For Those About to Rock We Salute You by AC DC which includes songs like Let's Get It Up and Inject The Venom

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For Those About to Rock We Salute You

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Artist: AC/DC
Publisher: Atlantic / Wea
Release Date: July 1994
UPC: 075679241221

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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

Tracks:
For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
Put The Finger On You
Let's Get It Up
Inject The Venom
Snowballed
Evol Walks
C.O.D.
Breaking The Rules
Night Of The Long Knives
Spellbound

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for those about to rock... pick up one of their earlier efforts

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AC/DC was either really burnt out from the success of Back in Black, surprised by the success, or just used up all their ideas for that album, because this follow-up album is lackluster in comparison.

The title song, with its loud, fierce guitar riff and soaring chorus is about the only worthwhile moment on the entire disc. The rest of the songs point to the rapid downward decrease in songwriting quality the band would find themselves in for the rest of the 80's decade. There's too many uninspiring moments on this album for me to really recommend a purchase. The last three or four songs don't sound any different from each other, and none of them unfortunately grab my interest in any way.

The band wasn't washed-up already though, since they would eventually come back hard and heavy in the early 90's and remind everyone just why they are the very best of all the simple hard rock bands that were ever formed. For a while though, they would just release one average album after another with some success along the way

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It's been 25 years and this album has still one of the best drums sound than even some modern recordings.

One of my favorite AC/DC albums (Brian Johnson era)

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"For those about to Rock" might not be a fan favorite (such as Back in Black) but I think it acutally a better album. I loved "Back in Black" when I first heard it, but it I grew bored of it over time. Now I am only basing this comparison on the fact that I played "Back in Black" to death, yet I have had this album and back in black for the same time, and I have not grown tired of this. I love the title track, its got Heavy Metal written all over it. The whole album has a little less of a rock flavor to it, and it seems a bit more raw then "Back in Black" If you are a die-hard AC/DC fan, you probely all ready have this in your collection. I am not sure if some fans love it as much as I do, but to all the fans who are just starting to discover AC/DC (and I am sure that you started with "Black in Black") I recommend this album. Once again, its a bit of a change from "Back in Black" (its more on the lines of the under-rated but very good "Flick of The Switch") Hopefully you will love the sheer power and energy (and heaviness) of the album as much as I did.

Not Their Finest Moment (3.5 stars, really)

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While not nearly as strong as its immediate predecessor, 1980's Back in Black, AC/DC's For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) is still a fully enjoyable bit of rock n' roll. Their second album with Brian Johnson on vocals opens with what has become a band classic, the title track "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)." While far from their hardest rockin' track, this song serves to set a certain mood, as songs about rock n' roll often do (think Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock" or any of the other AC/DC songs about rock). This leads into two tracks that seem remarkably similar to one another, "Put the Finger on You" and "Let's Get It Up." While not bad, they're generally unremarkable and some of the first true "filler" of AC/DC's storied career. But, the band does hammer back with the powerful "Inject the Venom," which plays on the back-and-forth of a repeated riff and Brian's screeching vocals, and gets back to quality AC/DC. "Snowballed" strikes me as being fairly typical Brian era AC/DC, while "Evil Walks," with its bluesier feel, wouldn't have been out of place on Back in Black. "Breaking the Rules" is one that I've always liked. Perhaps others would find it to be a weakness, but I find appealing the guitar melodies, so it's always stood out in my mind.

One issue of note, regarding this album, is that it's significantly less bluesy than their prior efforts, which is a trend that seems to be common during the Brian Johnson era. The songs are more powerful, arena style rock, rather than the bluesy, dirty rock n' roll with which Bon Scott worked his magic. And, in many instances ("Let's Get It Up") the music seems simple to a fault. AC/DC has always been a simple band. They play rock n' roll, and what you see is what you get. But they also have always rocked hard enough to overcome that simplicity and to be thoroughly entertaining.

It's a good album, but not one of their greats.

Evil Walks

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This is a great album! True it didn't sell like Back In Black, but, no other album really has.. You gotta love "Put the Finger On You", "Evil Walks", "C.O.D.", "Inject the Venom", "Snowballed" and you can't forget the title track which is one of the true great rock songs of all time!!! And a true rock and roll anthem!!! This is what rock and roll is all about!!! If you like AC/DC, you have to buy this album!!! Long Live AC/DC!!!