm section is the all-too-true sneer of vocalist Bon Scott, who brings sexist anthems to a previously unachieved high (or low, depending on your reference point). | | With over-the-top show-stoppers about gonorrhea ("The Jack"), HIGH VOLTAGE is not for 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. |
Producer: George Young; Harry Vanda |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/18/2003 | | Original Release Date : 1976 | | Catalog ID : 80201 | | Label : Legacy Recordings | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 44m : 19s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00696998020122 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Q (10/94, p.134)
- 3 Stars - Good - "...a stripped-down intimacy that suits no-frills rockers..."Uncut (9/03, p.123)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...A pleasure, as always..." Mojo (Publisher)
(12/00, p.84)
- "...It established their style of stripped-down, simple, riff-heavy, blues-and-boogie music and dirty-fun lyrics..." |
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