25.04.2010. 07:00h 1 1

Sting In The Tail je poslovilni, zadnji album nemške heavy metal atrakcije Scorpions.

Siol.net

S številnimi klasikami, med katerimi so tudi Rock You Like A Hurricane, Big City Nights, Rhythm Of Love, Blackout, Loving You Sunday Morning, Rhythm Of Love, The Zoo, Loving You Sunday Morning in prvoligaškimi metal baladami, kot so Holiday, Always Somewhere, Still Loving You, Wind Of Change in številne druge, so usodno vplivali na nastanek sodobnega evro metala. Scorpions je vedno krasil smisel za sijajno melodijo in enkraten riff. Skladb so se vedno lotevali na malce robat način, ki pa je bil vedno jasno definiran, efektno preprost in (vključno z nemško angleščino) nadvse simpatičen. Scorpions bodo maja začeli s triletno poslovilno turnejo, nato pa bodo prenehali delovati.

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Ultimate-guitar.com

The album doesn’t shy away from balladry, with “The Good Die Young” and “Lorelei” succeeding at carrying on the torch passed by “Send Me An Angel” and the über-hit “Wind of Change.” Once again, there isn’t anything that will shock or surprise in the arrangements of these ballads, but they are still more pleasing to the ear than most other bands’ attempts at slower material these days. The final song “The Best Is Yet To Come” is somewhat of a tearjerker when the theme comes to light. Between the crescendo chorus and the lyrical content discussing how growing old doesn’t mean an end to loving life, it makes for a fitting – and extremely moving – finish for a band that is going out with grace.

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Antimusic.com

Sting in the Tail is the companion piece to the farewell tour and is also billed as being the final Scorpions album. It's important to know that Sting in the Tail is a musical goodbye when you set it spinning, otherwise you might think opening cut "Raised on Rock" with its "Rock You Like a Hurricane" riffing is a formulaic exercise in cannibalizing one's own body of work. But "Raised on Rock" purposely references "…Hurricane" in a tribute to surviving forty years as a band while also giving a nod to the different generations of fans that have made it all possible. It's not destined for the top of the charts but "Raised on Rock" has new Scorpions music back on the radio for the first time in ages and it's not even the best radio-ready tune here; that honor would go to the anthem-like title cut "Sting in the Tail" where singer Klaus Meine sounds like he really means it when he rasps out a phrase he'll no doubt utter thousands of times on the farewell tour, "Hail hail, sting in the tail!" 

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Spisek skladb:

1. Raised on Rock
2. Sting in the Tail 
3. Slave Me - 2:44
4. The Good Die Young 
5. No Limit 
6. Rock Zone 
7. Lorelei 
8. Turn You On 
9. Let's Rock 
10. SLY 
11. Spirit of Rock
12. The Best Is Yet to Come 
13. Thunder and Lightning