Track Listing

1. Hour 1
2. Game of Life
3. We Were Born to Fly
4. Future Never Dies - Russ Irwin, Scorpions
5. You're Lovin' Me to Death
6. 321
7. Love Will Keep Us Alive - Eric Bazilian, Scorpions, Harry
8. We Will Rise Again
9. Your Last Song
10. Love Is War
11. Cross - Billy Corgan, Scorpions
12. Humanity

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16421 in Music
• Released on: 2007-08-28
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
A stunning surprise package is boxed and tied and ready for unwrapping: Scorpions, Germany's most-successful international music export, are poised to "sting" once again and are planning a frontal attack on the musical artery of rock fans all over the globe with their new album Humanity-Hour 1. Thirty-five years after the release of their debut album Lonesome Crow, Scorpions believe they have reached a new creative high in their impressive career. And they plan to prove it with the release of album number 21. Even though they have already made music history with hits like "Wind Of Change", "Rock You Like A Hurricane" and "Send Me An Angel"- there is still nothing more exciting than a new challenge, than adding another milestone to the band's history.

Amazon.com
Humanity Hour I, the latest Scorpions outing, has some sort of concept at the heart of it, but you needn't worry about the plot-–suffice it to say that the venerable Teutonic rock quintet has delivered a collection of highly melodic and semi-energetic hard pop. The record's short on hard rockers, though what is here--the title cut, "You're Lovin' Me to Death," "321"--serve as noble attempts at updating the group's sound and keeping its reputation as a heavy metal band intact. But the collection as a whole mires in midtempo melancholy: at least half of the record is occupied by ballads or ballads in a rocker's pleather pants, rendering this record closer to Michael Bolton than Metallica. True, few hard pop acts have written as many ballads that have reached aural permanence ("No One Like You" and "Holiday") but this is also the band that wrote its share of raucous rockers ("Rock You Like a Hurricane," "Blackout," "The Zoo"), which are in short supply here. Humanity Hour I isn't necessarily a bad record for that trade but it may be a sign that Klaus Meine and Co. are aging gracefully and keenly aware that they're making music for people who prefer to sway--rather than bang--their heads. ––Jedd Beaudoin

Customer Reviews

Scorpions still Rock!
All of the songs on this CD are awesome! Absolutely no filler. Don't hesitate to buy this CD. You definitely will not be disappointed.

Back In Style
Finally! A group from my youth has the guts to just do their thing and release the music they became famous for. No big changes here. No need to "fit in" with whatever the latest musical fad is. You wont find any "screamo" or "hybrid hip hop" here. Its Scorpions through and through and I listen to this CD almost daily. The entire album is great and one that I can sit through without getting impatient and flipping to a song I want to hear more.

I think 80s metal fans around the world are starving to hear all their favorite bands playing music in the style that made them all the metal gods we saw them as. The Scorps deliver with Humanity Hour 1.

Its all solid classic Scorpions and worth every penny. Keep rockin fellas!

Evocative, Profound Scorpions, Does not Disappoint
Ahhh, another amazing, and yes sublime, work of art from Scorpions. Awesome visceral, driving guitars, lucid rhythm and of course divinely inspired vocals...
Buy it and a copy for anyone you know needing dark-and-light inspiration. Humanity: Hour 1 delivers timeless hard rock that is nevertheless immediately relevant to today's younguns. Also note the "message" of the album, akin to German-born Eckhart Tolle's spiritual teachings. Tolle, like Scorpions, says, "Humanity: evolve or die!"