Accept - No Substitutes download free

The 1992 Accept compilation No Substitutes was your typical low budget record company cash grab, with crappy cover artwork, no digital remastering, and uneven song selection. It focused almost exclusively on their 1982 album Restless and Wild (4 songs) and 1983's Balls to the Wall (3 songs), with a pair of songs from 1985's Metal Heart and the title track from 1986's Russian Roulette. That means Accept and Breaker were totally overlooked, as was the post-Udo material (though that might have been a good choice, all things considered). I suppose we should be grateful they didn't stack the album with live recordings, which happens all too frequently with these cutout compilations. If you're looking for a decent Accept "best of" compilation, there are plenty of better offerings to choose from (Restless: The Best and Collection are both worthwhile). No Substitutes is really only useful in that you can pick it up for a dollar or two and use it as a "gateway drug" to hook people on this classic and influential German heavy metal band.