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Since I've been covering music from 1986 and 1991, one of my audio friends cracked, "What, no love for 1996?"I think it was late summer/early fall 1996. My then-girlfriend, ACS, was living in Pacifica, mere blocks from the ocean cliffs. I don't know what we were doing, but on the way to her place, we stopped off at the Stonestown Tower Records. There, we found what appeared to be a new Scorpions album, Pure Instinct. The glib ACS rattled off one of her semi-jokes that the album cover was how she pictured us.
Well, in that post-grunge year, non-grunge acts had to come out with A+ material, or be completely ignored. It's not that the Scorpions were lazy or insincere. And yes, the album does include some power ballads. It's just that, on Pure Instinct, the material is just.....average. And in those days, merely "average" didn't cut it. Thus, Pure Instinct did not sell, and no one knew or knows about it.
Pure Instinct did not move me and ACS. However, her favorite song was "Stone In My Shoe." Actually, as we shopped for speakers in the $1500 range, some NHT floorstander (2.3A?), by being focused, arguably did the best job on "Stone In My Shoe."
But anyway, if you enjoy looking under rugs, couches, and rocks for under-the-radar music, you'll find the Scorpions' "Stone In My Shoe" from the 1996 archive.
-Lummy The Loch Monster
Edits: 09/04/16Follow Ups:
I liked 80's Scorpions only.
I absolutely love the 70s albums from them with the Blackout album being a major changing point...and not for the better. The Uli Jon Roth years and the too few albums with Michael Schenker still get regular play at my place. In 2014 I saw both of those legendary guitarists within a few weeks of each other and both played a lot of early Scorpions material. It was the first time I've ever heard those songs live and loved every minute.
I saw the Scorpions on the Blackout tour and while waiting by the buses hoping for a glimpse of the band a short, brusque man with a crew cut forced his way between my buddy and I against the flow of the small crowd. When I gave him a "WTF" look I realized it was Udo Dirkschneider from Accept. They weren't playing there and I doubt many even knew who they were, but my friends and I did. When I said "Udo...?", he stopped, turned around and smiled, and was probably shocked that a few American kids knew who he was in 1982.
Ah yes Udo. The greatest unknown metal singer if all time. Recently bought a few solo lp's which blow away anything by the new Accept.
...doing classic Accept songs.
"Blackout" began my interest in Scorpions. Nice story about the Accept guy.
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