Audio CD review:
Scorpions - Bad For Good: The Very Best of Scorpions

Scorpions - Bad For Good: The Very Best of Scorpions

Band: Scorpions Title: Bad For Good: The Very Best of Scorpions Rating: Release Date: 28 May, 2002 Media: Audio CD 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

Editoral Review Fashions may come and go, but the Scorpions still "Rock You Like a Hurricane"--and now at sporting events the nation over, no less. 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. 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 .. You can see a complete list of all Scorpions discography, or go back to the Scorpions tabs