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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Atlantic / Wea
Salesrank: 93315
Released: July 5, 1994 |
| Our Price: $6.59 |
| Used Price: $3.33 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You Track Listing:
1. For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
2. I Put the Finger on You
3. Let's Get It Up
4. Inject the Venom
5. Snowballed
6. Evil Walks
7. C.O.D.
8. Breaking the Rules
9. Night of the Long Knives
10. Spellbound
Editorial Review:
Full Title - For Those About To Rock We Salute You. 2003 remastered reissue of 1981 album. Packaged in a digipak with 16 page color booklet containing all original album art, many unpublished photos, classic memorabilia and liner notes. Epic.
Description of For Those About to Rock We Salute You:
Lesser bands might have been put off their stride by the death of their lead singer, but not AC/DC. No sooner had Bon Scott met his whiskey-sodden end in 1980 than AC/DC recruited a new singer, Brian Johnson--who sounded almost exactly like Scott--and released, in Back in Black, the biggest-selling album of their career. For Those About to Rock...We Salute You is a suitably triumphant follow-up. The cannon-punctuated title track--the most auspicious marriage of music and artillery since Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture"--still provides a spectacular finale to AC/DC concerts. For Those About to Rock also confirmed that Johnson's lyrical preoccupations were broadly congruent with those of his predecessor: "Let's Get It Up" and "Inject the Venom" are as subtle as their titles sound. This is a record Beavis and Butthead would describe as "cool"--and, as usual, they'd be right. --Andrew Mueller
For Those About to Rock We Salute You Reviews:
AC/DC's Back in Black follow-up is arguably best album with Brian Johnson 
2009-10-29 - AC/DC's eighth album (outside Australia) For Those About to Rock We Salute You was released in November of 1981.
Following the mammoth success of 1980's Back in Black, the pressure was on ACDC (by then comprised of singer Brian Johnson, rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young, his wild eyed younger brother lead guitarist Angus Young, bass player Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd) to create an album that rivaled its predecessor. Between the release of Back in Black and For Those About to Rock, Atlantic Records here in the US released Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (after rejecting its US release a few years earlier) and quickly reaching #3 in the US whilst AC/DC collaborated once more with wunderkind producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange whom would gain fame producing Def Leppard, The Cars, Foreigner, Bryan Adams and his ex-wife Shania Twain to produce an album which IMHO trumps Back in Black as I found out when I first got this on cassette tape in July of 1985 (and have upgraded numerous times over the years).
We begin things with the title cut which is one the band's best tracks. This explosive track is just that, an explosive rocker (complete with cannons) and sadly is the only one to be played on the radio to this day from this album. Next is another rocker "Put the Finger On You" which did get some MTV play back in the 1980s when it still meant Music Television. We follow with the album's single "Let's Get it Up" which unfortunately stiffed on pop charts but did well on rock radio and on MTV back in the day. Next is "Inject the Venom" which is a stellar rock number. We closed side one with "Snowballed" which is a stellar fast paced rocker.
We begin side two with the classic "Evil Walks" with a killer intro which turns into a great mid-tempo rocker. We follow with "C.O.D" (stands for Care Of Devil) and some cry is a re-make of "You Shook Me All Night Long" but is a great song with superb riff. "Breaking The Rules" follows and is another great track which saw the band play some rather unusual chords (for AC/DC) in the verses with superb lead guitar motifs by Angus. "Night Of The Long Knives" follows and is another killer track. We close with the rocking "Spellbound" which is a great closing track.
For Those About to Rock We Salute You proved AC/DC weren't going to be a "flash in the pan" unlike many Australian rock bands (though that place did produce quite a few great bands) and For Those About to Rock became AC/DC's first album to reach #1 in the US during the Christmas holiday season and to date has sold four million copies in the US alone.
Recommended!
1981 AC/DC. 
2009-10-14 - A pretty good follow-up record, to the hugely successful Back in Black record, which was the bands return, after the death of singer Bon Scott.
ACDC CD
2009-10-14 - I bought this CD for a gift, so cannot tell you what I think, but I do like this group, so I'm sure it will be a another good one.
I Salute You!
2009-09-26 - After "Back in Black" AC/DC released their next album "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)". It is often underrated because it has no many great hits like "Back in Black" had. This album is one of the two AC/DC albums I listened to when I was a child. (The other one was "Flick of the Switch"). I have to say I like this one more than it. There's the title track in which there's great voices of shooting with a canoon. Also "Inject the Venom", "I Put the Finger on You", and "Night of the Long Knives" are the tracks I used to like - and I still like them. But what is it with "Snowballed". Is that a track about snow fight. When someone has thrown many snow balls to you, you have been "snowballed". That's a strange track. The only bad tracks in this album: "Breaking the Rules" and "Spellbound" are soft and slow for AC/DC tracks. I don't like those tracks. Well, still a great album.
Stars: Inject the Venom, I Put the Finger on You, For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
Creative and solid riffs
2009-09-11 - Most of the songs on this album follow what I call 'the perfect AC/DC song formula" That formula is as follows;
First - a foundation is established....usually by Angus' crunchy guitar coming out of the right speaker. Most often, it's a clever, creative, riff. Then, one of several things happen next. Usually Malcolm's guitair starts ripping along in unison out of the left speaker while, simultaneously, the drums and bass commence like a rhythmic metronome. Now that all this is going on...our performers have established the foundation to which Brian begins his lyrics. This all, of course, is eventually followed by a chorus or two with Angus doing his solo afterwards, followed by the songs conclusion.
Most of the songs on this album follow this very successful formula. The tunes just seem to "make sense"....meaning it's not just meaningless sounding power chords or fast-burning guitar...but good, solid music created by talented musicians. After Fly on the Wall....to me, alot of the band's later albums seem to be groping for an idea. Like that potent intangible of creativity was waning or at least diluted. But, with FTATR, the creativity is strong and on display.
The reason I give the album 4 stars are....there is one or two filler songs....on side 2. Also, do they have to sing so much about evil and the devil? I mean, I know this band has a certain image to maintain...but can't we occaisionally get a little deeper than that? I mean, everyone who enjoys hard rock isn't a devil-worshipper. Don't get me wrong...all songs aren't about this....but a few of the catchier ones have this theme and it bothers me a little bit. All in all these are minor quips and I do get listening pleasure from this very good album.
