Scorpions!

[Mr Badguy]

It`s about time we had a thread dedicated to Germany`s greatest Heavy Metal export, Scorpions.

Excellent guitar work, great songs, stupid lyrics, receding hairlines, bad moustaches, that ridiculous human pyramid thing they do, controversial album sleeves etc., there`s plenty to love about them.

Klaus Meine`s strangely accented vocals are a bit difficult to take seriously, though.

Hands up who likes Scorpions?

[Coyote]

*raises hand*

[mako_kimura]

**raises both hands** Hellz yes. Gotta say my fav Scorpions songs are Don't Stop At The Top, Tease Me, Please Me, and Winds of Change

[DavidLeeNatra]

saw them live back in 1986 headlining the "monsters"...great show, good album ("love at first sting")...lost my interest in them after that and think they became more and more pathetic...

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by Mr Badguy
It`s about time we had a thread dedicated to Germany`s greatest Heavy Metal export, Scorpions.

Excellent guitar work, great songs, stupid lyrics, receding hairlines, bad moustaches, that ridiculous human pyramid thing they do, controversial album sleeves etc., there`s plenty to love about them.

Klaus Meine`s strangely accented vocals are a bit difficult to take seriously, though.

Hands up who likes Scorpions?

I raise my hand as well.

You couldn't sum it up any better. :cool:

[Terry]

Originally posted by DavidLeeNatra
saw them live back in 1986 headlining the "monsters"...great show, good album ("love at first sting")...lost my interest in them after that and think they became more and more pathetic...

Yep.

They pretty much came out with everything worthwhile they were going to by the time World Wide Live was released.

Loved 'em back in the day, though.

Love Uli Jon Roth, but didn't care so much for what the Scorps did with him.

Think I knew the Scorps had peaked when their fucking DRUMMER put out a solo album called Herman Ze German.

Anyone remember that vid for Wipeout?

[FORD]

As far as I'm concerned, the Scorps peaked about 25 years ago. The three albums Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism, and Blackout, were probably their best work.

Though I had to laugh yesterday when they played "Wind of Change" on "The Majority Report" and claimed that song had more to do with bringing down the Berlin Wall than Reagan or Gorbachev.

[PHOENIX]

Love at First Sting is my favorite album from them.

Big City Nights rocks!

[The_KiD]

Blackout and Love at First Sting are FOOKIN Stellar Albums.

KiD

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

In the Rock You...Hurricane video, Klaus looks so fucking small hehe. It's funny as hell. I wish I still had the video.

[Last_Child]

Scorpions...

Don't like em'.

[FORD]

Originally posted by MERRYKISSMASS2U
In the Rock You...Hurricane video, Klaus looks so fucking small hehe. It's funny as hell. I wish I still had the video.

Klaus IS fucking small. I believe he's only 5' 1". Which makes him shorter than Prince, Dio, or Angus Young.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

Originally posted by FORD
Klaus IS fucking small. I believe he's only 5' 1". Which makes him shorter than Prince, Dio, or Angus Young.

I know.... but in the video he comes out of this little capsule... it looks so funny.

[Jack68]

Absoloutely,blackout is probably my favorite.I saw them with dio,deep purple 2 -3 years ago they were excellent.Played steamrock fever,i almost soiled myself.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

I have everything they released from "Fly to the rainbow" to "Worldwide live".
There's something special with the first three albums IMO (well, I know, there was "Lonesome Crow" before), I mean "Fly to the rainbow", "In Trance" and "Virgin Killer". There's a timeless touch in them, like (relatively speaking) in Led Zeppelin's "III" and "IV". I mostly felt like it was the case when I discovered the records more than 20 years ago, but I still do today. Just magic. When you listen to what was recorded at a given time, either the 60s, 70s or 80s, it always sounds very dated. Those particular three, yet, do not at all.
Uli Roth's work was awesome. It's obvious that EVH must have listened to those albums very carefully... :cool:
Well, it's just anecdotic, but I think that he did with the Scorpions the best tune that Jimi Hendrix never recorded: "Hell Cat", on "Virgin Killer". I mean, it's like a Hendrix unreleased track, though Uli composed it, of course.
It's funny how Uli Roth certainly influenced EVH and later on Matthias Jabs tried very hard to compete with him on "Lovedrive", "Blackout" and, to a certain extent, "Love at first sting" - I'll take out "Animal Magnetism", relatively weak. Jabs did awesome stuff on "Can't get enough", "Another piece of meat", "Blackout", "Dynamite" and "Now", and I guess that CVH was somewhere in their minds.
It's a pity Hermann Rarebell never was exactly an excellent drummer though. :cool:

[ThrillsNSpills]

Sails of Charon from Taken by Force.

find it
crank it

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by ThrillsNSpills
Sails of Charon from Taken by Force.

find it
crank it

Yeah, I dig that one too. But I need to purchase the remastered album though. The first CD mastering hasn't got a powerful enough sound.
One of my fave "driving records" :) - for "Sails of Charon", "I've go to be free", "Steamrock Fever" and "He's a woman - she's a man". :cool:

[simplerhyme]

Scorpions rock!

Blackout is my fave album by them, thought got a bit shit in the late eighties.

Saw them opening for Judas Priest last year and they wiped the floor with Priest, unbelievably tight band!

[Mr. Vengeance]

They haven't done much since the late 80's that I've cared for, but before that- they ROCKED!

I fookin' CRANK The Zoo anytime it comes on the old satellite radio!!!!

Great riff!

[Mr. Vengeance]

Oh and aside from Van Halen, they OWNED that US Festival Metal Day

[rustoffa]

"Lovedrive" is one helluva album to own. It's one of the best metal recordings ever engineered, IMO. Pure fucking analog destruction. Listen to "Coast To Coast" in a centralized location, in front of your really x-pensive speakers.

Michael Schenker baby.

Beware of Scorpions.

[Romeo Delight]

Their drummer sucks.

I really like their double-live album

[DavidLeeNatra]

Originally posted by DavidFlamma
Their drummer sucks.

I really like their double-live album

lol...herman ze german...god...he played the WORST drum solo I've ever heard in 1986... :D

and he wrote the more than painful lyrics to "another piece of meat"

[ThrillsNSpills]

Originally posted by DavidFlamma
Their drummer sucks.

I really like their double-live album


Check out Tokyo Tapes, their other double live album with Uli Roth.
You'll like that one too.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Yeah, I'll always prefer "Tokyo Tapes" to "Worldwide live", because contrary to the latter, you didn't have to bear those painful tunes like "No one like you", "Big City Nights", you know, those bloody repetitive choruses, rrrhhaaaa! I can't stand them.
Both albums were gloriously remastered and are provided with a henaurmus zount. :cool:

[Full Bug]

Check out this Scorpions website, it has TONS of live boots for download, enough to keep anyone busy for awhile.....
http://www.scorpionstormchaser.com/index.html

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Love the Scorps. Not only the best German band, also the best Non-English European band, and one of the best live bands of their era.

Nuff Said.

Thanks for that link, Full Bug.

[Terry]

Heard a rumor years ago that Klaus was having trouble with his voice during the Blackout album, and Don Dokken did some uncredited vocals on it.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Partially True dat. Don Dokken was in the studio during the Blackout sessions incase Klaus' voice went. He wasn't really used though, except for some backing vocals.

[MERRYKISSMASS2U]

What do you guys think of Rammstein?

[amadeus]

Coast to Coast is an awesome guitar instrumental. I saw them 12 years ago in Germany and Winger opened up for them and nobody gave a crap about Winger but whe the Scorps hit the stage, it was friggin' madhouse.

[DavidLeeNatra]

Originally posted by MERRYKISSMASS2U
What do you guys think of Rammstein?

you think KI$$ put out a big show with a lot of fire? forget about it...RAMMS+EIN make look a KI$$ show like a boys choir...

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I've got a lot of respect for Rammstein, because they're making it despite the fact that the lyrics are in German. But, I'm not sure if they're making it because of the pyro in their show. The Scorpions, however, made it on performance alone.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Actually, I got a great 4-DVD Scorpions set last week. It's got

-Moment of Glory
-Acoustica
-A Savage, Crazy World
-One Night In Vienna

Good collection. It was an import from a land far far away. I recommend folk to pick it up.

[binnie]

With the exception of some first class porn, The Scorpions are the best thing to come out of Germany.

Fabulous band, great live, blew Judas Priest away when I saw 'em

Blackout and Lovedrive are classic.

They possibly are the worst dressed band ever though!

[Shaun Ponsonby]

What about Twisted Sister?

[binnie]

That's a close one actually,

I think the Scorpions win worst dressed though, because they thought they were cool

where as TS never took the gear seriously, like Alice Cooper.

Musically, TS only have about 10 great songs, I think the Scorpions win here, but hey "I Wanna rock" is awesome

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I don't like TS studio stuff much, but they are a great live band. Saw them supporting Alice Cooper last year. I was pleasently suprised.

[binnie]

Really, does Dee Snider still wear all the stage gear?

Not much fan of the studio stuff either, a few good songs on each record, then it's all filler

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Sort of. They toned it down when they reunited to make it more appropriate for their age.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by binnie
Fabulous band, great live, blew Judas Priest away when I saw 'em



Oh, BTW, I wouldn't say they blew them off completely. I saw the Manchester show, and I honestly couldn't decide who was better.

[binnie]

Wow I was there too!

Thought the Scorpions had a much better sound,

JP was like watching a panto.

They did all the classics but there was just something missing for me, some guys next to me walked out pissing themsleves after about 5 tunes.

still one of the greatest metal bands of all time though, and I'd see them again!

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Oh, no doubt about it-Scorps sound was much better. They were loud and clear. Priest were just ridiculously loud. I think Halford DEFINATLEY needs to tone down his studs. They were really weighing him down.

Maybe the reason I thought Priest wern't panto-ish was because I never saw these bands in their prime (I think I was 3 or 4 when Halford left after "Painkiller").

[binnie]

Don't think much to Rammstein I'm afraid.

Feel I'm not getting something with them, maybe it's just me.

Supposed to be a great live band though