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Highway To Hell

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Highway to Hell is considered by many to be AC/DC's best work. I agree that it is their best with Bon Scott but not their best overall.

AC/DC again explored some bluesey riffs on Walk All Over You and Night Prowler but they had honed the skill since 1976's Dirty Deeds. Don't get me wrong this is a heavy album. One of their heaviest. The songwriting is excellent the Young brothers' guitar work is crisp and clean and Scott's vocals are delivered with his trademark snarl.

This is an outstanding album and should be a staple in any hard rock/metal fans collection.

This is one of AC/DC's CDs where Bon Scott is STILL lead singer. Heaven knows how many fans dumped "AC/DC", after Brian took over the lead singer reigns. If you did stop buying their stuff after Bon died, it's a shame, since their music is just as good or better, with Brian at the helm. However, only YOU may make that choice! Van Horn!

HIGHWAY TO HELL is AC DC's finest with their old lead singer Bon Scott. The playing is tight, the songs are constructed for maxuim punch, and production is crisp and clear.
THE GOOD
HIGHWAY TO HELL, GIRLS GOT RHYTHM, SHOT DOWN IN FLAMES, WALK ALL OVER YOU, are some of their finest. This is the cd to start your Bon area with. "Mutt" does a first class job on production, as always.
THE BAD
Including IF YOU WANT BLOOD, YOU GOT IT, which was just released on a live cd at the time.

C.P.O.V.
With a song title like HIGHWAY TO HELL, you can pretty much tell were this song and cd is headed. GIRLS GOT RHYTHM, TOUCH TOO MUCH, BEATING AROUND THE BUSH are all about sex in the first degree. Lyrics are suggestive for then, but kind of tame for today's standards-EJW

High Way to Hell is great every single song is worth listening to. The title track High Way to hell is just freaking awesome Angus Young really knows how to play those solos each song is filled with altleast one or two kik a** solos. Anyone who listens to good old rock n roll will love this ablum and some other great AC/DC albums High Voltage,Let there Be Rock,Dirty Deeds done Dirt Cheap,Powerage,Back in Black,'74 JailBreak,Back in Black and For Those about to Rock. I give this album 4 stars since all the songs are worth listening too and the great thing about having the digipak is you can get to read some tidbits about the bands history and some well written articles. Buy this album and you'll be totaly satisfied with the songs on this record.

This CD is deffinetly my favorite AC/DC album, and it is in my top 10 favorite all time albums. The songs on this CD jsut plain rule! This CD has alot of really good songs, my favorites are Shot Down in Flames, Touch Too Much, If You Want Blood, Beating Around the Bush, NIght Prowler (which got alot of unwanted attention when a 'night prowling' criminal that wore an AC/DC hat started commiting crimes), and Highway to Hell, which is very ironic, because about six months after the release of this album, singer Bon Scott died on a night of drinking. Bon had always had a booze-sex-drugs-brawl lifestyle, and Highway to Hell seems to be a recognization of where he really was. Anyway, this is a kick ass CD, you should go out and buy it now!

This is THE BEST BON SCOTT AC/DC ALBUM. This album is incredible no songs are weak. And the song Highway to Hell is worth the price of the whole album. the next song girls got rhythme the second best song on here it is awsome everything perfect. Other great songs are walk all over you, touch too much, shot down in flames and if you want blood You got it. I also recommend Back in black-AC/DC Appetite for destruction the best album ever and Nirvana-Nirvana all of these are great additions. oh i also reccomend all other Bon scott AC/DC CD's too.
Best song: Highway to hell and Girls got rhythme also rocks
Worst song beating around the bush

Australian hard rockers AC/DC released their album Highway to Hell in July of 1979. This was the first of three albums that AC/DC would work with producer Robert John Mutt Lange and coincidentally the band's first Top 20 charting and Platinum selling album here in the US. Ironically, Highway was the last album with the late Bon Scott before he died in February of 1980 after a long night of drinking. The album is pure AC/DC. Every track is great. You get the rock radio staples of the title cut, Girls Got Rhythm and Shot Down in Flames. Other highlights include If You Want Blood(a song named after their live album from 1978), Shot Down in Flames and Walk All Over You. One of the best song's on the album is Love Hungry Man which is somewhat of an overlooked gem in the AC/DC repertoire. The last track is 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/girlfriend's house whilst the parents were asleep. Bon was at his best on his last album. You really have to listen to whats not played on the radio to understand how great he was. Today, the album still sounds competent in 2004 with its digitally remastered edition.

This is definetely the best album by Ac/Dc and the cause is the great Bon Scott. All songs are very cool and filled with groove.
My personal favourites include Walk All over You, Touch Too Much and the excellent Night Prowler.
NI!

If I had to pick a favorite Bon Scott era album it would definitely be High Voltage but Highway To Hell comes very close.The title track is my favorite one on the album but all the songs are great especially Night Prowler which sadly had some unwanted controversy about it.I think the best guitar lines on here are actually the rhythm guitar riffs played by Malcom Young because they keep the songs afloat but still Angus does put on a great show as well.The solo on the title track says it all.Its great to have a party but no party is complete without this song in the background.Hell the whole album is great to listen to anytime.One of my personal favorites and it even got elected into Rolling Stone's Essential 200.Awesome.

"Stairway to Heaven" has the rep, but if you like Rock-n-Roll, "Highway to Hell" is the real payload. AC/DC is one of the greatest bands of all time, and this is probably their masterpiece. 10 songs, mostly they all sound the same, although "Nightprowler" is more subtle than the rest. Original line-up, Punk Attitude, Metal mood, pure rock style, crunchy electric guitars, screaming vocals, high energy, no commercial potential (nevermind that it was a big hit-it sounds like no other BIG HIT). Before Van Halen, before Led Zep, heavy metal was a toy for guys with lots of attitude, but low technichal skills (NOT to say they don't know how to play their instruments-there's a difference!). This is a throwback to that style, MC5 meets early Grand Funk even.