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Staying A Life

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Why is this quite possibly the best heavy metal record ever made?

1) These guys actually knew how to write songs (you know, with melodies and lyrics and everything) and this set list could serve as their Greatest Hits. Not a dud in the bunch.

2) Precision German engineering. God DAMN this band was tight! Check out the synchronized sixteenth-notes on "Fast as a Shark" and marvel.

3) Udo Dirkschneider made Brian Johnson sound like Lou Rawls. Enough said.

4) Oh hell, it just rocks. Why not buy it right now?

I have been searching for Accepts Staying a Life 2CD set for the last 15 years!
Unlike the American version the German Import is much better and has an additional 4 tracks on it.
The additional songs that are missing from the American release are:
Head Over Heels
Burning
Neon Nights
Outro (Bound to Fail)
Also the American version is not a 2 CD set.
If you are a hardcore Accept fan, I recommend you buy this 2 CD set before you buy the American version.
May be expensive, but well worth the money.

I give it four stars only because it does not contain the songs "Head Over Heels", "Burning" and "Neon Nights" which appear on the european 2-disc set. But other then that, this is great.

One of the only live albums i listened to on a daily basis, this is how metal should sound live. Udo is simply awesome here, his razor shreiks and yells were probably the roughest vocals you could get in the age before extreme metal (i.e. Thrash, Death, ect). All of the songs are played with amazing energy, these guys were definatly NOT lazy, and did not rest on the laurals of the studio counterparts of these songs unlike what mopst bands did with live records (check out the Scorpions "World Wide Live" album to see what i mean about inferior live songs), in fact these guys actually made their live songs sound better!

The Wolf Hoffmann solo in the middle is breathtaking, along with Vitto Bratta, prehaps the most underrated guitarist alive, now he's a world famous photographer, go figure.

If you have never heard of this band, i would say start with this platter, it gives you the best songs from their four best albums played live. German rock at its finest.

The Epic version of this album omits "Neon Nights," "Burning," "Head Over Heels," and "Bound To Fail," the first three of which are some of the best songs on the album! Grr! Even so, this is an awesome live album. It is much better than their newer live album (variously titled "All Areas," "The Final Chapter," & "Farewell Live") on which there is no 2nd guitarist. The best songs here are "Breaker," "Fast As A Shark," "Balls To The Wall," & the 4m29s guitar solo! Be sure to get the BMG/RCA version if you can find it.

This was the second Accept album i ever got, discovering them a little while before that when i got the BALLS TO THE WALL album. I must say, not being a fan of live albums that much, this is one of my all time favorite CD's. The energy displayed in this live set could put any other heavy metal group to shame.God,this is probably the most underrated metal group on earth, the music here is so F-ing good it makes me want to cry. The musicianship is so tight and virtuosic here that it makes bands like Judas Preist and Maiden seem poor by comparison. One of the few examples of great music that exists in this world, i would say to definatly get it if you can find it.

A live Album from Accept, filled with the outstanding guitar and Screeching vocals you have come to expect from Accept. Playing only their hits, Accept delivers what you want. Live from Osaka, Accept proves their mastery of Heavy Metal

Accept has always been a metalhead's metal band.
One of those bands only a true lover of the genre could actually appreciate fully.
The band had produced several classics in the early 80s,beginning with Breaker(1981) and folowed by two of the greatest metal releases of all time:Restless and Wild(1982) and Balls to the Wall(1983).
This live album captures there performance in Osaka,Japan in 1985 in support of the very good,Metal Heart album.
Most of the bands essentials are played live,including practically definitive versions of "Princess of the Dawn","Son of a Bitc*","Dogs on Leads" and "Breaker".
"Fast as a Shark" is the best track on here,as it showcases one of Udo's most insane vocal performances.
Amazon does not list "Balls to the Wall" as being part of the setlist,but it is,and it closes the show beautifully.
Full of energy and fun,Accept's "Staying a Life" is a wonderful,fun trip to the golden age of metal.
A must for the serious metalhead.

This was Accept recorded live on the 'Metal Heart' tour and it is exceptional. I love this band so there is very little they could do wrong.All the hits are here "Balls To The Wall" "Love Child" "Breaker" "London Leatherboys" and my personal Accept favorite "Screaming For A Love Bite"! The production is top notch,all the instruments are clear,Udo's voice is as cutting and perfect as ever,in fact I can't really think of a thing wrong with this. In my opinion,this is a far superior release to "The Last Chapter" although I know many would disagree with me..yes the later live album is longer and has more songs but it also contains filler material where as "Staying A Life" has one great song after another. If you love heavy music I highly recommend this,it feels like you are truly at an Accept concert and that's the way any live album should be!

The Upside - All their best songs,including many from "Metal Heart" and "Balls To The Wall",excellant production and it's available for a great price!

The Downside - I honestly can't think of any

The Bottom Line - Play this at maximum volume,turn down the lights,and you'll swear you are in the front row. This is heavy rock at it's finest.The Donutman says so!!!

This is basically an accept greatest hits album played in front of an audience. i am normally not a big fan of "greatest hits" or live albums that much but this is a big exeption. this is probably the single best accept album you can get. better then any of their albums like "ball to the wall" or "restless" because accept is a band that sounds a million times better live then in the studio, kind of like judas preist, their live versions of songs like "balls to the wall" "fast as a shark" "princess of the dawn" "breaker" ect blow the studio versions out of the water. this ia a live show with a band that is just exploding on stage, listen to the whole thing from "metal heart" to the encore "balls to the wall" and your hearing will be shot! udo dirksheider, what can i say about this man,wow, he has got the be(after rob halford)the greatest metal vocalist ever, just listen to the begining of track 14 to hear to highest pitch scream known to man, his voice almost reaches to dog whistle pitch! wolf hoffmann is amazine as well, one of metals greatest guitar players,ever! you can't go wrong w/ this.

This live compilation represents Accept at the top of their game. Recorded after the release of the studio album Metal Heart, the line up was: Udo on vocals, fantastic Wolf Hoffmann and Jorg Fisher on guitars, Peter Baltes on bass and Stefan Kauffmann drumming. It has a nice choice of songs and and enormous amount of energy. Also, all the songs are played slightly different from the stuido versions.

ACCEPT was one of those mysteries of the music industry: why such a band did not get the success their talent deserved, and things like Britney Spears get all the money?