AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) [remastered] (1981)

Year: 20 November 1981 (CD 2003)
Label: Epic Records (Europe), EPC 510766 2
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Time: 40:10
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 302 Mb

Digitally remastered from  the original master tapes by George Marino at Sterling Sound.
As immensely successful as AC/DC’s 1980 album Back in Black was (it has sold around 50 million copies worldwide), the band didn’t have a No. 1 record until their seventh North American release, For Those About to Rock We Salute You came out on Nov. 23, 1981. The band came out of the gate with a full arsenal – literally. “For Those About to Rock (We Salute You),” now a traditional show-closer, is a mid-paced stormer about the band’s appreciation for its fans, and about three-and-a-half minutes in, the music is punctuated with cannon blasts that continue until the end of the song. It’s such a good song that it makes the other songs on the album, which rock in their own right, sound somewhat anemic by comparison.
Really, AC/DC were in a no-win situation, and after they went supernova with the release of Back in Black in 1980, the group became a victim of its own popularity. There was no way they were going to match the cultural impact of that album, so they tried something different. The problem was, they didn’t know exactly what they wanted and it shows. The band began working on For Those About to Rock We Salute You in July 1981 at EMI Pathe-Marconi Studios in Paris. They hired producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange, who had worked on their previous two albums and right away they ran into problems. Unhappy with the sound they were getting, they relocated to a warehouse on the edge of the city and rented the Mobile One studio.
After they recorded the music, Johnson tracked his vocals at Family Sound Studio and then AC/DC recorded overdubs at HIS Studios. Though they were done in September 1981 they second-guessed themselves all the way and by the time they were finished they didn’t know if they had recorded another hit or committed commercial suicide. Likely due to their unhappy experiences recording the album, For Those About to Rock We Salute You marked the end of AC/DC’s working relationship with Lange. “Christ! It took us forever to make that record and it sounds like it,” the late Malcolm Young told Metal CD in 1992. “It’s full of bits and pieces and it doesn’t flow properly like an AC/DC album should… By the time we’d completed it I don’t think anyone …could tell whether it sounded right or wrong.”
(full version: loudwire.com/acdc-for-those-about-to-rock-we-salute-you-album-anniversary/)

01. For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) (05:44)
02. Put the Finger on You (03:25)
03. Let's Get It Up (03:54)
04. Inject the Venom (03:30)
05. Snowballed (03:23)
06. Evil Walks (04:23)
07. C.O.D. (03:19)
08. Breaking the Rules (04:23)
09. Night of the Long Knives (03:25)
10. Spellbound (04:39)

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