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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Atlantic / Wea
Salesrank: 738639
Released: October 18, 1994 |
| Our Price: $3.99 |
| Used Price: $2.98 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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'74 Jailbreak Track Listing:
1. Jailbreak
2. You Ain't Got a Hold on Me
3. Show Business
4. Soul Stripper
5. Baby Please Don't Go
Editorial Review:
Digitally remastered European vinyl LP pressing of this 1984 release from the Australian Hard Rockers, reissued to coincide with their 2008 studio release and world tour. Five tracks. Sony/BMG.
'74 Jailbreak Reviews:
Nice! 
2009-06-03 - "'74 Jailbreak" was a strange release. Issued in 1984 & then remastered & re-issued in 2003, it features very early AC/DC songs that appeared on their initial Australian releases but were absent from their U.S. debuts.
The best part of this e.p. is that it features another 5 songs from the amazing Bon Scott. At the time of this record's initial release, he'd already been gone for a good 4-5 years. However, Bon Scott-purists & AC/DC fans in general will still want this in their collections. In fact, they're gonna love it. Angus' dirty, bluesy riffs are electrifying & Bon Scott is at the top of his game. All 5 songs are solid. "Show Business" is sorta a pre-"It's A Long Way To The Top, If You Wanna Rock N' Roll" track. But the true gem is "Jailbreak." Easily one of the best songs AC/DC has ever layed down on tape. In fact, the purchase price of this disc is worth it for "Jailbreak" alone. It's just that good.
Please read why I rate this 2 before jumping to conclusions 
2009-04-03 - I have to give this album 2 stars, and tell you why it is my least favorite AC/DC album.
The reason is because in 1974 AC/DC released there first album called High Voltage, now it is not the same High Voltage you may be familiar with. It is what is known as the Australian version. It is an orange or red cover with a High Voltage box and a dog re-leaving himself on it.
That album contained 8 songs; "Baby, Please Don't Go", "Little Lover", "Love Song", "She's Got Balls", "Show Business", "Soul Stripper", "Stick Around" & "You Ain't Got A Hold On Me"
AC/DC then recorded in 1975 an album called, "T.N.T" which is another Australian only album.
That albums contains, "Long Way To The Top", "Rock N Roll Singer", "Live Wire", "Rocker", "School Days", "The Jack", "Can I Sit Next To You Girl" & "High Voltage"
Now when AC/DC where to marked to international audiences outside of Australia they took most of the "T.N.T" album, and took off "Rocker" & "School Days" and replaced them with "Little Lover" and "Shes Got Balls" from the first release, and titled that album "High Voltage" or known to the hardcore fan as the world wide version.
Now, also, Australian albums are all different up until the release of If You Want Blood (live) on the Australian "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" album, that album contains two songs, "Jailbreak" & Rock In Peace (R.I.P) but the album was refused to be released worldwide by there record company at the time who did not even like AC/DC being on there label, and would not market the album due to people maybe thinking it meant AC/DC where hitmen for hire or some ludicrous thing like that.
When Bon Scott died in 1980, and after the success of Back In Black, fans around the world where begging for more Bon Scott. So Dirty Deeds was finally released in 1984 to the rest of the world. It received a new sleeve picture, and Jailbreak and RIP where taken off and replaced with Rocker and an unreleased track called "Love At First Feel".... why? it's anyone's guess really.
Then they decided to release Jailbreak and put it on a disc with the rest of the songs from the original Australian High Voltage... naming it, "'74 Jailbreak" the title meaning most of the songs where from 1974, apart from Jailbreak which was 1976. However, on '74 Jailbreak, both "Love Song" & "Stick Around" where left off of it for some reason.
So as you can see, being an Australian, and owning the albums all these songs where originally on, you can see why a half cooked album like '74 Jailbreak is a dust collector to my collection. Being that it did not even contain all of the songs from the original High Voltage that had not been released around the world, and contains a track for the title already released from 1976.
And what makes me wonder even more is why when Sony re-mastered these CD's, that they did not include bonus tracks. As for this particular album has a link to go to AC/DC's website to hear the two missing tracks, but for a CD that is not even 40 minutes long, they had the perfect opportunity to re-invent this album, include those two tracks, and even have room for other un-released tracks or even live versions as a bonus to fill up it's 80 minute capacity.
So I hope you read this, and understand why I give it two stars and think of it as my least favorite AC/DC album. It's not because I do not like the songs, it is because it hardly contains anything, I already own all those songs on another Australian album, and tracks are missing that belong on here.
Great for the Completist
2007-09-09 - The completist in me made me buy this Bon Scott-era release. it doesn't stand out to me for any reason, but is a way for the true fan to make sure they have EVERYTHING.
Not enough songs!!!!! 
2006-03-06 - This is a good cd but they should have made it better. A new fan of Bon-Era AC/DC don't realize how many more great songs there are. This should have been the track list:
1. Jailbreak
2. You Ain't Got A Hold On Me
3. Show Business
4. Soul Stripper
5. Baby, Please Don't Go
6. Rock In Peace *
7. Crabsody In Blue*
8. School Days*
9. Carry Me Home*
10. Love Song*
11. Stick Around*
12. Cold Hearted Man*
13. Fling Thing*
If you are a fan of bon scott era acdc then get the songs that are asterisked via bootleg or jut download them its well worth it
in a word: skimpy
2005-08-28 - Originally released in 1984, AC/DC's "'74 Jailbreak" gave a US release to 5 songs that were previously released in Australia, but not in the US. The first track, "Jailbreak", was released on the Australian "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" album in 1976, while the remaining 4 came out on AC/DC's Australian debut album "High Voltage" in 1975.
To put it quite simply, this is a skimpy release. Furthermore, it's rather mind-blowing that with the 2003 batch of re-releases, it was decided YET AGAIN to keep "'74 Jailbreak" alive instead of just using these 5 songs as bonus tracks on the appropriate albums, along with other tracks that to this day have not been released in the US. This "album" doesn't even reach the 25 minute mark, and the CD versions appear to have always had an appallingly high list price, making for quite the ripoff.
Granted, it'd be more forgivable if all five of these tracks were kickass AC/DC classics, but unfortunately, that's not even the case. "Jailbreak", with its annoying lyrics, Bon Scott's theatrical vocalizing, and Angus' guitar sound effects, is an overwrought "epic" that blatantly recalls Them's "Gloria", written by Van Morrison. "Show Business" is a dull boogie-rock number with corny background vocals. "You Ain't Got A Hold On Me" does have catchiness and uses a simple-but-effective drum fill, but they sound like they're holding back, to tentative effect. "Soul Stripper" is admittedly quite good, with cool licks, a simple-but-effective 2-note bass line, plus an extended instrumental intro featuring woodblock and congas, unusual instruments for an AC/DC record.
The best gets saved for last--the fast-paced cover of "Baby, Please Don't Go" rocks big time. Again, this track displays a Them influence--Them recorded "Baby, Please Don't Go" as well, and their version clearly influenced AC/DC's, but the version here is much more exciting, and although Bon does get a little carried away with his screaming on it, it's still quite a blast.
All in all, as I said before, this is quite a ripoff, not to mention a blown opportunity.
