SCORPIONS - Lovedrive. Japan (TOCP-53204)

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SCORPIONS - Lovedrive
Edición Japonesa (TOCP-53204)

Edición japo remasterizada del sexto álbum de estudio de esta banda germana de Heavy Metal y Hard Rock. Tras la partida de Uli Jon Roth por discrepancias con la línea musical del grupo, se une al mismo Matthias Jabs, dando a la banda un toque más metalero. Además vuelve eventualmente Michael Schenker, el cuál participa en tres temas del álbum.

El disco contiene la típica alternancia de la banda entre temas tranquilos y otros bastante más rabiosos. Entre las baladas destacan dos clásicos: Always Somewhere y Holiday, que cambia totalmente el tempo al final del tema y finaliza de una forma bastante más cañera. Además el disco contiene un par de temas más metaleros y rápidos como Another Piece Of Meat o Can't Get Enough, un tema de influencia Reggae, Is There Anybody There?, y una instrumental sobresaliente, Coast To Coast, entre otros.

Temas:

1 Loving You Sunday Morning 5:39
2 Another Piece of Meat 3:32
3 Always Somewhere 4:57
4 Coast to Coast 4:44
5 Can't Get Enough 2:38
6 Is There Anybody There? 3:58
7 Lovedrive 4:53
8 Holiday

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From RateYourMusic:

Scorpions's sixth studio effort was it's best, until the Blackout arrived some years later. Lovedrive is described as the Scorpions's first classic album, because the album contains some classic material. This is also the first album to feature the classic line-up (Meine/Schenker/Jabs/Buchholz/Rarebell). Ulrich Roth left the band and Matthias Jabs is his replacement.

The line-up and the musical direction got stabilized for about ten years. Their style is more leaning to harsher edge since 1976´s Virgin Killer. The Scorpions's cover art has always been sexist in the way or other, and this doesn't make an exception (bubblegum on lady's tit). Album also has a brief return of mama Schenker's prodigal son Michael, who appears on three tracks. He's last Scorpions album was the debut Lonesome Crow before moving to UFO.

Lovedrive offers classic after a classic, for the whole record. "Loving you sunday morning" starts this package. It completely fulfills the requirements for the "classic Scorpions track", which means it's cathcy, chorus is great, vocal melodies are good and the screaming solos fill the air. "Another piece of meat" is also a classic. It's more rude and rowdy than "Loving you sunday morning". It has Michael Schenker on lead guitar. The next piece is "Always somewhere". Scorpions have the pattern that the third song is a power-ballad, and this doesn't make the exception. Is there something new to be said about the Scorpions-power ballads? I don't think so. This one is sweet, but not in the way the band approached about twenty years later. Guitar melodies are good. "Coast to coast" is another classic song, and Michael again on lead guitar. This one is an instrumental, what isn't common on Scorpions-albums. The over-technical solos are missing on the track, what isn't a bad thing at all.

"Can't get enough" is rude and crushing and also faster. Meine screams a lot on this track. Probably the best song of the album is the classic "Is there anybody there?". If I have to describe it to someone who doesn't know it, I say it's slower and more peaceful. The main guitar riff sounds to my ear, that it has some reggae-influences. The last rocksong and Michael Schenker track of the album is the title track, "Lovedrive". It's intro is too progressive and dim to fit into classic Scorpions song. The song gets back to normal Scorpions mold in the chorus at the last. It has also a very stange ending. "Holiday" is the last classic song of the album, because it's the last song of the album (quite logical, innit?). A ballad is in question, but it's one of the best Scorpions ballad ever made. The song is acoustic guitar-driven and weepy, but it has some raw guitar attacks in the middle, and the solos are crying. The songs ends instrumentally, with acoustic guitar and the crying solo guitar backing it.

If I have to choose the most definitive tracks of the album, I would choose "Loving you sunday morning", "Another piece of meat" and "Is there anybody there?". There are no bad tracks here, but some of them are maybe too average like "Can't get enough". The classic album packed with classic material, but not at their best.