REVIEW: Halford – Live Insurrection (2002 Japanese Import)
“Part 6 in a miniseries of reviews on Rob Halford’s solo career! If you missed the last part, click here!” That was a rhyme, that ain’t no crime…Breaking the Law! Breaking the Law! HALFORD – Live...
View ArticleREVIEW: Scorpions – Taken By Force (remaster)
The second review from Toronto Record Store Excursion 2013! I paid $7.99 at Sonic Boom. SCORPIONS – Taken By Force (1977, 2002 Hip-O/Universal remaster) I don’t have all the Scorpions albums, but I’m...
View ArticleREVIEW: Scorpions – Pure Instinct (1996)
SCORPIONS – Pure Instinct (1996) I remember being very excited when this album came out due to the powerful first single “Wild Child”. I had enjoyed previous Scorpions albums well enough — Face The...
View ArticleREVIEW: Scorpions – Face the Heat (Japanese and Canadian versions)
Part 2 of 2 — for yesterday’s instalment, click here. For Aaron’s review of the domestic CD, click here! SCORPIONS – Face the Heat (1993 Polygram, Japanese and Canadian versions) 1990’s Crazy World...
View ArticleREVIEW: Scorpions – Lonesome Crow (1972)
SCORPIONS – Lonesome Crow (1972 Metronome) What an odd album this is, considering where the Scorpions went a decade later. Young kids from West Germany finding their musical feet, Scorpions seemed to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Scorpions – Animal Magnetism (2015 deluxe edition)
The Best Fucking Collaboration Week Ever, Pt. 2 Final review in this series! Mike and Aaron did simultaneous daily reviews of albums that they sent to each other. Mike gifted the original CD of Animal...
View ArticleREVIEW: Scorpions – World Wide Live (1985 vinyl)
SCORPIONS – World Wide Live (1985 Polygram, 2 record set) The first waves of CD releases generally sucked. Double live albums like World Wide Live, Live After Death, Stages and Exit…Stage Left were...
View ArticleVHS Archives #24: The Scorpions discuss Crazy World (1990)
Usually Scorpions interviews involve Klaus, Rudolph and Matthias. In October 1990, Dan Gallagher got to talk to Herman “Zee German” Harebell, Rudolph Schenker and Francis Bucholz. Topics discussed...
View ArticleREVIEW: Scorpions – Box of Scorpions (2004)
SCORPIONS – Box of Scorpions (2004 Universal) Don’t worry – this Box of Scorpions cannot hurt you! If fact if you allow yourself to be stung, you will find your reality injected with musical ecstasy....
View ArticleREVIEW: Scorpions –“Sign of Hope” (2020)
SCORPIONS – “Sign of Hope” (2020 single) The Scorpions, in the midst of writing their next album, are the latest band to release a lockdown single in 2020. It will come as no surprise that it’s a...
View ArticleREVIEW: Scorpions – Rock Believer (2022 2 CD)
“Steamrock fever, screaming rock believers.” – Klaus Meine, 1977 “Scream for me screamers, I’m a rock believer.” – Klaus Meine, 2022 SCORPIONS – Rock Believer (2022 Universal 2 CD edition) The album of...
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