For Those About to Rock We Salute You
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, inBack in Black, the biggest-selling album of their career.For Those About to Rock...We Salute Youis 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 Rockalso 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 their titles sound. This is a record Beavis and Butthead would describe as "cool"--and, as usual, they'd be right.--Andrew Mueller