LP AC/DC High Voltage AUSSIE ONLY 1975 Bon Scott EX
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Please note this LP was listed a few days ago however I cancelled the auction due to incorrect information in the MORE NOTES section (not the condition) ... it is now re-listed with the errors ammended....Thanks...
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This record has been cleaned and played through completely both sides on a Lenco L75 Turntable as well as visually inspected under a bright halogen desk lamp to provide an accurate grading.
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AC/DC High Voltage
1975 Australian issue
ALBERT Blue & Black label # APLP-009
CONDITION
VINYL : Terrific / clean labels / shiny throughout / plays perfectly with a crisp and clean sound / no pops, skips or sound blemishes of note / no lead in-out hiss / some light marks and one visual scuff across tracks 3&4 on Side One however it is only on the surface and did not affect sound quality during play-testing / certainly worth an EX sound-wise and more than acceptable for this raritySLEEVE : EXCELLENT / no writing or splits and the spine is intact / a minor crease at the top right corner / a touch of ring-wear at centre top / a little edge-wear only / overall it presents very well and would be amongst the better sleeves I’ve come across for this album for some time
DESCRIPTION
A very tidy early pressing of Acca Dacca’s debut album with a young and somewhat raw Angus (doing what he does best…. absolute awesome guitar here) complimented by Bon’s typically great vocals.AC/DC was still developing its sound when High Voltage was recorded in November 1974, and Scott and the Young brothers were backed by a different rhythm section than the Mark Evans / Phil Rudd combination featured on their next three full-length studio recordings.
Released on the Albert label ‘High Voltage’ was never reissued by another label in this format.
A High Voltage album was released internationally on Atlantic Records in 1976 with a different cover and was in fact a compilation of the original Australian edition and its follow-up, the Australia-only T.N.T. album. Despite its title, the overseas issued High Voltage features only two tracks from the original: "She's Got Balls" and "Little Lover". Four of the other songs on the original, "Baby, Please Don't Go", "You Ain't Got a Hold on Me", "Soul Stripper", and "Show Business", were included on the '74 Jailbreak EP, released in the United States, Canada, and Japan in October 1984. To date, "Stick Around" and "Love Song" have not been released internationally.
A killer of an album that still ranks up there with some of their greatest material and very much a highly prized album by fans world-wide.
MORE NOTES
HIGH VOLTAGE introduced the world to 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 "She's Got Balls" and the equally nut-crunching treatment of Them's "Baby, Please Don't Go" this album is not for the faint of heart 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.
SONGS
Baby Please Don't Go
She's Got Balls
Little Lover
Stick Around
Soul Stripper
You Ain't Got A Hold On Me
Love Song
Show Business
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