The songs are great, but the reason for this album...
ATLANTIC did a lot of damage to AC/DC catalogue around the world. This 74 JAILBREAK is one of them. Released in 1984, it features only five songs, being as follows: JAILBREAK was released originally in the Australian version of DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP, back in 1976 !!! YOU AIN'T GOT A HOLD ON ME was release originally in the Australian album HIGH VOLTAGE, the first full lenght album by AC/DC. In America and Europe, the albuns HIGH VOLTAGE and TNT were merged in one called HIGH VOLTAGE. The result is that some songs went out, of course. Well, enough for a while ... The fact is that the five songs portrayed here features Bon Scott, and that's what matters !!!
Jailbreak
I've heard a lot of complaints over the years about the fact that this album only has five songs, but it still remains among the elite AC/DC albums. For that matter, it is one of the best hard rock albums of all time. From the opening of Jailbreak to the rocking blues cover, Baby Please Don't Go, Bon and Angus show why the band went on to be rock and roll legends. In a time when cds have one or two radio hits and the rest of the cd is filler, I will gladly take these five rock and roll classics.
Bel cd ma potevano mettere anche le canzoni australiane
Questo è stato il secondo cd della mia collezione. Anche se per un ragazzo di 15 anni come me potrebbe essere un pò noioso lo stile anni 70, io me ne fotto e lo ascolto lo stesso, va bene?! Passiamo al giudizio delle canzoni:1) Jailbreak: Si narra che Bon svenisse in continuazione durante la registrazione di questa canzone: si può sentire che ingurgita whiskey tra un verso e l' altro! Pieno stile AC/DC. A
2) You ain't got a hold on me: Canzone che mostra il carattere capriccioso di Bon; ritornello stupendo, che rende questa canzone un' A+
3) Show business: non sono mai andato matto per il rock'n'roll classico perchè è troppo scontato. B-
4) soul stripper: I solisti di questa canzone spaccano il culo in tre!!! Malcolm è un ottimo chitarrista solista ( in questo cd, infatti, tranne che in Jailbreak, i solisti li fa lui, lo sapevate?) bella canzone, che pecca un pò nel ritornello: A
5) Baby, please don't go: la miglior canzone del Cd, con la caratteristica di avere un ritmo allo stesso tempo frenetico ed orecchibile. TRoppo forte quando Bon urla: "I want SOFFER, SOFFER"e Malcolm che imita le linee vocali di Bon con dei mini solisti! A+
What a JOKE
5 songs? This is completely ridiculous. I don't care if they were the 5 greatest songs ever recorded, it's still a big rip off. Shame on you, Angus.
Absurd !
To sell only five songs for almost the same price of whole album is the typical example of greedy decisions made by a record company. It's absurd, even being AC/DC, my favourite band.
THere are five songs here: four from their first album, released only in Australia back in 1974, called "HIGH VOLTAGE", and one from the Australian version of "DIrty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap", the master piece track called "Jailbreak". Why on Earth, (back in 1981, when Atlantic finally released "Dirty Deeds" in the US) they chose to take "Jailbreak" out from the album and replace it is beyond my compreension....
Well, you got my point... this album, altough the five songs are very good, makes no sense at all. IT was born as a greedy decision by Atlantic, nothing more than that.
