High Voltage [Remaster]

Performer: AC/DC
Producer: George Young; Harry Vanda
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: 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.

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..."

AC/DC is generally regarded as a titanic force in the world of heavy rock, occupying a sphere of seminal influence right alongside Kiss. These Australian guitar gods--led by Angus Young, an axe-wielding man-boy in a school uniform--churn out songs laced with sexual double entendre and heavy riffs. Since the mid-1970s, Angus and his brother, Malcolm, have survived a stormy band history, including the death of original singer/wildman Bon Scott, all the while bashing out their simplistic, yet highly addictive, brand of bluesy riff-rock.

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