In Trance/Virgin Killer - Scorpions

Advantages: Eve and LOX are mostly sharp / Sharp lyrics, Good flow, Some Good production
Disadvantages: Some CORNY production, BLUNT choruses / TOO MANY Guest Appearances

...*************************************************************************** * THE RUFF RYDERS ALBUMS: SCORPION The Eve Album Collection - Part I Author: DJprimo *********************************************************************** ***** INTRODUCTION After I watched Eve's singles, Got It All and Who's That Girl, I always believed that Eve is among the most talented female rappers. Much more than Foxy Brown, Li'l Kim or Trina who rely on their sexual innuendo to sell in the music industry. Eve doesn't fall into this category, she is an intelligent rapper who relies on her skill and imagination. It was actually that Eve's STINGING performance on Let Me Blow Ya Mind that convinced me 'SCORPION' would be a classic. When I looked on the album cover, I found a range of guests featured... Read review

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Advantages: Good example of Scorpions' brand of Euro-metal
Disadvantages: The metal purist might be a little picky

...Euro-metal perhaps reached its' apex with Crazy World, the 1990 release by Scorpions, a band whose pedigree has provenance without question. You see, Rudolf Schenker, guitarist for Scorpions, is the brother of metal guitar maven Michael Schenker, the tremendously talented lead guitarist for the seminal Euro-metal band UFO. In fact, after Michael mysteriously left UFO back in the early days, he surfaced with Scorpions for a brief time, before returning to the UFO fold. The Scorpions brand of Euro-metal is not as raw and elemental as the early UFO material--it's more than a little bit slicker, and the music has a big arena sound that makes it very distinctive. It's also a little more pop-oriented, much more commercial than their early days, when it was more or less "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" Even so, the metal purist... Read review

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Advantages: A new sound of old loved songs, welcomed by fans and those who enjoy that kind of music.
Disadvantages: The idea of combinating rock and symphonic doesn't seem original.

...The pre-history of this album should be started like this: “Once upon a time there lived Apocalyptica. And its existence never allowed the old rockers to stay calm...” yeah, from the moment as this quartet appeared on the stage and became known, the old mastodonts started to move again and understood that there’s still one more undiscovered way to conquer the audience back: a symphonic orchestra and beloved them with a guitar in front. The pioneer of this row of restoring popularity was Metallica, who launched and average quality double disc S&M. After a while, a Scorpions’ album, proudly entitled “Moment Of Glory”, came out. Choosing a “companion” for their symphonic album, Scorpions didn’t come down to anywhere but Berlin Philarmonic Orchestra. First thing to mention, the material is good. Apart from those where the orchestra... Read review

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