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Bad For Good: The Very Best of Scorpions
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 cliché 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 über alles! --Jerry McCulley
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Tracks| 1 | Rock You Like A Hurricane | | 2 | Loving You Sunday Morning | | 3 | The Zoo | | 4 | No One Like You | | 5 | Blackout | | 6 | Still Loving You | | 7 | Big City Nights | | 8 | Believe In Love | | 9 | Rhythm of Love | | 10 | I Can't Explain | | 11 | Wind of Change | | 12 | Send Me An Angel | | 13 | Don't Believe Her | | 14 | Tease Me Please Me | | 15 | Hit Between The Eyes | | 16 | Alien Nation | | 17 | Cause I Love You | | 18 | Bad For Good |
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