Crazy World (Scorpions album)

Crazy World
Cover design by Richard Evans
Studio album by
Scorpions
Released6 November 1990 (1990-11-06)
Recorded1990
StudioGoodnight LA Studios, Los Angeles, U.S.
Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, Netherlands
Genre
Length52:53
LabelVertigo, Mercury
Producer
Scorpions chronology
Savage Amusement
(1988) 		Crazy World
(1990) 		Face the Heat
(1993)
Singles from Crazy World
  1. "Tease Me Please Me"
    Released: November 1990
  2. "Don't Believe Her"
    Released: December 1990
  3. "Wind of Change"
    Released: 21 January 1991
  4. "Send Me an Angel"
    Released: 17 September 1991
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Classic Rock[4]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal5/10[5]
Forces Parallèles[6]
Rock Hard8.0/10[7]

Crazy World is the eleventh studio album by the German hard rock band Scorpions, released on 6 November 1990.[8] The album peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 chart for albums in 1991.[9] That same year, the song "Wind of Change" reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100[9] and "Send Me an Angel" reached No. 44 on the same chart.[9] It also has the only Scorpions track to credit bassist Francis Buchholz as a writer, "Kicks After Six". This album was the band's first album in a decade and a half to not be produced by Dieter Dierks.

Crazy World became the band's only album to reach number one in their home country of Germany.[10] In the UK, it remains the only Scorpions album to attain Silver certification (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in November 1991.[11] In the United States, it is the band's second best-selling album to 1984's Love at First Sting, and their last one to be certified at least gold by the RIAA.[12] It was the band's last studio album to feature the Lovedrive-era lineup, with Buchholz leaving the band in October 1992.

"Hit Between the Eyes" was played during the ending credits of the 1992 film Freejack.

"Send Me an Angel" was played at the closing scene in the 2004 Cold Case episode "Who's Your Daddy." "Wind of Change" was also used during the 2009 film Gentlemen Broncos and towards the end of the 2014 film The Interview and international version soundtrack featured Nutri Ventures in pilot episode.

  1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo (6 November 2015). "How Scorpions Welcomed Fans to a New Decade on 'Crazy World'". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 14 September 2022. The result, as mentioned earlier, was a successful resurrection of the Scorpions' vintage '80s melodic hard rock sound
  2. ^ Begrand, Adrien. "Scorpions: Box of Scorpions". PopMatters. Retrieved 30 May 2021. 1990's Crazy World was more pop metal by numbers
  3. ^ Weber, Barry. "Scorpions Crazy World review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  4. ^ Dalton, Stephen (January 2014). "Scorpions - Crazy World Deluxe Edition". Classic Rock (192): 120.
  5. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 387. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  6. ^ Gaguet, Guillaume. "Scorpion Crazy World review". Forces Parallèles. Forces Parallèles. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  7. ^ Kühnemund, Götz (1990). "Review Album: Scorpions - Crazy World". Rock Hard (in German). No. 45. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  8. ^ "RIAA Certification". Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  9. ^ a b c "Crazy World Billboard Albums". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on 25 November 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  10. ^ "Album – Scorpions, Crazy World". Charts.de (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  11. ^ "BPI Certified Awards Database: search for Artist Scorpions". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  12. ^ "Gold & Platinum - RIAA". RIAA.com. Retrieved 16 August 2018.