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Re: Any 80's Hard Rock/ Metal Fans?
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Powerslave was the album that got me into music, period, let alone metal. It really blew my mind.
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Now THAT's a statement us "older" metalheads love to hear. I've loved Maiden since the first album, which I bought as a "blind buy" in 1980(?), and I'll never forget the pivotal moment of my life when I dropped the needle on Side One, Track One and "Prowler" changed my life forever.
"Powerslave" was a monumental album for me. I was able to proudly declare "Look how far they've come!" They'd made it through numerous line-up changes, political and media crucifixion (over nonsensical "satanic" charges), and the total ignorance of American radio to become one of the biggest and most revered acts in the world. The 13-minute "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is one the greatest songs ever written...
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What did ya think of ACCEPT? I own several of their cds. I always like feedback on this band because you either love or hate em'.
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Another huge moment in my life was hearing the "Restless and Wild" album for the first time. I already owned and enjoyed "Accept" and "Breaker" (the two albums before "Restless"), so I HAD to own "Restless and Wild" even though it was only available on German import vinyl at the time (Ten bucks was HARD for me to come by in the early 80s).
The "heaviest" metal bands at the time were probably Motorhead and Venom (yes, I'm a fan of those bands, too), but nothing could have prepared me for the moment "Fast As a Shark" blistered out of my speakers for the first time. "Power Metal" was truly born. This was like Judas Priest on speed.
As far as people "loving or hating" Accept, I believe the animosity toward them began with the follow-up album "Balls to the Wall." While it's probably second-only to "R&W" in the Accept canon musically, I think the lyrics and cover art did them a lot of damage. The band didn't have a great command of the English language, so they roped in a "friend" of theirs referred only to as "Deaffy" to write the lyrics. It was revealed only a few years ago that "Deaffy" is in actuality Gaby Hauke, the band's manager...and a woman (she's married to guitarist Wolf Hoffmann). The problem was she wrote the lyrics for one of the heaviest bands in the world at the time...from a woman's perspective. Now, I'm all for women in heavy music, and I love lyrics from a woman's point of view, but things can get a little skewed when those lyrics are being sung by a diminutive German man wearing camouflage.
Men in metal aren't supposed to sing lyrics like "By looking in his eyes something turned me loose in this hot night" and " I can feel your sex winding up the girl in the red dress" (both from the same song, by the way). The album cover and the song title "London Leatherboys" didn't do them any favors, either.
Sorry for rambling, but I'm a walking metal almanac, and can't help myself...
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