High Voltage [Remaster] [HyperCD] by AC/DC (CD, Feb-2003, Epic (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	696998020122
Artist:	AC/DC
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2003
Record Label:	Epic (USA)
Genre:	Hard Rock, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)
2. Rock 'n' Roll Singer
3. Jack, The
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

Details
Playing Time:	44 min.
Producer:	George Young, Harry Vanda
Distributor:	Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album 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.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.

Editorial Reviews
...It established their style of stripped-down, simple, riff-heavy, blues-and-boogie music and dirty-fun lyrics...
Mojo

4 stars out of 5 - ...A pleasure, as always...
Uncut (20030901)

3 Stars - Good - ...a stripped-down intimacy that suits no-frills rockers...
Q (19941001)