Comments for U.D.O., Mean Machine

(Sorry, wrong button). Actually, this is the second album of U.D.O. (The first has been released in 1987 and called "Animal House"). The music in both albums is somewhat "lighter" than that of Accept, but fasted and somewhat fresher (the comparison does not work for Accept's "Staying A Life"). The cuts what stand out are "Don't Look Back", "Brake the Rules", and probably "Sweet Little Child". Despite mentioned differences from Accept, this is good and envigorating music.

SOme additional comments (now when I got the CD). The album is pretty consistent and carries on in the same vein, except for rather poppish "Catch my fall" (reminds me of "Europe"). There is some feel in the album that musicians in Accept were better while at the same time the whole project (the band) seems to be logical continuation of the trend of Teutonic Rock and sounds fresher than say, Accept''s "Russian Roulette". As compared to its predecessor, "Animal House" (87), the band shifted towards faster music; these albums are consistent though.

Produced and mixed by Mark Dodson for Breeze Music GmbHThis is the first album of U.D.O, a band formed by Udo Dirkschneider, the (then) former lead singer of Accept.