The Scorpions - Eye To Eye | ||
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Album Cover: ![[Image]](../../cd_images/eyetoeye.jpg) |
Label: East West Records Producers: Peter Wolf Year: 1999 Total Playing Time: 62:53 m:s Review date: 3 May 1999 |
| Web site: www.scorps.net, www.the-scorpions.net
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| Rating: 8.5 | ||
| Verdict: A radical departure. Approch with an open mind & you might just enjoy this as much as I do. | ||
| How many albums have The Scorpions made, how long have they been going? Certainly as long as I can remember being interested in rock music. However, my familiarity with their recorded output is limited to live and best of albums. To be honest the last time I took an interest in them they wanted to "Rock You Like A Hurricane" so hard that you could have a "Blackout". So are these veteran rockers growing old gracefully? Maybe an acoustic-based album this time out? Maybe they've gone in for revisiting their youth & they're serving up some raw & in-yer-face old style rocking? Nope, none of these. The Scorpions found themselves with a bit of time on their hands and enlisted producer Peter Wolf to help them get bang smack up to date by experimenting with loops, samples, programs etc. If you hated all those bands jumping on the grunge bandwagon a few years back, just what are you going to make of The Scorpions playing at being thoroughly modern pop-stars? "Mysterious" is The Scorpions meets latter day U2. It is an interesting and effective opening track. This is followed by the most radical track - "To Be No. 1". This lightweight pop track features some pops, blips and chart friendly verses before hitting you in the face with a big metallic chorus. The lightweight Queen-influenced "Obsession" and the catchy uplifting "10 Light Years Away" I both find strangely calming, before "Mind Like A Tree" has the band in more traditional Scorpions territory. "Eye To Eye" is a slow hypnotic tune written about Klaus' father. "What U Give U Get Back" is also a slow number. "Skywriter" is singalong metal. "Yellow Butterfly" is another traditional Scorpions tune. "Freshly Squeezed" is pop-influenced metal. Priscilla isn't a sugar sweet ballad as you might expect from the title, but a story about a cockroach Klaus has been cohabiting with & plans to kill. It is pretty hard to get this one out of your head. "Du Bist So Schmutzig" is the first Scorpions song with German lyrics. It is a curious mixture of pop, Scorps & The Beastie Boys. A bizarre combination, but one that works. That leaves the uptempo "Aleyah" before "A Moment In A Million Years" closes the album with a ballad. I love it and I've been playing ti to death ever since I bought it. Committed Scorpions fans may well find this a bit of a radical departure and some may accuse them of jumping on a bandwagon. I just think it good the see The Scorpions taking a few chances and having some fun with their music. | ||
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