![]() ![]() Probably the weakest point of the whole album is Here in My Heart. (There is some very serious guitar soloing going on in the Deadly Sting Suite!!!) ![]() If, however, you like music where the guitar and the orchestra share the spotlight (for example, better Trans-Siberian-Orchestra, or some of the better symp/metal music of the last 10 years or so) you will eat this stuff up. In fact, the Crossfire instrumental and Deadly Sting Suite are more like this. The only "drawback" to this album would be this, if you are not big on powerful "movie music", some of the arrangements here will probably push you off alittle. Send Me an Angel and Still Loving You still raise the goose bumps, just like the originals did/do. They are the same, yet different from the original. The listener now has "another way" to approach and enjoy this music. The originals are all great songs, and that is no less the case here. That being said, these songs (Send Me An Angel, Winds of Change, and later, Here in My Heart and Still Loving You) sound almost revitalized in this mix. (This is a consistent reaction to the one I have when I listen to Mettalica's S&M album.perhaps that is the key, having an arrangement that is as aggressive for the orchestra as the original is for the band.)įrom this point on, not surprisingly, the band moves toward the pieces you would expect to be more readily adaptable to orchestration of this nature. In fact, in both cases, you have to wonder how many violins were damaged in the recording of the songs, as the musicians work as hard as the band attacking the song. This is one of two cranked up rockers on this album (the other a very interesting version of Big City Nights later on) and they give nothing up in terms of volume or pace by adding the orchestra. Hurricane 2000 opens the CD and, after some opening symphonic bars, the band joins in and it becomes the song we are all familiar with, with a whole new level of mind-blowing intensity added in by the symphony (is that possible for the Scorpions?). ![]() Often, the symphonic arrangements are too far in the direction of appeasing the Classical music crowd at the expense of the original music, or the symphony is relegated to background textures only. ![]() The concept had produced mixed results in the past, with very few "great" albums (in fact, I can only think of one other truly "great" album of this nature, Metallica's S&M album and really only the 2nd disc of that album is truly great.). When this was released, taking an established rock/metal artist and combining it with a full on philharmonic orchestra was not a new concept. This strikes you much like seeing a fully adorned T-Rex striding toward you would! I did not expect to be blown away by this album, but I have been. From the opening bars of this CD, I quickly came to appreciate the album artwork. ![]()
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