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I like the Mathias albums, pre LAFS a lot. I enjoy Uli’s playing a lot more but think their song writing got a lot stronger after Uli. What I love about the two era’s is I feel I’m getting two awesome bands for the price of one.
That's the same era I got into them, still love that album, Crazy World and Face The Heat. I later discovered the 70s albums and that went on to become my favorite era, but still love that 1988-93 era.
1. Love at First Sting 2. Blackout World Wide Live is one of my favorite live albums by any band. I'd rank it as #1 for me if it was between all Scorpions albums, not just studio. All great songs and great memories listening to it on cassette tape when it came out.
My top ten 1.Taken by Force 2.In Trance 3.Blackout 4. Virgin Killer 5.Lovedrive 6.Animal Magnetism 7.Love at First Sting 8.Fly to the Rainbow 9.Crazy World 10.Lonesome Crow.
My top Scorpions albums: 1. Taken By Force 2. Virgin Killer 3. In Trance 4. Fly To The Rainbow 5. Lonesome Crow 6. Animal Magnetism 7. Lovedrive 8. Blackout 9. Love At First Sting Please do a Hawkwind top 10 studio albums, please please please pleeeease...
My Top 10: 1- Blackout 2- Love at First Sting 3- Taken By Force 4- Animal Magnestim 5- Lovedrive 6- Face The Heat 7- Fly To The Rainbow 8- Virgin Killer 9- Humanity Hour 1 10- Savage Amusement Honourable Mention: Tokyo Tapes
Quite often, like the guy in the video says, post mid 90s Scorpions gets overlooked. However, both Humanity Hour 1, and Unbreakable, are stellar albums! Some of their best work ever is on those albums
@@PazBinv1 Absolutely!!! I love all four studio albums Accept have done with Mark Tornillo as their lead singer. Especially Blood Of The Nations and Blind Rage. I do admit that I am a little worried about their next studio album. It will be Accept's first studio album without Peter Baltes ever. According to Wolf Hoffman from past interviews , Peter Baltes had a major part in the songwriting process about 50% and Wolf Hoffman the other 50%. Now looks like Wolf Hoffman will be doing all songwriting for the music, unless he lets other members contribute.
My top 10... 1. Love at First Sting (It just sounds like a party to me) 2. Animal Magnetism 3. Taken By Force 4. In Trance 5. Lonesome Crow 6. Virgin Killer 7. Lovedrive 8. Blackout 9. Savage Amusement 10. Crazy World
Great vid. I grew up on the 80s and beyond Scorpions albums and really haven't spent much time on the 70s stuff that you praised so highly. I trust your musical knowledge and tastes so I am going to go back and spend some time of those albums over the next week or so. Thanks for all you do.
My list would go up to Love At First Sting everything after was never the same. 1 In Trance 2 Virgin Killer 3 Taken By Force 4 Fly To The Rainbow 5 Lovedrive 6 Blackout 7 Love At First Sting 8 Animal Magnetism 9 Lonesome Crow
I'm so happy you gave a nod to World Wide Live. That is the perfect Scorpions album for me. I've always loved the Animal Magnetism cover. Nothing specific, but something wrong is going on there. Several songs from Lovedrive are on World Wide Live. My #1 album would be Blackout.
Here, Here! Scorps deserve to be in the (shameful) R&R Hall of Fame. They had a HUGE influence on the hard rock music scene and cast a wide net of popularity around the globe.
The original Scorpions band that recorded Lonesome Crow album broke up soon after that album and young Michael Schencker joined UFO. With the band no more two of the ex Scorpions aproached Uli Jon Roth to join them in a new lineup but he refused and continued with his band Dawn Road. So singer Klaus Meine and guitarist Rudolf Schencker joined Dawn Road alongside lead guitarist Uli Jon Roth. bassist Francis Buchholtz , drummer Jürgen Rosenthal and Keyboardist Achim Kirschning . However after Dawn Road recorded their debut album they decided to change their name to Scorpions, and the rest is rock history.
I had never heard Scorpions. Just one song. Sails. A friend played it for me. That lead guitar!!! Bought the 4 Roth studio records the same day in 1980. Cut outs! Remember those? Like $3 a pop! Cherry new records still in the cellophane with a little chunk cut out each of the covers. What a wonderful way to be introduced to this band. I might have even got Tokyo Tapes that day too. Don't remember. The hunt for Crow was on! Somehow didn't hear it for years. I used to stand in the stores for hours going through the cut outs. CD's didn't exist yet. I ended up with like 800 albums after years of it.
Hi, cool to talk about Scorpions, Cheers from Caracas Venezuela, My top 10 Scorpions studio Albums: 1.Taken by force 2.Blackout 3.Love at first sting 4.Face the heat 5. Unbreakable 6.Savage Amusement 7.Humanity hour 1 8.Sting the tail 9.Crazy World 10.Pure Instinct Live albums 1.Tokyo Tapes 2. Wolrd wide live 3.Unplugged in Athens,
I thought I already Ranked the Scorpions, but here we go again! 12 - Unbreakable 11 - Love at First Sting 10 - Sting in the Tail 9 - Crazy World 8 - Blackout 7 - Animal Magnetism 6 - Fly to the Rainbow 5 - Lovedrive 4 - Virgin Killer 3 - Taken by Force 2 - In Trance 1 - Lonesome Crow Jesus Christ, Lonesome Crow is an Underrated Album. I wished this Era would've last longer, but we would've never gotten Jon Roth.
Good one Pete, One of my favorite bands! Saw them in 1979 open for Nugent/Blackfoot tour, and came back and Headlined in 1981 on the Blackout Tour , Iron Maiden and Girlschool opened. Met the whole band before the gig at the hotel and got their autographs which i still have. Seem them many times , even in Franfurt Germany in 90's. Love the ULI ERA! Saw him couple years ago in Atlanta, and he played those early classics. 1) Animal Magnetism 2) Lovedrive 3) Virgin Killer 4) Taken By Force 5) In Trance 6) Blackout 7) Love AT FIRST STING 8)Fly to the Rainbow
Thing about Savage is, Dieter Dierks thought he was Mutt Lange. He had Rarebell record the bass drum, then the snare, then the cymbals, and so on.. At least, that's what they said in an interview in 1990 and that was one of the reasons why they stopped working with him and they went with Keith Olsen for Crazy World.
Savage Amusement was the first Scorpion's album I purchased, so it has some nostalgia value to me, that being said, other than Rythym of Love and maybe Media Overkill, their aren't many other tracks I care to listen to today off that album. I think the group was trying too hard to make Love at First Sting Pt. 2, and it didn't work out that well.
Never heard a bad song from the Scorps. Pete, ever think about doing a combo ranking, like "Top 10 Iron Maiden/Judas Priest albums" as a comparative exercise? Also maybe doing a combo of bands with smaller catalogs. Just a thought.
Scorpions are a brilliant band, and were my gateway into metal music. I have split the rankings up The top 4 I consider essentially perfect albums with 1 and 2 being perfect. 5-11 are pretty strong while 12 onwards have their moments. 1. Lovedrive 2. In Trance ----- 3. Blackout 4. Love At First Sting ----- 5. Taken By Force 6. Crazy World 7. Return To Forever 8. Virgin Killer 9. Fly To The Rainbow 10. Animal Magentism 11. Humanity Hour 1 ----- 12. Face The Heat 13. Sting In the Tail 14. Savage Amusement 15. Pure Instinct 16. Unbreakable ----- 17. Lonesome Crow 18. Eye II Eye
Love Drive, Animal Magnetism, Blackout, and Love at First Sting....that's all I need and all that exists for me in terms of Scorpions music. Each one superb! First rock band I saw in concert. I was 17. Never forget it.
My faves 1) Tokyo tapes. 2) lovedrive. 3) fly to the rainbow. 4) virgin killer 5) in trance 6) lonesome crow 7)taken by force. 8) blackout 9) love first sting. 10) face the heat
Uli Jon Roth rules. 1. Taken By Force 2. Fly to The Rainbow 3. Virgin Killer 4. In Trance 5. Animal Magnetism 6. Love at First Sting 7. Blackout 8. Lovedrive 9. Rock Believer 10. Crazy World 11. Savage Amusement 12. Humanity: Hour 1 13. Unbreakable 14. Lonesome Crow 15. Face The Heat 16. Sting In The Tail 17. Return to Forever 18. Pure Instinct 19. Eye 2 Eye
I got into the Scorpions right when Tokyo Tapes came out and I used to wear that album out. That of course led me to other Scorpions albums. I did get to see them twice. I like both the Uli and Jabs eras. In their heyday they were a fantastic band.
I’ve watched about two dozen of your album ranking videos. For the first, and probably only time, your top ten match mine exactly. I was a huge fan in the mid and late 70’s, when almost no one else knew of the Scorpions. When they were on R.C.A. Records in America. I love the early 80’s albums as well, but nothing beats the Roth years.
Scorps! Saw em' live 10 times-still not enough! 1.Taken By Force 2.Virgin Killer 3.In Trance 4.Lovedrive 5.Animal Magnetism 6.Blackout 7.Love At First Sting 8.Crazy World 9.Face The Heat 10.Sting In The Tail …….the Germans have produced some top shelf hard rock bands, Scorpions paving the way with skillful guitarists and great hooks and melodies-special shout out to Klaus Meine, whose instantly memorable voice never fails to impress, a very gifted singer!
sails of Charon could quite possibly be the most important song of the late 70’s absolutely epic Without this song and Ulrich’s exploration on the harmonic minor scale you wouldn’t have had the whole Neo Classical guitar phase of metal do you hear me Yngwie ! They owe it all to Ulrich Roth probably the most underrated guitar player of all time an absolute Monster player thanks Pete
The first time I heard Uli Roth was at a used record store. I put in Virgin Killer, and accidentally started with side II. After hearing the opening to "Hell Cat", I thought, "Wow, who the hell is this guy?" An amazing guitarist, that's for sure.
Yes Pete, the cover of "Lonesome Crow" is a great work by Rodney Matthews. I own a 1982 lp reissue on clear vinyl. I think most of their albums have aged badly, but their first 3 are gems.
I like that Lonesome Crow album too. 16 yr old M. Schenker has some blistering guitar work on there. I think we're in the minority however, most people I talk to hate it.
1) Lonesome Crow A great album that deserves more recognition, no other scorpions album sounds anything like it. 2) In Trance My favorite Roth album. Like Lonesome Crow, a blast to listen to. 3) Fly To The Rainbow Almost as good as In Trance. 4) Taken By Force
Lonesome Crow is the Gem that gets Shit On for a Stupid Reason. Lonesome Crow is my Favorite Scorpions Album. I like that old Album Cover with the guy holding a Guitar better than the new one.
I agree with you again Pete. I rather the older SCORPIONS albums also. The only two newer albums I have is World Wide Live from 1985 and Sting in the Tail from 2010 which in my opinion is a very good album. I really love Fly to the Rainbow and probably would rank it my #1 but it's very close with Blackout and Love at First Sting and Lovedrive. But all the older albums are very close in rankings for me. Verygood video Pete. And by the way I love horror movies also. That's my favorite types of movies.🙂 \m/
Great ranking. My personal favorites by Scorpions are from the Uli Roth-,ära, too. 01 Taken by Force 02 Virgin Killer 03 In Trance 04 Fly to the Rainbow 05 Lovedrive 06 Animal Magnetism 07 Lonesome Crow 08 Blackout 09 Savage Amusement 10 Love at first Sting
May be chalk for most fans as myself but my favorite album is still "Love at first Sting". Love the Uli John Roth stuff though, 2nd favorite is "In Trance"
Been binging on Scorps for a couple weeks to get my list. Here we go! 18. Eye to Eye. (1999) (Just awful) 17. Return to Forever (2015) 16. Lonesome Crow. (1972) 15. Pure Instinct. (1996) 14. Humanity Hour 1. (2007) 13. Sting in the Tail. (2010) 12. Unbreakable. (2004) 11. Face the Heat. (1993) 10. Crazy World. (1990) 9. Fly to the Rainbow. (1974) 8. Savage Amusement. (1988) 7. In Trance. (1975) 6. Taken by Force. (1977) 5. Animal Magnetism. (1980) 4. Blackout. (1982) 3. Virgin Killer. (1976) 2. Love at First Sting. (1984) 1. Lovedrive. (1979) Thanks.
Great show once again, Pete! My first touch to Scorpions was World Wide Live at mid-80's when I was like 8 or 9 years. Loved it and still do! Starts off with barnburning and brainmelting pair of Coming Home and Blackout
So much great stuff from the debut to Blackout, but the Uli era...KILLER! They also did some of my favorite power ballads, along with Priest and UFO. Also, the dog on the cover Animal Magnetism (doberman?) is what made Pete's dog bark. Hadto'vebeen. 10/10.
You're not going to believe this, but I was just thinking about suggesting a top ten song video by Accept. Also, a top ten song video by Montrose and Traffic. You might have done one already on these. I think you did a Ranking the studio albums video on Traffic, but I don't know about a top ten song video. Anyway, I enjoy watching your videos, even if you do ignore my comments....lol (Just kidding). Well, I hope you're staying safe from the Coronavirus, and keep up the good work.
My rank: 1 Lovedrive 2 Virgin Killer 3 Taken By Force 4 Blackout 5 In Trance 6 Fly to the Rainbow 7 Lonesome Crow 8 Animal Magnetism 9 Love at First Sting 10 Crazy World 11 Rock Believer 12 Humanity - Hour 1 13 Sting in the Tail 14 Face the Heat 15 Unbreakable 16 Savage Amusement 17 Return to Forever 18 Pure Instinct 19 Eye II Eye
I never thought of which studio album that I liked the most. I will tell you what album I do associate the most with is Tokyo Tapes. I own most of their catalog but, Tokyo Tapes just rules!
I’m in complete agreement for cut off point with Scorpions and am completely looking forward to your horror reviews. 20’s, 30’s and 40’s are my favorite eras, but I enjoy stuff after too.
I thought the 80s era was great until listening to Virgin Killer and Taken by Force again.. wow those are killer records. Roth is a dynamo on the guitar
1-fly to the rainbow 2-in trance 3-virgin killer 4-lonesome crow 5-tokyo tapes 6-taken by force 7-animal magnatism 8-lovedrive 9-blackout 10- love at first sting 84' my birth year
I had Lovedrive as an 8-track in my car in high school. It was the only one I had so it played non-stop for 2+ years and scarred a special place in my heart. I still get chills when I hear the opening riff to Loving You Sunday Morning!
Omgs 😱 I just love all of their albums I a younger generation of Fan's but I am BIGGEST fan I have allot of scorpions CDs concert's guitar pics t-shirts my favorite album is pure instinct I love all about the SCORPIONS I can go on taking about them thanks for this post U ROCK 👍
I got all there albums new and old. They still rock i prefer 70s and early 80s but all there albums are worth a listen def a top 5 band in my ranking and concert wise one of the best...
Return to Forever from 2015 is definitely worth a listen. I wasn’t a fan either of the 90’s Scorpions stuff but this one was definitely worth a listen.
I did not grow up with the studio albums, but the live album World Wide Live. That is the soundtrack to my childhood, so it has been hard for me to like any of the studio-albums more than that sucker;)
1) Virgin Killer 2) Taken By Force 3) In Trance. 4) Fly To The Rainbow 5) Lovedrive 6) Animal Magnetism 7) Blackout 8) Love At 1st Sting 9) Face The Heat 10) Crazy World 11) Savage Amusement 12) Unbreakable 13) Sting In The Tail 14) Return To Forever 15) Humanity hour 1 16)Pure Instinct 17) Lonesome Crow 18)Eye II Eye
I'm in agreement though the first 4 could rotate depending on the one playing in my player lol all amazing yet these guys aren't in the hall of fame???
Please forget about the “hall of fame”. It’s a bullshit money grab that has nothing to do with rock music or its importance. It’s run by a bunch of eternal college boys who think rock ‘n’ roll begins and ends with Lou Reed and the Sex Pistols. It’s a complete farce!
The best two albums were Intrance and Lovedrive. The Tokyo Tapes is one of the greatest live albums of all time. The new "Rock Believer" record is a nice comeback from the dismal Return Forever.
My personal top five: 1. Animal Magnetism (very underrated, in my opinion) 2. Love at First Sting 3. Lovedrive ("Coast to Coast" rules) 4. Blackout 5. Savage Amusement
My first Scorpions album was Virgin Killer when it was released. Still my favorite. My rankings: 1.Virgin Killer 2.In Trance 3.Taken By Force 4.Fly to the Rainbow 5.Lovedrive 6.Lonesome Crow 7.Animal Magnetism
Hi Pete, I was wondering if you would like to do a show about current hard rock bands, Work of Art, The night flight orchestra, One Desire (Finland), Blues Pills, Maidavale(Sweden), Wedge (Germany), Lucifer (Sweden) , Ambush (Sweden)and of course new releases by old bands like Pretty Maids, Harem Scarem, and many others, I really dig many of the hard rock bands you like and few prog rock bands though. I listen to a lot of the well known bands but I listen as well a lot of current music. Cheers from England
Here's my (updated) ranking 19. Return To Forever (2015) 18. Eye II Eye (1999) 17. Unbreakable (2004) 16. Humanity Hour 1 (2007) 15. Lonesome Crow (1972) 14. Rock Believer (2022) 13. Pure Instinct (1996) 12. Savage Amusement (1988) 11. Sting In The Tail (2010) 10. Crazy World (1990) 9. Face The Heat (1993) 8. Fly To The Rainbow (1974) 7. Virgin Killer (1976) 6. In Trance (1975) 5. Animal Magnetism (1980) 4. Taken By Force (1977) 3. Blackout (1982) 2. Love At First Sting (1984) 1. Lovedrive (1979) I understand that people don't like the stuff after Love At First Sting that much, but I still think there are a lot of great songs from that later period. The Scorpions are probably my favorite band along with Pink Floyd.
Just as a fun fact, may moons ago, Klaus was on Rockline with Bob Coburn (RIP Bob😢), & one of the callers asked Klaus if he sang the lyrics in German when performing in their homeland, & he said no, because it sounded dumb, & he gave a sample. I wish I could remember the song. Good times.
I'm good up through 'Savage Amusement.' I first heard Scorpions when 'No One Like You' was getting lots of airplay on FM radio. It got stuck in my head, and I never forgot it. Then, of course came 'Rock You Like a Hurricane, but 'Savage Amusement' was the first Scorps album that I had the money to buy new. Before that, I listened to the radio A LOT and recorded the songs that I liked off of that. The songs were always stuck with the DJ talking all over the intros! They almost became an expected part of the songs for me! Here's my list: Top 10 Scorpions: 01. In Trance 02. Fly to the Rainbow 03 Animal Magnetism 04. Lovedrive 05. Virgin Killer 06. Taken By Force 07. Love at First Sting 08. Blackout 09. Savage Amusement 10. Lonesome Crow
So I was in high school when Love at First Sting came out. My first taste of the Scorpions, which I loved!! Sometime after that, I found Virgin Killer on cassette I believe in a bargain bin. Which lead me all the great Uli stuff. One of the great things about TH-cam is I always thought Uli was soooo underrated, and come to find out, there are a lot of people who love him. (though I still think he's way underrated). I loved the fact he recently revisited those years and put out a couple albums of it!!!!!
Top 3: 1.Savage Amusement 2.Blackout 3.Lovedrive I think Savage Amusement is an underrated album, based on the mixed-bad reviews i read on it. Aside from the polished pop metal production, the songs were of similar sound to their previous 80s output.
Pete, You and I are the same age and I've discovered over the years of watching S.O.T., we agree on about 85% of everything (music, monster movies, etc.). I totally agree with you that Scorpions' best music is between 1972 and 1984; however, since Scorpions are my favorite all-time band, I have to defend their later catalog to some extent. First, my favorite album order would be: 1. Blackout (this album hit me like a ton of bricks in 1982 and still does) 2. Lovedrive (probably their best songwriting...and Michael Schenker as a guest/member) 3. Virgin Killer (Uli's best playing) 4. Intrance (this was the first album where Scorpions discovered their style) 5. Taken By Force (Sails of Charon, Your Light and We'll Burn the Sky...nuff said) 6. Animal Magnetism (great writing, Matthias' guitar sound not quite as developed as it would become) 7. Fly to the Rainbow (Drifting Sun and Speedy's Coming are phenomenal) 8. Love At First Sting (Scorpions classic but a bit overrated...though some great deep cuts such as I'm Leaving You and Coming Home) ....Unlike you my friend (and with great respect),...I still find much joy in their later catalog. Here's the rest of my list plus a few suggested songs that you may want to give a chance/second chance.... 9. Unbreakable (great "comeback" album after some softer orchestral stuff...New Generation, Love 'Em or Leave 'Em, Blood Too Hot and Deep & Dark are all very strong..if this 13 song album were cut down to 9 or 10, this would be a classic) 10. Pure Instinct (underrated IMO...But the Best For You, Soul Behind the Face and Oh Girl are true Scorpions' gems) 11. Face the Heat (strong but some tracks are a bit dated....gotta love Alien Nation, No Pain No Gain, and Ship of Fools....Woman has a classic Scorps groove-rock feel plus some of Klaus' best vocals ever) 12. Savage Amusement (a few great tracks but a bit over-produced...worth it for Every Minute Every Day and Love On The Run...great Matthias' solo) 13. Crazy World (again, cut this down to 8 or 9 songs and its a much stronger album...Money and Fame is a hidden gem) 14. Return to Forever - (probably their last studio album....like VH's last album, contains bits of previously unfinished older material...Rock My Car and Hard Rockin' the Place are awesome) 15. Sting In The Tail (a couple decent songs but mostly written or co-written with outside writers) 16. Come Black (mostly re-worked versions of some older songs but about half the album are covers done with Scorpions' special flair...Tainted Love and All Day and All of the Night are excellent) 17. Eye To Eye (well-produced but a bit out of character for Scorps....A Moment In A Million Years is a truly moving ballad; 10 Light Years Away is cool ,too and con-written with Mick Jones of Foreigner) 18. Moment of Glory (interesting for sure as Scorpions meet the Berlin Philharmonic; the title track is not bad nor is the instrumental, Deadly Sting Suite) 19. Humanity (the title track is great but, again, most songs were written or co-written by the producers) There you have it! Because of their unique style, I think Scorps' catalog, as a whole, is superior to most other long-lived bands. Top to bottom, I'd put this catalog up against any other bands' entire catalog. I think the only bands that even come close, given the length and quality of their careers, would be UFO, Uriah Heep, Golden Earring and ZZ Top!
Great suggestions! Just like Deep Purple, Scorpions continued to release solid albums in the 90s and 00s.(well, with the exception of eye ll eye, their 'reload' moment :) )
1. Love at first sting 2. Blackout 3. In trance 4. Lovedrive 5. Animal magnetism 6. Savage amusement 7. Taken by force 8. Humanity hour 1 9. Crazy world 10.face the heat 👍 9.
I understand Matthias Jabs can never be as good as Uli was, but I think is underrated guitar player... he really has a lot of good melodic ideas and some really fluid solos... So, in my opinion, Love at first sting and especially Crazy World need to be present upper in that top.
Philippe-are you referring to the most underrated hard rock band in history? Riot's Fire Down Under is in my top ten greatest hard rock albums of all time! This list includes Zeppelin, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Priest, Rush, Metallica,Sabbath…...that's how freakin' good it is! Awesome mention!
@@pvdguitars2951 Yes, Philippe, I played the hell out of Narita, just so strong from top to bottom, especially 49er (what a riff!) Born To Be Wild (smokin' cover song, Reale's guitar tone so tasty) Narita instrumental speeding toward the heavens, Here We Come Again (another absolute corker!) and Road Racin'......hell, every song is top shelf hard rock! Guy's vocal ability is through the roof, man what a perfect hard rock voice! I also liked Rock City and albums with Rhett (Restless Breed is pure gold!) and feel that any fan of hard rock would jump on board the stellar catalog that Riot put out. Wasn't into the later day albums which went to a power metal sound-pretty great guitar work from Mark, but that's about it. take care Philippe.
Hey Treff. I’m on the same page bro! I adore their early work. Love their killer version of Devil Woman from the Born in America album. Stellar vocals by Rhett. Stay safe, take care, keep on rocking
Riot Fire Down Under is one of the all time greatest hard rock albums ever!!! Every song kicks ass!!! Outlaw is my fav and Swords and Tequilla is a classic!! They were so underrated, but I love me some Riot!!!!
The history of the Scorpions shows why I‘m glad that SAXON never made it into the Mainstream or the US big time and keep on releasing great albums for METAL fans until this day. I totally agree with you, Pete. The only Album after 1984 that was quite decent in my book was „Humanity“
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I'm with the crowd that lost interest after Love at First Sting. Love the Uli era the best.
M K same here.
Exactly right, same here. Lost interest after LAFS. Still enjoy the albums with Uli the best of all.
I like the Mathias albums, pre LAFS a lot. I enjoy Uli’s playing a lot more but think their song writing got a lot stronger after Uli. What I love about the two era’s is I feel I’m getting two awesome bands for the price of one.
Same here. I did buy the next two but with the benefit of hindsight I shouldn't have.
LAFS was the beginning of the end.
I got into The Scorpions with Savage Amusement. So that is the kind of Scorpions that I love.
Kinda like 3 bands.
Early, Prime, then Commercial Prime with everything else.
Sorry to hear that, John. They were stumbling right around then.
That's the same era I got into them, still love that album, Crazy World and Face The Heat. I later discovered the 70s albums and that went on to become my favorite era, but still love that 1988-93 era.
Savage amusement is great 👍
That's the album where they wanted to be Def Leppard, Too commercial.
1. Love at First Sting
2. Blackout
World Wide Live is one of my favorite live albums by any band. I'd rank it as #1 for me if it was between all Scorpions albums, not just studio. All great songs and great memories listening to it on cassette tape when it came out.
My top ten
1.Taken by Force
2.In Trance
3.Blackout
4. Virgin Killer
5.Lovedrive
6.Animal Magnetism
7.Love at First Sting
8.Fly to the Rainbow
9.Crazy World
10.Lonesome Crow.
My top Scorpions albums:
1. Taken By Force
2. Virgin Killer
3. In Trance
4. Fly To The Rainbow
5. Lonesome Crow
6. Animal Magnetism
7. Lovedrive
8. Blackout
9. Love At First Sting
Please do a Hawkwind top 10 studio albums, please please please pleeeease...
This could be my list also!
Not exact but very close mine ;)
I mostly agree...I love those old scorpions albums...those hidden gems that never get radio play are beautiful. 🤘
YYYYEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!
Intrance is such a fine album
My Top 10:
1- Blackout
2- Love at First Sting
3- Taken By Force
4- Animal Magnestim
5- Lovedrive
6- Face The Heat
7- Fly To The Rainbow
8- Virgin Killer
9- Humanity Hour 1
10- Savage Amusement
Honourable Mention: Tokyo Tapes
Really? Lovedrive is in the top 3, if not #2 or even #1 Animal Mag lower. But whatever.
@@galus14436 yeah really.
Tokyo tapes is a live album
@@richbillionair yep, thats why its a Honourable Mention, otherwise it'd be in my Top 5:)
Quite often, like the guy in the video says, post mid 90s Scorpions gets overlooked. However, both Humanity Hour 1, and Unbreakable, are stellar albums! Some of their best work ever is on those albums
Looking forward to see ACCEPT!! another metal favorite
And just about the ONLY band who have reformed and are as good as they ever were!
@@PazBinv1 Absolutely!!! I love all four studio albums Accept have done with Mark Tornillo as their lead singer. Especially Blood Of The Nations and Blind Rage. I do admit that I am a little worried about their next studio album. It will be Accept's first studio album without Peter Baltes ever. According to Wolf Hoffman from past interviews , Peter Baltes had a major part in the songwriting process about 50% and Wolf Hoffman the other 50%. Now looks like Wolf Hoffman will be doing all songwriting for the music, unless he lets other members contribute.
My top 10...
1. Love at First Sting (It just sounds like a party to me)
2. Animal Magnetism
3. Taken By Force
4. In Trance
5. Lonesome Crow
6. Virgin Killer
7. Lovedrive
8. Blackout
9. Savage Amusement
10. Crazy World
It's very interesting to see someone place Love At First Sting so high, yet Blackout relatively low.
Lonesome Crow is my favorite Scorpions album. Glad to see it made your list.
I LOVE Lonesome Crow!!!! And Lovedrive
Great vid. I grew up on the 80s and beyond Scorpions albums and really haven't spent much time on the 70s stuff that you praised so highly. I trust your musical knowledge and tastes so I am going to go back and spend some time of those albums over the next week or so. Thanks for all you do.
Drifting Sun is for me the manifesto-song of the Uli John Roth era. It's unbelievable, played with a Gibson Firebird, dirty, wild, furious.
Yes,i was just waiting for the Scorpions ranking. Many thanks.
My list would go up to Love At First Sting everything after was never the same.
1 In Trance
2 Virgin Killer
3 Taken By Force
4 Fly To The Rainbow
5 Lovedrive
6 Blackout
7 Love At First Sting
8 Animal Magnetism
9 Lonesome Crow
Can't wait for Accept. One of my favorite bands.Fast as a Shark is almost perfect metal to me.
I'm so happy you gave a nod to World Wide Live. That is the perfect Scorpions album for me. I've always loved the Animal Magnetism cover. Nothing specific, but something wrong is going on there. Several songs from Lovedrive are on World Wide Live. My #1 album would be Blackout.
Admit it, it's the guy's tight-jeans-clad ass. 😆
Love at first sting is number one on my list and they should be in the rock n roll hall of fame.
Here, Here! Scorps deserve to be in the (shameful) R&R Hall of Fame. They had a HUGE influence on the hard rock music scene and cast a wide net of popularity around the globe.
Animal Magnetism is my favourite. I had a friend that was obsessed with the band.
@@MicahMicahel I should get that album. 😀👍🤘🎸
The original Scorpions band that recorded Lonesome Crow album broke up soon after that album and young Michael Schencker joined UFO.
With the band no more two of the ex Scorpions aproached Uli Jon Roth to join them in a new lineup but he refused and continued with his band Dawn Road.
So singer Klaus Meine and guitarist Rudolf Schencker joined Dawn Road alongside lead guitarist Uli Jon Roth. bassist Francis Buchholtz , drummer Jürgen Rosenthal and Keyboardist Achim Kirschning . However after Dawn Road recorded their debut album they decided to change their name to Scorpions, and the rest is rock history.
I had never heard Scorpions. Just one song. Sails. A friend played it for me. That lead guitar!!! Bought the 4 Roth studio records the same day in 1980. Cut outs! Remember those? Like $3 a pop! Cherry new records still in the cellophane with a little chunk cut out each of the covers. What a wonderful way to be introduced to this band. I might have even got Tokyo Tapes that day too. Don't remember. The hunt for Crow was on! Somehow didn't hear it for years. I used to stand in the stores for hours going through the cut outs. CD's didn't exist yet. I ended up with like 800 albums after years of it.
the "cut outs" were promotional recording given away, not for resale, but the stores sold them just the same.
Hi, cool to talk about Scorpions, Cheers from Caracas Venezuela,
My top 10 Scorpions studio Albums:
1.Taken by force
2.Blackout
3.Love at first sting
4.Face the heat
5. Unbreakable
6.Savage Amusement
7.Humanity hour 1
8.Sting the tail
9.Crazy World
10.Pure Instinct
Live albums
1.Tokyo Tapes
2. Wolrd wide live
3.Unplugged in Athens,
I thought I already Ranked the Scorpions, but here we go again!
12 - Unbreakable
11 - Love at First Sting
10 - Sting in the Tail
9 - Crazy World
8 - Blackout
7 - Animal Magnetism
6 - Fly to the Rainbow
5 - Lovedrive
4 - Virgin Killer
3 - Taken by Force
2 - In Trance
1 - Lonesome Crow
Jesus Christ, Lonesome Crow is an Underrated Album. I wished this Era would've last longer, but we would've never gotten Jon Roth.
Havent listened to their catalogue recently, but Taken By Force is a timeless classic and surely one of their best
Good one Pete, One of my favorite bands! Saw them in 1979 open for Nugent/Blackfoot tour, and came back and Headlined in 1981 on the Blackout Tour , Iron Maiden and Girlschool opened. Met the whole band before the gig at the hotel and got their autographs which i still have. Seem them many times , even in Franfurt Germany in 90's. Love the ULI ERA! Saw him couple years ago in Atlanta, and he played those early classics.
1) Animal Magnetism
2) Lovedrive
3) Virgin Killer
4) Taken By Force
5) In Trance
6) Blackout
7) Love AT FIRST STING
8)Fly to the Rainbow
Nice thumbnail, Mr Pardo!
1. Savage Amusement
2. Blackout
3. Love At First Sting
4. Lovedrive
Powerslave Same here! Savage Amusement is TOTALLY underrated! My favorite Scorps album.
@@toddedwards5144 I like the songs on Savage. But the production is too slick.
Thing about Savage is, Dieter Dierks thought he was Mutt Lange.
He had Rarebell record the bass drum, then the snare, then the cymbals, and so on.. At least, that's what they said in an interview in 1990 and that was one of the reasons why they stopped working with him and they went with Keith Olsen for Crazy World.
Yes, Savage Amusement is my favorite also.
Savage Amusement was the first Scorpion's album I purchased, so it has some nostalgia value to me, that being said, other than Rythym of Love and maybe Media Overkill, their aren't many other tracks I care to listen to today off that album. I think the group was trying too hard to make Love at First Sting Pt. 2, and it didn't work out that well.
Never heard a bad song from the Scorps.
Pete, ever think about doing a combo ranking, like "Top 10 Iron Maiden/Judas Priest albums" as a comparative exercise? Also maybe doing a combo of bands with smaller catalogs. Just a thought.
You’ve never heard “To Be No. 1, apparently.
Fly to to the Rainbow (1974)
In Trance (1975)
Virgin Killer (1976)
Taken by Force (1977)
Lovedrive (1979)
all classics and hard to pick my fav
'BLACKOUT' WAS THE LAST 8TRACK I EVER BOUGHT! 'TOKYO TAPES' WAS MY INTRODUCTION TO THE SCORPION'S 🤘
Scorpions are a brilliant band, and were my gateway into metal music. I have split the rankings up The top 4 I consider essentially perfect albums with 1 and 2 being perfect. 5-11 are pretty strong while 12 onwards have their moments.
1. Lovedrive
2. In Trance
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3. Blackout
4. Love At First Sting
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5. Taken By Force
6. Crazy World
7. Return To Forever
8. Virgin Killer
9. Fly To The Rainbow
10. Animal Magentism
11. Humanity Hour 1
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12. Face The Heat
13. Sting In the Tail
14. Savage Amusement
15. Pure Instinct
16. Unbreakable
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17. Lonesome Crow
18. Eye II Eye
Great list! Our lists are kinda similar.
Love Drive, Animal Magnetism, Blackout, and Love at First Sting....that's all I need and all that exists for me in terms of Scorpions music. Each one superb! First rock band I saw in concert. I was 17. Never forget it.
Have you heard the Uli stuff? If not, you’re missing out.
@@crusheverything4449 yes, I was going to say it. Very different, at times Hendrixy, but Uli era is actually still my favorite.
I always thought Pure Instinct was really underrated. It is kind of commercial but the songs are really catchy.
My faves 1) Tokyo tapes. 2) lovedrive. 3) fly to the rainbow. 4) virgin killer 5) in trance 6) lonesome crow 7)taken by force. 8) blackout 9) love first sting. 10) face the heat
Uli Jon Roth rules.
1. Taken By Force
2. Fly to The Rainbow
3. Virgin Killer
4. In Trance
5. Animal Magnetism
6. Love at First Sting
7. Blackout
8. Lovedrive
9. Rock Believer
10. Crazy World
11. Savage Amusement
12. Humanity: Hour 1
13. Unbreakable
14. Lonesome Crow
15. Face The Heat
16. Sting In The Tail
17. Return to Forever
18. Pure Instinct
19. Eye 2 Eye
I got into the Scorpions right when Tokyo Tapes came out and I used to wear that album out. That of course led me to other Scorpions albums.
I did get to see them twice. I like both the Uli and Jabs eras. In their heyday they were a fantastic band.
Been binge watching ur ranking vids man. Good stuff! New sub here and look forward to your vids in the future
I still listen to Uli era scorpions every day. I think right now I would say In Trance is probably my favorite, but I love them all
I’ve watched about two dozen of your album ranking videos. For the first, and probably only time, your top ten match mine exactly. I was a huge fan in the mid and late 70’s, when almost no one else knew of the Scorpions. When they were on R.C.A. Records in America. I love the early 80’s albums as well, but nothing beats the Roth years.
Scorps! Saw em' live 10 times-still not enough!
1.Taken By Force
2.Virgin Killer
3.In Trance
4.Lovedrive
5.Animal Magnetism
6.Blackout
7.Love At First Sting
8.Crazy World
9.Face The Heat
10.Sting In The Tail
…….the Germans have produced some top shelf hard rock bands, Scorpions paving the way with skillful guitarists and great hooks and melodies-special shout out to Klaus Meine, whose instantly memorable voice never fails to impress, a very gifted singer!
sails of Charon could quite possibly be the most important song of the late 70’s absolutely epic Without this song and Ulrich’s exploration on the harmonic minor scale you wouldn’t have had the whole Neo Classical guitar phase of metal do you hear me Yngwie ! They owe it all to Ulrich Roth probably the most underrated guitar player of all time an absolute Monster player thanks Pete
Excellent point, Uli was definitely a trail blazer as far as being one of the very first neo classical “rock” players
The first time I heard Uli Roth was at a used record store. I put in Virgin Killer, and accidentally started with side II. After hearing the opening to "Hell Cat", I thought, "Wow, who the hell is this guy?" An amazing guitarist, that's for sure.
Yes Pete, the cover of "Lonesome Crow" is a great work by Rodney Matthews. I own a 1982 lp reissue on clear vinyl.
I think most of their albums have aged badly, but their first 3 are gems.
I also own a cherished clear copy from the reissued run. And Pete nailed the list.
Last 4 studio albums are great especially 2004's Unbreakable and 2007's Humanity Hour 1
Lonesome crow. In trance. Virgin killer. Fly to the rainbow. Taken by force. Lovedrive. The rest nada.
I like that Lonesome Crow album too. 16 yr old M. Schenker has some blistering guitar work on there. I think we're in the minority however, most people I talk to hate it.
1) Lonesome Crow A great album that deserves more recognition, no other scorpions album sounds anything like it.
2) In Trance My favorite Roth album. Like Lonesome Crow, a blast to listen to.
3) Fly To The Rainbow Almost as good as In Trance.
4) Taken By Force
Lonesome Crow is the Gem that gets Shit On for a Stupid Reason.
Lonesome Crow is my Favorite Scorpions Album.
I like that old Album Cover with the guy holding a Guitar better than the new one.
“Unbreakable” from 2004, and
“Humanity Hour 1” from 2007,
are both better than
“Sting in the Tail” from 2010
Agreed!
I agree with you again Pete.
I rather the older SCORPIONS albums also. The only two newer albums I have is World Wide Live from 1985 and Sting in the Tail from 2010 which in my opinion is a very good album. I really love Fly to the Rainbow and probably would rank it my #1 but it's very close with Blackout and Love at First Sting and Lovedrive. But all the older albums are very close in rankings for me. Verygood video Pete. And by the way I love horror movies also. That's my favorite types of movies.🙂 \m/
Great ranking. My personal favorites by Scorpions are from the Uli Roth-,ära, too.
01 Taken by Force
02 Virgin Killer
03 In Trance
04 Fly to the Rainbow
05 Lovedrive
06 Animal Magnetism
07 Lonesome Crow
08 Blackout
09 Savage Amusement
10 Love at first Sting
Thank you for your ranking the Scorpions studio albums/CD's!🎤🎸🎵🥁
May be chalk for most fans as myself but my favorite album is still "Love at first Sting". Love the Uli John Roth stuff though, 2nd favorite is "In Trance"
My favorito is the " Crazy world" 👏🏻
I have the original Virgin Killer disc with the tasteless cover as well. What were they thinking? Have you done an Atlanta Rhythm Section Rank yet?
Been binging on Scorps for a couple weeks to get my list. Here we go!
18. Eye to Eye. (1999) (Just awful)
17. Return to Forever (2015)
16. Lonesome Crow. (1972)
15. Pure Instinct. (1996)
14. Humanity Hour 1. (2007)
13. Sting in the Tail. (2010)
12. Unbreakable. (2004)
11. Face the Heat. (1993)
10. Crazy World. (1990)
9. Fly to the Rainbow. (1974)
8. Savage Amusement. (1988)
7. In Trance. (1975)
6. Taken by Force. (1977)
5. Animal Magnetism. (1980)
4. Blackout. (1982)
3. Virgin Killer. (1976)
2. Love at First Sting. (1984)
1. Lovedrive. (1979)
Thanks.
Great T-shirt, where did you buy it?
Great show once again, Pete! My first touch to Scorpions was World Wide Live at mid-80's when I was like 8 or 9 years. Loved it and still do! Starts off with barnburning and brainmelting pair of Coming Home and Blackout
So much great stuff from the debut to Blackout, but the Uli era...KILLER!
They also did some of my favorite power ballads, along with Priest and UFO.
Also, the dog on the cover Animal Magnetism (doberman?) is what made Pete's dog bark. Hadto'vebeen.
10/10.
You're not going to believe this, but I was just thinking about suggesting a top ten song video by Accept. Also, a top ten song video by Montrose and Traffic. You might have done one already on these. I think you did a Ranking the studio albums video on Traffic, but I don't know about a top ten song video. Anyway, I enjoy watching your videos, even if you do ignore my comments....lol (Just kidding). Well, I hope you're staying safe from the Coronavirus, and keep up the good work.
My rank:
1 Lovedrive
2 Virgin Killer
3 Taken By Force
4 Blackout
5 In Trance
6 Fly to the Rainbow
7 Lonesome Crow
8 Animal Magnetism
9 Love at First Sting
10 Crazy World
11 Rock Believer
12 Humanity - Hour 1
13 Sting in the Tail
14 Face the Heat
15 Unbreakable
16 Savage Amusement
17 Return to Forever
18 Pure Instinct
19 Eye II Eye
I like the all the albums from In Trance to Blackout. No particular order. My number one favorite would probably be Virgin Killer.
I never thought of which studio album that I liked the most. I will tell you what album I do associate the most with is Tokyo Tapes. I own most of their catalog but, Tokyo Tapes just rules!
I’m in complete agreement for cut off point with Scorpions and am completely looking forward to your horror reviews. 20’s, 30’s and 40’s are my favorite eras, but I enjoy stuff after too.
'70's Scorps for sure...Tokyo Tapes covers it all for me👍
Uli stuff for sure, but the first 3 after him were great as well. Tokyo tapes, wow. Uli's guitar tone on that is off the charts.
I thought the 80s era was great until listening to Virgin Killer and Taken by Force again.. wow those are killer records. Roth is a dynamo on the guitar
1-fly to the rainbow
2-in trance
3-virgin killer
4-lonesome crow
5-tokyo tapes
6-taken by force
7-animal magnatism
8-lovedrive
9-blackout
10- love at first sting 84' my birth year
good to see someone else ranking fly to the rainbow up there!
Great that he has the Uli Roth albums ranked at the top, my favorite era of the Scorpions as well
I had Lovedrive as an 8-track in my car in high school. It was the only one I had so it played non-stop for 2+ years and scarred a special place in my heart. I still get chills when I hear the opening riff to Loving You Sunday Morning!
Omgs 😱 I just love all of their albums I a younger generation of Fan's but I am BIGGEST fan I have allot of scorpions CDs concert's guitar pics t-shirts my favorite album is pure instinct I love all about the SCORPIONS I can go on taking about them thanks for this post U ROCK 👍
You ranked them perfectly Pete! Tokyo tapes is one of my favorite live albums of all time
Humanity Hour 1 is a very underrated later day album !
I got all there albums new and old. They still rock i prefer 70s and early 80s but all there albums are worth a listen def a top 5 band in my ranking and concert wise one of the best...
I’m right there with you with dropping them after Sting. It was a pretty brief affair for me and the Scorps. But they were great for about 4 albums!
Return to Forever from 2015 is definitely worth a listen. I wasn’t a fan either of the 90’s Scorpions stuff but this one was definitely worth a listen.
Tokyo tapes smokes love Uli era stuff my #1is Lovedrive
I guess that Tokyo Tapes was the introduction to the band for many, like it was for me back in the days. Accept - can't wait..
Waiting for this episode since I subscribed this channel!
I did not grow up with the studio albums, but the live album World Wide Live. That is the soundtrack to my childhood, so it has been hard for me to like any of the studio-albums more than that sucker;)
1) Virgin Killer 2) Taken By Force 3) In Trance. 4) Fly To The Rainbow 5) Lovedrive 6) Animal Magnetism 7) Blackout 8) Love At 1st Sting 9) Face The Heat 10) Crazy World 11) Savage Amusement 12) Unbreakable 13) Sting In The Tail 14) Return To Forever 15) Humanity hour 1 16)Pure Instinct 17) Lonesome Crow 18)Eye II Eye
I'm in agreement though the first 4 could rotate depending on the one playing in my player lol all amazing yet these guys aren't in the hall of fame???
Please forget about the “hall of fame”. It’s a bullshit money grab that has nothing to do with rock music or its importance. It’s run by a bunch of eternal college boys who think rock ‘n’ roll begins and ends with Lou Reed and the Sex Pistols. It’s a complete farce!
@@crusheverything4449 you forgot about Bruce Springsteen and U2😝
The best two albums were Intrance and Lovedrive. The Tokyo Tapes is one of the greatest live albums of all time. The new "Rock Believer" record is a nice comeback from the dismal Return Forever.
Lovedrive was my first album of theirs, so perhaps that clouds my opinion. I also love their live album, Tokyo Tapes
For me, Crazy World was the apex of their albums. Superb cover too.
My all time favorite group. No one else comes close. Thanks for doing this!
My personal top five:
1. Animal Magnetism (very underrated, in my opinion)
2. Love at First Sting
3. Lovedrive ("Coast to Coast" rules)
4. Blackout
5. Savage Amusement
My first Scorpions album was Virgin Killer when it was released. Still my favorite. My rankings:
1.Virgin Killer
2.In Trance
3.Taken By Force
4.Fly to the Rainbow
5.Lovedrive
6.Lonesome Crow
7.Animal Magnetism
Hi Pete, I was wondering if you would like to do a show about current hard rock bands, Work of Art, The night flight orchestra, One Desire (Finland), Blues Pills, Maidavale(Sweden), Wedge (Germany), Lucifer (Sweden) , Ambush (Sweden)and of course new releases by old bands like Pretty Maids, Harem Scarem, and many others, I really dig many of the hard rock bands you like and few prog rock bands though. I listen to a lot of the well known bands but I listen as well a lot of current music. Cheers from England
Thanks Pete, top reviews. I'd have Animal Magnetism higher (the first I had). In Trance my no. 1. Agree Tokyo Tapes is great, with Uli to the fore.
Here's my (updated) ranking
19. Return To Forever (2015)
18. Eye II Eye (1999)
17. Unbreakable (2004)
16. Humanity Hour 1 (2007)
15. Lonesome Crow (1972)
14. Rock Believer (2022)
13. Pure Instinct (1996)
12. Savage Amusement (1988)
11. Sting In The Tail (2010)
10. Crazy World (1990)
9. Face The Heat (1993)
8. Fly To The Rainbow (1974)
7. Virgin Killer (1976)
6. In Trance (1975)
5. Animal Magnetism (1980)
4. Taken By Force (1977)
3. Blackout (1982)
2. Love At First Sting (1984)
1. Lovedrive (1979)
I understand that people don't like the stuff after Love At First Sting that much, but I still think there are a lot of great songs from that later period. The Scorpions are probably my favorite band along with Pink Floyd.
I have both Scorpions live albums/CD's.🎤🎸🎵🥁
Just as a fun fact, may moons ago, Klaus was on Rockline with Bob Coburn (RIP Bob😢), & one of the callers asked Klaus if he sang the lyrics in German when performing in their homeland, & he said no, because it sounded dumb, & he gave a sample. I wish I could remember the song. Good times.
Always liked the radio songs from the Scorpions. I went back to check out their older albums and In Trance is such a good album.
Pete, our tastes so closely align on both UFO and Scorpions album rankings.
I'm good up through 'Savage Amusement.' I first heard Scorpions when 'No One Like You' was getting lots of airplay on FM radio. It got stuck in my head, and I never forgot it. Then, of course came 'Rock You Like a Hurricane, but 'Savage Amusement' was the first Scorps album that I had the money to buy new. Before that, I listened to the radio A LOT and recorded the songs that I liked off of that. The songs were always stuck with the DJ talking all over the intros! They almost became an expected part of the songs for me!
Here's my list:
Top 10 Scorpions:
01. In Trance
02. Fly to the Rainbow
03 Animal Magnetism
04. Lovedrive
05. Virgin Killer
06. Taken By Force
07.
Love at First Sting
08. Blackout
09. Savage Amusement
10. Lonesome Crow
How many T-shirts have you got Peter.
Looks like one of each.
So I was in high school when Love at First Sting came out. My first taste of the Scorpions, which I loved!! Sometime after that, I found Virgin Killer on cassette I believe in a bargain bin. Which lead me all the great Uli stuff. One of the great things about TH-cam is I always thought Uli was soooo underrated, and come to find out, there are a lot of people who love him. (though I still think he's way underrated). I loved the fact he recently revisited those years and put out a couple albums of it!!!!!
Top 3:
1.Savage Amusement
2.Blackout
3.Lovedrive
I think Savage Amusement is an underrated album, based on the mixed-bad reviews i read on it.
Aside from the polished pop metal production, the songs were of similar sound to their previous 80s
output.
Absolutly - the Uli Jon Roth Albums are the Best !!!
1. In Trance
2. Virgin Killer
3. Taken by Force
4. Fly to the Rainbow
Looking at the comments from everyone, I hit thumbs up for anyone who has Virgin Killer and/or Animal Magnetism in their top 3!!! Cool!!!
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Pete,
You and I are the same age and I've discovered over the years of watching S.O.T., we agree on about 85% of everything (music, monster movies, etc.).
I totally agree with you that Scorpions' best music is between 1972 and 1984; however, since Scorpions are my favorite all-time band, I have to defend their later catalog to some extent.
First, my favorite album order would be:
1. Blackout (this album hit me like a ton of bricks in 1982 and still does)
2. Lovedrive (probably their best songwriting...and Michael Schenker as a guest/member)
3. Virgin Killer (Uli's best playing)
4. Intrance (this was the first album where Scorpions discovered their style)
5. Taken By Force (Sails of Charon, Your Light and We'll Burn the Sky...nuff said)
6. Animal Magnetism (great writing, Matthias' guitar sound not quite as developed as it would become)
7. Fly to the Rainbow (Drifting Sun and Speedy's Coming are phenomenal)
8. Love At First Sting (Scorpions classic but a bit overrated...though some great deep cuts such as I'm Leaving You and Coming Home)
....Unlike you my friend (and with great respect),...I still find much joy in their later catalog. Here's the rest of my list plus a few suggested songs that you may want to give a chance/second chance....
9. Unbreakable (great "comeback" album after some softer orchestral stuff...New Generation, Love 'Em or Leave 'Em, Blood Too Hot and Deep & Dark are all very strong..if this 13 song album were cut down to 9 or 10, this would be a classic)
10. Pure Instinct (underrated IMO...But the Best For You, Soul Behind the Face and Oh Girl are true Scorpions' gems)
11. Face the Heat (strong but some tracks are a bit dated....gotta love Alien Nation, No Pain No Gain, and Ship of Fools....Woman has a classic Scorps groove-rock feel plus some of Klaus' best vocals ever)
12. Savage Amusement (a few great tracks but a bit over-produced...worth it for Every Minute Every Day and Love On The Run...great Matthias' solo)
13. Crazy World (again, cut this down to 8 or 9 songs and its a much stronger album...Money and Fame is a hidden gem)
14. Return to Forever - (probably their last studio album....like VH's last album, contains bits of previously unfinished older material...Rock My Car and Hard Rockin' the Place are awesome)
15. Sting In The Tail (a couple decent songs but mostly written or co-written with outside writers)
16. Come Black (mostly re-worked versions of some older songs but about half the album are covers done with Scorpions' special flair...Tainted Love and All Day and All of the Night are excellent)
17. Eye To Eye (well-produced but a bit out of character for Scorps....A Moment In A Million Years is a truly moving ballad; 10 Light Years Away is cool ,too and con-written with Mick Jones of Foreigner)
18. Moment of Glory (interesting for sure as Scorpions meet the Berlin Philharmonic; the title track is not bad nor is the instrumental, Deadly Sting Suite)
19. Humanity (the title track is great but, again, most songs were written or co-written by the producers)
There you have it! Because of their unique style, I think Scorps' catalog, as a whole, is superior to most other long-lived bands. Top to bottom, I'd put this catalog up against any other bands' entire catalog. I think the only bands that even come close, given the length and quality of their careers, would be UFO, Uriah Heep, Golden Earring and ZZ Top!
Great suggestions! Just like Deep Purple, Scorpions continued to release solid albums in the 90s and 00s.(well, with the exception of eye ll eye, their 'reload' moment :) )
1. Love at first sting
2. Blackout
3. In trance
4. Lovedrive
5. Animal magnetism
6. Savage amusement
7. Taken by force
8. Humanity hour 1
9. Crazy world
10.face the heat
👍
9.
I understand Matthias Jabs can never be as good as Uli was, but I think is underrated guitar player... he really has a lot of good melodic ideas and some really fluid solos... So, in my opinion, Love at first sting and especially Crazy World need to be present upper in that top.
Hi Pete. How about Riot from New York. Epic band with some legendary albums, especially those early ones with Guy and Rhett
Philippe-are you referring to the most underrated hard rock band in history? Riot's Fire Down Under is in my top ten greatest hard rock albums of all time! This list includes Zeppelin, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Priest, Rush, Metallica,Sabbath…...that's how freakin' good it is! Awesome mention!
Fire down under is an amazing record, but Narita is epic, top to bottom. Probably my favourite studio album of 1979.
@@pvdguitars2951 Yes, Philippe, I played the hell out of Narita, just so strong from top to bottom, especially 49er (what a riff!) Born To Be Wild (smokin' cover song, Reale's guitar tone so tasty) Narita instrumental speeding toward the heavens, Here We Come Again (another absolute corker!) and Road Racin'......hell, every song is top shelf hard rock! Guy's vocal ability is through the roof, man what a perfect hard rock voice! I also liked Rock City and albums with Rhett (Restless Breed is pure gold!) and feel that any fan of hard rock would jump on board the stellar catalog that Riot put out. Wasn't into the later day albums which went to a power metal sound-pretty great guitar work from Mark, but that's about it. take care Philippe.
Hey Treff. I’m on the same page bro! I adore their early work. Love their killer version of Devil Woman from the Born in America album. Stellar vocals by Rhett. Stay safe, take care, keep on rocking
Riot Fire Down Under is one of the all time greatest hard rock albums ever!!! Every song kicks ass!!! Outlaw is my fav and Swords and Tequilla is a classic!! They were so underrated, but I love me some Riot!!!!
Man you get it!! Virgin Killer number one,for sure!!! I adore that album!
The history of the Scorpions shows why I‘m glad that SAXON never made it into the Mainstream or the US big time
and keep on releasing great albums for METAL fans until this day. I totally agree with you, Pete. The only Album after 1984 that was quite decent in my book was „Humanity“