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. Rocker
7. Can I Sit Next to You Girl
8. High Voltage
9. School Days

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11935 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Album Description
Aussie edition of 1975 release featuring original vocalist Bon Scott. Nine tracks including, 'High Voltage', 'It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock N Roll' and 'T.N.T.'. 1995 reissue. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews

THIS IS IT! THE QUINTESSENTIAL AC/DC ALBUM!
Actually this was NOT the first release by AC/DC. Their first release was actually the 1974 Australia-only 8-song release of the album "High Voltage" (which oddly did not feature the track of the same name), which is certainly not the same album as the American release of the same name. As a matter of fact the American "High Voltage" release is basically the same as "T.N.T." with a couple of tracks from the 1974 H.V. thrown on. BUT!!! it was "T.N.T." that absolutely broke AC/DC, it was 'THE' album, and is a quintessential MUST-HAVE for any AC/DC fanatic. In 1975 this was THE album that shook Australian society to its roots with it's pure brashness: Parents hated AC/DC, mothers were locking up their daughters, meantime their sons were toughing up, hang-banging along to T.N.T. doing Bon or Angus impersonations and screaming "Oy!" It happened during that horrendously crappy campy era of tacky glam hairstyle rock in the mid-70s, a time when we really NEEDED a T.N.T. as a way of smashing all that glam crap out of the way. With T.N.T. the Australian music scene opened right up to hard raw guitar rock. Following in T.N.T's wake in Australia the following year, 1976, came Brisbane band The Saints with "I'm Stranded" and Sydney band Radio Birdman's Stooges-inspired "Burn My Eye"... suddenly Molly's "Countdown" show, ABBA and K-Tel records were blown right into the weeds by the new raw power of hard-core - and there you had a whole "new music"! T.N.T is a piece of pivotal music history. I think T.N.T. must be ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PRE-PUNK ALBUM EVER!

Cooler than a body on ice...
'TNT' pretty much says it all, the definitive early AC/DC album released in late 1975. It is probably common knowledge to every AC/DC fan that this eventually came out as 'High Voltage' in 1976, their "international" debut. Whatever you call it, this lp was the sign of things to come with several of the band's early anthems in tow. The title song says it all; power, volume and cheeky danger. "It's a Long Way to the Top" has always been a personal favorite (bagpipes!!!, how could you not love that, played by Bon of course!). Other classics/favorites include: "The Jack" (THE VD anthem!), "Live Wire" (amazing opener on the 'Let There Be Rock' movie), "Rocker" (another stage favorite from the early days (lurex socks and bluesuede shoes), "High Voltage" (an actual early pre-album single), "Rock and Roll Singer" (gonna be a rock and roll star) and the Chuck Berry hit "School Day" (makes sense for a cover doesn't it?). A huge hit in their native Australia, this was the disc got them to London then eventually America as road warriors. Too heavy for punk, too raw for classic rock, what were they? Just a great, straight up, no-frills, wicked woman stealing, schoolboy uni wearing, beatup broken boned rock n' roll band, one of the greatest ever!. Powerload, watch me explode!

Pure Acca Dacca...
AC/DC's 1975 album was their second "official" release. This time Aussie rock producers Vanda and Young where behind the desk giving the album a lo-fi independent sound that was heavier than the first album and much more rawer than the anything from the late 70's (never mind from the Brian Johnson period). If any album could be nominated from classic album status "T.N.T" would get the vote. Containing everything from rock anthem singles -- It's A Long Way To The Top, High Voltage, T.N.T -- , the manic guitar onslaught of "Rocker", the hard-as* "Live Wire" which rolls on down the highway on route 666 and a more aggressive revival of their early days with the glam stomp "Can I Sit Next To You Girl".
For overseas fans who are interested in the band's "local" era THIS is the album to listen to.