AC/DC - High Voltage

Primary Artist
AC/DC
Album Title
High Voltage
Release Date
October, 1976 
Time
44:19 
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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. Read More