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Track List
01) Highway to Hell
02) Girls Got Rhythm
03) Walk All Over You 
04) Touch Too Much
05) Beating Around the Bush
06) Shot Down in Flames
07) Get It Hot
08) If You Want Blood (You've Got It)
09) Love Hungry Man
10) Night Prowler
01) Highway to Hell
02) Girls Got Rhythm
03) Walk All Over You
04) Touch Too Much
05) Beating Around the Bush
06) Shot Down in Flames
07) Get It Hot
08) If You Want Blood (You've Got It)
09) Love Hungry Man
10) Night Prowler
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1979
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Highway to Hell von AC/DC wurde am 27. Juli 1979 veröffentlicht und ist das sechste Studioalbum der australischen Hard-Rock-Band sowie das letzte mit dem ursprünglichen Sänger Bon Scott, der im Februar 1980 verstarb. Produziert wurde das Album erstmals nicht von George Young und Harry Vanda, sondern von dem renommierten Produzenten Robert John „Mutt“ Lange, was zu einem saubereren, präziseren Sound führte und der Band zu internationalem Durchbruch verhalf. Die Aufnahmen fanden im Roundhouse Studio in London statt, das Album umfasst zehn Songs mit einer Spielzeit von rund 41 Minuten und wurde von Atlantic Records veröffentlicht. Der Titelsong „Highway to Hell“ entwickelte sich zu einem der bekanntesten Rockhymnen aller Zeiten, geprägt von Angus Youngs markanten Gitarrenriffs und Bon Scotts charismatischem Gesang. Weitere zentrale Stücke sind „Girls Got Rhythm“, „Shot Down in Flames“ und „If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)“. Die Besetzung bestand aus Bon Scott (Gesang), Angus Young (Leadgitarre), Malcolm Young (Rhythmusgitarre), Cliff Williams (Bass) und Phil Rudd (Schlagzeug). Highway to Hell war AC/DCs erstes Album, das in den USA mit Platin ausgezeichnet wurde, und markierte einen Wendepunkt in ihrer Karriere, indem es ihnen den Weg zu globalem Erfolg ebnete. Das Albumcover zeigt die Band mit teuflischen Accessoires und wurde zu einem ikonischen Bild in der Rockgeschichte. Kritiker lobten die kraftvolle Energie, das Songwriting und die Produktion, das Album gilt heute als Klassiker des Hard Rock und Meilenstein im Werk der Band.
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Of course, Highway to Hell is the final album AC/DC recorded with Bon Scott, the lead singer who provided the group with a fair share of its signature sleaze. Just months after its release, Scott literally partied himself to death (the official cause cited as acute alcohol poisoning) after a night of drinking, a rock & roll fatality that took no imagination to predict. In light of his passing, it's hard not to see Highway to Hell as a last testament of sorts, being that it was his last work and all, and if Scott was going to go out in a blaze of glory, this certainly was the way to do it. This is a veritable rogue's gallery of deviance, from cheerfully clumsy sex talk and drinking anthems to general outlandish behavior. It's tempting to say that Scott might have been prescient about his end -- or to see the title track as ominous in the wake of his death -- trying to spill it all out on paper, but it's more accurate to say that the ride had just gotten very fast and very wild for AC/DC, and he was simply flying high. After all, it wasn't just Scott who reached a new peak on Highway to Hell; so did the Young brothers, crafting their monster riffs into full-fledged, undeniable songs. This is their best set of songs yet, from the incessant, intoxicating boogie of "Girls Got Rhythm" to "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)." Some of the credit should also go to Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who gives the album a precision and magnitude that the Vanda & Young LPs lacked in their grimy charm. Filtered through Mutt's mixing board, AC/DC has never sounded so enormous, and they've never had such great songs, and they had never delivered an album as singularly bone-crunching or classic as this until now.
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Highway to Hell von AC/DC wurde am 27. Juli 1979 veröffentlicht und ist das sechste Studioalbum der australischen Hard-Rock-Band sowie das letzte mit dem ursprünglichen Sänger Bon Scott, der im Februar 1980 verstarb. Produziert wurde das Album erstmals nicht von George Young und Harry Vanda, sondern von dem renommierten Produzenten Robert John „Mutt“ Lange, was zu einem saubereren, präziseren Sound führte und der Band zu internationalem Durchbruch verhalf. Die Aufnahmen fanden im Roundhouse Studio in London statt, das Album umfasst zehn Songs mit einer Spielzeit von rund 41 Minuten und wurde von Atlantic Records veröffentlicht. Der Titelsong „Highway to Hell“ entwickelte sich zu einem der bekanntesten Rockhymnen aller Zeiten, geprägt von Angus Youngs markanten Gitarrenriffs und Bon Scotts charismatischem Gesang. Weitere zentrale Stücke sind „Girls Got Rhythm“, „Shot Down in Flames“ und „If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)“. Die Besetzung bestand aus Bon Scott (Gesang), Angus Young (Leadgitarre), Malcolm Young (Rhythmusgitarre), Cliff Williams (Bass) und Phil Rudd (Schlagzeug). Highway to Hell war AC/DCs erstes Album, das in den USA mit Platin ausgezeichnet wurde, und markierte einen Wendepunkt in ihrer Karriere, indem es ihnen den Weg zu globalem Erfolg ebnete. Das Albumcover zeigt die Band mit teuflischen Accessoires und wurde zu einem ikonischen Bild in der Rockgeschichte. Kritiker lobten die kraftvolle Energie, das Songwriting und die Produktion, das Album gilt heute als Klassiker des Hard Rock und Meilenstein im Werk der Band.
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Of course, Highway to Hell is the final album AC/DC recorded with Bon Scott, the lead singer who provided the group with a fair share of its signature sleaze. Just months after its release, Scott literally partied himself to death (the official cause cited as acute alcohol poisoning) after a night of drinking, a rock & roll fatality that took no imagination to predict. In light of his passing, it's hard not to see Highway to Hell as a last testament of sorts, being that it was his last work and all, and if Scott was going to go out in a blaze of glory, this certainly was the way to do it. This is a veritable rogue's gallery of deviance, from cheerfully clumsy sex talk and drinking anthems to general outlandish behavior. It's tempting to say that Scott might have been prescient about his end -- or to see the title track as ominous in the wake of his death -- trying to spill it all out on paper, but it's more accurate to say that the ride had just gotten very fast and very wild for AC/DC, and he was simply flying high. After all, it wasn't just Scott who reached a new peak on Highway to Hell; so did the Young brothers, crafting their monster riffs into full-fledged, undeniable songs. This is their best set of songs yet, from the incessant, intoxicating boogie of "Girls Got Rhythm" to "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)." Some of the credit should also go to Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who gives the album a precision and magnitude that the Vanda & Young LPs lacked in their grimy charm. Filtered through Mutt's mixing board, AC/DC has never sounded so enormous, and they've never had such great songs, and they had never delivered an album as singularly bone-crunching or classic as this until now.
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