#63
March
Scorpions
Love at First Sting
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Rock You Like an Hurricane
The Same Thrill
Crossfire
Two years after Blackout, which was a reckoning of an album for the band after the abysmal Animal Magnetism, Scorpions come back with a collection of ago-glam metal that satisfies just fine. It’s not reinventing the medium, it’s just feeding the beast. Thing is, you can either be Survivor and feed the beast gruel or you can be Rudolf Schenker and come up with a series of shredtastic licks and high energy rawk.
Most of it is middling at best and you don’t really need to hear it but, late in the album is “Crossfire” which took me very much by surprise. It’s not great, it’s rather juvenile in it’s approach to unnecessary war, blah blah blah, but it was so earnest in its appeal for peace that it sort of grabbed me.
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