For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
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 they sound. For Those About To Rock… is a record Beavis & Butthead would describe as “cool”–and, as usual, they’d be right.–Andrew Mueller
Customer Review: Power, class, style….another classic album
This is one hell of an album. Different to Back In Black in that the songs, whilst having big choruses, were not necessarily radio-friendly as much as tunes like You Shook Me All Night long or even Back In Black itself. The band went for an enormous production, again via Mutt Lange, but although it’s a huge sound, it’s not lacking in character or over-produced. The songs are interesting, unique in places, diverse, and among the most inspired the band have come up with. A real hard-rock album, a long way apart from something like Powerage, yet still with the band’s hallmark all over it. Brian Johnson at his peak was an awesome, one-off vocalist (still sounding like no-one else and doing a decent job today by the way), and although he was perhaps enduring slight vocal chord nodules around this time, his performance on this record is pretty stunning from start to finish. Angus’ solos were drenched with the usual superb, wide vibrato and flowing blues runs, and the whole thing hasn’t aged at all in the last 25 years. In my opinion, AC/DC made 6 classic albums in a row: Powerage, If You Want Blood, Highway to Hell, Back In Black, For Those About To Rock and Flick of the Switch. An amazing band.
Customer Review: Very good
We all know about the title track. I love the whole album. Full of great riffs and great solo’s. The whole band is up to scratch here and it is a worthy follower of back in black.
Best track-For those about to rock
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