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''High Voltage'' is the first internationally released studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It contains tracks from their first two previous Australia-only issued albums, ''High Voltage'' and ''T.N.T.'' (both from 1975). Originally released internationally on 30 April 1976 on Atlantic Records and in the US on 14 May 1976, this edition of ''High Voltage'' has proven popular, selling three million units in the US alone. However, initially the album was panned by some critics upon its release, including a review by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's Billy Altman that called it an "all-time low" for the hard rock genre. It was re-released in 2003 as part of the ''AC/DC Remasters'' series. ==Background== In December 1976, Atlantic Records' UK head Phil Carson signed AC/DC to a worldwide deal. The group's first two albums, ''High Voltage'' and the harder driving ''T.N.T.'', had been hits in their native Australia - the single "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" peaked at #5 - and now plans were made for the band to tour England in 1976. The group had already recorded their next single "Jailbreak" (for which they had shot a music video) and had already begun recording their third LP ''Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap'' when, in April 1976, they flew out on their first British tour. The international release only included two tracks from the Australian ''High Voltage'' release - "She's Got Balls" and "Little Lover" - with the rest of the songs taken from the ''T.N.T.''. The band arrived in the UK in the midst of the fledgling punk movement, spearheaded by bands like the Sex Pistols and the Damned. AC/DC was never really part of the movement, but got misidentified as such by some observers, as guitarist Angus Young recalled to ''Guitar Worlds Alan Di Perna in 1993: :At that time...we were giving punk music a good name. Because that was the word they used to describe us - punk band. They'd get the wrong idea. We weren't punk, but they'd put us on the same bill as punk bands. And they sure got a shock when they started spitting at us and we spat back. We were never ones for getting slumped under a tag or filed under A, B, or C. We started as a rock and roll band. That's what we play - what we do best. We never claimed to be anything else. In 2010 Malcolm Young concurred, telling ''Mojos Phil Alexander, "Punk rock was just a fashion...It didn't change the music; it changed the fashion, and that's basically all it is." In a 1977 interview with ABC's ''Countdown'', Bon Scott insisted, "We're pulling bigger crowds than they are. I mean, we've got our following here. It's not new wave, it's not punk, it's just people who like our band. We honestly thought that the punk and the new wave thing might spoil it a bit for us but it hasn't at all. It was a big fad, just like anything else, a big fad for a while...The main thing about it is it gave rock music a real kick in the guts." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「High Voltage (1976 album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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