Bad For Good: Very Best Of Scorpions

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Author: SCORPIONS

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• Bad for Good: Very Best of the Scorpions by Scorpions (2002-05-28)

Format: Remixes included

PartNumber: MCD-SBFGBO

Release Date: 28-05-2002

Details: Amazon.caGermans and heavy metal–hardly the combination to make one forget chocolate and peanut butter but, in the hands of Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine, and company, still something of a natural. If nothing else, the band’s remarkable three-decade-and-counting career makes one grateful the Wehrmacht wasn’t as persistent. But like this 18-track hits anthology, we come to praise the Scorpions, not bury them in cheap schnitzel gags. Sure they’re big, dumb, and obvious, but weren’t the Ramones? Isn’t Britney? (Especially Britney!) It is, after all, no mean feat to forge a bona fide rock stereotype, let alone become a self-perpetuating parody of said clich in the bargain. Fashions may come and go, but the Scorpions still « Rock You Like a Hurricane »–and now at sporting events the nation over, no less. The material here leans heavily on the Hanover band’s ’80s prime, a period when they burnished their melodic pop-metal tack–if not their traditional spandex couture–all the way to the top of the charts, capping a decade of journeyman hard-rocking. There isn’t much here from their formative ’70s period (with the exception of Animal Magnetism’s metal-shuffle « The Zoo »), but proto-power ballads like « No One Like You » and « Still Loving You, » and hook-filled, power chord pomp like « Big City Nights » helped pave the way for the rise of the glam metal of Poison and G’N’R in the late ’80s–and hey, thanks for that. That hard-pop sense also comes to fore on an ’89 cover of the Who’s « I Can’t Explain » and a pair of undeniably consistent new recordings, the title track and « Cause I Love You. » Scorpions ber alles! –Jerry McCulleyProduct DescriptionThis package includes their most famous hits such as « Rock You Like a Hurricane, » « Wind of Change, » « No One Like You », and many more.

UPC: 521312606600

EAN: 0521312606600

Model: MCD-SBFGBO

Languages: English

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood