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: #9850 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!

AC/DC at their best.
What posessed record executives to mutilate the original TNT? They hacked out ROCKER and SCHOOL DAY only to graft in lame songs from the original HIGH VOLTAGE (a record of interest only to AC/DC completists), and then they marketed the resulting Frankenstein's monster as "HIGH VOLTAGE" to an unsuspecting world. TNT is flawless the way it was originally released in Australia. Every song is top-tier, from the first chord of "It's a Long Way to the Top" to the bass fill at the end of "School Day." Sadly, the high price and relative rarity of this disc mean that few non-Australian AC/DC fans will hear it--if they even know it exists.

This is the first album to feature the classic lineup of Angus and Malcolm young, Bon Scott, Mark Evans, and Phil Rudd. Though Evans's sonic imprint on the band is not deep, the three albums he played on--TNT, DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP, and LET THERE BE ROCK--represent AC/DC at their raw and hungry best. In comparison POWERAGE and HIGHWAY TO HELL sound slick and calculated.

If you love the Bon Scott years of AC/DC, you owe it to yourself to hear this album. This is as good as AC/DC gets. And that's very, very good.