HIGH VOLTAGE (1976)
Key Tracks: "T.N.T.," "She's Got Balls"
Quick Take: Perhaps AC/DC's most crucial innovation is the way their lyrics make plain the boys' locker room conception of sexuality that had previously bubbled just under the surface of most heavy-duty rock. Shamelessly sexist panderers or refreshingly frank entertainers? AC/DC fits both descriptions, but none of it would matter if guitarist Angus Young wasn't such a gargantuan...

There is a full moon out here tonight, and it belongs to Angus Young, the twenty-one-year-old guitarist for Australian jock-rockers AC/DC. While his older brother and rhythm guitarist Malcolm, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd hammer away on a locomotive number called "Bad Boy Boogie" for 6100 raving fans in the barnlike Milwaukee Auditorium, the diminutive Young — dressed in a green-velvet school uniform complete with blazer, shorts and beanie — puts his guitar down after...