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List Price: $32.99 | | Label: Alberts
Salesrank: 424708
Released: July 20, 2004 |
| Our Price: $281.08 |
| Used Price: $69.99 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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High Voltage Track Listing:
1. It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)
2. Rock 'n' Roll Singer
3. Jack
4. Live Wire
5. T.N.T.
6. Can I Sit Next to You Girl
7. Little Lover
8. She's Got Balls
9. High Voltage
Editorial Review:
The Original Australian Version of this Classic Album Only Shares "She's Got Balls" and "Little Lover" with It's American Counterpart, the Rest of the Tracks Are Completely Different. The Cover Art is Completely Justified, Indicating an Entirely Different Experience.
High Voltage Reviews:
OOOOOOOOOOOOOH! (Thats BON for WHATS GOING ON?) A MORE "BLUESY" VOLTAGE 
2005-09-14 - Perhaps they just don't like Americans, or perhaps they just horde the stuff to themselves. Either way there still is no proper way to get a whole bunch of early AC/DC tracks without buying the Australian imports.
Not like its the best stuff or anything but WE ARE CURIOUS man.
I've heard lots of it thru various sources.
This version of HIGH VOLTAGE is the actual debut from AC DC. Virtually NOTHING like the American release. The only two songs that are on both are LITTLE LOVER and SHES GOT BALLS.
Now pretty much all of the first four or five AC DC albums are different in Australia then in the rest of the world. This one however is the biggest difference. The album is completley different. Way mor bluesy. I really like it. I know in the old days record companies did this stuff, but that was like thirty years ago. Four of these songs can be found on U.S 74 JAILBREAK but the song LOVE SONG was never released in the U.S. Can you believe that?
The American version is really called TNT in Australia. It was changed to High Voltage then stripped of a few tracks and combined with the two from this release. The two cuts taken from there are ROCKER (however that is available on U.S DIRTY DEEDS) and SCHOOL DAYS (I still have yet to hear that peice.)
I CANT BELIVE IT, and 74 Jailbreak is like twenty minutes long. They could have easily fit all these lost songs on one vinyl let alone one CD. They got JAILBREAK (the one that was left off of U.S DIRTY DEEDS)but heres what they missed.
LOVE SONG (aus high volt)
SCHOOL DAYS (aus TNT)
ROCK IN PEACE (aus DIRTY DEEDS)
CRABSODY IN BLUE (aus LET THERE BE ROCK)
The imports are all available at Amazon. They Aussie imports of Dirty Deeds and Let There Be Rock have different album covers.
Why complain? Nobody cares.
a respectable, but quite tentative debut from AC/DC 
2005-08-28 - As diehard AC/DC fans are aware of, the "High Voltage" album that was originally released in the US in 1976 is NOT their honest-to-goodness debut album. The original "High Voltage" album came out in Australia in February of 1975, and the subsequent US album of the same title only includes 2 of the same tracks, with 4 additional tracks from the Australian version later turning up on the "'74 Jailbreak" release.
So, what we have here is a CD issue of AC/DC's true debut album. It's been said again and again over the years how all AC/DC's music sounds the same, and although that's a justified statement, their music did evolve a fair bit in the '70s, and this debut album does sound rather tentative.
On the one hand, yes, the boys do have their trademark sound more or less nailed down already with this record. Bon Scott's wailing vocals, Angus Young's fluid guitar soloing, and the crunching dual rhythm guitars are all on display. So what makes this album different? Well, for one thing, there's a song that honestly qualifies as a BALLAD, and NOT a blues ballad along the lines of "Ride On" or "Night Prowler"--it's the tepid "Love Song" which actually features acoustic guitar! Granted, a love ballad featuring acoustic guitar was hardly a radical idea in and of itself, but this is AC/DC for crying out loud.
The main problem here is simply that the material isn't that strong. Angus and Malcolm clearly had a way to go at this point before becoming masters of hard rock riffs. "Show Business" is a dull boogie-rock number with corny background vocals. "She's Got Balls" is pretty grating with dull riffage, and it's quite tedious with its slow tempo and close-to-5-minutes running time. "Little Lover" has nice licks, but again, it drags and grates, with annoying lyrics, and a shockingly long false ending. The boys sound like they're afraid to really cut loose on "Stick Around" which gives the song a tentative feel despite the great guitar tone and a nice bluesy feel. "You Ain't Got A Hold On Me" does have catchiness and uses a simple-but-effective drum fill, but again, they sound like they're holding back, to tentative effect. "Soul Stripper" is quite good though, with cool licks, a simple-but-effective 2-note bass line, plus an extended instrumental intro featuring woodblock and congas, also unusual instruments for an AC/DC record. And there's no denying that the fast-paced cover of "Baby, Please Don't Go" rocks big time--it's clearly influenced by Them's version, but it's much more exciting, and although Bon does get a little carried away with his screaming on it, it's still quite a blast.
So, in retrospect, this is a promising album from AC/DC that has its moments, but it's mostly for diehard fans only.
Great Album
2004-03-18 - The Birth Of AC/DC here on ac/dc baby album, there very first!
This is the album to get instead of 74'jailbreak!
The TRUE high voltage!!!!
2004-03-03 - This album is amazing, is the only one where you can find the 3 Young brothers playing in the same album with Malcolm Young(Guitar), Anguns Young(Lead guitar), George Young (Bass), Bon Scott (Vocals) and Tony Currenti (Drums).
Love song is the best Ballad in the wolrd!!!!
High Voltage (Australian release) is a must have for any AC/DC Fan.
Most important of all.......... 
2003-08-06 - Worth searching out for any real AC/DC fan, Austrialia's 'High Voltage', released in February 1975 is much different from the later UK/US release. The brothers Young barely had their band together when new vocalist Ronald Belford Scott came aboard. In fact both the drums and bass were played by session musicans (Phil Rudd and Mark Evans would join later in the year). Like any typical debut record, they had yet to perfect their sound or stage show, however the origins of a great band are in evidence. The band's first real classic "She's Got Balls" is easily one of the highlights along with "Stick Around" (not on the later version), "Soul Stripper" and "Show Business". Most shocking of all is the appearance of a honest to God ballad, "Love Song" (go figure), a very touching song supposedly written by Bon lamenting the breakup of his marriage. I've never cared for "Baby Please Don't Go" (though the video is hilarious). Definitely a must for the AC/DC completist but it would take another record before AC/DC could claim legend status. Ahhh...show business, that's the way it goes...
