The Collection | |
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Greatest hits album by Accept | |
Released | 1991 |
Recorded | 1979–1986 |
Genre | Heavy metal |
Label | Castle |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic |
The Collection is a compilation album by German heavy metal band Accept, released in 1991. The songs on the album were pulled from Accept's albums Accept , I'm a Rebel , Breaker , Restless and Wild , Balls to the Wall , Metal Heart , and Russian Roulette . It omits anything from Eat the Heat , which was released two years before this compilation album.
A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If from several performers, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology.
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo.
Accept are a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled by guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and former members Udo Dirkschneider (vocals) and Peter Baltes (bass). Their beginnings can be traced back to the late 1960s. The band played an important role in the development of speed and thrash metal, being part of the German heavy metal scene, which emerged in the early to mid-1980s. Accept achieved commercial success with their fifth studio album Balls to the Wall (1983), which is the band's only album to be certified gold in the United States and Canada, and spawned their well-known hit "Balls to the Wall".
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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1. | "Lady Lou" | Dirkschneider, Baltes, Hoffmann, Fischer, Friedrich | Accept (1979) | 3:03 |
2. | "I'm a Rebel" | George Alexander | I'm a Rebel (1980) | 3:57 |
3. | "Thunder and Lightning" | Dirkschneider, Baltes, Hoffmann, Fischer, Kaufmann | I'm a Rebel (1980) | 4:01 |
4. | "Breaker" | Dirkschneider, Hoffmann, Fischer, Baltes, Kaufmann | Breaker (1981) | 3:35 |
5. | "Burning" | Dirkschneider, Hoffmann, Fischer, Baltes, Kaufmann | Breaker (1981) | 5:01 |
6. | "Son of a Bitch" | Dirkschneider, Hoffmann, Fischer, Baltes, Kaufmann | Breaker (1981) | 3:55 |
7. | "Fast as a Shark" | Hoffmann, Kaufmann, Dirkschneider, Baltes | Restless and Wild (1982) | 3:49 |
8. | "Restless and Wild" | Hoffmann, Kaufmann, Dirkschneider, Baltes, Robert A. Smith-Diesel | Restless and Wild (1982) | 4:10 |
9. | "Princess of the Dawn" | Hoffmann, Kaufmann, Dirkschneider, Baltes, Smith-Diesel, Deaffy | Restless and Wild (1982) | 6:15 |
10. | "Balls to the Wall" | Dirkschneider, Hoffmann, Frank, Kaufmann, Baltes, Deaffy | Balls to the Wall (1983) | 5:42 |
11. | "London Leatherboys" | Dirkschneider, Hoffmann, Frank, Kaufmann, Baltes, Deaffy | Balls to the Wall (1983) | 5:10 |
12. | "Love Child" | Dirkschneider, Hoffmann, Frank, Kaufmann, Baltes, Deaffy | Balls to the Wall (1983) | 3:34 |
13. | "Metal Heart" | Dirkschneider, Hoffmann, Kaufmann, Baltes, Fischer, Deaffy | Metal Heart (1985) | 5:19 |
14. | "Up to the Limit" | Dirkschneider, Hoffmann, Kaufmann, Baltes, Fischer, Deaffy | Metal Heart (1985) | 3:47 |
15. | "Screaming for a Love-Bite" | Dirkschneider, Hoffmann, Kaufmann, Baltes, Fischer, Deaffy | Metal Heart (1985) | 4:06 |
16. | "Monsterman" | Dirkschneider, Hoffmann, Fischer, Baltes, Kaufmann, Deaffy | Russian Roulette (1986) | 3:24 |
17. | "T.V. War" | Dirkschneider, Hoffmann, Fischer, Baltes, Kaufmann, Deaffy | Russian Roulette (1986) | 3:26 |
18. | "The King" | Dirkschneider, Baltes, Hoffmann, Fischer, Kaufmann, Dirk Steffens | I'm a Rebel (1980) | 4:10 |
Total length: | 1:16:24 |
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