High Voltage

High Voltage was the first album AC/DC released outwith Australia. The band had originally released two albums in their home land and in their place internationally was this record. It was originally released in 1976 and was essentially a compilation of tracks based on the Australian exclusives, the album with the same name, High Voltage and T.N.T. The album is well known for containing a number of the band's early classics and being the ground work for the legendary albums that followed. On this record, you will find great songs like the title track, It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock N Roll), Live Wire and the live fan favourite, The Jack. Most of the tracks originally featured on the album T.N.T. and a couple being from the original album of the same name. As an album, it's a very good record. It goes from one great song to another just oozing energy and power. The production is a little thin compared to the albums that followed but is still a good sounding album overall. The 2003 remaster (which this review is based on) sounds good. It has a bit more punch behind it than the old CD versions I've got but it isn't perfect. Like a lot of modern remasters, it is a tiny bit loud and has a couple of moments where the sound distorts. But in terms of overly loud remasters, it could be considerably worse and is nowhere near the worst offender. If you're an AC/DC fan, there's no chance that this album isn't already in your collection. If you're new to the band, it's a perfect place to start. It is a great record and a must have. It may not be the band's fastest, heaviest and sleaziest but it's a classic all the same.

Classic rock isn't made any more so it's unlikely anyone's going to better the music produced by Bon Scott and AC/DC. As a newcomer to AC/DC before the past two months I'd only heard the later AC/DC stuff and seen the music videos and I thought them one-dimensional. But I bought Back in Black and I think it's a brilliant rock album, every song a stadium-filling classic. However, the early music before Scott's death is different gravy. While many (including fans) appear to mock the sleazy and sometimes seemingly one-dimensional lyrics, the use of metaphor is smart and funny and sharp. Here, for exapmple, 'The Jack' is very obvious but very exciting. The music is just rock. Pure and simple, as it was meant to be. Riff and power-chord heavy, the music has a Marr-Morrissey relationship with the lyrics. But in this case, heavy, dirty, occasionally subtle and always energetic. 'Livewire' is about as energetic as a rock song can get, capturing Scott's outlook and matching it perfectly with the Young brothers' amazing skills. The two opening tracks set the scene for an album of sheer brilliance. The songs, especially on the ever better Powerage, are as epic as anything a Led Zeppellin produced (if you like that sort of thing, not for me) and as well-crafted as the Stones of Sticky Fingers era.

An essential purchase to kick off the hard rock genre and start your journey of fulfillment, this is the second time I have purchased this title as I have the cartoon cover and it's a little worn out a real banger with songs that will fill your head and the desire to hoover up the genre and AC / DC.

This review refers to the Epic 2003 re-issue, with the picture of Angus Young being hit by a lightning bolt on the cover. This is the first international release from Australian rockers extraordinaire AC/DC, but their third album release. Their first two albums (No 1 was confusingly also titled High Voltage but had a different cover with barbed wire on it, and the second was titled T.N.T) were released in Australia only. This album is an amalgam of the first two with two tracks from High Voltage Mk 1 (She's Got Balls, Little Lover), and the rest taken from T.N.T. This is pretty much a manifesto for the band, setting out their stall as hard rockers with pounding drums, sweet guitar solos, heavy bass lines and screaming vocals. There is a real sense of fun to the tracks, a wide streak of schoolboy humour. It's an album of great Rock that always puts a smile on my face. This edition has had a really good remastering and remixing, with the instruments and vocals coming through beautifully on my speakers with no muddiness. It's a great release of a great album.

Buen sonido al ponerlo en mi tornamesa, Excelentes canciones de la era de Bon Scott. De lo mejor de su discografía

Yes! I put this on the record player and re-fell in love with this band! So worth listening to this album

Si te gusta AC/DC o has empezado a escucharlos tienes que tener este disco. El primero que salió a la venta a nivel internacional y el mejor de todos. Es uno de esos trabajos que hay qur tenerlos en tu discotecas. Brutal, se escucha en bucle sin darte cuenta, con el único tema que tienen lls australianos grabados con gaitas, es una auténtica maravilla. Si bajaran los precios como hicieron con este (14,95€) seguramente que compraríamos más, que este disco tiene casi 50 años y todavía quieren seguir amortizándolo, están poniendo el rock para ricos y no era esa la idea inicial de las bandas.

Stan idealny, fajny album, wydany w wersji dg pack. Polecam

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