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Highway To Hell

AC/DC

Atlantic Records, 1979

REVIEW BY: Jason Warburg

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 12/14/2005

I love this album.

This qualifies as semi-news since I am a 43-year-old father ofthree who, if a Highway To Hell-era Bon Scott were to ring the bell to pickup my 16-year-old daughter, would answer the door with bared teethand a Louisville Slugger.

But, see, I love this album.

Part of the reason is, it's lived two lives with me. Onehappened when the album first came out in 1979. I was, well, 16 atthe time, bowing down before guitar-brandishing greats like VanHalen and Montrose, and the Young brothers struck me as among thehigh priests of the great rock riff. (Clearly, Jack " School Of Rock" Black agrees…) The second timearound, repurchasing a bunch of old favorites on CD in my late 30s,was no less joyful an experience.