"Restless and Wild" | ||||
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Single by Accept | ||||
from the album Restless and Wild | ||||
B-side | "Don't Go Stealing My Soul Away" | |||
Released | November 1982 | |||
Genre | Heavy metal | |||
Length | 7:27 | |||
Label | Metronome Music GmbH | |||
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"Restless and Wild" is a song by the German heavy metal band Accept, from their album Restless and Wild, released in 1982. Written and composed by Wolf Hoffmann, Peter Baltes, Herman Frank, Stefan Kaufmann, Udo Dirkschneider and Robert A. Smith-Diesel, it was also released as a single with "Don't Go Stealing My Soul Away" as the b-side. The song Fast as a Shark, which also appears on the Restless and Wild album, was also released as a single in 1982.
Restless and Wild appears on eight of Accept's compilation albums: Restless The Best (1982), Best of (1983), Hungry Years (1985), A Compilation of the Best of Balls to the Wall/Restless and Wild (1986), The Collection (1991), Steel Glove (1995), Sharkbite - Best of (2005) and The Accept Collection (2010).
No. | Title | Length | |
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1. | "Restless and Wild" | 4:12 | |
2. | "Don't Go Stealing My Soul Away" | 3:15 |
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Restless and Wild is the fourth studio album by German heavy metal band Accept, released in 1982 in Continental Europe and in 1983 in the US and UK. It was the first Accept album to not be recorded at Delta-Studio, the band moving to Dieter Dierks' studio in Stommeln. It is also the first Accept album in which Udo Dirkschneider sings every track, as well as the first in which manager Gaby Hauke ("Deaffy") gains credits for songwriting. Michael Wagener took engineering and mixing duties once again.
Jan Koemmet joined the band briefly before the release of this album, but did not participate in the recording. The guitar on the finished product is done by Wolf Hoffmann alone, although Herman Frank had joined the band by the time the album was released, and is credited on the album cover.
The album is best known for the opening track, "Fast as a Shark", considered among the first speed metal songs.
Another well-known track is album closer "Princess of the Dawn", a tense song that Udo describes as "a Cinderella story" and "like a Lord of the Rings fantasy" with no deep meaning. Wolf Hoffmann achieved the haunting mandolin-like effect by recording the guitar at half-speed, then having it played back at normal speed. He describes the sudden ending as "an idea that didn't work so well."