Let's Get It Up

Infobox Single
Name = Let's Get It Up

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Cover size =
Border = yes
Caption = Single sleeve as issued in France
Artist = AC/DC
Album = "For Those About to Rock We Salute You"
A-side =
B-side = "Back in Black (live)"
Released = Start date|1982|02| (UK)
Format = 7", 12"
Recorded = 1981
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 3:54
Label = Atlantic Records
Writer = Young, Young & Johnson
Producer = Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Audio sample? =
Certification =
Last single = "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution"
(1981)
This single = "Let's Get It Up"
(1981)
Next single = "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"
(1982)
Misc =

"Let's Get It Up" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, first released on their 1981 album "For Those About to Rock We Salute You", and later as its first single. [cite book | last = Stenning | first = Paul | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Two Sides to Every Glory | publisher = Chrome Dreams | date = 2005 | location = | pages = 295 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 1-84240-308-7 ]

The song, like many in AC/DC's catalogue, has lyrics based around a barely diguised innuendo. Singer Brian Johnson summarised the track to "Kerrang!"'s Sylvie Simmons as "Filth, pure filth. We're a filthy band." [cite book | last = Dome | first = Malcolm | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The World's Most Electrifying Rock 'n' Roll Band! | publisher = Virgin Books | date = 1995 | location = | pages = 155 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-86369-908-1 ]

Live versions of "Back In Black" and "T.N.T." were released as B-sides, both recorded in Landover, Maryland, in December 1981. "T.N.T." only appeared on the 12-inch edition. [ [http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=264584 Example at eil.com] ]

The opening guitar riff was sampled by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu on their 1988 track "Candyman".Fact|date=July 2008

Reception

When reviewing the song in the context of "For Those About to Rock", Kurt Loder wrote: "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." [ [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/285950/review/6067356/forthoseabouttorockwesaluteyou "Rolling Stone", 21 January 1982] ]

"Let's Get It Up" is highlighted as an "AMG Pick" on allmusic. [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jifixq95ld6e allmusic] ]

ingle track listing

#"Let's Get It Up" - 3:56
#"Back In Black (Recorded live Dec 1981)" - 4:01
#"T.N.T. (Recorded live Dec 1981)" - 3:55

References