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Originally Posted by Sami
Ok, so Iīll have to get Pure Instinct as well
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I think I said it in the thread before. I love "Pure Instinct", others don't. It's not the typical hard rock sound, but I'll defend it till the end.
This is what makes it "their These Days":
- It was released in 1996, so it has a similar vibe to it. Many albums from other bands/artists 1994-1996 tend to have a ballad-heavy, acoustic-driven, singer-songwriter vibe. It was the zeitgeist.
- As being said, the album contains a lot of melancholy ballads, mostly based on acoustic guitars. It starts off with a cool rock song which I consider one of their best, "Wild Child", and from then on delivers about the same amount of "rockers" as These Days does. Around 3. The albums ends off with a melancholy love song, "Are You The One?", compared to "Diamond Ring".
- The biggest hit off the album was "You & I", a class ballad.
- The album offers a bigger variety of sounds and creative ideas than the standard Scorpions album (apart from "Eye To Eye", which is something completely different of course).
- And the biggest criteria: Though being really good in its own way, it wasn't as successful as the band hoped it would be, and in recent setlists it gets totally ignored.
Yeah, you should definitely get it! I agree on "Humanity". It has some good tunes, but isn't their best. It fails on trying to heavily to be a concept album. But the title track is a first class Scorpions anthem!