Accept - Blood Of The Nations

Should do the trick...if your 14 and it's 1984.

AC/DC meets Metallica for a street brawl 1985 style. No Udo on this one, but this guy does a good job.

Accept - Restless And Wild

Old school metal along the lines of Judas Priest. I hear some Scorpion,Krokus and even some Motorhead in there too. The songs are solid throughout. The chours and back up vocals are stiff and anthemic sometimes, but I always attributed that to them being from Germany. This is generally considered the best Accept album. The album that follows this is my favorite, but it's more slick and commercial sounding. Restless And Wild is way more metal sounding.

Fun Facts: Some say the earliest signs of speed metal are right here.

Accept - Midnight Highway

Interesting odd mix of influences. Judas Priest meets the Scorpions at Alice Coopers house. This album is a curiosity. It has it's moments, but overall it's not so great. The whole thing is a little bit odd.

Fun Facts: This is a best of/compilation album. I've had this for 25 years an never knew that until today. It's stuff from their first two or three releases.

Accept - Kaizoku - Ban

Recorded live in 1985. Commercial pop metal somewhere between the Scorpions and AC/DC. This is alright, but if I'm gonna listen to Accept it's gonna be Balls To The Wall or Restless And Wild, and that's about it.

Fun Facts: This is a six song EP. It was re-released in 1992 and was retitled Live In Japan.

Accept - Balls to the Wall

1984

I love this record. You have to be careful though because this record is one that I grew up with. There's a golden rule somewhere that says, "Just because you liked it in high school doesn't mean it's good". For a while there I wondered if this fell into that category. So it fell into guilty pleasure area land. This is one of those soundtracks of your live records for me. I banged my head to this record. I lived this record. I believed in this record. I remember thinking it reminded me of AC/DC but I don't really hear that anymore. It's more metal. Closer to Judas Priests' Point of Entry or so (Krokus). The follow up to this "Metal Heart" is a turd and was a huge disappointment.

Where To Start: Here, then maybe "Restless and Wild".