Accept – Accept – 1979

I’m kind of on a quest for writing about all records made by Accept. At least the studio albums. I was never much for live albums anyway for some strange reason. There are exceptions of course. This is the first album released by Accept and it’s pretty obvious when you hear it. There are a couple of songs in the beginning that I like but as a whole, this album sounds so dated. Not to say that dating is automatically a bad thing. But in this case, I would say it is.

I’m sure it was something else when it was first released but time hasn’t been very kind to it. It’s obvious that they’re not really ready as songwriters and performers at this point. Udo Dirkschneider seems to hold back at times and his usual raspy voice is missing from many of the songs. I think this was before he found himself as a singer perhaps. They probably hadn’t much to say about the production either. And to give them some slack, I think Hardrock or early heavy metal sounded more or less like this in the late 70s.

When you listen to it today it sounds like they’re playing inside a tin shed or something, it just sounds bad. And, to be frank, I was tired of listening to this debut album long before it was finished. Which is unusual for me. I often think that debut albums have a certain raw tone to them. They represent the band’s struggles for the years before the record contract came along and will hade songs written by inexperienced people not yet able to make it too complex and complicated for themselves.

But no, The first album by Accept didn’t make it for me.