Bad For Good: The Very Best of
Scorpions by Scorpions
Packed With Mind Numbing Rock!!!
Sure theyre big, dumb, and obvious, but werent the Ramones? Isnt
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. Fashions may come and go, but the Scorpions still
Rock You Like a Hurricane--and now at sporting events the nation over, no
less. The material here leans heavily on the Hanover bands 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 isnt much here from their
formative 70s period (with the exception of Animal Magnetisms 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 GNR in the late
80s--and hey, thanks for that. That hard-pop sense also comes to fore on
an 89 cover of the Whos I Cant Explain and a pair of undeniably consistent
new recordings, the title track and Cause I Love You. Scorpions über alles!
--Jerry McCulley
Personal Review: Bad For Good: The Very Best of Scorpions by
Scorpions
Many have complained that this CD is not "complete" enough to represent
this band. I don't care. It clocks in at 79:55 and all the songs save one are
a great listen if you just want straightforward guitar riff rock.

The ballad "Wind of Change" (track 11) is the only song that I don't like -
although it apparently was a big hit. It is just too much like all the crappy
big hair 80's bands ballads that I never did like. There are a few other
ballads on this CD (tracks 6, 8, 12) but they seem to have a little more bite
(or should I say sting) to them and are OK.
The two new songs (tracks 17, 18) are fantastic. TMSAISTI.
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