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High Voltage

High Voltage
Artist: Ac/dc
Label: Sony
Category: Music

List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $7.97
You Save: $4.01 (33%)



Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 reviews
Sales Rank: 240

Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 80201
UPC: 696998020122
EAN: 0696998020122
ASIN: B00008BXJ6

Release Date: February 18, 2003
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Tracks:

  • It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock'n'Roll)
  • Rock'n'Roll Singer
  • The Jack
  • Live Wire
  • T.N.T.
  • Can I Sit Next To You Girl
  • Little Lover
  • She's Got Balls
  • High Voltage

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com essential recording
In 1976, when the Eagles, Peter Frampton, and Heart ruled the rock airwaves, along came five scruffy young men (the lead guitarist was maybe all of 18 and dressed in a schoolboy's uniform) from Australia playing some of the rowdiest, hardest, dirtiest rock of all time. Screaming "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)," singer Bon Scott teased like a braggart. Sensing the rock community's growing dissatisfaction with bloated, epic-scaled bands, AC/DC were indeed a high-voltage act: their drummer nailed the beat with fury, their bluesy guitar riffs mutated into something metallic and sharp-edged, and Scott's vocals took the shrillness of early Robert Plant to a leaner and meaner place. "Live Wire" is one of the most electrifying hard rock songs imaginable, "High Voltage" and "TNT" are the musical equivalent of touching exposed nerves with a rusty fork, and "Jack" proves that white rock dudes can, contrary to popular belief, get down. Whew! --Lorry Fleming

Album Description
AC/DC's 1976 album digitally remastered and reissued in a special digipak plus a 16 page full color booklet containing all original album art, many unpublished photos, classic memorabilia and new 2003 liner notes. Epic.


Customer Reviews:   Read 77 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Back To Basics   September 14, 2008
pinkfloyd (annoymus countries)
AC/DC is a true power rock band. Every song on there electrifying debut is rocking all with the same basic rock beat and cool guitar riffs. Starting off with Its A Long Way To The Top it just goes from there every song on here is rocking(well except maybe the bluesy Little Lover) But still the album is AC/DC when they were young as it says in the booklet. Lock up your daughters because this album is a non stop rock thriller and is perfect for any person who loves basic rock n roll and not concept albums.


5 out of 5 stars Lock up your back door and run for your life   July 25, 2008
Mr. O. Buxton (Highgate, UK)
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



5 out of 5 stars Rock You Like A Hurricane   July 24, 2008
Donnie Barr (Missouri, USA)
Killer album, one of the best items on here. She's got the Jack, Yeah! Thanx Pepsi & Amazon. Well worth digging through dumpsters looking for points. Meet some interesting folks there.


5 out of 5 stars The title says is all!   July 22, 2008
P. D. VanVlack (Buffalo, NY)
Simple straight forward high powered Rock n roll!! No need for complexity. The power of High Voltage and Live Wire, coupled with the fun of Little Lover and Can I Sit Next To You Girl added to the not-played-enough Its A Long Way To the Top and over-played TNT make this a must have album in your collection. Only true AC/DC fans know this and other albums deeply enough to appreciate all the great music they made. Go get one for your own!!


5 out of 5 stars bagpipe in rock excellent   March 22, 2008
Johnny Rock (utah)
This cd has some very good songs from early ac/dc with Bon Scott. It is worth your pepsi points to get it. The bagpipe in the first song isvery exceptional

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