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- Artist: AC/DC
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- Release Date: 1979 08
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
Review
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, dying of 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. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Highway to Hell | Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young | AC/DC | (3:28) |
| Girls Got Rhythm | Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young | AC/DC | (3:23) |
| Walk All Over You | Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young | AC/DC | (5:10) |
| Touch Too Much | Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young | AC/DC | (4:26) |
| Beating Around the Bush | Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young | AC/DC | (3:55) |
| Shot Down in Flames | Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young | AC/DC | (3:22) |
| Get It Hot | Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young | AC/DC | (2:34) |
| If You Want Blood (You've Got It) | Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young | AC/DC | (4:36) |
| Love Hungry Man | Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young | AC/DC | (4:17) |
| Night Prowler | Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young | AC/DC | (6:27) |
