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Track List
01) It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Roc
02) Rock 'n' Roll Singer
03) The Jack
04) Live Wire
05) T.N.T.
06) Can I Sit Next to You Girl
07) Little Lover
08) She's Got Balls
09) High Voltage
01) It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Roc
02) Rock 'n' Roll Singer
03) The Jack
04) Live Wire
05) T.N.T.
06) Can I Sit Next to You Girl
07) Little Lover
08) She's Got Balls
09) High Voltage
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First Released
1976
Hard Rock
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„High Voltage“ ist das erste international veröffentlichte Album der australischen Hardrock-Band AC/DC, erschienen am 14. Mai 1976. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Kompilation aus den beiden zuvor ausschließlich in Australien veröffentlichten Alben „High Voltage“ und „T.N.T.“ aus dem Jahr 1975. Das Album enthält neun Titel, darunter Klassiker wie „It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)“, „T.N.T.“ und „High Voltage“. Musikalisch präsentiert sich die Band mit ihrem charakteristischen rauen und energiegeladenen Sound, geprägt von den markanten Gitarrenriffs der Brüder Angus und Malcolm Young sowie dem unverwechselbaren Gesang von Bon Scott. Besonders hervorzuheben ist der Einsatz von Dudelsäcken in „It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)“, der dem Song eine einzigartige Note verleiht. Trotz gemischter Kritiken bei der Veröffentlichung, darunter eine negative Rezension des Rolling Stone Magazins, entwickelte sich „High Voltage“ über die Jahre zu einem Meilenstein des Hardrock und ebnete AC/DC den Weg zu internationalem Ruhm. Das Album erreichte in den USA Platz 146 der Billboard 200 und wurde dort mit 3-fach Platin ausgezeichnet.
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One of the perennial complaints about AC/DC is that they've never changed -- and if that's true, High Voltage is the blueprint they've followed all their career. Comprised of highlights from their first two Australian albums -- 1975's TNT and its 1976 follow-up, also entitled High Voltage -- the album has every single one of AC/DC's archetypes. There are songs about rock & roll, slow sleazy blues, high-voltage boogie, double entendres so obvious they qualify as single entendres and, of course, the monster riffs of Angus Young, so big and bold they bruise the listener upon contact. It's those riffs -- so catchy they sound lifted when they're original, so simple they're often wrongly dismissed as easy -- that give the music its backbone, the foundation for Bon Scott to get dirty, and rockers never got quite as dirty as Bon Scott. Scott sounded as if you could catch a disease by listening to him. He sounded like the gateman at hell, somebody who never hid the notion that lurking behind the door are some bad, dangerous things, but they're also fun, too, and he made no apologies for that. But for as primal as High Voltage is, it's also a lot weirder and funnier than it's given credit for, too -- those are bagpipes that solo on "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Want to Rock & Roll)," and "She's Got Balls" is a perversely funny dirty joke. This is music so primal that it's enduring -- it feels like it existed before AC/DC got there, and it will exist long afterward. And if AC/DC did wind up bettering this blueprint in the future, there's no question that this original is still potent, even thrilling, no matter how many times they returned to the well, or how many times this record is played.
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„High Voltage“ ist das erste international veröffentlichte Album der australischen Hardrock-Band AC/DC, erschienen am 14. Mai 1976. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Kompilation aus den beiden zuvor ausschließlich in Australien veröffentlichten Alben „High Voltage“ und „T.N.T.“ aus dem Jahr 1975. Das Album enthält neun Titel, darunter Klassiker wie „It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)“, „T.N.T.“ und „High Voltage“. Musikalisch präsentiert sich die Band mit ihrem charakteristischen rauen und energiegeladenen Sound, geprägt von den markanten Gitarrenriffs der Brüder Angus und Malcolm Young sowie dem unverwechselbaren Gesang von Bon Scott. Besonders hervorzuheben ist der Einsatz von Dudelsäcken in „It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)“, der dem Song eine einzigartige Note verleiht. Trotz gemischter Kritiken bei der Veröffentlichung, darunter eine negative Rezension des Rolling Stone Magazins, entwickelte sich „High Voltage“ über die Jahre zu einem Meilenstein des Hardrock und ebnete AC/DC den Weg zu internationalem Ruhm. Das Album erreichte in den USA Platz 146 der Billboard 200 und wurde dort mit 3-fach Platin ausgezeichnet.
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One of the perennial complaints about AC/DC is that they've never changed -- and if that's true, High Voltage is the blueprint they've followed all their career. Comprised of highlights from their first two Australian albums -- 1975's TNT and its 1976 follow-up, also entitled High Voltage -- the album has every single one of AC/DC's archetypes. There are songs about rock & roll, slow sleazy blues, high-voltage boogie, double entendres so obvious they qualify as single entendres and, of course, the monster riffs of Angus Young, so big and bold they bruise the listener upon contact. It's those riffs -- so catchy they sound lifted when they're original, so simple they're often wrongly dismissed as easy -- that give the music its backbone, the foundation for Bon Scott to get dirty, and rockers never got quite as dirty as Bon Scott. Scott sounded as if you could catch a disease by listening to him. He sounded like the gateman at hell, somebody who never hid the notion that lurking behind the door are some bad, dangerous things, but they're also fun, too, and he made no apologies for that. But for as primal as High Voltage is, it's also a lot weirder and funnier than it's given credit for, too -- those are bagpipes that solo on "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Want to Rock & Roll)," and "She's Got Balls" is a perversely funny dirty joke. This is music so primal that it's enduring -- it feels like it existed before AC/DC got there, and it will exist long afterward. And if AC/DC did wind up bettering this blueprint in the future, there's no question that this original is still potent, even thrilling, no matter how many times they returned to the well, or how many times this record is played.
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