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a few absolute bangers, filled out with perfectly serviceable hard rock songs. easy listening. 4/5.
This isn’t a great statement of art, or philosophy but it’s fun. Riffs, and riffs and riffs but unlike later albums they’re more variability and Angus’ guitar playing has a bluesier/rootsier feel. Throw in Bon Scott’s vocals a man so happy singing you can hear his grin and with greater charisma than Brian Johnson and you’ve got 45 minutes of fun
I understand the sentiment that all ACDC songs sound the same. As a rock fan, I can't hate the album, but there are better out there, specifically better ACDC albums which have more of a place on this list than this one does. I was tempted to give it a 4 for highway to hell and touch too much, but then I thought of their back in black album and realised this was a solid 3.
Pretty easy 5 stars - what a god damn vibe, dated of course but shit if I didn’t feel 10 feet tall blasting this.
Good fun album
Good, but I feel it might be overated? I have more personal attachment to Black Ice and I like AC/DC, but yeah.
Dad rock for cocaine enjoyers or moms
Great album!
Lowkey fire, I love the instrumentals, but I'm not sure if I'd regularly listen again, just not a big part of my taste.
Wow. Now we're talking 😀
Overall Rating - 4.20/5 (8.40/10). Even indifferent AC/DC is excellent. There's a reason this band has lasted for 50 years. Great album.
Ah, yes, about time. First three tracks rock so fucking hard. It certainly gets a little samey as things progress but that's just AC/DC, baby.
eh. rock slop
Fine but I’m just not into these high pitched screamy men. If you’re gonna scream it’s gotta be full bodied
A banger
Liked this. best track: „Highway to hell“
Another rock album. Songs that you can sing along to but most of the songs aren't as iconic or memorable.
rock n roll
Classic!! Love this!
"Highway to Hell" is an all-timer. I honestly wasn't expecting to like this so much (considering how I've felt about the dad-rock metal I previously listened to on here), but each song was really catchy and memorable. Fav Tracks: "Highway to Hell", "Touch Too Much" and "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)".
Loved this album. Great sounds.
2/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/ac_dc/highway-to-hell/ Silly old me thought that this one might be nicer than Back in Black due to the old vocalist. Nope, still sucks. I hate this band.
My favourite ACDC album! I've always preferred this one to it's more high profile successor..partly because I've always preferred Bon to Brian. This whole album is just spot on. Title track is obviously a classic. Touch to Much is great, Shot down in Flames also. The final trio of If you want blood, Love Hungry Man and the utterly outstanding Night Prowler is the strongest finish to any ACDC album.
They are the best at being AC/DC, but not necessarily on this album
Suprisingly fun!
This is fun and silly. I almost take it seriously with the opening track, but its impossible to hate. Highway to Hell is incredible song. After that.. it gets a bit stale. Its kind of the same trick 10 more times with diminishing results. Bluesy, rocky, appropriated jams. Which aren't bad, but all stacked together, its a little boring after awhile. Still, a great moment in rock. This guys are legends.
I tend to like Bon Scott more than Brian Johnson, but idk besides the title track this didn't do much for me. Mid 3.
Another classic rock album. I think this is the first time I've listened to whole album, but I remember always staring at the art work. I think some songs start to sound similar after a certain point but worth a listen for any rock fan
Man I don’t know if I’m the kind of guy who can listen to an entire AC/DC album but I guess if I’m going to this is one of the two or three. Look, I respect the hell out of these guys. Their whole vibe really isn’t that dis similar to the Ramone‘s, but the Ramone‘s hit hard for me. I love the singles. Hard not to. I heard them so many times over the years, but I just don’t want full album of AC/DC.
Ugh. I really dislike AC/DC. I don't know why. I would say I hate them. And the only reason I didn't rate it 1 star is because I can understand WHY people like it, or even why this music was important. But I find it boring and repetitive. I've always said, if you can keep a 4/4 beat on the drums, you can play EVERY single AC/DC song on the drums.
Just a really good hard rock album. Don't got much more to say. Classic.
good rock album.
Do you like the same 3 chords repeated ad nauseam? Do you like to hear the same howled vocals over everything? You're gonna love the work of AC/DC.
3,5 stars
Ein klassisches AC/DC Album mit dem Megahit "Highway to hell 4/5
Perhaps a single AC/DC Greatest Hits album could suffice? I'm not saying this wasn't a fine enough album, but how much AC/DC is "too much" AC/DC? It certainly doesn't take a lot.
Classic 70s rock
really connected with my inner 14 year old boy today
Great album. Not quite as great as Back in Black, but still solid from start to end.
Repeat listen. My original review remains unchanged: It’s actually incredible how much they manage to do with such a narrow palette But my rating goes up one star! This was one of the first albums I got on this project and maybe I enjoyed it more this time around, but I also think that after trudging through dozens of crappy 90s albums, my baseline has shifted.
Sounds like a really mellow AC/DC album. The title track stands on its own, but everything that follows just felt less intense than the bands previous releases. I definitely enjoyed it, I love this kind of music, but it wasn’t their best.
driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cake hole
It was good the first song then the other ones were repetitive. I like the sound of Angus Young Gibson guitar it has a lot of character and strength
Not my cup of tea
Yeah baby!
Sterk 3, noen fete men litt ensformig overall
I’m really not a fan of AC/DC all that much. But this album is a reminder that their best songs, are the NOT popular ones ofc
An iconic and yet boring album.
Its all good music and i can listen to pretty much every song on this album however it's a lot of similar stuff so it naturally has to be a 3/5 because by the end of the album I was getting a bit bored ngl
Undeniable sound and power. But every song sounds the same.
Qualitatively, this is a fine hard rock album with catchy hooks, fun energy, and solid riffs. Subjectively, it falls so damn far from the purview of what I enjoy. The faux-machismo that AC/DC represent is just so tacky to me. While nothing here actively pissed me off, I spent nearly the entire runtime wishing I was listening to something else. I’d never call it a bad album, but I won’t be surprised if I never listen to this again in my lifetime. Fav Tracks: Highway to Hell, Touch Too Much, If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It), Night Prowler Least Fav: Walk All Over You Score: 5
Listenable, but not inspiring. Can’t think of a situation when I would feel like putting this album on.
Highway to Hell is rawer and a little fiercer than the more famous album that came after it. At the same time, it lacks the real impressive songs that one has. It roars out of the gate with a couple blistering songs that may be the best on the album, though it's unclear if they're the best or if the formula just hasn't worn out yet. And the formula does get worn out, somewhere on the second side. What's interesting is that "Walk All Over You" does try something a big different with its slow chorus, and it falls flat, so maybe sticking to the formula is what's best for the band. That formula is loud but never really exhilarating, full of riffs that are never quite memorable. A decently fun album, but one that wears out its welcome.
Two stars for highway to Hell
I’ve heard this before and I own it. AC/DC is big dumb rock with big dumb riffs and big dumb lyrics about big dumb rock things like going to hell and screwing hot chicks and how big dumb rock kicks ass, and they totally kick ass at it. I don’t love all big dumb rock, but I love this big dumb rock and getting dumb and rocking out to it.
boomer slop every song sounds identical
Probably not much repeat value, but bah god I was bobbing my head along
Got to give credit to the singer
Enjoyed it but it is too repetitive
I used to be obsessed with AC/DC as a kid. They’re still a good time and I can enjoy this, but they’re definitely not the gods I once held them as. Highway to Hell is fun, much like the rest of their back catalogue, but they definitely found a winning formula and never strayed from it, a sort of classic rock Coldplay if you will. Fair play to them cause it’s worked given just how long they’ve stuck around and being on top of their game, but now I’ve gotten older and my tastes have expanded, I can definitely see the flaws. That said, a special shout out to Malcolm Young, in AC/DC he obviously takes a backseat roll compared to Angus, but listening to this now as an older, more experienced guitar player myself, his rhythm work is ridiculously tight, an incredibly understated guitarist, sad that he left us so early.
What a way to kick off the album \m/ There's something about those propulsive drums and riffs that speaks to my soul man. I know it's their go-to, and it can be samey, but it WORKS. It's not as good as Back in Black in my opinion, but it still rocks hard. Consider my foot thoroughly tapped. Consider my head thoroughly nodded.
No need to discuss here
Hasn't helped me change my feelings on ACDC
Classic
7 - GOOD
One of the classic rock and roll albums of my generation. Blasted it in my dorm room in college. Fortunately, I've moved on from it, but enjoyed listening to it.
Very classic rock project. Love to hear it. Feels like I'm in a Southern bar full of motorcycle riders and occasional tabletop performers.
highway to hell: 8.5/10 everyone heard this at least once in their life, an actual rock classic. forever will be iconic girls got rhythm: 7/10 really nice guitar riffs and guitar solos, very upbeat. sounds pretty much the same across the entire song walk all over you: 6.5/10 first part of the song sounds like they were still trying out their instruments haha. I really like the harmonic "I wanna walk all over you" part. pretty generic tho, nothing bad or extraordinary to say about it touch too much: 6.3/10 sounds like it belongs to the album tbh as it sounds basically the same, I like the verses tho beating around the bush: 6.75/10 I like the funky guitar riffs, and how its fast paced. liked it more than the previous two shot down in flames: 6/10 sounds like a knock off highway to hell? get it hot: 5/10 nothing special tbh if you want blood (you've got it): 5.5/10 last part maybe added smth so I put +0.5, other than that pretty ordinary love hungry man: 4/10 why do all these songs sound the same, bro must've had a deadline night prowler: 5.7/10 woah the guitar at the start really got me?? at first it diverges from the usual trend that's going on in the album then slowly becomes more usual. the guitar solos are really slow and hot tho final rating (personal, not mathematical): 5.5/10. most of the songs literally sound the exact same and follow the same pattern, but it does have highway to hell so I forgive them. other than that if you want to keep listening to the same song over and over again then this is the album for you, it BARELY deviates from the main musical tone
I do like these big arena rock bands of the late 70s and 80s, and the vocals and instruments are all very impressive, but I find I generally enjoy a bit rawer rock a little more (sonic youth, nirvana, fugazi). Still, I enjoyed listening to this just as I did appetite for destruction, even if it’s not one I think I’ll revisit all the time.
I mean every song sounds the same but that’s not always a bad thing y’know!
Acceptable 🤘
1. Highway to Hell — AC/DC Альбом меня не зацепил от слова вообще. Одинаковое звучание, вокал и подача — уже к середине альбома начинают утомлять. Поэтому 3/10. P.S. Альбик чисто на своего слушателя. Какой-нибудь мужичок 40–50 лет, возможно, тащится от него, а в целом — Н-Е-О-Ч-Е-М. https://open.spotify.com/album/10v912xgTZbjAtYfyKWJCS?si=CHNfsLtOQlK_asKYU13J_Q&utm_source=copy-link
Track By Track Highway To Hell - a classic. Belter of a song. Really enjoyed this. Girls Got Rhythm - I’m feeling like this album is all about the guitar. Mainly the rhythm actually. Didn’t stand out so much for me Walk All Over You - I do appreciate his singing here. Got a good scream on him. Bit forgettable this one Touch Too Much - a lot of these songs seem to be about … sex? These guys do seem to be classic rockers as well actually. A simple, but cohesive sound. This, again, did not stand out for me. Beating Around The Bush - a great opening riff. Quite good energy here. Shot Down In Flames - kind of feels a bit sleazy almost lyrically! But basic for me I’m afraid. Not a fan Get It Hot - this seems a bit more fun. Quite liked this. Major key. Kind of reminds me of the hilarity of Jack Black in School of Rock. If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It) - did not listen to all. too samey at this point. Love Hungry Man - just dated kind of. Very much of a time and place. Horny again. Bit too raunchy! Night Prowler - conceptually, like ‘Midnight Rambler’ (kind of) but not as interesting in my opinion. I didn’t finish it if I’m honest. Overall Review: I hadn’t listened to an AC/DC album all the way through and I do now know why. It’s just not really my thing, this kind of rock. Dad rock & not the best of it really. Great for a couple songs but a whole album is a bit much for me to stomach. I get if you enjoy this kind of music you’d probably really dig this album, but it’s really not for me. 1.4/5 Favourite Songs: Highway To Hell
Solid, but still prefer Back In Black
A collection of 10 AC/DC songs that sound like every other AC/DC song. A solid riff that would make your nod your had at a football game followed by squealed vocals that are cool for 1 song but after 3 consecutive tracks are just annoying. There’s no distinction track to track it’s just 10 songs that could have been the same song and I’d know no different. 4/10 I’m bored. Top tracks - Highway to Hell, Night Prowler(at least it was doing something different. Wait this song is so long nvm)
It's Highway to Hell. Highway to Hell is an all time song. Everything else on the album is a worse version of that. Still, it's an AC/DC album so the whole thing is fun.
Fun album, but I have the "every song sounds kinda the same" problem with a lot of AC/DC. The sound is still good, and there are some good bops, but I just want to hear a greater variety of sound.
Highway to Hell is a good title track, rest of the album feels like retreads of it tho
I just can’t with his voice for more tthan a few (admittedly awesome) songs
It's ACDC, it's exactly what I expected. Everything was all right, but the Outro Song was boring
A glorious blaze of pure rock and roll.
Favorite Songs: Highway to Hell & Girls Got Rhythm.
First time listening to a full album, it didn't disappoint. 4.5 stars
I don't like AC/DC too much, but to be fair: this million-seller is a milestone in hard-rock. Adorable from a modern point of view that this was "hard" rock back in the days, but nonetheless it was genre-defining.
this one wasn’t bad, but nothing stood out to me in particular
Alright, I know what AC/DC sound like. They've been a constant presence throughout my life. Heard them hundreds of times without once ever choosing to listen to them. I would love it if I could avoid them for the rest of my life, but that ain't happening. Their popularity is a complete mystery to me.
Of course highway to hell is a classic. Unfortunately AC/DC's brand of rock and roll expires faster that 2 week old milk in a sauna so the rest of this record is a slog
muy buen disco, siempre tuve un pequeño "prejuicio" ahr, pensando que todos los temas de ac/dc son medio lo mismo. Y no me tomaba el tiempo de escucharlos, ahora está vez que si los escucho, si noto que hay mismo sonido, pero la verdad que también habla de una identidad, estilo, etc. Los banco, y me hicieron acordar que tengo que ver el reci que hicieron acá en argentina.
AC/DC kinda slapped when you look outside of all the ancient hits that get play over and over. Sure it's kinda the same guitar solo every time. Sure, it's almost the same song every time. But it's pretty fun in small doses. It's the epitome of classic hard rock. Standouts on this listen were "Highway to Hell" and "Walk All Over You" I can't give this album a 5 but it's for sure a 4. It's just 40 minutes of rocking out. If you grew up with this, you know.
Does rock music get any more basic than this? Straight up dad-rock; 4/4 time, chunky guitar riffs and thinly-veiled double entendres all the way. I don't dislike it - Highway to Hell is a classic for a reason - on the other hand the constant nudge-wink song titles got a bit tiresome after a while. It's fine, it is what it is really. And I have to admit nobody does it better than AC/DC.
I accidentally listened to Back in Black instead of Highway to Hell, so then I had to listen to them both back to back. Highway to Hell is the better album.
I liked reading one persons review on this. To paraphrase it in my own words, “AC/DC is like eating a tub of chocolate ice cream. You know what you’re getting, it’s exactly the same every time, and yet it’s still enjoyable” Yeah that pretty much sums up this album. Good album though, terrific guitars as you’d expect from them.
I forgot to take contemporaneous notes! Pretty sure this was almost a five, but not quite. Especially when compared to Back in Black,.which I had a couple weeks ago ⭐⭐⭐⭐.49
Pretty good
I don't know. I know they're a good band, but when you've listened to one AC/DC album you've listened to them all.
Of all the basic genres, hard rock is the basic-est
It’s Highway IN Hell if you’re driving through Saugus
It’s Highway IN Hell if you’re driving through Saugus
Tämä levy on klassikko! Ei yhtään huonoa biisiä. Tulee kuunneltua aina silloin tällöin. Tämä on kulkenut mukanani jo 80-luvun puolesta välistä asti, kun bändin löysin.
4/4 Time: the Album
Classic rock as it was intended!
Brings me back to listening to rock radio stations in the 80s and 90s when AC/DC was on constant play. I like the hit songs, but the deeper tracks all start to sound the same. They had a very specific formula for sure.
Hard Rock is one of my least favorite genres, usually I just can’t stand it. This I also did not love but need to admit that this catched me somehow mid album and I did really like night prowler
Meh. I don't like AC/DC. I find them boring and repetitive. I don't ever listen to their songs unless someone else puts them on or they happen to be on the radio, which I rarely bother with. Mediocre, didn't even bother listening as I've heard it before.
AC/DC are a band I would potentially enjoy if they weren't shoved down my throat throughout my childhood. "Oh, you like rock music? Here's some AC/DC." Beginner guitar lessons? "Here are some Malcolm Young riffs to learn." Intermediate guitar lessons? "Here are some Angus Young riffs to learn." Band practice? "Let's start with some AC/DC songs." Listening to this album is like exposure therapy in reverse. I've heard way too much AC/DC in my life compared to how much I actually enjoy their music. Any further listens just make me dislike it more and more. I know this entire text is the furthest thing from reasonable criticism, but it is what it is.
Hel is saaie rock muziek. I mean, echt niet slecht, maar echt peak "ik luister naar ECHTE muziek"-muziek
Love ACDC. Gezellig rock.
Classy rocky album
Yeah, proper banger this one. Takes me back to school days. Sounds a bit dated but it wouldn’t put me off listening again.
Only one big hit on this album but a decent record still. I felt that Back in Black was a little too much high speed only. This was more «pleasant».
The lack of a variety is a strength and a curse.
The bangers are always good. The rest of the album was meh
Never been a big fan of AC/DC and this album didn't change my opinion much. A lot of the same, but there are a couple of big hitters here that are fun to hear in their original context. Night Prowler really surprised me. Refreshingly different from typical AC/DC despite grim subject matter.
Though I can recognize that AC/DC is objectively not that talented or interesting, something deep in my soul calls me to them nonetheless. Call it the white man’s cry
Fun!
As great as it is juvenile.
Pretty solid
6 keepers in 10 (60%) 1 banger (10%) I’m not getting into the whole “all AC/DC songs sound the same” but I’m not denying it. Math says 3 or 4 stars, heart says 3 stars.
LITTERLY ALREADY LSITENED TO THIS ALBUM
A Classic
Wow, i thought Back in Black was the only AC/DC album worth giing back to, but i completely forgot how great this one is. I am hoping Back in Black is also on this list.
not sure what to say. I know and like AC/DC
there is this consistent style of music throughout this album Wich isn't really bad on it's own except if you don't like the sound if you don't like the first song you're not going to enjoy the rest I enjoyed the guitar drums and bass just not the vocals
love acdc but a little repetitive
Good music, not really my style
A showcase on how to use the 4/4 drum BackBeat. Lyrical depth and musical nuance of wheels on the bus, but what it does do it does it well. Round and round
Maybe its the mood im in today - looks its a very fun song. But its just that a 40 min song!
Markan - 4,5 Sara - 5
A classic.
Exactly what I expected an AC/DC album to sound like. Solid rock songs. I won't be returning to this one, but I didn't skip any songs as I was listening. I can see why people like it.
not a huge fan of this sort of genre but I can accept that it's an okay album
this honestly mostly sounds the same to me. Misogynistic lyrics with similar screeching vocals and heavy guitar riffs. the song highway to hell is the only departure from this theme
Good beat, great guitar. Vocals always the same. Brings back memories. Lyrics can be a bit juvenile
I'm stuck on this one. I almost don't want to review it because I feel like I might be being too harsh. Anywho: I'm giving it a 2/5 but I think it's closer to a 5/10, based on the critiria of whether or not this should be on a list of albums you should hear before you die. I think the songs are very one dimensional. I think that the brand of hard rock this is flavored with is very close to that 80s hair metal that you would've found on the sunset strip. I think that the title track carries a lot of weight on this otherwise horny album. The vocals are just not appealing to me. I think if you have Back in Black on this list, you gotta get rid of this. If I ever get Back in Black, I'll be reducing this to a 1. I can appreciate the hard rock elements, but was AC/DC trailblazing in '79 as they are presented to have been doing simply by being included on this list?
Pretty tedious honestly. Same topics and same riffs as every other guitar-centric rock band of the era. Nothing that particularly grabbed my attention.
Really didn’t get into much besides the title track. I think this band is best enjoyed in clips at sports arenas or in passing at parties.
Simple can be good and fun. Touch Too Much was a new song to me that I really dug. Highway to Hell and Girls Got Rhythm are long-time favorites for me already.
ripetitivo ma rimane peak
Escuchando
Little bit repetitive, not my kind of thing sorry😔 like they all sound the same
Tracks 1-4 are rock n roll gold. Mutt Lange anthems, then it becomes a little too repetitive and predictable. Some good stuff in here.
AC/DC get accused of having the same sound for all their songs, perhaps a little unfair... Only a little. You mostly know what you're getting and their big classic albums are a step above their average. If you want a superb classic album, you got it. I can listen to this anyday of the week, and it's not even my favourite AC/DC album
mais sem sal que feijão em self service paulista chato, repetitivo e cansado, que nem tudo que essa banda de formas de corrente elétrica sempre fez
eba mais 10 músicas iguais as outras do ultimo album que passou. a diferença eh apenas o vocal, que eh bem parecido ainda. enfim. acho que ac/dc eh uma banda muito água de salsicha. hard rock mais xoxo que esse, impossível.
The brand of rock that AC/DC plays is like a cheese sandwich. There's nothing to it. It's so simple. But, man, is it delicious! I haven't tried dipping this album in a bowl of tomato soup, though; so I'll assume that's where the analogy ends. 4 stars. Super solid album from start to finish.
Not as good as BiB.
3.75 out of 5 stars for AC/DC's Highway to Hell. The music is probably the most coherent out of all Bon Scott AC/DC albums, and it does what every good AC/DC album is supposed to do. Come out strong with a lead track, have Angus just wail away doing his catchy riffs and then get out. The best part of this album is that every song is over 3 minutes, averaging around 4 mins a tune, which gives the group enough time to let their songs mature rather than just sing about sex, drugs and rock & roll (which they do anyways, but in longer format). The production value is amazing on this, and not long after, we lost Bon Scott, and AC/DC has never been the same since.
One of the best ever.
All based on 2 listens. Better than I thought it would be, but still has that generic, repetitive phrasing AC/DC sound. I will be adding this to my listening rotation.
Only highway to hell that was something I'd listen to again, the rest were interesting but now sound rather dated.
I felt like I went through the entire album without noticing. Not that the songs are all the same but they all are very similar in style, no doubt. It made me good company but didn't strike me any strong feelings.
Perfecto
Very good album, excellent reputation, iconic riffs, just not my taste.
Pretty fun to listen to at the start, becomes very draining after hearing the same riffs over and over again
Classic hair rock.
Highway to Hell (the song) absolutely slaps, but the rest of the songs felt like fun but worse versions of it. I am amazed how much I can still enjoy AC/DC'S songs with the vocals of a screeching cat, so that counts for something.
The instrumentals are light years ahead of the lyrics. The guitar work is a reminder that music theory isn’t everything. I am amazed by how many awesome riffs the young brothers can pull out of the same scale and chord progression. I also think Bon Scott has the better voice of the two AC/DC singers, even if the songwriting is stronger on Back in Black.
Just fun from beginning to end.
4.5
4.5
Better than most hard rock. 3.5 stars
AC/DC is probably one of my favorite hard rock bands. In a genre that's sort of famous for its opulence and silliness, they stick to a very simple, no frills sound. They're like the Ramones of hard rock. There's a few tracks I don't love here, but overall, it's pretty excellent. The singles are all great -- the title track, "Girls Got Rhythm", "Touch Too Much" -- plus you get some rad deep cuts like "Shot Down in Flames" and "Love Hungry Man". 4.5 stars.
It’s not quite Toto IV or even Toto self titled but there are still some serious heavy duty classics on this. Classics such as Highway To Badger Hell, Badgers Got Rhythm and If You Want Badgers (You’ve Got It). Juicily riff-loaded and intensely badgerlicious thanks to the guitar heroics of Angus Badger. Frontman Badger Scott really was on imperious form here and it was such a shame he badger baited himself in a bout of extreme badger misadventure and got replaced by the screechier Badger Johnson the following year.
Overall I think I'd say a solid 4/5. Look, heavy metal isn't my cup of tea usually but I think there's no doubt the influence here and it's fun to listen to.
it does all sound the same, and it's decent, but... meh
Hell yeah
fun rock and roll that really has just one trick. it's a great trick, but not enough to sustain an entire record
I am biased-I hate Angus’ voice. They are a talented group with tight audio mixing but I can’t get over the voice.
Hadn't listened to this before other than the title track; not really surprised to find the rest of the album is pretty much 10 more "Highway to Hell"s, lol. Fine, but I'll probably just go with the hits if I want to listen to them.
More shite
album
Such a horny heavy rock album.
It was pretty good. Very standard rock album some tracks stood out to me some blended in with the rest . I’m not a rock fan but it was an okay listen nothing to special though for me.
Tedious scream rock
Pretty much peak Acca Dacca - dirty, bluesy rock, with a surprisingly funky (and a bit rapey), almost Zeppelinesque turn on Love Hungry Man. It’s not complicated, or sophisticated, but it gets right inside you and makes you nod your head. Rock and roll ain’t noise pollution, rock and roll ain’t gonna die!
i mean a classic, probably a comfort album for someone: everything sounds thr same, still well loved though
6.5
ac/dc are one of the bands that got me into rock, but now that im listening to this album back to back, i think it's just suitable for when im in a mood for some good ol noise, but now that my taste has developed to more than just rock, i think listening to such a loud album is a little hard for me, but still a great one.
I grew up with Razor's Edge on cassette. That is my #1 ACDC album. I am a huge fan of about 5 others. This is my 2nd favorite.
DNF - 2.8/5?? - classic for a reason - Rest of the album so far isn’t bad im just not thrilled
Uno dei migliori album del periodo migliore della migliore band di hard rock puro.
Great album. Pure rock and roll!
6,5. Um bom álbum, tem músicas gostosas de escutar, mas poucas que eu realmente escolhi salvar pra minha playlist de rock. Instrumentais e vibes legais, provavelmente foi marcante pra época.
good
this all sounded the same after 3 songs
No one sounds like AC/DC or ever will, many have tried.
It upsets me when people say we have 11 albums that all sound the same. We have 12 albums that all sound the same.” - Angus Young This is one of those albums. And yes, it sounds like AC/DC
One of my favorites.
Um clássico da humanidade. Eu acho o som deles bom, característico, único, divertido, mas mesmo assim não dá aquele spark, não sei por que... Quase parecido com Rolling Stones, dá pra entender que é bom, mas parece fraco. Mas me imagino ouvindo mais vezes essas músicas.
This record is not bad. AC/DC really took the heavy out of heavy metal. It’s big noisy somewhat juvenile arena rock. The guitar playing is good. I think I might actually like it with different vocals. As it is, it’s just okay.
When I was in seventh grade, I had many classmates who were very into AC/DC, Van Halen, Def Leppard ... etc. And while I thought some singles by the first two of those bands in particular were fun in a dumb way, the idea that you would listen to whole albums by any of them seemed ... untenable. The ensuing 40+ years have done little to change that take.
I guess this wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. But still not for me.
7/10
The career-defining album from the world's greatest bar band. AC/DC will never make any claims to being a thinking man's band, but Bon Scott's edition of the group had a sly wit to them that was completely lost by the time they did a couple of albums with Brian Johnson. Highway to Hell has easily some of their best material, even beyond the mega-hit and immortal rock radio staple that is the title track. Even the lesser singles like "Girl's Got Rhythm" have this incredibly jaunty and fun quality to them. The deeper cuts though, don't really do anything for me. One thing is for sure though: Brian Johnson's boneheaded edition of the band would never write songs with as many layers as "Night Prowler," a song that famously incited controversy when a murder suspect was quoted saying it was his favourite song by the band. That amazing closer aside, the blues power chords do wear thin on some of the lesser played songs, and Scott's voice is keening and can certainly get grating after a while, but you just have to think of it as a small intimate club performance but expanded to arena size scales. The album is also an incredibly succinct 41 minutes, and not one of the songs overstays its welcome by any stretch of the imagination. This is among the best hard rock of its era, and if AC/DC's name wasn't fully associated with the lewd old man Brian Johnson era, this would be respected a whole lot more for its immense wit and timeless rock and roll appeal. Key Tracks (besides the title:) Girls' Got Rhythm, Touch too Much, Shot Down in Flames, Night Prowler
Ok so, even though this list is full of shit, they did a pretty good job showcasing AC/DC and both of their singers by including the best records with each of them. Actually, I would argue that for Bon Scott it's between this one and Let There Be Rock, but that might be just me. Anyway, this record is one of their best, and I just prefer Bon Scott honestly. He was more interesting to me. I know that they are very repetitive but they made that work. Just look at the sales. You can't beat that. They are rocking!
Another 🐐
mittelmäßig 🙄
A fun listen but nothing of substance
Very cool gravel
respect, but not for me
As much as this guys voice is a meme, the music fucks Hard 4, light 5?????
A classic
Good album. It's AC/DC, not a big surprise if you have heard them before. Would recommend to anyone who's never heard them.
So I think this one would have always been kind of an uphill battle for me: I'm not huge on hard rock on the best of days, and from what I've heard from AC/DC, they're not exactly one of my favorites of the genre. And yeah, after a full listen this is good, but I still don't really see anything special about it, even if I do think the first and last tracks are both genuinely excellent. So yeah, good but not exactly what I'd call great and not really something I think I'll go back to very much.
In my personal opinion, it’s no Back In Black, but it’s still a damn good album. Filled with bangers. I thought the last song was called “Night Crawlers” and that maybe that was where IASIP got the idea for Frank and Charlie’s game. Sadly not the case, but I guess I can’t consider that a real disappointment.
Peak AC/DC!
I like the rebel vibe but the music was too simple
Takes you back, still good
Banger, men är så trött på AC/DC soundet
Förstår väl grejen med albumet men det är fan rätt trist alltså, lite hesa skrik och riff sen är det rätt trist. Samma sak hela albumet
🎸🎸🎸🎸
There was a time when I thought that AC/DC was basic and Neanderthalic. OK, so that hasn't changed, but I did come to realize that they make some of the best, fun rock there is. And this is basically the pinnacle. There isn't one bad song on here. And it was a joy to listen to it again this morning on my commute to work.
Heavy Blues Rock but with pop elements as well. Solos are there, but the songs are short..lyrics..comical
A for Australia
Full of bangers fr fr. I did have a go at Green Day for every song sounds the same as each other, and that's definitely true here, but I enjoy the one song that AC/DC play more x
1001 albums to hear before you drive the highway to hell 163# A most deserved break to this 1001 project on the summer vacations. Now back to work, i'll continue to listen to an album a day (or at least try). This is just a really fun and energetic well known hard rock album. The 70s, i'd say the most important decade of music development on many fronts/genres. I understand this album being here, it's cemented on the history of music as a world success even to these days I can't be still when listening to this. If someone is on his deathbed just put some of this album on and they'll get up like it wasn't anything.
I kinda enjoyed this. Not really sure why though.
Each AC/DC song is equivalent of drinking 2 pints. Title track (pints 1 and 2) i was in a great mood. By the end of track 3 (pint 6) I’d had my fill. That was a fun session but I’m ready to call it a night. Track 4… literally called ‘touch too much’. Appropriately named. Track 10. Aka Pint 20. Nobody needs this. We’re in stomach pump territory.
Same story with AC/DC, great hits, c grade filler.
7/10
Rockin’. Rollin’. Some great stuff. Some meh stuff. Some please don’t say those words in front of me again stuff. It feels wrong and dismissive to say AC/DC is formulaic, but they certainly have a pattern they do a good job with.
Good rock and roll music by good rock and roll musicians. YEEEEEAAAAAAH
I couldn’t make it through. It’s the vocals. Wow! Yow! Woooooo. It’s got this quality I don’t like that I associate with hard rock or power rock, or whatever you want to call it. Sometimes I can give those types of vocals a pass (T-Rex), but it didn’t do it for me here.
:( - title track sucks - some more interesting stuff in the middle of the album - TONS of boring guitar/vocals back and forth. The riffs nor the vocals are good enough to make this structure interesting - Walk All Over You and Touch Too Much are probably the highlights - cannot believe the audacity to have a 6-minute song in here Not unlistenable, but I doubt I’ll ever play it front to back again
It's very fun. Hard to not bop around to highway to hell in a dad rock in the background over memorial day weekend kind of way.
This is where I admit that I started this project once before and abandoned it. The first time I listened to this album all the way through was at the very beginning of that run. I still get the hype, but it's still not really my thing.
Meh.
Not a huge fan of the genre. A few songs I could get into
I want to preface this review that I just caught up from yesterday's album which was Nick Cave's "Ghosteen" which I would say is the complete opposite of this album and when that album ended and this one began, it was extreme audio whiplash. Also hilarious considering they're both Aussie bands. As for the review of this album: It fucking rocks. The weakest song is "Get it Hot" and that one is still such a fun listen. "Highway to Hell" is such a classic rock song and still - despite having heard it about a thousand times - gets me hyped up for my run, my gym session, or my night out. "Beating Around the Bush" is such a fun song and super fun to play on guitar. "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)" is also a banger and I have fond memories of my teen years playing Baseball listening to this song on the way to and from practice and PM ball games. It's one of AC/DC's best albums and embodies this era of Rock & Roll perfectly. When someone asks "name a rock song", you'll typically hear "Highway to Hell" as one of the top answers. It's rightfully on this list and made my Friday. 10/10.
Finally, a band and an album you can trust...
3.4/5
For a long time, I wrote off AC/DC as a pretty basic band. Drums and bass are about as straightforward as you can get, and the vocals (whether by Bon Scott or Brian Johnson) aren't anything that really appeals to me. But with a full listen to this album, I finally realized that the Young brothers are pretty damn fine guitarists. Great riffs, strong solos, and general top-notch work. It gets a little repetitive after a while, but they deserve more credit than I've been giving them.
its fine... its just not my thing i think :/ theres nothing wrong w it i just dont really care for the sound
AC/DC fun as hell when you don't got a bitch in your ear telling you its shit
enjoyed this album a lot more than i thought i would. the guitars absolutely carried it - their tone, the riffs, the solos are all to die for. i (perhaps quite controversially) don't like the track "highway to hell" and think it's one of the weakest on the album. when the album started with it i feared every track sounding like it but fortunately that wasn't the case - they all seemed unique to one another while still all carrying a similar mood and sound. the vocals are so unique, are a signature part of AC/DC's sound, and worked with the instrumentation really well.
Fun, fast, not too deep. It does what it sets out to do extremely well and has a very cool cover.
Aside from the title track "Walk all over you" is the only really memorable track. That one is my favourite on there. Singer is annoying at times and too many tracks sound similar, but it is overall pretty good. Better than i had expected.
Classic.
I’m not an AC/DC guy, that was more like me in high school for select songs. A whole album of these guys drones on, but I can’t deny they can rock. Mid 3
Highway to Hell the song is awesome - the rest are pretty forgettable. In Back in Black they really figured out how to make every song very clearly sexual - here they are playing in the area of sexuality in vague confusing ways. Beating Around the Bush should be such a lay-up and it's weirdly a breakup song? Where is the fucking! Also hate to say it but I think Kiss's album from 3 years earlier did this same style a little better.
3/5 Favorite Song: Night Prowler
Exciting. Classic. Don't like the word 'hell'
Just not into them
Great hard rock album, the title track being absolutely iconic.
Childhood nostalgia lol
the title song makes it, the rest of it is (for me) pretty generic
classic classic
Not my tang
not for me
- So, Rudd tried to get his personal assistant/security guard and their daughter murdered. Yeah, not going to listen to music from someone who tries to murder people. - The songs are forgettable and nothing really catches my interest. Some okay guitar riffs, I guess, but it's all very expected. It all just feels flat and like the vocals are way in the back, which makes it feel muffled. Everything kind of feels like it's behind a blanket of fog. - The lyrics are on the purile and/or sexist side (when you can understand them).
He escuchado algo de esta banda, de este album la mas conocida "highway to hell" de resto es primer vez que oigo el album Girls got rhythm es muy buena 7/10 en total perdon si no es buena mi calificacion, es primera vez haciendo esto
Banger!
i want to join parties that has this kind of music so bad.
Now that's an album deserving its spot here: The first guitar notes of these album are among the most famous music of the past 50 or so years. These guys were outrageously silly with their lyrics, their aesthetic, the album cover, the "devilish" songs and all of that. But damn, they did know how to write good bluesy/rocky/metal music. The production level is top notch: the amazing screaming voice, the chourus and the music all play along perfectly. This is what electric guitars were created for, to be honest. This genre is the natural evolution of blues, and I'm all for it. Of course the lyrics, and the whole silly persona, are not a s interesting and unique as they were back in the 70s, but we can give em a pass: this music won't get old, it's growing better with each passing day, and it won't stop influencing artists for the foreseeable future. Great listening, first time I sit down and give a whole AC DC album a try, it was absolutely worth it.
Yeah very rocky that!
Not what I would normally listen to but have been familiar with this work since its release (!). Some classic tracks on here (lyrics through the 1970’s filter) and they were pretty good at their thing. 4
I’m getting bored of albums on this list where there’s one good recognisable song and all the deep cuts are garbage
I really don't like this band.
Throwback! What a fun little treat!
(4/7) pretty much what I expected
Yeah really good album, maybe the best AC/DC album?
Not bad....not bad at all. 9.5/10
3.9
shut yo trap
This is pretty boring stuff isn't it? No real oompf behind the riffs.
I ranked this one just under Back in Black. I know the “real” AC/DC fans prefer Bon Scott to Brian Johnson, and I do too. Bon is more mischievous and maniacal than Johnson’s one note leather-lung belting. The band does sound a bit more lowdown here than the mega production of Back in Black. But… After the terrific pair of songs to open the album, I couldn’t find a song that fully enthralled me. “Walk Over You” and “Talk Too Much” were both marred by choruses that sounded like bad 1980s metal as the group chanted in anthemic style. “Night Prowler” showed the band’s limitations as they cannot come up with the lyrics, a riff nor a dramatic arrangement to pull off this ode to “Midnight Rambler.” “Shot Down in Flames” and “If You Want Blood” come close to top notch songs. Both take a bit to get going, but include enough whiplash thrash to offer some head-banging fun. These two, and “The Girl’s Got Rhythm" lend support to the pro-Bon Scott camp as they have the lean fire that the band never recaptured after his death. Only a few other bands can deliver the pure jolt of AC/DC. When they find that innate sense of the pocket, they take you on quite a ride. When they lack that jolt, they cannot tap into other ways to pull songs from mediocrity. Cut by cut this is an uneven record, not a classic.
Good for Dad rock
No doubt about it, a rock classic.
Cheesy as shit. First three songs are enough for me. Drumming is alright though
AC/DC - highway to hell Good fun in a meat n potatoes bluesy pub rock way. Lyrics were mostly about shagging, or not getting shagged. Enjoyed it but won’t be back. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Yeah H2H and BinB are the standouts the rest are average
The soundtrack for all teenage boys, and some girls, in the 80s. The first album with Brian Johnson replacing Bonn Scott and the best. Hard Rock.
This album certainly sent me to hell, in a "I am being eternally punished" way.
Long live Bon Scott!
ROWDYY!! Felt blessed to bathe in the rhythms of this invigorating, ruthless record- reminded me of a familiar childhood comfort of family night-outs through its raucous, knockabout spirit and rhapsodic hold. 4 stars ✌️ignited my soul. in criticism it finds itself repetitive (and superficial at its worst)
Pretty good, but I just listened to "Back in Black" a couple days ago and I liked that one better. (Admittedly, that might be just because I listened to it first and this one felt pretty similar to it, but oh well, so be it.) It got four stars, so this one gets three.
pretty good
On the plus side, this album has a good energetic feel to it. On the minus side, it's all a bit samey, the lyrics are pretty crass, and the whole thing is a bit cliched.
Fine, I like the hits, but this largely sounds the same to all other rock of this time
May be better than back in black but I swear half of these are on BinB
I am sure all the parents loved seeing a rock star as a devil on the album cover
5/5
I have never really listened to AC/DC besides to Back in Black for a short period as a teenager. Thirty years later, I wouldn't expect I could bear such a plain and quintessential rock. Surprisingly enough, I did and actually enjoyed it (although this album is not quite as catchy as Back in Black).
All ten songs sound exactly like *Highway to Hell*.
Great classic rock
Meh. It’s like one 42-minute long song.
Ok it not that I didn't enjoy this, it's just... So repetitive. It's just highway to hell over and over again. That's a great song, so it can take you pretty far, but .. idk. I got kind of bored.
AC/DC is a killer band to me, with some real bangers to their name. But if it wasn’t for ‘Highway To Hell’, this album wouldn’t have caught an eye. Everything about the production of this album is good though. It sounds great, guitar is on point, and Brian’s singing is unique and great. But the songs sounds very much the same, and you recognize some reoccurring elements and stems in them. And they’re not particularly catchy always, sadly. Not AC/DCs strongest record.
The crunchy guitar sound and great intro of Highway to Hell promises you a great rock album – and for the first song it actually delivers. Highway to Hell is such crazy simple fun. The rest of the album failed to deliver and it quickly turned to generic rock. It’s too bad that the album failed to deliver, I was so hyped after the first track and even more so after giving Back to Black a 5 star revie. This one lands on a 3 star.
I really dont like acdc but this is a good album
I owned that one on vinyl and later on CD. Scott's voice was, for me, essential for AC/DC, as was Young's guitarwork. It took me a long time to accept Johnson. But as there was this album, I didn't need another one.
Pretty good, the opening track a banger.
Amazing album. I feel it’s fairly ubiquitous between tv, movies, sporting events, bars, radio etc. It is easy to forget how monumental and ground breaking this was. Think I have to give it at least a 4.5 so a 5 it is, as I continue to round up and give benefit of the doubt.
A lot of these hard rock bands have their one iconic song on an album, which they put first, and then just a long series of diminishing returns, as they do similar, but less good songs. This is a cracking example. No-one can deny that the title track absolutely slaps, but for the rest of it you're left with a singer who sounds like he's really straining to reach any semblance of melody, guitars that basically do the same tricks and flicks over and over again, and very little of interest. I think this is quite a step down from Back in Black to be honest.
Gets really fucking old after a while. It’s fun initially but after a while all the songs just start to blend together. Title track is pretty good though, that’s why it’s not a one star.
3/5. It's a classic for a reason. They made the same album many, many times but they got it the most right on either this or Dirty Deeds. Bon is obviously much more tolerable and fun vocally. When I was about 10 I dropped my walkman into Lake Powell which had my dad's cassette copy of this in it. And thinking back to that, this was a 5/5 when I was 10 years old.
Album that suffers from the "you listened to one song, you listened to them all" syndrome. Enjoyable but anonymous, it's 2.5 stars at best.
A rock classic indeed, only overshadowed by the masterpiece of Back in Black. But there’s something brilliantly seedy about HTH (& the Bon Scott albums).
I mean just a little generic, am i right?
sorry to say because this is the Dad Rock WebsiteTM but ac/dc, metalica and all of those are completely indistinguishable to me. a lot of the songs sound the same and while i guess theyre technically impressive they do not interest me in the slightest