Description

Limited re-press of the Australian version of the album with different cover artwork and on gold vinyl

One of the perennial complaints about Ac/dc is that they’ve never changed – and if that’s true, their debut album T.n.T and the follow up High Voltage is the blueprint they’ve followed their entire career. These two albums have every single one of Ac/dc 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. Tracks from the two original Australian albums TnT and High Voltage were put together for the debut album High Voltage for the rest of the world but only two tracks from the original Australian High Voltage made it onto the European version. The tracks chosen were She’s Got Balls a perversely funny dirty joke and Little Lover. Of course there are so many great tracks like Baby Please Dont Go, You Aint Got A Hold On Me, Love Song and Soul Stripper that were left off that this album is a must have for any metal lover. This is an album that you never grow tired of.

Track list:
1. Baby Please Dont Go
2. Shes Got Balls
3. Little Lover
4. Stick Around
5. Soulstripper
6. You Aint Got A Hold On Me
7. Love Song
8. Show Business