High Voltage (International)
by AC/DC

From Bork TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/11/2013 02:07 | #78565 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This is the High Voltage most people outside of Australia have heard. By all normal standards this is a compilation and I would not include it on my chart but circumstances are special. The best hard rock album in the history of music and a worthy #2 record of all time.

From CaptainPain 03/01/2026 10:16 | #313389 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

In 1975, the musicians had already recorded two records, "High Voltage" and "T.N.T.", but they were popular only in Australia and New Zealand, and the rest of the world was not covered by the capabilities of the Australian record company Albert Productions, which released these discs.
But it turned out that someone was still watching the Australian music market, and in early 1976, a major American, but rather international, label Atlantic Records deigned to offer its services to the coolest Australian rock band. He signed a contract with AC/DC, which, in addition to releasing records in very large numbers, allowed the band to tour all over the world.
It is clear that this was a breakthrough on the world music scene, followed by a visit to the rock Olympus, and the AC/DC musicians rushed to urgently record their new album for Atlantic. We only managed to record a couple of songs, but the new benefactors hurried us – there was no time to work on recording, they say, the album was urgently needed. And since there is no finished album, we will release a collection, since there are plenty of songs for it.
That's how the "international" version of "High Voltage" appeared, they didn't even come up with a new name for it, but simply took the latest "Australian" album of the band "T.N.T.", threw out a couple of songs from it, replacing them with two tracks from the first version of "High Voltage". That's how AC/DC's "first international album" turned out, which is included in the main discography not as a compilation, but as a full-fledged LP. And for a very long time, almost the whole world did not even suspect the real state of affairs, since information for music lovers began to appear only in the CD era, when the two "firstborn" bands began to spread around the world on a new type of media, first pirated, and then officially. (Edited)

Good compilation of AC/DC tracks from the Australian versions of High Voltage and T.N.T. (Edited)

A compilation of their best material from their first two Australian-only albums, though it's essentially a debut studio album to the rest of the world. And what a debut it is—about two-thirds of this can be classified as early AC/DC's greatest hits. A couple tracks on the B-side I'm not crazy about, but I do really like most of this—It's a Long Way to the Top, Rock 'n Roll Singer, TNT, The Jack, Live Wire, title track... all classic AC/DC. (Edited)

A compilation of their two Australian albums, high voltage, is AC/DC's first official UK release. It's obviously full of silly sexist party rock and is very enjoyable. It's a long way to the top, is a great opener, and, the Jack, and, livewire, would become AC/DC classics. Not their greatest record but a hell of a lot of fun.