AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Atco  (1979)
Hard Rock

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CD    10 tracks  (41:00) 
   01   Highway To Hell             03:26
   02   Girls Got Rhythm             03:23
   03   Walk All Over You             05:08
   04   Touch Too Much             04:24
   05   Beating Around The Bush             03:55
   06   Shot Down In Flames             03:21
   07   Get It Hot             02:24
   08   If You Want Blood (You've Got It)             04:32
   09   Love Hungry Man             04:14
   10   Night Prowler             06:13
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Purchase Date 06.06.2003
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UPC (Barcode) 075679241924
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Notes
Originally Released as Atlantic #19244 on July 30, 1979 Given that Bon Scott's hard-partying, sex-booze-and-brawls lifestyle tragically caught up with him some six months after Highway to Hell was released, the album-opening title track - one of hard rock's all-time classics - now takes on an eerie resonance. It's not just a snotty, nihilistic party anthem, but a moment of unrepentant self-recognition from a rowdy ruffian who, for better or worse, exulted in what he was. The rest of the songs on Highway to Hell don't lend themselves to any deep readings, but of course, that's not the point. Highway to Hell distilled all the virtues of AC/DC's signature minimalism - loud, simple, pounding riffs and grooving backbeats - into the tightest batch of songs the group had written to that point, barreling along at a take-no-prisoners rate and producing a handful of gems ("Girl's Got Rhythm," "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)") along the way. Highway to Hell is not only a fitting epitaph for Bon Scott, it's also a classic rock & roll album.