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Accept - Staying a Life

Good mid-80's live release... - 83%

Snxke, January 21st, 2005

Accept have put together quite the live album with "Staying a Life" and have proven my assertion that Accept are usually a band to be introduced to in a live setting. All the great hits are here, the dual-guitar line up is in full force and Udo sounds as good as Udo ever did. The production is typical of the 80's metal albums also released in the period such as "Priest Live" but manages to be a bit more exciting than most of those "for the money" excursions that usually ended up sounding like studio records with crowd sound. Accept are simply too heavy, too bloodthirsty and too passionate for such things to hold them back.

Standout cuts on the record are biting numbers such as "Son of a Bitch", "Up to the Limit", "Breaker", "Fast as a Shark" and "Restless and Wild". Also notable are big arena anthems like "Balls to the Wall" and "Metal Heart". While their may be a few missing gems here and there...the band did a great cross-section of what made Accept so special in the 1980's. Unlike the later "Final Chapter" release - this preserves Accept in a live setting with two guitars, showing the value of what is now a long-lost musical practice.

"Staying a Life" shows a band in their prime, delivering the goods to a hungry audience on a slab of plastic that should be owned by any and every Accept fan. Only Accept could make an exciting live album out a concert as expertly (see sanitized) recorded as this!