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│║ Release Date.Feb-26-2016 Encoder......L3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ║ │
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│║ Year.........2015 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │
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│║ Release Notes ║ │
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│║ Artist : Scorpions Rating : You Decide! ║ │
│║ Album : Animal Magnetism (50th AnniverLabel : Sony Music ║ │
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│║ Description : ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ By far the most commercially successful metal ║ │
│║ act of the 70Æs, the Scorps exited the heavy ║ │
│║ metalÆs spawning period with soaring, flying ║ │
│║ colours; they released the finest concert ║ │
│║ (ôTokyo Tapesö) along with Judas PriestÆs ║ │
│║ ôUnleashed in the Eastö (thanks, Japan!), and ║ │
│║ bade farewell to the decade with the excellent ║ │
│║ ôLovedriveö which saw the arrival of the new ║ │
│║ guitarist Matthias Jabs who replaced the ║ │
│║ seemingly irreplaceable Uli Roth, one of the ║ │
│║ greatest musicians to ever grace the metal ║ │
│║ field. As though not very certain whether the ║ │
│║ new guy would do a good job on the new album, ║ │
│║ the band had also invited an old colleague of ║ │
│║ theirs, Rudolf SchenkerÆs brother Michael to ║ │
│║ take part in the recordings, but his involvement ║ │
│║ was hardly the major reason why this effort ║ │
│║ became such a resounding success and also the ║ │
│║ first heavy metal album with over half a million ║ │
│║ copies sold worldwide. ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ The German metal panzers were also the major ║ │
│║ pioneers/innovators on the field literally ║ │
│║ writing the rules of speed/thrash on the ║ │
│║ ground-breaking ôTaken by Forceö which left ║ │
│║ Judas Priest, Motorhead and the likes with ║ │
│║ plenty to catch up in terms of aggression and ║ │
│║ wild, brutal rifforamas. Not willing to lose the ║ │
│║ accumulated inertia, the band were ready less ║ │
│║ than a year later with this new opus. Their ║ │
│║ preoccupation with women and sex, both text and ║ │
│║ cover-wise, has been tamed a bit, though, after ║ │
│║ the ôLovedriveö cover caused quite a bit of ║ │
│║ controversy among some more conservative ║ │
│║ societies. ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ ItÆs a sheer mystery why the guys continuously ║ │
│║ refuse to include a lot of songs from here on ║ │
│║ their live performances; because here we have ║ │
│║ some of the strongest material the Scorps have ║ │
│║ ever composed. The album starts with the fan ║ │
│║ favourite ôMake it Realö, a cool heavy rocker ║ │
│║ which was turned later into a wild ║ │
│║ power/speedster on the ôWorldwide Liveö album. ║ │
│║ Then comes the wild speed/thrasher "Don't Make ║ │
│║ No Promises" which bashes brutally with reckless ║ │
│║ abandon; how the band never saw the thousands of ║ │
│║ banging heads in the audience during its live ║ │
│║ execution, is beyond me... A certain pause must ║ │
│║ follow after this devastating barrage, and here ║ │
│║ come two more friendly heavy rockers, "Hold Me ║ │
│║ Tight" & "Twentieth Century Man", which will ║ │
│║ largely enchant thanks to the catchy memorable ║ │
│║ choruses. Some romantic tenderness after that ║ │
│║ with the obligatory ballad "Lady Starlight" ║ │
│║ which fortunately remains the only one here, ║ │
│║ unlike the predecessor where we had romantic ║ │
│║ "Holidays", never-ending "Somewheres", and what ║ │
│║ not... ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ From this moment onward the album takes off to ║ │
│║ reach other dimensions and gives the metal scene ║ │
│║ some of its most treasured 20-min of greatness. ║ │
│║ "Falling in Love" begins with one of the ║ │
│║ mandatory riffs in heavy/power metal history, a ║ │
│║ motif paraphrased and emulated by hundreds of ║ │
│║ bands; it's one of the finest moments in the ║ │
│║ Scorps' discography, a template to be followed ║ │
│║ by many a metal practitioner in the years to ║ │
│║ come. "Only a Man" is scarily intense with the ║ │
│║ brutal main thrashy riff which literally drills ║ │
│║ skulls slightly softened by the catchy chorus; ║ │
│║ Meine sounds quite sinister here recalling his ║ │
│║ standout lower-tuned performance from the ║ │
│║ shredding masterpieces "Steamrock Fever" & "The ║ │
│║ Sails of Charon" from "Taken by Force". ║ │
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│║ For many Scorpions, and non-Scorpions, fans "The ║ │
│║ Zoo" is one of the ten best tracks the Germans ║ │
│║ ever produced... It's a larger-than-life epic ║ │
│║ with a killing main riff which on the album is ║ │
│║ vintage doom, significantly enhanced later on ║ │
│║ "Worldwide Live" again with a hefty speed ║ │
│║ metal-ish boost although to these ears its ║ │
│║ initial seismic pounding qualities are the more ║ │
│║ preferable ones. It also inaugurates the final, ║ │
│║ most majestic, part of the album, the part which ║ │
│║ reminded of the early Black Sabbath repertoire ║ │
│║ in a great nostalgic way also having in mind the ║ │
│║ difficult for the Sabbaths period with Ozzy ║ │
│║ already out of the picture, and the band not ║ │
│║ exactly sure which path to take with DIO ║ │
│║ (R.I.P.) on board. Enters the title-track, the ║ │
│║ epitaph, the definitive doom metal hymn, a ║ │
│║ terrifying brooding, almost funeral-like, epic ║ │
│║ which back in those days may have made the ║ │
│║ listener run away like demented trying to forget ║ │
│║ these foreboding, pitch-dark, ultimately ║ │
│║ depressing riffs. In more recent times their ║ │
│║ terrifying significance has been rediscovered ║ │
│║ and brought to the fore once again, at times ║ │
│║ more faithfully (Helstar, Memento Mori, ║ │
│║ Testament), at times with a more dramatic death ║ │
│║ metal tone (the death metallers Wynjara). Its ║ │
│║ immediate "offspring" was the volcanic epic ║ │
│║ "China White" from "Blackout", a nice cover of ║ │
│║ it offered by the German technical thrashers ║ │
│║ Mind-Ashes in 1997. ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ These were the times when metal was played ║ │
│║ merely for the sake of being loud and heavy, and ║ │
│║ no one was busy back then putting labels like ║ │
│║ power, speed, thrash, doom, etc. with everything ║ │
│║ being thrown into one big "melting pot" ║ │
│║ Scorpions appearing the most skilful "chefs" of ║ │
│║ the lot. It was just METAL and everyone was ║ │
│║ happy to be a part of this carefree, colourful ║ │
│║ merry-go-round; before greedy managers ║ │
│║ perniciously interfered, seeing the big ║ │
│║ potential this kind of music had, and turned it ║ │
│║ into the most commercially successful music ║ │
│║ style of the decade. Of the "holy five" (Black ║ │
│║ Sabbath, Judas Priest, Accept, Iron Maiden,...) ║ │
│║ Scorpions were by far the boldest and the most ║ │
│║ adventurous act stretching the boundaries of the ║ │
│║ not stable yet at the time genre to its extremes ║ │
│║ at will, nonchalantly, exploring its flexibility ║ │
│║ to the maximum thus laying the foundations of ║ │
│║ everything which followed (with a little help ║ │
│║ from the aforementioned outfits, of course). ║ │
│║ Roll forward to 1982, but "Blackout" didn't ║ │
│║ sound as original and innovative anymore; not in ║ │
│║ the company of others (their names mostly ║ │
│║ starting with an A) who followed down the path ║ │
│║ carved by the Stingers, like Anvil, the Belgians ║ │
│║ Acid, Accept ("Restlless & Wild, above all) ║ │
│║ again, and of course Aenom... sorry, Venom. ║ │
│║ Full-fledged thrash metal was already ║ │
│║ circulating in a demo form (Metallica, Metal ║ │
│║ Church, Slayer); Saint Vitus and Trouble had ║ │
│║ already suggested their own version of "the ║ │
│║ animal magnetism", again on a more underground ║ │
│║ level at this stage; it seemed as though ║ │
│║ Scorpions' collision course had done the job... ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ Mixed must have been the fans' feelings when an ║ │
│║ announcement was made in the mid-90's that the ║ │
│║ band had decided to replace Meine with either of ║ │
│║ the two Chucks, Billy or Schuldiner (R.I.P.) of ║ │
│║ respectively Testament and Death fame, for their ║ │
│║ eventual decision to venture into death metal ║ │
│║ for a couple of albums having in mind the waning ║ │
│║ interest in classic heavy metal... ║ │
│║ ║ │
│║ ha ha ha; kidding, of course! But seriously, ║ │
│║ such a scenario could have been entertained in ║ │
│║ those times provided that the band possessed all ║ │
│║ the requisite arsenal to do that, if not the ║ │
│║ right age, and by no means the right singer. And ║ │
│║ definitely could have been the much better ║ │
│║ option to the rapid decline the band ║ │
│║ experienced, first with the hard rock non-sense ║ │
│║ "Pure Instinct" (1996), then with one of the ║ │
│║ biggest flops in metal history... was it "Tooth ║ │
│║ for a Tooth"; or "Eye for an Eye"... who ║ │
│║ cares... ║ │
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│║ Scorpions still deem themselves "unbreakable" ║ │
│║ through the new millennium as evident from their ║ │
│║ 2004 album-title which was another heavy piece ║ │
│║ of metal, but the only one so far since soon ║ │
│║ after the veterans showed their much more ║ │
│║ friendly face on a string of more hard rock- ║ │
│║ oriented efforts. Maybe their upcoming opus, ║ │
│║ promisingly titled "Return to Forever", will be ║ │
│║ this badly needed "sting in the" butt... sorry, ║ │
│║ "tail"? The heroes are tired, obviously, and ║ │
│║ "Animal Magnetism" 2 doesn't seem very likely to ║ │
│║ appear any time soon, at least out of their ║ │
│║ hands. People say the said magnetism gradually ║ │
│║ wanes from the human body/aura with age... With ║ │
│║ people anything fades away, true, but it's quite ║ │
│║ surprising that the scorpions lose it as well... ║ │
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│║ well, no one's perfect. ║ │
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│ 01 - Make It Real [03:52] │
│ 02 - Don┤t Make No Promises (Your Body Can┤t Ke [02:59] │
│ 03 - Hold Me Tight [04:00] │
│ 04 - Twentieh Century Man [03:05] │
│ 05 - Lady Starlight [06:17] │
│ 06 - Falling In Love [04:12] │
│ 07 - Only A Man [03:37] │
│ 08 - The Zoo [05:31] │
│ 09 - Animal Magnetism [05:59] │
│ 10 - Hey You (Vocals By Rudolf Schenker) (Bonus [03:49] │
│ 11 - Animal Magnetism (Demo Version) (Bonus Tra [04:32] │
│ 12 - American Girls (Demo Song) (Bonus Track) [03:30] │
│ 13 - Get Your Love (Demos Version) (Bonus Track [03:44] │
│ 14 - Restless Man (Demo Version) (Bonus Track) [03:19] │
│ 15 - All Night Long (Demo Song) (Bonus Track) [05:00] │
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