Highway to Hell
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend AC/DC's 1979 album digitally remastered and reissued in a special digipak plus a 16 page full color booklet containing all original album art, many unpublished photos, classic memorabilia and new 2003 liner notes. Epic. … Product details and pricing info |
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- AC/DC Highway To Hell/ Cant Live Without
- By 1979 AC/DC were starting too gain recognition in the US but still werent that big there and they had a few albums behind them, High Voltage, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Let There Be Rock, Powerage, If You Want Blood Youve Got it LIVE, but this one just might be one of the best AC/DC albums ever realesed. From the title track too the end this album never stops rocking and the song, Highway To Hell, shows that it doesent take 10 minute jams to make a great rock album all it takes is simple three chord riffs basic rock beat drums and cool vocals and a nice guitar solo in the middle. Highway To Hell is another one of those riffs every rock fan knows. Realesed in 1979 Highway To Hell is the album that got AC/DC too become a big band in America. Unfortunatly though it would be the last album with the singer, Bon Scott because he died in 1980. Buy this album today people or get a copy of it somewhere cant live without this album.
- 2008-09-14, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Bon Scott's swan song with AC/DC still a masterpiece nearly 30 years on
- Australian hard rockers AC/DC released their album Highway to Hell in July of 1979.
By this time, AC/DC were still trying to establish themselves in the US although they were already huge in the UK and in their native Australia. They had a few albums under their belt and toured with everyone and opened up for bands such as Styx, Aerosmith and Rush during this time period of 1977 and 1978.
However, commercial success eluded the band until 1979's Highway to Hell which was the first of three albums that AC/DC would work with producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The album is pure AC/DC. Every track is great.
You get the rock radio staples out of the album's title cut, "Girls Got Rhythm" and the pulsing "Shot Down in Flames".
Other highlights include "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)" (a song named after their live album from 1978), the minor single "Touch Too Much", "Beating Around the Bush", "Walk All Over You" and "Get it Hot".
However, the best songs on the album are first "Love Hungry Man" which is somewhat of an overlooked gem in the AC/DC repertoire and the album's last track which the spooky "Night Prowler" which caused controversy when an AC/DC hat was worn by "the Night Stalker", a murderer who used AC/DC as a scapegoat for his evils. The song, ironically enough, was about what teenagers used to do, sneak out of their windows to their boyfriend or girlfriend's house whilst the parents were asleep.
Highway to Hell was coincidentally the band's first Top 20 charting and Platinum selling album here in the US. Sadly, Highway to Hell was also the last album with the late Bon Scott before he died in February of 1980 after a long night of drinking and this album found Scott at his best on his last album as was Angus Young's possessed lead guitar work. You really have to listen to what's not played on the radio to understand how great he was.
Today, the album still sounds competent nearly 30 years on, especially with with this digitally remastered edition.
Highly recommended! - 2008-09-12, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- AC / DC - The End Of The Bon Scott Era
- "Highway To Hell" would be the album that put AC/DC on the map in the U.S., but would also be the last for lead singer Bon Scott who would die of alcohol poisoning shortly after the album's release. Scott always harnessed a playful nod and a wink sense of humor in his lyrics and vocals that would raise the level of the material up a few notches. You never got the feeling that he was taking himself too seriously. Musically in many ways AC/DC sticks to their patented formula, but on this album everything works very nicely. The title track became the band's first legit hit in the U.S. and remains one of the most famous classic rock guitar riffs to this day. For straight ahead rock n roll with a slight bluesy touch in spots it does not get much better than this. For me "Highway To Hell" may be the all time best AC/DC studio album and remains a hard rock classic from the end of the 70's.
- 2008-08-22, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- HIghway to Hell (Been There, Done, That)
- Killer Album, lets me go back to when music was music. Got it in less then a week. Good works Amazon and Pepsi. You Cats Rock! Yeah!
- 2008-06-28, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Worth It Just For the Title Track!
- Not sure if you've looked on Napster or iTunes, but there is precious little original AC/DC to be had. I wanted to download H2H (legally, even) but I couldn't find it. Anyway, I'm not the world's #1 fan but there are a few AC/DC songs that are in my all time classics -- the title, the title track for Back in Black, and You Shook Me All Night Long (Back in Black also). The rest of the songs are good but I'm not familiar with them. One thing that I love about the whole thing is the vocals and instruments all work together versus against one another and the sound works... crazy, but it sounds "natural."
- 2008-06-02, 0 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
