SCORPIONS — Fly To The Rainbow (review)

SCORPIONS — Fly To The Rainbow album cover Album · 1974 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
1967/ 1976
Great album by a great band!

"Fly To The Rainbow" is the 2nd album by Teutonic Heavy metal act Scorpions and it's published in 1974. The line-up Uli John Roth is still one of my favorite axemen.

If "Speedy's Coming" is a pure Rock, without sort of feeling (if not for power), the first album masterpiece is "They Need A Million" with a great acoustic intro. Musically this song is pure dynamite, although close to some Progressive Rock, at the end is an honest and very airy melodic heavy metal, though peppered with technical but banal riffs (today) but supported by a unique feeling, thanks to the guest synth of Achim Kirschning. This song is, also today, a true masterpiece. But "Drifting Sun", a song by (and sung) Uli John Roth is a great piece of Heavy Metal. Ok, this song is more in Psychedelic Rock field but "Drifting Sun" remain a great piece of Heavy Metal that, as "They Need A Million", kidnaps you and torment your mind like a worm! A good Psychedelic part is great as middle section and guitar riffs are are from textbook of heavy metal! Sure this song has more Metal spirit of many metal songs of 70's and, for me, it's one of the more sincere and fundamental Heavy metal songs of all time. "Fly People Fly" is a melancholy and symphonic Folk ballad. A great Soul/ Blues arrangement (more for feeling role) is the winning element of this ballad, a great weepy ballad. Other words are wasted! (P.s.: ballad is synonym Scrpions!). "This Is My Song" is a ride, epic and symphonic, with a distorted guitar riff really simple from textbook of Heavy Metal and an undistorted guitar riff that accompanies the voice really excellent (it will be the voice of Klaus Meine is truly Blues in style but symphonic for the final result?). Also the guitar solo is excellent. "Far Away" is the typical Scorpions song, a Symphonic Blues Rock, melodic, pissed, sweet and cursed, here masked by Rock, strangely dry and strangely symphonic (without being what I described). Certainly without Klaus Meine no song of Scorpions would at least spell (if not the songs written and sung by Uli John Roth, but these have a different style). "fly To The Rainbow" is another song with acoustic intro. But this Rock song is, at the end, the summary of Scorpions style: melodic and pissed sound, Blues, Rock and Symphonic style, amplified by 70's mentality.

"Fly To The Rainbow" as Prog Metal album? Well, it's difficult to judge "Fly To The Rainbow" a Prog Metal album. Sure "Fly To The Rainbow" is a masterpiece of traditional Metal and for me "Sad Wings Of Destiny" (Judas Priest) pays many debts to this album. That words can not be described as deserve. An immortal album. For the history of XXth Century. In absolute sense!
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