About The Song
For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) (shortened to 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 and on 27 November 1981 in the United Kingdom.
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. The album was re-released in 2003 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series.
For Those About to Rock became the first AC/DC album to ever hit No. 1 in the US on the Billboard chart and stayed on the top for three weeks. To date, in the US, it has achieved four million sales. In the UK, the album’s two singles, “Let’s Get It Up” and “For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)”, made it to No. 13 and No. 15, respectively. The album has sold an estimated seven million copies worldwide, making it one of the highest sold AC/DC albums worldwide.[citation needed] However it marks a major drop-off in sales in the United States, only selling 4 million as follow-up to the 25× platinum Back in Black. In a 2008 Rolling Stone cover story, David Fricke singled out the title track for praise, noting its “unusual stop-start effect that hooks you just as hard as their usual railroad drive.”[citation needed] Robert Christgau stated: “Brian Johnson takes over, defining an anthemic grandiosity more suitable to their precious-metal status than Bon Scott’s old-fashioned raunch. Also dumber. ‘Let’s Get It Up’ is a limited sentiment in any case. But I’d appreciate some indication that Johnson knows the difference between his dick and the light tower.”
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Lyrics
Oh yeah, yeah
Whoa, oh oh
We roll tonight
To the guitar bite
Yeah yeah
Oh
Stand up and be counted
For what you are about to receive
We are the dealers
We’ll give you everything you need
Hail, hail to the good times
‘Cause rock has got the right of way
We ain’t no legend, ain’t no cause
We’re just livin’ for today
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
We rock at dawn on the front line
Like a bolt right out of the blue
The sky’s alight with a guitar bite
Heads will roll and rock tonight
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you, yes we do
For those about to rock, we salute you
Oh, salute
We’re just a battery for hire with a guitar fire
Ready and aimed at you
Pick up your balls and load up your cannon
For a twenty-one gun salute
For those about to rock, fire (we salute you)
Oh, for those about to rock (we salute you)
Those about to rock, fire (we salute you)
Fire, we salute you
We salute you, come on
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
Shoot, shoot
Shoot, shoot
Oh, for those who give, for those who take
Doing your time and those on the rank
We salute you, yeah
We salute you
We salute you
We salute you
Fire