The ballad "Send Me an Angel", a real standout from the general frankly forgettable thump-thump-bang-bang that makes up much of the "Crazy World" album, follows but what I want right now is some forgettable thump-thump-bang-bang and not another hand-wringing ballad.Īt least "Catch Your Train" kicks-off with a little honky-tonk piano before rocking and rolling and at this point things are looking up. Things don't really get any better with the next track, a cover of the Kansas hit "Dust in the Wind", it's never been one to get the heart racing but here it too gets the Eurovision treatment with ladleful's of over-wrought pathos. So far it's all largely been a bit stodgy like a rice pudding, the songs have been laboured and drawn-out, and I get a feeling that I'm caught in an endless re-run of the all-time most mediocre moments from the Eurovision Song Contest. "You and I" follows keeping-up the audience participation levels up before another new track "When Love Kills Love" and it's about this point with six tracks down and nine to go that I'm beginning to have my doubts about this album. The infectious "Holiday" from the breakthrough "Lovedrive" album follows picking-up the pace slightly and getting the Portuguese audience going but somehow in this acoustic setting it lacks the oomph and power of the electric version. "Acoustica" opens with the rocker "The Zoo" before slowing down with "Always Somewhere" and then new track, the first of four new tracks, the ballad "Life Is Too Short", it's ok but not great being too long with an extended repetitive outtro. But I've always had a thing for hard rock/metal bands going acoustic so here goes". I'm not even a Scorpions fan, the only other album I have by them is "Crazy World" which I gave three stars and described as "not being 54 minutes of Wind of Change". Scorpions have sold over 100 million records in total.Let me honest upfront, the Scorpions' "Acoustica" album was a random purchase, completely random, it wasn't anywhere near my long list of wanna-haves let alone the short list of must-have next purchases. It is one of the best-selling singles in the world with over fourteen million copies sold. Their best-selling album Crazy World (1990) includes the song "Wind of Change", a symbolic anthem of the political changes in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Throughout the 1980s the group received positive reviews and critical acclaim from music critics, and experienced commercial success with the albums Animal Magnetism (1980), Blackout (1982), Love at First Sting (1984), World Wide Live (1985) and Savage Amusement (1988). The band's only constant member has been Schenker, although Meine has been the lead singer for all of the band's studio albums, and Jabs has been a consistent member since 1979. The lineup from 1978–1992 was the most successful incarnation of the group, and included Klaus Meine (vocals), Rudolf Schenker (rhythm guitar), Matthias Jabs (lead guitar), Francis Buchholz (bass guitar), and Herman Rarebell (drums). Since the band's inception, its musical style has ranged from hard rock to heavy metal. Scorpions are a German rock band formed in 1965 in Hanover by Rudolf Schenker. Scorpions have sold over 100 million records in total. The lineup from 1978–1992 was the most successful incarnation of the group, and inc luded Klaus Meine (vocals), Rudolf Schenker (rhythm guitar), Matthias Jabs (lead guitar), Francis Buchholz (bass guitar), and Herman Rarebell (drums).
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