Your talkin my fav ERA of the band! I'm a Rebel is my fav up to Restless & Wild. The AC/DC written title track. The full blown Disco chorus of back up female singers on Save Us which is awesome and works and is a serious earworm. And that Disco bass lick too! Then my fav track Thunder and Lightning. That track never gets played once. When played it usually gets a triple run. Killer record! Overlooked album that most need to revisit and just Accept it! See what I did there ;-) Another excellent Tuesday morning coffee hour with the professor. Thank you sir.

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

Cheers Duane! Yes, that chorus in 'Save Us' is just too awesome :)

When I first heard “ Balls to the Wall “ = heroes. Seeing the video = I was like damn……… It was like LOUDNESS. Crazy Nights. Loved it within 10 seconds.

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

I gotta check out more Loudness sometime, I just never have heard much of their stuff.

@Frank_nwobhm

9 ай бұрын

@@letstalkmetal I can't get past the vocals with Loudness. I think the singer was channeling his inner Yoko Ono.

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

@@Frank_nwobhm"I AM THE LOUDNESS!" LOL Hmmm, I'd have to go back and listen to them; it's been ages so I'm not sure.

Great to see accept get some love. “Balls to the wall,” predictably, was one of my first tapes that I had as as a kid. How you kept a straight face, walking the landline that was “London leather boys” shows great strength and maturity.

@letstalkmetal

8 ай бұрын

Great strength and maturity are not things I am often accused of possessing, so thank you!

I'm a fairly new fan of Accept. I'm kind of surprised they usually aren't mentioned alongside Priest and Maiden. Udo also deserves some credit for being one of the early guys to push vocals in the "extreme" direction. More gritty and screechy than his contemporaries. I'm going to listen to Russian Roulette now.

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

Exactly, they should be mentioned alongside those bands a lot more often.

@docdeens4030

9 ай бұрын

Russian Roulette is my current favorite

The beltbuckle Udo had on I´m A Rebel was a real eyecatcher (☝👇👇☝but with four feet)

Really nice feature, Alan. Being from Germany I grew up in this era with ACCEPT, who were always somewhat overshadowed by the overpowering SCORPIONS in the general public's perception over here. "Restless and Wild" is also my personal favorite, followed by "Balls to the Wall" and "Metal Heart", which - depending on the mood - change places 2 and 3 every now and then. Definitely a very important band for the development of German Metal and my only "problem" with them have always been Dirkschneider's one-dimensional screaming vocals. A type of voice that I had to force myself to somehow tolerate from day one. With a better singer during this era it would probably have been by far the best German Metal band for me.

@letstalkmetal

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment Mike! Yes, Scorpions became the 'popular rock' band and Accept seemed to be the 'popular metal' band. I get it regarding the vocals; they are a tough sell for many people. It is interesting to wonder what path they would have followed with a different vocalist.

When i started to check out accept in the past few years having listened to metal for about 25 years i simply couldn't understand why they werent bigger

@letstalkmetal

8 ай бұрын

All I can come up with is that they got pretty big early on (around Balls to the Wall) but then lost all their steam in the mid-late 80s when Udo left and fans started focusing on heavier stuff like thrash and then death metal.

There 1st 7 are very good but i love there last 4 maybe there best thanks for another great Video Alan

@letstalkmetal

8 ай бұрын

Thanks James! I'll get around to checking out their newer stuff. Need it to show up for a cheaper price in the Used bin. For some reason the recent, used Accept CDs are often like $15 around here :(

I dig the Mark Tornillo era .... could never get into UDOs vocals but can appreciate his legacy to metal . Cheers once again big Al .😉

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

I'll check out some of mark's era eventually. I definitely get it if Udo's voice keeps some people from getting into the albums he sang on. Cheers Rod!

@williamtm1965

7 ай бұрын

I like UDO on classical albums, but Mark's era is totally kick ass!

@letstalkmetal

7 ай бұрын

@@williamtm1965 Just heard one of Mark's albums for the first tie and it was really good!

Cool video Alan thanks the earliest accept album I have is deathrow then I have three of the mark tornillo era albums Blood of the nations Stalingrad and rise of chaos they are one of those bands if I see their albums used I will pick them up just havn't seen any of the first seven yet!

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Robert! I've seen a few of the later ones in Used bins recently but they're kind of expensive for some reason so I haven't picked them up.

Nice one Alan. As you know I'm a big Accept fan, so nice to see them get a hole video. Do like the new Accept as well, but the Udo era will always be the best era. Cheers. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

Cheers Roger! Talking about Accept with you on Heavy Metallurgy is what prompted me to get this video posted \m/

@rogerkjorvik

9 ай бұрын

@@letstalkmetal Nice. 😎

ACCEPT in the 1980`s best albums

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

Cheers!

@torarauland7145

9 ай бұрын

@@letstalkmetal I heard ACCEPT first time in 1983 Restless & Wild Great album

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

@@torarauland7145 Cool, that's a great album to start with. Restless & Wild was the 2nd album I heard by them.

Grave Digger is n ot a band I ever paid much attention to (so far), and I never knew about the whole War Games thing till just now. Very interesting, and that explains that! This might sound dumb, but as someone who was a teen in the 90s instead of the 80s, there's something I never really understood about how people talk about the metal scene in the 80s. I'm not sure if I can explain this well or not. I definitely get how old bands can get tired out, or become too commercial for various reasons, like, oh i don't know, the fact that they quit their jobs to tour and now can't do anything but play music, but ferocious heavy metal isn't making a living for them. I also get how new metal bands were cropping up, and often wanting to push harder than the older bands: go faster, more aggressive, more technical, whatever. But I just don't see how that newer stuff supplants the old stuff. Like can't we be fans of Accept and Slayer equally? Shouldn't we just let each band do their thing, whatever that is and wherever the artistic muse takes them? I guess maybe it's because I missed the boat on the development of these scenes somewhat (being nine years old in 1989 and all), but I always had trouble in my mind with statements that some older metalheads made about how death metal came around and suddenly noone wanted to listen to thrash anymore. Surely there's room for both? Music shouldn't just stop being cool because there happens to be something new on the block. That said I also get how, when you're younger especially, you just kind of go from obsession to obsession, and so maybe for a while all you want to hear is really fast, technical music, and don't have time for all those high-pitched vocals and melodic guitar shredding and all. So I don't know, I have trouble articulating this I guess, and maybe if I'd grown up paying attention to NWOBHM, thrash, death, and black metal, I'd get it a little more. Anyway, great band, Accept. I always liked Breaker and Restless and Wild and a few other songs, but when i saw them in concert in 2011, they impressed me more than just about any classic metal band I'd seen. I mean I saw Priest a couple years previously and I honestly thought accept wiped the floor with them. Just a remorseless teutonic metal machine, playing classic song after song. I don't even think they stopped for more than five seconds during the entire set; it was like they wanted to squeeze in as many tunes as they possibly could, and they were so heavy and sounded great.

@letstalkmetal

8 ай бұрын

I know what you mean. I occasionally came across someone who liked Judas Priest but said they couldn't also be an Iron Maiden fan (or vice verse). That never made any sense to me. From reading interviews it seems a lot of it was kids always wanting to be into the heaviest or fastest stuff, so they ditched one band as soon as something more 'extreme' came out. I never had that approach as I was more interested in finding music I liked rather than just the fastest or the heaviest or whatever. Cool that you got to see both Priest and Accept back in the day. I've seen Priest 2x in the 90s but have never seen Accept.

@DamnableReverend

8 ай бұрын

yeah..the Accept show was in 2011 i think. that band Sabaton, who I really don't like, were opening. it actually made me a little grumpy because I knew people in local bands that would have loved the chance to open for Accept that I think would have been so much better (and gotten a better reception too). But then the Germans came on and I forgot about all that. it was so good. I saw them again with kreator the following year but didn't really like it as much -- probably due to the shittier venue more than anything else. @@letstalkmetal

@letstalkmetal

8 ай бұрын

@@DamnableReverend I've never gotten into Sabaton either. It seems harder for local bands to get opening gigs for touring acts than it used to be.

All I need are the first three albums, after that the Accept sound became the sound of orthodox 80's German metal which I find stultifying in it's nondescript Teutonic adequacy.

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

I love 80s German metal but it's not for everyone. And yes, a lot of German bands gravitated towards the same sonic approach, though I suppose that happens in many scenes.

@ryanpoortenga4849

9 ай бұрын

@@letstalkmetal That's the thing, it's all good, so if you can't get enough of that sound you've got a deep well to explore but my tastes over the years have become more focused on finding unique releases that stand out. Also when I was a kid in the 80's I didn't know anyone who listened to Accept, they weren't a factor at all in our scene.

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

@@ryanpoortenga4849 Same here, I didn't get into them nutil a bit later.

I saw Accept in '84 at Monsters of Rock in Germany (Motley Crue opened)

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

Oh sweet! That had to be a killer show

I really need to revisit those early Accept albums. I was really into them in the early 80's when the albums were being released, however their sound hasn't aged well with me. Udo's vocals get on my nerves pretty quickly and the songs are just kinda AC/DCesque simplistic and boring to me. Too much repetition. I didn't realize that I'm A Rebel was actually an AC/DC song!! LOL, I'm not at all surprised. The one thing that I always return to in their catalog is 'Fast As A Shark' from Restless and Wild. I've said many times that that song was like an explosion on the metal world of 1982. 'Russian Roulette' finished Accept for me. It was actually a very good album, but I'd had my fill of them by that point. Restless And Wild is clearly my favorite above all. That little German ditty which opens the album is somewhat controversial, and I believe it was dropped from later pressings as it was actually a German Army marching song and was a favorite of the Nazi's during WWII. EDIT: I just did a little KZread digging and came up with the controversial intro to Fast As A Shark. The song was called 'Ein Heller und ein Batzen'. The Heidie, Heido, Heida part is the chorus of the song. From what I read, it's a song deep in German culture which they really don't associate with Nazi's or WWII, but the rest of the formerly occupied European countries absolutely do associate it with invading armies of Wehrmacht Hellhounds.

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

Huh, didn't know there was controversy about the folksy clip at the beginning. Granted, it's no 'Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia' by TOKYO BALDE :) I definitely get it if Udo's voice grates on people.

@Frank_nwobhm

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, apparently the folk song Ein Heller und ein Batzen is controversial to this day if played in countries like Poland and such. Do a youtube search on it and listen for the chorus. It'll give you a creepy feeling to think such a happy tune could bring others to tears when they remember Hitler's goons coming to wreak mayhem and terror upon their homelands.

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

@@Frank_nwobhm Thanks as always for the information Frank, you rule!

I think it depends on the region you're living, here in those days accept was like mother's milk and still has that feeling. The greek bangers always were restless and wild😬

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

Good point! US metal fans moved from band to band and from style to style very quickly through the 80s (and even into the 90s). When I was getting into metal as a teenager around 1989, Accept seemed like they were ancient... so they couldn't possibly be very good or very heavy LOL

Now a new line of cake will be out, " udos" 🤣

@letstalkmetal

9 ай бұрын

LOL if they are hotcakes then they can advertise them as 'eat the heat' :)

Sorry, 1983

You should check out Asspact if you can: the only LGTBBQ-friendly tribute to Udo-era Accept! I will put together when I find the right people. I will be Peter Balltease

@letstalkmetal

6 ай бұрын

That might be a tough project to find the right lineup for :)

@benzedrine5314

6 ай бұрын

I know, I had tshirts ready, the Balls to Wall guy holding 2 balls with the Asspact logo.

The beltbuckle Udo had on I´m A Rebel was a real eyecatcher (☝👇👇☝but with four feet)

@letstalkmetal

6 ай бұрын

Maybe he wanted to challenge Blackie Lawless and his exploding codpiece. Or maybe he wanted to become a professional wrestler and make his own belt :)