LP AC/DC For Those About to Rock NM 1st Aussie 1981
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Description
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This record has been cleaned and played through completely both sides on a Thorens Turntable as well as visually inspected under a bright halogen desk lamp to provide an accurate grading.
LP’s are packed outside their covers to guard against ring-wear & splits during transit and then placed inside a plastic outer protective sleeve for safe delivery.
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12” Album
AC/DC
For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
1981 1st pressing Australian gate-fold issue
ALBERT label # APLP.053
CONDITION
VINYL : glorious / no marks / a crisp and clean sound / no lead in-out hiss / no skips or background noise / bright and glossy / very difficult to fault at all / rated Near Mint and a top copyLABELS :- clean both sides
GATE-FOLD SLEEVE : Fantastic / embossed front / no writing / no splits and the spine is intact / no ring-wear / the edges are excellent and the corners square / a few light miniscule spots at top right on the front which seems to go with the territory for this one as it is near impossible to find a 10/10 jacket it seems / no creases and as good as they probably come / the inner gate-fold shows live stage photo
DESCRIPTION
An exceptionally tidy Aussie gate-fold pressing of AC/DC’s 2nd album with Brian Johnson and chock-full of ballsy rockers as you would expect.AC/DC’s influence on Australian music can never be understated. They will forever be legends and paved the way for hard rock both at home and abroad influencing more bands than you could keep count of and 30 years on are still going strong …. alas without Bon.
Not an easy album to acquire these days in such superb condition.
MORE NOTES
AC/DC are the real thing, perhaps the purest major practitioners of hot and snotty rock since Led Zeppelin lumbered off the boards. Other groups, from Van Halen to REO Speedwagon, may base their music on similar elements, but they inevitably emerge from the studio sounding cleaned up and rather too eager for radio. AC/DC, from the start, have always left the rough edges in. The rough edges are the point of difference much as they were say, Little Richard in the Fifties or the Rolling Stones in the mid-Sixties.For awhile this bareknuckles approach has tended to obscure the fact that, beneath all those enormous guitar riffs and gut-wrangling rhythms. AC/DC is an unusually expert songwriting band. This became particularly apparent on last year's Back in Black, the first LP on which the late Bon Scott, the group's semi-legendary lead singer, was replaced by the more expressive Brian Johnson. On ‘For Those About to Rock We Salute You’, (too many as good as any AC/DC album) the case for the band's talents is finally made with undeniable force and clarity. You want anthems? Here, they abound, from the title track's avalanche attack–complete with booming cannonades, of course–to "Night of the Long Knives," a rousing singalong reminiscent of the classic mid-Sixties Anglo-pop tradition. All ten tunes are aimed straight at the group's testosterone-plagued audience, but the music and lyrics transcend mere calculation. True, in "Put the Finger on You," the helplessly horny protagonist's sexual member seems to have a life of its own ("I can't control it, can't even hold it ... I put it right on you"), but "C.O.D." takes a more wizened look at the consequences of such inchoate lust ("It's the curse of love"). This marginally broader lyrical outlook may again be attributable to Brian Johnson, who writes the songs with band-leader-guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young. Johnson's relatively wide ranging tastes are also apparent in the nicely nasty "Inject the Venom," in which he manages, rather charmingly, to sound like Lou Rawls with a beer gut.
But while Brian Johnson has added a more engaging vocal texture to AC/DC, the backbone of the band is still the enormous bass-and-drums barrage pummeled out by Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd, and the riff-manic brilliance of the redoubtable Young brothers, whose ferocious combination of hollow and solid-body guitar interplay has created a sound that's unique in the hard-rock field. It may seem difficult to take a droolflecked runt dressed in schoolboy shorts seriously as a guitarist, but if you listen closely to Angus Young's serpentine solo in "Let's Get It Up," you'll hear his unabashed blues roots shining through. Similarly, John Lee Hooker himself might want to take a good squint at the dark-toned guitar filigree on "Snowballed," just as Jeff Beck may be surprised to hear how strongly the final leads in "Breaking the Rules" recall his vintage flash-fingered artistry on the Yardbirds' Over Under Sideways Down. Malcolm Young is equally adroit at mongering meaty riffs, and with Williams and Rudd slamming home the message – basic though it may at first appear to be–what you've got here is one unbeatable rock & roll band.
SONGS
1. For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) ~ 5:44
2. Put the Finger on You ~ 3:28
3. Let's Get It Up ~ 3:54
4. Inject the Venom ~ 3:32
5. Snowballed ~ 3:23
6. Evil Walks ~ 4:23
7. C.O.D. ~ 3:19
8. Breaking the Rules ~ 4:23
9. Night of the Long Knives ~ 3:25
10. Spellbound ~ 4:29
A NOTE ON PACKING & POSTAGE
* Australia Post does not provide a Tracking No. system as some other countries have in place and therefore any item sent unregistered (within Australia) or uninsured (outside Australia) cannot be traced.
* All care is taken in packing your item safely & professionally however I cannot accept responsibility for any item delayed, lost or damaged in the post.
SHIPPING COSTS
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* Packaging and postage within AUSTRALIA for this item is :
Regular - AUD$7.50 ( as a rule of thumb 3x LP’s is $13.00 )
Registered - AUD$10.50
* Air-Mail outside of Australia for this item is :
AUD$18.00 to USA / Canada
AUD$22.00 to UK / Europe/ Sth America
AUD$16.00 to JAPAN / Asia / New Zealand.
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P.S.
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