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Lonesome Crow
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I cannot tell that it is my favorite album, but in some moments of life I like it more than others. Sometimes it happens when Scorps release something new, but they are nuances only of my psychology and they don't mean anything for a public. And in general this album cannot be regarded as favorite or not favorite, it is simply the first.
No one usually points an attention on Lonesome Crow, it is accepted to be considered the first unsuccessful experience (at the same time
musical discovery). But the first experience always contains the most inner, the first is always the most holy, just because the first happens only once. It is like the first love, after it come both disappointment and experience, but the most bright memories are connected with it.
It seems that the whole energetic charge is concentrated here, since those times when they took the musical instruments in their hands for
the first time. It is their first opportunity to show themselves! There is something that is not presenting in other albums - banal youthful maximalism and fierceness. This is the reflection of the epoch and their tribute to its idols. This is the beginning of their eternal youth!
Have anybody seen that film about drugs? Unfortunately, I could not find it anywhere. "Cold Paradise", as a soundtrack to which this album
was written. This film would help to clear the only thing that remains a riddle - a meaning of the lyrics. Though we can successfully continue dreaming...
I'm going mad - a rather common exclamation, isn't it? Changing with the times, but still remaining actual... I even feel the cold running
on me skin when I'm listening to this song - is it possible to shout out the screaming of SUCH a scale! It's not a surprise that in '81 he spent months in a hospital with his laryngitis. But what a great rhythm-section! Blues is in Lothar Hamberg's blood.
It all depends - the lyrics are super! Klaus simply went over the top - that's the highest point of his poetical talent! And if in
earnest, common, but tasty. Michael Schenker is a genius child! There are not so many people, who, being only 17, are able to move fingers up and down with such a speed.
Leave me - this piece seems to me a bit boring and tiresome, but the vocal performance is simply brilliant.
In search of the peace of mind - this is one of the deepest and wisest songs on this album, and also the one most played live on the Scorps
early performances.
Inheritance - a beautiful, socially-critical and mind-blowing one. By the way, it's Klaus' most favorite song from this album. And mine too!
Action - I feel on top of the world because of this song! A bit easy for ears, charging and electrifying, with a sophisticate melodic line
and provocative vocals.
Lonesome crow - it's the psychedelia in this clearest view. As Igor Yerofeev wrote in his book "Rock of ages", "...right this 13-minute opus proves that the Scorpions are not the one-day-band". Yeah, in these 13 minutes and 29 seconds a lot of different moods can be heard. Here I want to mention drums and buss-guitar especially - it's a classical combination. Musical teams where the buss-line is put on the first plan, or just heard, are very rare - it's usually only a background with no pretending to leadership. Even the jokes from the musical sphere are mostly about the buss-players. But here - it lives
its life equally with the guitars. And the Scorpions have lost this special and distinctive feature with Lothar Hamberg's leaving. And of course it's impossible to stay silent about that bright, accurate and straight-out vocal scale.
What I like in albums '70 years is that old and alive instrumental sound. Now all is improved to such a condition, that if you're
listening to any music you risk confounding the real instruments with their computer. That's why I prefer the 70's, not because the other albums are worse, but because I simply like this vivacity.
All of the instruments are very easy to listen as a separately taken musical line. When you're listening, it seems that you're living in each instrument, and later you're already streaming up with the vocals. This album has always enchanted me, and I hope that by writing all this I'll wake in someone else a wish to have a listen to Lonesome Crow again.
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