Accept's "Balls to the Wall" is a great song.

[RandomKoolzip]

I've been listening to it on my iPod all day.

Strange band; singer Udo Dirkschnider took Bon Scott's (of AC/DC) "evil midget" singing style and just ran with the fucker. He was helped in this department by the fact that he was a REAL, ACTUAL MIDGET, of course, but that he took that particular, very limited singing style to its inevitable conclusion was an odd and brave calling to pursue. Oh, and everybody knows the most EVIL midgets come from Germany, Accept's country of origin.


GOD BLESS YA!

[redqueen]

1. I like that song too...

had no idea Udo was a midget, though! :o

And you better not be dissin Bon Scott!

[RandomKoolzip]

3. Oh hell no!

Bon Scott's like a minor diety in my personal cosmology, right below Phil Lynott and a few rungs above Kevin DuBrow.

[redqueen]

6. Rockin!

:headbang:

:loveya:

[Taverner]

2. Um....I always thought they were a Judas Preist cover band

Who forgot how to play priest....

[RandomKoolzip]

4. More like a German update of AC/DC....

With German malevolent death opera (uh...Wagner, I suppose) in the place of AC/DC's blues influences.

[DS1]

5. Classic Beavis and Butthead fodder, too

[RandomKoolzip]

9. In reality, Udo's scalp would be brushing against that other

guy's crotch. He must be wearing heels in that pic, because Dude is SHORT.

[asthmaticeog]

7. You'd better watch the damned.

[RandomKoolzip]

8. I'm as fast as a shark.

My favorite part is when Udo threatens to stick a "bomb up everyone's ass." Apparently the wholoe album is totally homoerotic unintentionally. I can't wait to find it secondhand somewhere and find out for myself.

[asthmaticeog]

10. I have the album.

It comes with a poster. They're all shirtless except Udo, who of course is in camo. It's SO homoerotic I'm not sure I can buy the "unintentional" thing. "London Leatherboys?" The cover art? If it's unintentional, there're a hell of a lot of rather pointed coincidences happening.

But more importantly, it fuckin' rocks. It's almost as good as their "Breaker" album.

[RandomKoolzip]

11. I hear "Restless and Wild" is their meisterwerk.

I know "Fast as a Shark" off that album (had it on some metal comp tape as a kid), and it is indeed Grade A pre-speed metal.

[DS1]

16. Homoeroticism in heavy metal?

And I think this one should say

Into Glory Hole

[asthmaticeog]

26. But but but but but they're VIKINGS!

Vikings can't be nelly! :cry:

[HughBeaumont]

12. "Excuse me sir, do you have a backstage pass?"

How DARE Beaver and Buttfuck rip on this song! Should it be on the radio, that volume is going to 50.

[RandomKoolzip]

13. Damn straight.

How anemic modern metal sounds next to towering examples of the form like "Balls to the Wall" from the 80's. It rocks far too hard and too sinister to be dismissed.

[HughBeaumont]

14. At least in the mainstream.

You really have to DIG to find songs that rawk as hard as that without a hint of irony.

:headbang:

[bullwinkle428]

15. I remember their almost meteoric rise to success, followed

by a nearly-as-quick fall back into obscurity once enough fans apparently became uncomfortable with the homoerotic nature of some of the lyrics...proof, I guess, that there are lots of really enlightened people out there. :eyes:

Isn't it wonderful that they fell from the musical scene so fast, thus making way for all of the hair bands later in the 80s?:sarcasm:

[RandomKoolzip]

20. Actually, I remember people abandoning tham after their

follow-up, "Metal Heart," which had more synths on it. It was an odd time for metal, though...it was simultaneously getting poppier (Twisted Sister, Bon Jovi) and heavier (Metallica, Slayer, etc). I think Accept (and other greats like Grim Reaper) was caught in the middle and didn't know how to reconcile the two impulses.

[eyepaddle]

22. Here's a phrase a I didn't think I'd ever see

"and other greats like Grim Reaper" :wow: ;)

I'll see YOU in hell!

[Common Sense Party]

17. The crunching noises always made me squirm.

Overall, a very good album, even though I can barely understand a word Udo screams.

[RandomKoolzip]

18. Me neither, but what I CAN understand makes me squirm

even more than the crunching noises. Which is a good thing. :thumbsup:

[eyepaddle]

19. They rocked in comcert as well,

Wolf Hoffman: Metal God in Waiting (Guitar for the Practicing Musician around 1986 or so)

I know you are talking about the vocal style of evil midget-tude, as opposed to straight-up sounding alike, but I just wanna mention that the all time Bon Scott sound alike champion is that dude from Krokus.

[RandomKoolzip]

21. Marc Storace? Yup.

Plus, he was Swiss, fer crissakes....how weird is that?

[eyepaddle]

23. Very weird,

I always liked Fernando Von Arb's playing

Long STICK
goes.....BOOOM :D

[jus_the_facts]

24. I happen to own that CD....

:D

[Redneck Socialist]

25. I thought "Ball s to the Wall" was a Judas Priest song?

thus making the singer Rob Halford. :shrug: Unless of course Accept had a tune called "Balls to the Wall that I'm unfamiliar with.

Restless and Wild totally kicks fucking metal ass. :headbang: Just sayin'

[Gatchaman]

27. I saw Accept open for DIo

I had floor seats, and I only saw the top of Udo's head.

Cool band, and cool period of music. What passes for metal in the US these says is shit. Lots of good stuff being done in Europe.

[AngryAmish]

28. Why didn't anyone tell me the guy was a midget?

I love midgets.

[jmowreader]

29. What REALLY killed Accept

was a difference in artistic opinion.

That band was driven by Udo Dirkschneider (unintelligible lyrics--even German people can't figure out what the hell Udo's screaming about) and Stephan Hoffman (very, very loud guitar).

Stephan thought he was such a stellar guitarist he should be the only guitar player in the band. Udo thought Accept's music needed two guitar players.

So Udo left the band to form UDO and Hoffman brought in a new singer.

Unfortunately for Accept, Udo was the real reason for Accept's success--in the 1980s, there were lots of ear-splitting metal bands, but there was only one Udo Dirkschneider. Accept put out one more album, which failed, then dropped a live recording of a pre-schism Accept concert on the market and split up.

UDO, on the other hand, is still going strong. With two guitar players.