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High Voltage | 
| Artist: Ac/dc
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 849
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
EAN: 5099751075929
ASIN: B00008AJL3
Release Date: March 3, 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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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Lock up your back door & run for your life July 24, 2008
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.
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
A Classic Rock Album June 7, 2008
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 impressive debut. I like all the songs on it especially It's a long way too the top, TNT, Rock N' Roll Singer, Can I Sit Next To you & High Voltage. Very good album deffinetly a classic better then most rock out there today. A good start to AC/DC. AC/DC ROCK !!!!!!!!
 Sets the blueprint for subsequent AC/DC albums August 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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. By listening to the tracks, you can hear how AC/DC were developing their sound and their trademarks.
The album is probably one of AC/DC's lightest albums. The guitar riffs aren't particularly heavy, but they're still as catchy as ever. The lyrics are a treat too, but they feel a little repetitive towards the end of the album.
All in all, this is a great album if you're interested in AC/DC's early work, but it's probably not the best album to discover the band by.
The birth of the AC/DC lengend April 3, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
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, ect...
Personally myself...the year which i left high school and started my first job was 1993. In terms of movie and music memories, two things spring to mind. The first is the movie "The Last Action Hero" staring Arnold Schwarzenger, me and my friends had been big Arnie fans through all of his carrier and expected big thing, unfortunately it was a huge dissapointment. However, the was a single from the soundtrack which did stand out "Big Gun" by AC/DC.
Me and my friends had always been into rock bands and spent days listening to music when ever we was hanging out. I had always liked AC/DC'S music, but only knew them through their singles, and seeing as i attending school during the 90's, i was only really familiar with the Brian Johnson era material.
As of recently i tend to find that personally the rock scene has become unispiring with very few bands to note. Being familiar with AC/DC'S track history of classic singles and Angus's tallent for notching up riffs which will be embedded in rock history for the rest of time, i decided to collect the AC/DC back catalogue.
Many of my older friends have been AC/DC fans for a much longer time than myself and have all argued the toss over who is the greater front man: Bon Scott or Brian Johnson.
Personally i was not very familliar with Bon Scotts era as i grew up post that era and so i was a bit worried that i may not be into the earlier AC/DC material.
I'm glad to say that i was not dissapointed. High Voltage is a classic debut which goes to show the great diversity which a lengendary rock band is capable of. With opening tracks such as "It's A Long Ways To The Top (If You Wanna Rock N Roll)" to classic singles like "High Voltage" and "Can I Sit Next To You Girl" AC/DC showed great signs from the get go that this was the start of a classic legacy.
Whilst AC/DC'S style has changed and evolved over the years both during and post the Bon Scott era's, one thing that can always be held testament to with AC/DC, with every album you know what you're buyin into: Straight forward, no nonscence rock and roll. AC/DC will always be a classic rock band who stand by their guns and will not be influenced or allow their style to be tarnish by a record labels disire to keep them up to date with current trends.
Wether your prefarerance over the Bon Scott or Brian Johnson era of AC/DC , one thing which cannot be argued is that AC/DC has been and always will be from the very first release of their debut right down to the last album which will ever be release in the carrear: a rock lengend
 Pretty Good March 9, 2007
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
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. Highlights include "Live Wire" and "It's A Long Way To The Top", although i find the bagpipes annoying by the end. The songs "The Jack" and "Little Lover" are not so good however, and they sum up the repetative (at times)album. Not bad though.
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