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| For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) | 
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| Artist: Ac/dc
Label: Columbia
Category: Music
List Price: £9.99
Buy Used: £4.07
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 385
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
EAN: 5099751076629
ASIN: B00008AJL9
Release Date: May 5, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) | | • | Put The Finger On You | | • | Let's Get It Up | | • | Inject The Venom | | • | Snowballed | | • | Evil Walks | | • | COD | | • | Breaking The Rules | | • | Night Of The Long Knives | | • | Spellbound |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Brilliant, but not their best. December 23, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
First off I'd like to point out that FTATR would be a five star review if it was compared only to the majority of the dross presently pumped out. The problem is that it can only be compared to Back in Black given that they were produced so close together and have in many ways a similar sound. And there is the slight problem - Back in Black is a "once in a lifetime" album and as I can only give five stars then FTATR must have less. It's still a great record though and it along with Flick of the Switch and Fly on the Wall make up the best period of records that AC/DC pumped out with Brian Johnson after BiB. There is on this record of course a couple of classics - For Those About to Rock and Lets Get It Up can bear comparison to anything on Black in Black easily. The rest of the songs are just a little bit less good. Overall though an excellent record and one that does evoke a golden period in AC/DC's history.
 AC/DC SHOULD HAVE QUIT AFTER SCOTT DIED December 17, 2007
0 out of 14 found this review helpful
As if the stupid acronym title isn't bad enough, this CD has Brian Johnson on it and we all know that AC/DC was done for after Scott died. They should have quit right there and not gone through the shame of awful vocals brought to them by Johnson the imposter. Any CDs without Scott are awful because of the vocalists, and if you want to experience the unobstructed raw power of Angus Young's guitar playing then you need to purchase any of the Scott albums. I most recommend "Highway to Hell". But that's the album to look for, the classic HTH. All other AC/DC albums are soiled.
 Better live :-) December 14, 2007
Every time i listen to this album i see myself at the monsters of rock at Donnington when they headlined, they were fantastic,, "good times".
To me this album is there best as it really drives home that AC DC rocks "hard".
Power, class, style....another classic album June 23, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Very good February 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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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