AC/DC - Highway To Hell

Released 1979

Track listing

1.	"Highway to Hell"	3:29
2.	"Girls Got Rhythm"	3:24
3.	"Walk All Over You"	5:11
4.	"Touch Too Much"	4:28
5.	"Beating Around the Bush"	3:57

6.	"Shot Down in Flames"	3:23
7.	"Get It Hot"	2:35
8.	"If You Want Blood (You've Got It)"	4:38
9.	"Love Hungry Man"	4:18
10.	"Night Prowler"	6:18

This album will undoubtedly go down as a classic rock album. It is the last album of the Bon Scott era and is in my opinion the best of the lot. The track listing is littered with tracks which have become classic AC/DC let alone classic rock/metal tracks. The album opens with the title track. From opening chords it grabs you and you are drawn along on the journey towards 'party time'.  The tempo picks up with the next track. Girls Got Rhythm just makes you want to get up and move. You then change down a gear with Walk All Over You. Then we have what is for me the best track on the album. Touch Too Much. It has a bluesy feel and the lyrics help convey the scene. "It was one of those nights when you turn out the lights and everything comes into view". This song oozes sex. It is then followed by the weakest track on the album. Beating Around The Bush is not a particularly great song. But then you get another classic with Shot Down In Flames. They keep the temperature theme going with Get It Hot. Then along comes another classic. If You Want Blood (You've Got It). This is a high octane track. We then move into Love Hungry Man. But the album finishes off with a track which caused controversy in America (but what doesn't). If this had been Mick Jagger and Keith Richards singing people would have said that this was fantastic. The song does have a feel of Midnight Rambler by The Rolling Stones.

This is a well put together album and is rightly a classic and don't shout it too loudly is arguably as good as the album that followed it and which is the 3rd bestselling album in history. How good could this line up have become is an unanswerable question but this album is a fitting epitaph to a great singer.

Recommended track - Touch Too Much

(c) Jonathan Kirton