Moment Of Glory - Scorpions & Berliner Philharmoniker (The)

...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 ...
...choir. To sum up, Moment Of Glory can be called one of the best and high-quality specimens of this genre. Remembering Wind of Change, cast by Russian thematic, this time Russian idea comes out again, when instrumental “Crossfire” slowly turns into an all-time Russian classic “Podmoskovniye Vechera”. Bravo! ...

greensleeves 07.05.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Moment Of Glory - Scorpions & Berliner Philharmoniker (The)

When I received "Moment of glory" my first thoughts, before even ripping the shrink wrap, where how utterly preposterous and pompus this album must sound, I mean the Scorpions (possibly the most successful euro-rock band ever) have never avoided any chance to be over the top even when playing some of their better songs or even more tacky numbers like the massive hit "Wind of change", but how wrong could I be. Instead of going the Metallica S&M route ...
...the top to create a massive wall of sound the Scorpions seem to have embraced the sounds and feel of a large orcestra and worked with it to create something stirring and truely memorable. Not being a big fan of the band some of the tracks I had not heard before but ones I had "Hurricane 2000 (rock you like a hurricane)", "Send me an angel" and "Still loving you" do seem to have gained a new lease of life with this recording even though "Moment of ...

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