Today's Rant: Courtney's Comeback

Today I'm reading post bashing the new Hole song Skinny Little Bi$#@. Phrases like 90s rehash, give it up, druggie go away, and stuff like that. I'm here to say then someone STEP UP TO THE MIC! Where's the next great RocknRoll Beeatch then??? I hear names like Taylor Swift, Fergie, Lady Gaga, etc....WTF...but no new Rock Queens...It's ok if Axl Rose punches out a photographer. Nobody seemed to mind...except for the photographer. It's very "Rock"...Rock stars wouldn't be rock stars without the Sex, Drugs, RocknRoll and any other Mayhem they can get themselves into. So what if she's a addict I say. That's her life. She chose that life. All the greatest rock stars in music history were at one time an addict...including The Beatles. I for one like the song. It's brash, it's hard, and Courtney's voice sounds as good as ever. It could be worse but it isn't.

70s vs 80s/90s Scorpions

Something I'm figuring out now about the Scorpions was not a lot of people have heard the pre-1979 Scorpions. When you say Scorpions most people think Rock You Like a Hurricane, Still Loving You, Winds of Change, No One Like You, Tease Me, Please Me and others. I can remember like it was yesterday when my best friends uncle gave me his Best of Scorpions Vol 2. The funny thing was I was expecting those songs to be on there. But instead songs like Top of the Bill, Speedy's Coming and They Need a Million were the highlights from the 70s records. Long before Matthias Jabs, Rudy Schenker and Rock You Like an 80s Hair Metal Hurricane, there was Michael Schenker and Uli Jon Roth on Guitars. The first 5 albums I must say are old school Heavy Metal. Listen to early Judas Priest, old Black Sabbath, and the first 2 albums from Iron Maiden. Uli Jon Roth I must say is a underrated lead guitarist. Lonsome Crow (1972), Fly to the Rainbow (1974, Virgin Killer (1976) and Taken by Force (1977) are the just as much the roots of early metal. My personal favorite is Taken by Force. The last Uli Jon Roth Album. By the time Jabs joined the group and switching record labels to RCA, they became too commercial. To the point of get a song on the radio or MTV was more important the music itself. Love at First Sting was their first album success in the MTV era. Rock You Like a Hurricane was so overplayed and can't be taken serious as song. I understand hits means sales (money)...but isn't it supposed to be about the music. Any band member will tell you it's about the music. Why do you think all these old bands nowadays are going back their "meat and potatoes" sound that got them started?
Playlist:
1. Top of the Bill
2. The Sails of Charon
3. Steamrock Fever
4. Longing for Fire
5. They Need a Million
6. Your Light
These are 5 MUST in any Scorpions fan playlist.

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