Balls To The Wall (2001) (RMST) (2 BONUS TRACKS) Accept
Album Description:
BALLS TO THE WALL is the fifth album by the German metal band Accept. European label Lark Records released the album in December 1983, but its US release was delayed until a month later as to not compete with the band's then-current album RESTLESS AND WILD, which had arrived in the US in early 1983. It is the band's best known and highest-selling album, selling about two million copies worldwide, and is Accept's only record to attain Gold certification in America. The album's lead single, "Balls to the Wall", became Accept's signature tune and remains a metal anthem and trademark in the genre.
BALLS TO THE WALL introduced Accept to whole new legion of fans stateside. Some of the album's success can no doubt be attributed to the publicity generated from the minor "gay metal" controversy that broke out upon its American release, due to the record's title and front cover being deemed by some as homoerotic, as well as the lyrics to "London Leatherboys" and "Love Child" appearing to concern homosexuals.
Accept:
Udo Dirkschneider (vocals) Wolf Hoffman (guitar) Hermann Frank (guitar) Peter Baltes (bass) Stefan Kaufmann (drums).
Recorded at Dierks Studios, Cologne, Germany in July & August 1983. Originally released on Portrait (39241). Audio Mixer: Michael Wagener. Photographers: Dieter Eikelpoth, Fin Costello & Gary Gershoff. Producer: Accept.
Reissue producer: Jeff Magrid. Digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York).
Track Listing:
1. Balls to the Wall - 5:43 2. London Leatherboys - 3:57 3. Fight It Back - 3:34 4. Head Over Heels - 4:25 5. Losing More Than You've Ever Had - 5:09 6. Love Child - 3:34 7. Turn Me On - 5:12 8. Losers and Winners - 4:20 9. Guardian of the Night - 4:24 10. Winterdreams - 4:55 11. Head Over Heels [Live] - 5:52 (BONUS TRACK) 12. Love Child [Live] - 4:57 (BONUS TRACK)
Balls To The Wall (2001) (RMST) (2 BONUS TRACKS)
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Album Description:
BALLS TO THE WALL is the fifth album by the German metal band Accept. European label Lark Records released the album in December 1983, but its US release was delayed until a month later as to not compete with the band's then-current album RESTLESS AND WILD, which had arrived in the US in early 1983. It is the band's best known and highest-selling album, selling about two million copies worldwide, and is Accept's only record to attain Gold certification in America. The album's lead single, "Balls to the Wall", became Accept's signature tune and remains a metal anthem and trademark in the genre.
BALLS TO THE WALL introduced Accept to whole new legion of fans stateside. Some of the album's success can no doubt be attributed to the publicity generated from the minor "gay metal" controversy that broke out upon its American release, due to the record's title and front cover being deemed by some as homoerotic, as well as the lyrics to "London Leatherboys" and "Love Child" appearing to concern homosexuals.
Accept:
Udo Dirkschneider (vocals)
Wolf Hoffman (guitar)
Hermann Frank (guitar)
Peter Baltes (bass)
Stefan Kaufmann (drums).
Recorded at Dierks Studios, Cologne, Germany in July & August 1983. Originally released on Portrait (39241).
Audio Mixer: Michael Wagener.
Photographers: Dieter Eikelpoth, Fin Costello & Gary Gershoff.
Producer: Accept.
Reissue producer: Jeff Magrid.
Digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York).
Track Listing:
1. Balls to the Wall - 5:43
2. London Leatherboys - 3:57
3. Fight It Back - 3:34
4. Head Over Heels - 4:25
5. Losing More Than You've Ever Had - 5:09
6. Love Child - 3:34
7. Turn Me On - 5:12
8. Losers and Winners - 4:20
9. Guardian of the Night - 4:24
10. Winterdreams - 4:55
11. Head Over Heels [Live] - 5:52 (BONUS TRACK)
12. Love Child [Live] - 4:57 (BONUS TRACK)