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Crazy World

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This album shows how good hard rock can get with high flying amazing solos and great lyrical work and i dicovered this while staying up all night one saturday night in the summer of 1999. (12:00AM)It was gonna be another one of my late night being alone and rockin out sort of nights and I had chose one album to rock out to and i picked Crazy World. Now when i started listening to it the sound of it hit me like a ton of bricks and i ended up listening to it 6 times during to period of 12:00AM - 5:00AM, never really wearing out my likeing to it but sort of memorizing every word that Klause was singing.(5:00AM) I saw the sun was creeping up on the horizon through the living room window and at the time I was listening to "Send Me An Angel" and at that very moment me opening my eyes and seeing the sun and listening to that song at the same time created a feeling so powerful that i bursted into tears. With every good album i listen to i compare it to crazy world and no album comes close to the power to this great album had on me.

This CD was what was to become a victim of rock of the 80's - excess, loud, and all that great stuff. Regardless, the Scorps delivered a powerhouse bunch of rock tunes as well as some classic 'slow' stuff that wasn't just rock ballad stuff ("Winds of Change").

Can the icons of metal change? Well, I would say that this CD proves it. Scorps, after so many years of 'powerhouse rock' stuff, as well as classic rock ballads, something had to swing - and here you have it with 'Crazy World'. There is underlying tone to most of the tunes here, as you can tell that they are ready to rock, but ready for some new forms of it - take their follow up CD's as an example...

Either way, the bottom line is that this is one of the best Scorps CD's there is - period. What they did after this or before is really not relevant - what matters is how you get into this CD for what it is - and it rocks, period.

"Crazy World" is without the shadow of a doubt a classic rock/metal album that deserves to be recognize for what it is. Possibly to date their very best album.

I think that this is the best album that the Scorpions have ever put out so far!

This is likely the best CD I have ever listened to - and this is coming from someone who is not a big fan of metal. The first time I heard Crazy World I thought it was all right. It had Wind of Change on it and that was the reason I bought it. After listening to it a few more times I quickly realized that absolutely every single song was just unbelievable. Restless Nights, Hit Between the Eyes and so many others just draw you in. I would HIGHLY recomment this album.

There are unfortunate, and fortunate, things about this album. The unfortunate part is that once you're at the top, like Scorpions were through the mid to late '80s, there is no where to go but down. Fortunately with 'Crazy World', they don't drop very far. Their first album of the 90's still brings some hard rockers, plus the ubiquitous ballads that have become synonymous with the success of Scorpions. "Don't Believe Her", "Kick Between The Eyes" and "Kicks After Six" prove that the band can still rock as hard as ever, while the ballads "Winds Of Change" and "Send Me An Angel" went to the top of the charts. It's obvious that perestroika and the end of the Cold War had a profound effect on the songwriting, much more so because of their geographical proximity to the Eastern Bloc.

Some Scorpions fans criticize this album because "Winds Of Change" became a huge ballad hit, and another ballad "Send Me An Angel" also made a dent on pop radio. My answer to that is: so what? Listen to the whole album--it rocks! How can you go wrong with songs like "Don't Believe Her", "Kicks After Six", and "Hit Between The Eyes"? The Scorpions have nearly always put a ballad or two on their albums; this album shouldn't be downgraded just because we got sick of hearing one of them on the radio. (Besides--now that it is never played anymore, "Winds Of Change" sounds good again in my opinion.) For sure this album stands right up there with any previous Scorpions efforts. Like most of its predecessors, a classic hard rock album.

This is the best album that the Scorpions have ever put out! This album ROCKS!

This is the Scorps first album of the 90's and isn't a bad piece of music at all. But truth be told it is a little bland. Sure tunes like Hit Between the Eyes and Tease Me Please Me race along quite happily and Kicks after Six cruises along propelled by Klaus Meines vox but much of this album just doesn't quite have that elusive X factor. It is a little sickly smooth and even the power ballads seem a little dull, and that's pretty much what the band was becoming known for at the time.

Money and Fame show the Scorpions could still spit and snarl with the best of them if they chose to but there is precious little display of bared fangs elsewhere on the album. The ballad Send Me an Angel, tacked onto the end of the album like some sort of bonus track actually became a hit in a number of territories. Not sure why but hey, nobody asked me!

The real saving grace for this album is the fact that it produced Wind of Change. This monster of a hit would not of struck gold at any other time, it was written and released at a time when certain historic events were taking place. There truly was a Wind of Change going through Europe in the couple of years after this album was put out and that's why heavy rock fans of a certain vintage will always 'zone out' when they hear this song on the radio. Which you often do as it transcended metal or hard rock, it captured the zeitgeist of the moment to perfection, encapsulating a feeling of optimism that fluttered and die in Europe a few years later, and then in the US a few years after that.

BUT - as towering as that song is, and as solid as a few of the rockers are this is not an essential album for the casual Scorps fan unless you pick it up 2nd hand cheaply. For the casual hard rock fan I'd suggest you get yourself a few other releases instead, those being Virgin Killer (1977), Tokyo Tapes (78) and maybe even Best of Rockers and Ballads (89) - the latter two particularly being a good taste tester for this bands product up to the end of the 80's.

The Scorpions have always impressed me... in my opinion anything they have ever done has been incredible. This album is the best of them all... Everything about it screams rock and roll... Matthias Jabs is simply killer on Restless Nights espescially... he just tears it up! This is proof that he is simply the best guitarist to ever grace this planet... but I digress.... the point is this album is wonderful... not to mention it has the famous ballads "Wind of Change" and "Send Me An Angel". They really outdid themselves on this album... I can honestly say there is no song that I didn't like. A must for any Scorpions fan... or someone who wants to experience some of the best rock and roll out there.