 | Tracklist:
1. It's a long way To The Top If You Wanna Rock N Roll
2. Rock N Roll Singer
3. The Jack
4. Live Wire
5. T.N.T
6. Can I Sit Next To You Girl
7. Little Lover
8. She's Got Balls
9. High Voltage
| Ranking: #20 for 1976 | |
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| Summary: High Voltage Rock and Roll! |
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High Voltage was the first album from Australian rock legends AC/DC, and it is a corker. Bon Scott hadn't choked on his own spew yet (now thats a rock and roll way to die) and the band were fresh off some influences with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in terms of solos and riffing, but stripped back a lot into good ol' fashioned debauched Aussie rock and roll. High Voltage, as the name might suggest, is loud, sinful, amped up decadence suitable to dance to at any time of the day, preferably with a stubbie in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
Opener Baby Please Don't Go reminds me of another great rock song, Ballroom Blitz, through the use of the drums. It's tappity tap on the toms, a slick little guitar lead rolling through the song with some nice soloing and cool vocals from Bon Scott. She's Got Balls is my favourite, featuring perhaps the definitive "Big Dumb Riff", it's swaggers! This is one song that sounds drunk, with some weird lyrics (Most important of all! That ladies got balls! She's Got Balls!) it's humorous and presents the band as a true circus of rocking jokers. This is a group that is best not taken seriously, if you like your music arty don't listen to 'em. It's just fun.
Little Lover is a tribute to the ladies out there, with a slow, slow riff that is sexy and bogan at the same time. It falls into power ballad territory for me, except like most AC/DC songs it appears to be about shagging. I think the album falls apart a little past here, though it's still great. Stick Around has some nice leads, and is funky as hell despite moving at the speed of molasses. Soul Stripper is a similar affair, this group doesn't reach the levels of speed they did on the first track, it's kind of a mid-tempo boonce boonce pace. You Ain't Got A Hold on Me picks up a lot, a very blues kind of guitar is used, it's excellent. Love Song is even better, with a weird timed intro and some keyboards used it's very not the AC/DC most people are used to. It gets very slow later. Show Business is one of the best songs off the album, it is a really great classic rock song that deserves more attention.
High Voltage is an excellent debut album from a group that would later get accussed of not being very different from song to song. Still, New Wave of British Heavy metal influences and some bluesiness seperate this from a lot of their later work. Though a lot of it sounds the same, its a good sound.
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Album Rating: 3
Pretty good review. AC/DC kind of bored me now though...
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Still can't bring myself to like anything the group has ever done. A lot of the sentences here are really awkward, and a lot of your ideas get really scattered the longer the review goes on.
Also, I don't see how "bluesiness" separates this from any AC/DC album...
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Show Business is one of the best songs off the album, it is a really great classic rock song that deserves more attention. WHY? Explain please.
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I always found AC/DC to be a very one dimensional band, once you've heard one song you've heard 'em all.
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yeah, mutetedfreak is pretty much right, all AC/DC songs sound very, very similar to eachother.
The review has the exact same problems your others had (lots of awkward sentences, lack of any flow, some grammar errors etc.). I think that you should really sit down, digest all the good critisism other users have given you and really think over your reviews a bit. They all seem too rushed, and somewhat ignorantly written. Instead of making new, sloppy reveiws all the time you should just make a one good reveiw which is well-advised, done with a heart and with a lot of willpower. I ain't going to neg you, but seriously, if you want to write reviews you should put more effort in them.
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They all seem too rushed
looking back on your older reviews I agree with this; just wondering but how long do you spend over a review?
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Great album, from a time when AC/DC were relevent. Though I like everything they've done, its only their live shows that still kick major ass these days.
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pretty good review
guys, it doesn't matter how long you take on reviews. i write mine in like 20 minutes. as long as its good, who cares? length isn't important either.
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It wasn't really length i was talking about, more that some of the sentences seem incomplete. But yeah I guess time taken doesn't really matter.This Message Edited On 03.28.09
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yaa and the fact that it seemed he hadn't put much effort in it.
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i don't put effort into mine
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lol sentence made no sense nvmThis Message Edited On 03.28.09
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that is sexy and bogan at the same time
Umm...
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sexy and bogan are contradictory terms
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You're a pretty sexy bogan Ras
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Akka Dakka is the bomb
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Betty here is the sexiest bogan of all.
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what the heck is a bogan?
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ta davo
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what the heck is a bogan?
Long story.
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