AC/DC – High Voltage

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Label:	ATCO Records – SD 36-142
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:	US
Released:	1976
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Hard Rock

Tracklist

A1	It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)	5:10
A2	Rock 'N' Roll Singer	5:00
A3	The Jack	5:50
A4	Live Wire	5:45
B1	T.N.T.	3:30
B2	Can I Sit Next To You Girl	4:06
B3	Little Lover	5:26
B4	She's Got Balls	4:46
B5	High Voltage	4:18

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – J. Albert & Son Pty. Ltd.
Copyright © – J. Albert & Son Pty. Ltd.
Published By – Edward B. Marks Music Corporation
Produced For – Albert Productions
Produced At – Albert Studios
Manufactured By – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation

Credits

Bass – Mark Evans (3)
Drums – Phil Rudd
Guitar – Malcolm Young
Lead Guitar – Angus Young
Lead Vocals – Bon Scott
Photography By [Cover] – Michael Putland
Producer – Vanda & Young
Typography [Lettering] [Uncredited] – Gerard Huerta
Written-By – Young*, Scott* (tracks: A1 to B1, B3 to B5), Young*

Notes

Original US pressing on yellow ATCO label.

Published by E.B. Marks Corp., BMI

Produced by Vanda & Young for Albert Productions at Albert Studios, Sydney, Australia.

℗© 1976 J. Albert & Sons (Pty) Ltd.

Printed in U.S.A.

For information on uncredited "Typography" Credit, please see: Gerard Huerta

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Rights Society: BMI
Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): ST-C-763667-SP
Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): ST-C-763668-SP
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, Side A): ST-C-763667-B AT (PR)SP PORKY PRIME CUT
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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	High Voltage (LP, Album, Stereo)	Atlantic, ATCO Records	ATL 50 257, 36142	Germany	1976
Recently Edited	High Voltage (LP, Album)	Atlantic	K 50257	UK	1976
New Submission	High Voltage (Cassette, Album)	ATCO Records	CS 36-142	US	1976
Recently Edited	High Voltage (LP, Album)	Atlantic, Atlantic	HATS 421-210, HATS 421-210 (LS)	Spain	1976
New Submission	High Voltage (Cassette, Album)	Atlantic, Hispavox	CH984	Spain	1976

Reviews

mikeSF_ Feb 20, 2022
Edited one year ago
In 1976, these Aussie rockers were on their way to the big time. This early-ish release has a few goodies and really solidifies the sound that defined pre-Brian Johnson AC/DC.
I had this record as a kid in the early '80s, but I lent it out and it never returned. Was happy to find a clean copy of an older pressing.

The mix is not great, it's pretty muddy and instruments are not well defined, but I do not believe that's a problem of the pressing, but just the way the band sounded then.
ak1nney Dec 2, 2020
The international debut of AC/DC is a must-have for any fan of the band. Let There Be Rock and Highway to Hell may be "THE" albums of the Bon Scott years, but High Voltage is an amazing collection of songs that give you a glimpse into what would be the future of one of the biggest and most influential bands of all-time. TNT, High Voltage, It's A Long Way To The Top, Live Wire, The Jack... all classics and live staples. The Young brothers' guitars sound amazing turned up on this album. Enjoy.
EnriqueFreeque Oct 28, 2012
Edited 10 years ago
Not the finest album of the Bon Scott era of the band by a long shot. Though I do love the bagpipes that slow build to a smashing crescendo by the end of "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" -- a song that's not just an AC/DC classic but a signature standard of hard rock. The rest of the album I've found to be too slow tempo for my taste, not enough bombast, lacking the raw, crunchier, freewheeling frenetic guitar riffs of more accomplished records like Let There Be Rock or Powerage. I don't dislike High Voltage, it's just not one I'm prone to leave on from start to finish, but I'll listen to the bagpipes and to "Live Wire" or "Can I Sit Next to You, Girl?" any freaking day of the week, or everyday, and never grow tired of them, which is going on thirty years for me now, since the time I bought the lp at Licorice Pizza in the Lakewood Mall. "She's Got Balls" is just plain lame, and "TNT" doesn't do it for me, even though that's the song that still seems to get the most classic rock airplay these days. Solid debut, however, as none of the songs are outright bad, even though a handful are embarrassingly banal and a couple rather bland. Bon Scott's now legendary wit as a lyricist hadn't quite arrived. Not consistently, song by song. He wasn't as clever as he was crass, though that would change significantly by the bands next release the following year, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976). The band's immaturity showed in lead schoolboy/guitarist, Angus Young, too, as he was maybe just too damn young (he was fifteen at the time of the record's first Australian release) to have conjured up the snarling stylings of a later "Riff Raff" or "Down Payment Blues".