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Humanity Hour 1
Humanity Hour I, the latest Scorpions outing, has some sort of concept at the heart of it, but you needn't worry about the plot-?suffice it to say that the venerable Teutonic rock quintet has delivered a collection of highly melodic and semi-energetic hard pop. The record's short on hard rockers, though what is here--the title cut, "You're Lovin' Me to Death," "321"--serve as noble attempts at updating the group's sound and keeping its reputation as a heavy metal band intact. But the collection as a whole mires in midtempo melancholy: at least half of the record is occupied by ballads or ballads in a rocker's pleather pants, rendering this record closer to Michael Bolton than Metallica. True, few hard pop acts have written as many ballads that have reached aural permanence ("No One Like You" and "Holiday") but this is also the band that wrote its share of raucous rockers ("Rock You Like a Hurricane," "Blackout," "The Zoo"), which are in short supply here. Humanity Hour I isn't necessarily a bad record for that trade but it may be a sign that Klaus Meine and Co. are aging gracefully and keenly aware that they're making music for people who prefer to sway--rather than bang--their heads. ??Jedd Beaudoin
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Tracks| 1 | Hour 1 | | 2 | Game of Life | | 3 | We Were Born to Fly | | 4 | Future Never Dies - Russ Irwin, Scorpions | | 5 | You're Lovin' Me to Death | | 6 | 321 | | 7 | Love Will Keep Us Alive - Eric Bazilian, Scorpions, Harry | | 8 | We Will Rise Again | | 9 | Your Last Song | | 10 | Love Is War | | 11 | Cross - Billy Corgan, Scorpions | | 12 | Humanity |
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