AC/DC - For Those About To Rock We Salute You (1981) - Vinyl

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For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) (referred to as For Those About to Rock on its cover) is the eighth studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. 
It was released on 20 November 1981 in the United States, 27 November 1981 in the United Kingdom and 7 December 1981 in Australia.

The album is a follow-up to their highly successful album Back in Black. For Those About to Rock has sold over four million copies in the US. It would be AC/DC's first and only No. 1 album in the U.S. until the release of Black Ice in October 2008. 
In their original 1981 review, Rolling Stone magazine declared it to be their best album. In Australia, the album peaked at No. 3 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart.
The album, recorded in Paris, was the third and final AC/DC collaboration with producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange.

AC/DC are the real thing, perhaps the purest major practitioners of hot and snotty rock since Led Zeppelin lumbered off the boards. 
Other groups, from Van Halen to REO Speedwagon, may base their music on similar elements, but they inevitably emerge from the studio sounding cleaned up and rather too eager for AOR airplay. 
AC/DC, from the start, have always left the rough edges in. 
The rough edges are the point, much as they were part of the point of, say, Little Richard in the Fifties or the Rolling Stones in the mid-Sixties.
Until recently, this bareknuckles approach has tended to obscure the fact that, beneath all those enormous guitar riffs and gut-wrangling rhythms. 
AC/DC is an unusually expert songwriting band. 
This became particularly apparent on last year’s Back in Black, the first LP on which the late Bon Scott, the group’s semilegendary lead singer, was replaced by the more expressive Brian Johnson. 

On For Those About to Rock We Salute You, AC/DC’s best album, the case for the band’s talents is finally made with undeniable force and clarity. 
You want anthems? 
Here, they abound, from the title track’s avalanche attack — complete with booming cannonades, of course — to “Night of the Long Knives,” a rousing singalong reminiscent of the classic mid-Sixties Anglo-pop tradition. 

All ten tunes are aimed straight at the group’s testosterone-plagued audience, but the music and lyrics transcend mere calculation. 
True, in “Put the Finger on You,” the helplessly horny protagonist’s sexual member seems to have a life of its own (“I can’t control it, can’t even hold it … I put it right on you”), but “C.O.D.” takes a more wizened look at the consequences of such inchoate lust (“It’s the curse of love”). 

This marginally broader lyrical outlook may again be attributable to Brian Johnson, who writes the songs with band-leader-guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young. 
Johnson’s relatively wide ranging tastes are also apparent in the nicely nasty “Inject the Venom,” in which he manages, rather charmingly, to sound like Lou Rawls with a beer gut.


Side A
A1.  For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) - 5:43 
A2.  Put the Finger on You - 3:25 
A3.  Let's Get It Up - 3:53 
A4.  Inject the Venom - 3:31 
A5.  Snowballed - 3:23 

Side B
B1.  Evil Walks - 4:23 
B2.  C.O.D. - 3:19 
B3.  Breaking the Rules - 4:23 
B4.  Night of the Long Knives - 3:25 
B5.  Spellbound - 4:28 

All tracks are written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Brian Johnson


AC/DC
Production
  • Robert John "Mutt" Lange – production
  • Mark Dearnley – recording engineer
  • Dave Thoener – mixing engineer
  • Andy Rose, Mark Haliday & Nigel Green – assistant engineers
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering at MasteRdisk (1981)
Notes
Released: 20 November 1981
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Hard rock
Length:  40:10 
Label:  Atlantic Records


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