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{{Short description|1981 studio album by AC/DC}}
{{about|the album by AC/DC|the title track|For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)|the concert video|For Those About to Rock: Monsters in Moscow}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox album
| name       = For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
| type       = Studio album
| artist     = [[AC/DC]]
| cover      = ForThoseAboutToRock_ACDCalbum.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{start date|1981|11|20|df=yes}}<ref name="releaseinfo">{{Cite tweet |user=acdc |number= 1459224542979710983 |title="For Those About To Rock" release date info}}</ref>
| recorded   = May – September 1981
| studio     = * Family (Paris)
* H.I.S. (Paris)
| genre      = [[Hard rock]]
| length     = {{Duration|m=40|s=10}}
| label      = {{hlist|[[Albert Productions|Albert]]|[[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]}}
| producer   = [[Robert Lange|Robert John "Mutt" Lange]]
| prev_title = [[Back in Black]]
| prev_year  = 1980
| next_title = [[Flick of the Switch]]
| next_year  = 1983
| misc       = {{Singles
| name        = For Those About to Rock We Salute You
| type        = studio
| single1     = [[Let's Get It Up]]
| single1date = January 1982<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/3/mode/2up|title=The Great Rock Discography|year=1995|page=3 |isbn=9780862415419 |last1=Strong |first1=Martin Charles |publisher=Canongate Press }}</ref>
| single2     = [[For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)]]
| single2date = June 1982
}}
}}
'''''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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/2343-1825-2|title=BPI}}</ref>
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 (album)|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.<ref name="Kent">{{Cite book | title = Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 | last1 = Kent | first1 = David | author-link1 = David Kent (historian) | publisher = Australian Chart Book Ltd | location = [[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]] | year = 1993 | isbn = 0-646-11917-6 | title-link = Kent Music Report }} Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974.</ref>
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.
==Reception==
{{Album reviews
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name=allmusic/>
| rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews%2Easpx?id%3D2396 |access-date=5 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224074119/http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=2396 |archive-date=24 December 2008 |title=AC/DC : For Those About to Rock Review on Blender :: The Ultimate Guide to Music and More }}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev3score = C<ref name="Christgau">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=A&bk=80|chapter=A|access-date=August 16, 2020|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s]]|publisher=[[Pantheon Books]]|year=1990|isbn=0-679-73015-X|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev4Score = 8/10<ref name="martin" >{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties | publisher = [[Collector's Guide Publishing]] | date = 1 November 2005 | location = [[Burlington, Ontario]], [[Canada]] | isbn = 978-1894959315 | page= 10}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev5Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2007 |publisher=Omnibus Press |location=United Kingdom |isbn=978-1-84609-856-7 |pages=34 |edition=5th Concise}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/for-those-about-to-rock-we-salute-you-19820121 |title=For Those About To Rock We Salute You |last=Loder |first=Kurt |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=21 January 1982}}</ref>
| rev6 = [[Metal Storm]]
| rev6score = 8/10<ref>{{cite web |url=https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=15799 |title=AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) review |last=metallum |first=omne |publisher=Metal Storm |access-date=30 May 2020}}</ref>
}}
''For Those About to Rock'' became the first AC/DC album to ever hit No.&nbsp;1 in the US on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' chart and stayed on the top for three weeks.  To date, in the US, it has achieved {{Nowrap|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.&nbsp;13 and No.&nbsp;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|date=July 2013}} 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|date=April 2021}} [[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."<ref>[http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=ac/dc Robert Christgau: CG: ac/dc]</ref>
==Track listing==
{{Tracklist
| all_writing = [[Angus Young]], [[Malcolm Young]] and [[Brian Johnson]]
| headline = Side A
| title1 = [[For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)]]
| length1 = 5:43
| title2 = Put the Finger on You
| length2 = 3:25
| title3 = [[Let's Get It Up]]
| length3 = 3:53
| title4 = Inject the Venom
| length4 = 3:31
| title5 = Snowballed
| length5 = 3:23
}}
{{Tracklist
| headline =  Side B
| title6 = Evil Walks
| length6 = 4:23
| title7 = C.O.D.
| length7 = 3:19
| title8 = Breaking the Rules
| length8 = 4:23
| title9 = Night of the Long Knives
| length9 = 3:25
| title10 = Spellbound
| length10 = 4:28
| total_length = 40:10
}}
*According to the official AC/DC website, the second track is "Put the Finger on You"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.acdc.com/uk/music/those-about-rock |title=For Those About to Rock at the AC/DC official website |publisher=acdc.com |access-date=1 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823133617/http://www.acdc.com/uk/music/those-about-rock |archive-date=23 August 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> while on some versions of the album, the title is shown as "I Put the Finger on You".<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/for-those-about-to-rock-we-salute-you-mw0000188895 |title=AC/DC - For Those About to Rock review |last=Huey |first=Steve |work=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[All Media Network]] |access-date=2020-10-23 }}</ref>
* As the song's lyrics read, "C.O.D." stands for "Care Of the Devil".
==References in popular culture==
* In the movie ''[[School of Rock]]'', Dewey Finn ([[Jack Black]]) says to the class: "In the words of AC/DC: We roll tonight&nbsp;... to the guitar bite&nbsp;... and for those about to rock&nbsp;... I salute you".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://us.imdb.com/title/tt0332379/quotes |title=The School of Rock (2003) – Memorable quotes |access-date=29 June 2018 |archive-date=26 June 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040626005611/http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0332379/quotes |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The concert video ''[[For Those About to Rock (film)|For Those About to Rock]]'', about the first open-air rock concert in Moscow in 1991, was named after the album and title track, and featured live performances by AC/DC and other rock bands, including the title track.
* In the 1989 [[Beastie Boys]] single "[[Shadrach (Beastie Boys song)|Shadrach]]", they make a reference to the album in a lyric.
* American [[nu metal]] band [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]] used the title track as their intro during the [[Knotfest]] 2019, 2021 and 2022 tour.
* In the [[video game]] ''[[Deep Rock Galactic]]'', saluting your teammates has a chance to yield the voice line: "For those about to Rock and Stone, we salute you!", which is a play on words derived from the dwarven player characters' catchphrase "Rock and Stone!"
==Personnel==
;AC/DC
* [[Brian Johnson]] – lead vocals
* [[Angus Young]] – lead guitar
* [[Malcolm Young]] – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
* [[Cliff Williams]] – bass guitar, backing vocals
* [[Phil Rudd]] – drums
;Production
* [[Robert John Lange|Robert John "Mutt" Lange]] – production
* Mark Dearnley – recording engineer
* Dave Thoener – mixing engineer
* Andy Rose, Mark Haliday & Nigel Green – assistant engineers
* [[Bob Ludwig]] – mastering at MasteRdisk (1981)
* [[Ted Jensen]] – remastering at Sterling Sound (1994)
* [[George Marino]] – remastering (2003)
* Al Quaglieri & [[Mike Fraser (record producer)|Mike Fraser]] – remastering supervision (2003)
==Charts==
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===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col" | Chart (1981–2024)
! scope="col" | Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row" | Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name="aus">{{Cite book |last=Kent |first=David |author-link=David Kent (historian) |year=1993 |title=[[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992]] |edition=illustrated |location=[[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW]] |publisher=Australian Chart Book |page=11 |isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>
| 3
|-
{{album chart|Austria|7|artist=AC/DC|album=For Those About To Rock|rowheader=true|access-date=17 February 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|Netherlands|22|artist=AC/DC|album=For Those About To Rock|rowheader=true|access-date=17 February 2020}}
|-
! scope="row" | Finnish Albums ([[Official Finnish Charts|Suomen virallinen lista]])<ref>{{cite book|url=https://musiikkiarkisto.fi/oa/_tiedostot/julkaisut/sisaltaa-hitin.pdf#page=9|first=Timo|last=Pennanen|year=2021|title=Sisältää hitin - 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021|section=AC/DC|page=9|publisher=Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava|location=Helsinki|access-date=25 August 2022|language=fi}}</ref>
| 19
|-
{{album chart|Germany4|2|id=7640|artist=AC/DC|album=For Those About To Rock|rowheader=true|access-date=17 February 2020}}
|-
! scope="row" | Italian Albums (''[[Musica e dischi]]'')<ref>{{cite book|last=Racca|first=Guido|title=M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019|language=it|date=2019|publisher=Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US |isbn=978-1094705002}}</ref>
| 5
|-
{{album chart|Oricon|100|artist=AC/DC|rowheader=true|access-date=17 February 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|New Zealand|6|artist=AC/DC|album=For Those About To Rock|rowheader=true|access-date=17 February 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|Norway|6|artist=AC/DC|album=For Those About To Rock|rowheader=true|access-date=17 February 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|Spain|75|artist=AC/DC|album=For Those About To Rock|rowheader=true|access-date=17 February 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|Sweden|9|artist=AC/DC|album=For Those About To Rock|rowheader=true|access-date=17 February 2020}}
|-
{{album chart|Switzerland|26|artist=AC/DC|album=For Those About To Rock|rowheader=true|access-date=24 March 2024}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|1|artist=AC DC|rowheader=true|access-date=17 February 2020}}
|}
{{col-2}}
===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1982)
! scope="col"| Position
|-
! scope="row"| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://austriancharts.at/year.asp?cat=a&id=1982|title=Jahreshitparade Alben 1982|website=austriancharts.at|access-date=9 April 2021}}</ref>
| 20
|-
! scope="row"| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-jahr/for-date-1982|title=Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts|language=de|publisher=[[GfK Entertainment]]|access-date=9 April 2021}}</ref>
| 30
|-
! scope="row"| US ''Billboard'' 200<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1982/top-billboard-200-albums|title=Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1982|magazine=Billboard|access-date=9 April 2021}}</ref>
| 43
|}
{{col-end}}
==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|type=album|artist=AC/DC|title=For Those About to Rock We Salute You|award=Platinum|number=5|relyear=1981|certyear=2013}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Austria|type=album|artist=AC/DC|title=For Those About to Rock We Salute You|award=Gold|relyear=1981|certyear=1991}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Denmark|type=album|award=Gold|relyear=1981|certref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wall-of-fame.de/index.php/katalog.html?artist=AC-DC#1920540|title=AC/DC Gold Award|publisher=Wall-of-fame.de|access-date=30 November 2015}}</ref>}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=France|type=album|artist=AC/DC|title=For Those About to Rock We Salute You|award=Platinum|relyear=1981|certyear=1981|source=infodisc}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Germany|type=album|artist=AC/DC|title=For Those About to Rock We Salute You|award=Platinum|relyear=1981|certyear=1993}}
{{certification Table Entry|title=For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)|type=album|artist=AC/DC|region=Italy|certyear=2020|relyear=1970|award=Gold|note=sales since 2009|access-date=31 August 2020}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Japan|artist=AC/DC|title=Afterburner|relyear=1981|certyear=1982|award=Gold|certref=<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.julienslive.com/lot-details/index/catalog/491/lot/232367|date=May 25, 2024|title=A Japanese in-house "gold" record for the AC/DC album "For Those About Rock We Salute You" presented to drummer Phil Rudd and dated "1982".}}</ref>}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Spain|artist=AC/DC|title=For Those About to Rock We Salute You|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=1981|certyear=2000|certref=<ref>{{cite book |last=Salaverrie |first=Fernando |url=http://www.mediafire.com/file/7q55521w7go6vh6/Spanish+Certifications+for+2000-2002.pdf |title=Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 |language=es |edition=1st |location=Madrid |publisher=Fundación Autor/SGAE |date=September 2005 |page=953 |isbn=84-8048-639-2}}</ref>}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Switzerland|type=album|artist=AC/DC|title=For Those About to Rock We Salute You|award=Platinum|relyear=1981|certyear=1991}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=album|artist=AC/DC|title=For Those About to Rock We Salute You|award=Gold|relyear=1981|certyear=1981|id=12026-1825-2}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|artist=AC/DC|title=For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)|award=Platinum|number=4|relyear=1981|certyear=2001}}
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==References==
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