Highway to Hell cover

Highway to Hell

Released

On their breakthrough sixth album — their last with frontman Bon Scott, who would die after its release, and the first to have the same track listing in every market — AC/DC worked with producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange, and as a result their music wasn’t so much polished as honed to a razor’s edge. They try a few new tricks: “Girls Got Rhythm” is almost funky, and it’s astonishing that the almost Foreigner-esque “Touch Too Much” wasn’t a single. But the title track and “If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)” are AC/DC classics that hit as hard as anything in their catalog, and the chilling album closer, “Night Prowler,” lets the darkness at the heart of many of Scott’s songs expand like a black rose.

Phil Freeman

Recommended by

Suggestions
Sports cover

Sports

Huey Lewis & The News
Closer to Home cover

Closer to Home

Grand Funk Railroad
Ted Nugent cover

Ted Nugent

Ted Nugent
Thunderbitch cover

Thunderbitch

Thunderbitch
Jaime cover

Jaime

Brittany Howard
Pump cover

Pump

Aerosmith
Keep It Hid cover

Keep It Hid

Dan Auerbach
Mott cover

Mott

Mott the Hoople
Carry Fire cover

Carry Fire

Robert Plant