Product Description
Super Rare Actual 1979 Japanese First Pressing Of The Titanic Seventh AC/DC LP! Vinyl & Cover Very Well Cared For And Preserved For Over 43 Years!! Includes Insert With Lyrics In English & Japanese.
AC/DC At Their Peak ~ The Final Album With Bon Scott Features “Highway To Hell”, “Girls Got Rhythm”, “Touch Too Much”, “If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)”, “Night Prowler” & More.
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Couple of very light surface marks on Side 1, which do not affect play at all. Sounds and plays NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Some foxing on back, creased corner.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Top condition Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Highway To Hell
Girls Got Rhythm
Walk All Over You
Touch Too Much
Beating Around The Bush
Side 2:
Shot Down In Flames
Get It Hot
If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)
Love Hungry Man
Night Prowler
AMG –
Highway to Hell is a last testament to Bon Scott, going to go out in a blaze of glory! Filtered through Mutt Langes mixing board, AC/DC has never sounded so enormous! Of course, Highway to Hell is the final album AC/DC recorded with Bon Scott, the lead singer who provided the group with a fair share of its signature sleaze. Just months after its release, Scott literally partied himself to death (the official cause cited as acute alcohol poisoning) after a night of drinking, a rock & roll fatality that took no imagination to predict. In light of his passing, it's hard not to see Highway to Hell as a last testament of sorts, being that it was his last work and all, and if Scott was going to go out in a blaze of glory, this certainly was the way to do it. This is a veritable rogue's gallery of deviance, from cheerfully clumsy sex talk and drinking anthems to general outlandish behavior. It's tempting to say that Scott might have been prescient about his end -- or to see the title track as ominous in the wake of his death -- trying to spill it all out on paper, but it's more accurate to say that the ride had just gotten very fast and very wild for AC/DC, and he was simply flying high. After all, it wasn't just Scott who reached a new peak on Highway to Hell; so did the Young brothers, crafting their monster riffs into full-fledged, undeniable songs. This is their best set of songs yet, from the incessant, intoxicating boogie of "Girls Got Rhythm" to "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)." Some of the credit should also go to Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who gives the album a precision and magnitude that the Vanda & Young LPs lacked in their grimy charm. Filtered through Mutt's mixing board, AC/DC has never sounded so enormous, and they've never had such great songs, and they had never delivered an album as singularly bone-crunching or classic as this until now.