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Release date: 06-12-2009 (originally released in 1979)
2009 issue UK limited edition 9-track digitally remastered LP pressed on 180gram Vinyl and features the singles 'Highway To Hell', 'Girl's Got Rhythm', 'Touch Too Much' & 'Night Prowler', sealed picture sleeve
Tracks: 01. Highway To Hell 02. Girl's Got Rhythm 03. Touch Too Much 04. Beating Around The Bush 05. Shot Down In Flames 06. Get It Hot 07. If You Want Blood (You've Got It) 08. Love Hungry Man 09. Night Prowler
Given that Bon Scott's hard-partying, sex-booze-and-brawls lifestyle tragically caught up with him some six months after Highway to Hell was released, the album-opening title track — one of hard rock's all-time classics — now takes on an eerie resonance. It's not just a snotty, nihilistic party anthem, but a moment of unrepentant self-recognition from a rowdy ruffian who, for better or worse, exulted in what he was. The rest of the songs on Highway to Hell don't lend themselves to any deep readings, but of course, that's not the point.
Highway to Hell distills all the virtues of AC/DC's signature minimalism — loud, simple, pounding riffs, and grooving backbeats — into the tightest batch of songs the group had written to that point, barreling along at a take-no-prisoners rate and producing a handful of gems along the way. Highway to Hell is not only a fitting epitaph for Scott, it's also a classic rock & roll album and quite possibly the best guitar-driven record in history.
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