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Crazy World | ||||||||||||
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| Recording Artist: | Scorpions | ||||||||||||
| Writers: | Jim Vallance Klaus Meine Rudolf Schenker Herman Rarebell |
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| Date Written: | 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Albums: | Crazy World (1990) Live Bites (1995) |
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Klaus Meine: vocals Rudolf Schenker: guitar Matthias Jabs: guitar Francis Buchholz: bass Herman Rarebell: drums Backing vocals: Marcel Gelderblom, Mirjam Erftemeijer, Henk Horden, Patrick Ulenberg, Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Erwin Musper, Keith Olsen. |
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Produced by Keith Olsen and the Scorpions. Recorded by Erwin Musper and Keith Olsen at Goodnight LA Studios (Los Angeles) and Wisseloord Studios (Hilversum, Holland). Mixed at Goodnight LA Studios and Wisseloord Studios by Keith Olsen, Shay Baby and Erwin Musper. |
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They're also very serious about who they are and what they do, while still managing to maintain a sense of humour about it all, if that's not too much of a dichotomy. Occasionally they're misunderstood. In September 2007 a Vancouver music critic wrote: "One archetypal story has the Scorps stomping out of a screening of "Spinal Tap" in a huff because the film parody struck too close to home". In my experience, nothing could be further from the truth! I was sitting with the Scorpions one night, in the lobby of the Merdien Hotel in Vancouver. The actor Harry Shearer walked by, and Rudolf did a double take. "That was the bass player from Spinal Tap!", Rudolf said, visibly excited. A few minutes later, Harry walked back in our direction again. "Excuse me", Rudolf said. "Are you Harry Shearer?". "Well, uhm, yes I am", was the shy reply. "VEE ARE THE SCORPIONS!!!", shouted Rudolf, delighted to be in the presence of a true Heavy Metal legend. "It's nice to meet you", said Shearer, in a quiet, bemused voice. After Harry had gone, Rudolf said he was certain -- in fact, he heard it from a reliable source -- that Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, and Christopher Guest had, to some degree, used The Scorpions as inspiration for their Spinal Tap characters. A few years later I met Harry Shearer again, this time at the "ASCAP Music Awards" in Los Angeles. I asked him if it was true that The Scorpions had inspired the Spinal Tap film in any way. "No", was all he said. |
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Here's Rudolf Schenker from an August 2021 interview with Malcolm Dome: "Bruce Fairbarin was our original choice to produce us, and we flew to LA to meet him. He put us in touch with Jim Vallance, because he thought Jim could help with the songwriting. We got on so well with Jim, he ended up co-writing a lot of the album with us – seven tracks in all. But at the last minute, Bruce said he’d been asked to produce AC/DC, which had always been one of his ambitions, so he couldn’t do our album. In the end we went with Keith Olsen, who did a superb job. Most of the recording was done at his Goodnight LA Studios, but Klaus had problems with the vocals, so we did those at Wisseloord Studios in Holland, where we also mixed it." |
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| Lyrics: | I get up in the morning For my dose of the news Crawl right back in the sack girl Had enough of the truth Spend your dollars and rubels Buy a piece of the wall Build it up in your backyard I'm so sick of it all Ooh, it's a crazy world Ooh, it's a crazy world Drivin' down to the city Doin' 155 Better late than never I'm more dead than alive We can find the Titanic Put a man on the moon But we can't fix our backyard Man we better start soon Ooh, it's a crazy world Ooh, it's a crazy world Ooh, it's a crazy world Ooh, it's a crazy world I don't want to hear about it I wish it would be worlds away You know the more I think about it The more I feel we need to change I get up (In a crazy, crazy world) We all live (In a crazy, crazy world) Ooh yeah (It's a crazy, crazy world) I gotta get out (Of this crazy, crazy world) Goin' home to my baby It's been another hard day Bust my balls for the tax man So what else can I say They spent our money on missiles For the third world war Now they're stacked in my backyard We don't need them no more Ooh, it's a crazy world Ooh, it's a crazy world Ooh, it's a crazy world Ooh, it's a crazy world |
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