A couple o words concerning Scorpions album Live At Wacken I want to say. I can open a little secret: I’m a fun of Scorpions since childhood and all their new and old singles I eat with pleasure. I bought this album a few years ago and want say that listen it time at a time. I can’t say that I love hard rock so mush: no, hard rock is dead (sorry all hard rock amateurs, excluding Rammstein, thay are really dinosaurs). But hard rock as I music genre is not popular: The majority of hard-rock artists are migrated to most popular area: pop-rock, pop, R&B (ooh, what the shit is). Anyway concerning Scorpions: they exist so much time and their migrations don’t look like as treason of hard-rock style, no: I think it’s an experiment and very successful experiment. As for me I listen their album Live At Wacken with great pleasures: Why? First, it’s big. It contains 28 tracks and all of them come from different periods. Klaus Meine is really great singer: His voice sounds splendidly for ages. I found great hit ‘In Trance’. Ya, it was released in far 1975: It’s really hard rock single. And then I hear sweet ballade ‘The Zoo’ (just a joke), or their awesome ‘Guitar solo’. My friends, Scorpions it’s music for all ages and all people who can appreciate a real art. And album Live At Wacken is on of the best Scorpions albums.
All Live At Wacken tracks:
1 (Intro)-Coming Home 3:31
2 Bad boys running wild 5:07
3 The Zoo 6:23
4 Loving you Sunday morning 3:54
5 Make it real 5:20
6 Pictured life 3:10
7 SpeedyOs coming 4:03
8 Dark lady 6:01
9 We burn the sky 8:32
10 Love’em or leave’em 4:30
11 Don’t believe her 4:57
12 Tease me please me 5:29
13 Coast to coast 6:29
14 Holiday 6:45
15 Lovedrive 5:11
16 Another piece of meat 3:54
17 (Drum solo) 7:49
18 Blackout 4:37
19 No one like you 4:47
20 (Guitar solo) 3:42
21 Big City Nights 5:49
22 CanOt get enough 7:01
23 Still loving you 7:22
24 In Trance 5:06
25 HeOs a woman, sheOs a man 5:57
26 In search of the peace of mind 9:49
27 Dynamite 8:36
28 Rock you like a hurricane 8:52
After thirty five years, one would think that and grizzled old veteran band like the Scorpions wouldn’t be able to put out an album that is still relevant. Old bands sometimes suffer from losing the intensity and integrity of their original sound, or, even worse, attempt to change their sound drastically to keep up with the times.
With their twenty first studio release, Humanity - Hour I, the Scorpions have managed to do neither, and narrowly slip in between these two perils to come out with an album that tastefully blends their old sound with several new elements that they have yet to explore.
There’s quite a range too, from the dark and heavy opening track, Hour I, to the solid 80’s pop-ballad sentimentality of Love Will Keep us Alive, they show that they have been growing as musicians. The second song, The Game of Life, proves that they can still sting with the same testosterone as Rock You Like A Hurricane.
There are, however, a few poor attempts to reconcile with the modern music scene that would have been better left out. Billy Corgan makes an appearance on the song, The Cross, and sort of ruins it with his unmistakable voice. One cant help but ask, what did Smashing Pumpkins ever have to do with Scorpions? There is another song that feels like an attempt to reach the youth, We Will Rise Again; it has a modern metal feel and is a tad bit self glorifying.
Its great to see the Scorpions back in the game though. Sort of how ironic how a band can stick to their guns, disappear from the limelight for twenty years, and resurface when the sound they originally started out with has become retro.
Bands like the Darkness and other eighties throw backs have to contend with the real thing now!
Santosh Lalonde.
All album traks:
1 321 3:54
2 You’re lovin’ me to death 3:16
3 The future never dies 4:04
4 We were born to fly 4:00
5 The game of life 4:04
6 Hour I 3:26
7 Love will keep us alive 4:32
8 We will rise again 3:50
9 Your last song 3:44
10 Love is war 4:20
11 The cross 4:30
12 Humanity 5:27
Known best for their 1984 anthem “Rock You Like a Hurricane” and the 1990 ballad “Wind of Change,” the German rockers the Scorpions have sold over 22-million records, making them one of the most successful rock bands to ever come out of Continental Europe.
Originally formed in 1969 by Rudolf Schenker, the original lineup consisted of rhythm guitarist/vocalist Schenker, lead guitarist Karl-Heinz Follmer, bassist Lothar Heimberg, and drummer Wolfgang Dziony. In 1971, Schenker’s younger brother Michael joined the band to play lead guitar and good friend Klaus Meine became the new vocalist. The group recorded Lonesome Crow in 1972, which was used as the soundtrack to the German movie Das Kalte Paradies. Although they failed to get into the public’s eye, the early formation of ’70s rock band UFO noticed Michael Schenker’s guitar playing and hired him as their lead guitarist; Michael, therefore, would leave the band in 1973.
Guitarist Uli Jon Roth replaced him, and under his guidance the group released four consecutive albums under the RCA record label: Fly to the Rainbow (1974), In Trance (1975), Virgin Killer (1976), and Taken by Force (1977). Although these albums failed to attain any serious attention in the United States, they were all quite popular in Japan. By the time Taken by Force was released, Roth made the decision to leave the band and form Electric Sun after feeling that his musical ideas would take the group in an entirely different direction. Tokyo Tapes, a double live album that the group recorded in Tokyo with Roth, was released in 1978. Shortly after Roth’s departure, Michael Schenker was kicked out of UFO for his constant alcohol abuse and came back to play with the Scorpions in 1979, who had recently signed with Mercury Records. The group released Lovedrive that same year and played their first American tour, but Lovedrive failed to attract attention, being banned in the United States because of its sexually explicit cover. Still coping with his drugs and alcohol addiction, Michael missed tour dates repeatedly and guitarist Matthias Jabs was hired to fill in for him on nights when he was absent. Michael eventually would leave the band a second time after realizing that he was failing to meet their expectations.
Now with a lineup of Klaus Meine on vocals, Rudolf Schenker on rhythm guitar, Matthias Jabs on lead, Francis Buchholz on bass, and Herman Rarebell on drums, the band released Animal Magnetism in 1980 and embarked on another world tour. Surprisingly, Animal Magnetism went gold in the United States, and the Scorpions immediately went back into the studio to record their next release. Problems arose, however, and the project was postponed because Meine had lost his voice and would have to have surgery on his vocal chords. Many thought Meine had been fired from the band, and rumors spread that metal singer Don Dokken had already replaced him. The Scorpions proved these rumors untrue when Meine returned for the 1982 release Blackout, which contained the cult hit “No One Like You.” A major success worldwide, Blackout sold over one-million copies in the U.S. alone. But as popular as Blackout was, it was the band’s powerful follow-up, Love at First Sting, that succeeded in making them superstars. Released in 1984, the album boasted the MTV single “Rock You Like a Hurricane” and would eventually achieve double-platinum status. The group undertook one of their most successful world tours yet, boasting an outstanding stage show with high-energy performances.
After releasing World Wide Live in 1985, the band took a long hiatus and remained uninvolved from the music industry for two years. Their tenth studio album, Savage Amusement, was finally released in 1988, and the hit ballad “Rhythm of Love” brought on another major success. In 1990, the album Crazy World was released and would eventually become the Scorpions’ biggest-selling record to date, drawing on the strength of the hit ballad “Wind of Change.”
Not too surprisingly, Crazy World was the last successful Scorpions release in the U.S. By the time their Face the Heat album hit the shelves in 1993, many longtime fans had already lost interest in the band, due to the alternative explosion of the early ’90s. Face the Heat did eventually reach gold, and in 1995 the band released another live album, Live Bites. Now with bassist Ralph Rieckermann and drummer James Kottak, they released Pure Instinct in 1996. Mercury Records assembled a double album of the band’s greatest hits, Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years, and released it in 1997. Eye II Eye, an album in which the band experimented with pop-techno melodies, was released in the summer of 1999. Moment of Glory, featuring the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and several revamped versions of Scorpions cult classics, was released in fall 2000.
A couple o words concerning Scorpions album Live At Wacken I want to say. I can open a little secret: I’m a fun of Scorpions since childhood and all their new and old singles I eat with pleasure. I bought this album a few years ago and want say that listen it time at a time. I can’t say that I love hard rock so mush: no, hard rock is dead (sorry all hard rock amateurs, excluding Rammstein, thay are really dinosaurs). But hard rock as I music genre is not popular: The majority of hard-rock artists are migrated to most popular area: pop-rock, pop, R&B (ooh, what the shit is). Anyway concerning Scorpions: they exist so much time and their migrations don’t look like as treason of hard-rock style, no: I think it’s an experiment and very successful experiment. As for me I listen their album Live At Wacken with great pleasures: Why? First, it’s big. It contains 28 tracks and all of them come from different periods. Klaus Meine is really great singer: His voice sounds splendidly for ages. I found great hit ‘In Trance’. Ya, it was released in far 1975: It’s really hard rock single. And then I hear sweet ballade ‘The Zoo’ (just a joke), or their awesome ‘Guitar solo’. My friends, Scorpions it’s music for all ages and all people who can appreciate a real art. And album Live At Wacken is on of the best Scorpions albums.
After thirty five years, one would think that and grizzled old veteran band like the 
Known best for their 1984 anthem “Rock You Like a Hurricane” and the 1990 ballad “Wind of Change,” the German rockers the 
