Scorpions - Sting in the Tail

Just found out (after a few weeks with zero mention of an opening act) that Cinderella is opening for 'em in Detroit. They would've been my second choice of all the acts opening for them this summer (Ratt's the 1st).

Also, they're selling USB flash drives of the concerts this summer. $36.63. That's even more than what KISS was charging but I gotta get it!

Quote :

The "premium edition" of SCORPIONS' latest album, "Sting In The Tail", will be made available on November 2 via Sony.

"Sting in the Tail" premium edition track listing:

01. Raised On Rock
02. Sting In The Tail
03. Slave Me
04. The Good Die Young
05. No Limit
06. Rock Zone
07. Lorelei
08. Turn You On
09. Let's Rock
10. SLY
11. Spirit Of Rock
12. The Best Is Yet To Come
13. Dreamers
14. Too Far
15. Miracle (regular version)
16. The Good Die Young (new version)
17. Thunder And Lightning

Bonus DVD

01. Sting In The Tail (live video San Antonio)
02. The Best Is Yet To Come (live video Prague)
03. Sting In The Tail (Video Message - EPK)

Bastages!!!! Farging Iceholes!!!!!

This stuff is starting to tick me off. That Slash deluxe edition has me mad too. I wish they would at least announce "and 4 months from now you can pick up a special edition, if you prefer".

I remember when Slash's album came out thinking "Why didn't they release the Alice Cooper song?!" Well, now we know.

Release it all at once and give people the option to choose because I certainly won't be buying any "special" editions 5 months after having bought the original and only advertised album.

Record companies stay shooting themselves in the foot.

Metal Misfit wrote:

This stuff is starting to tick me off. That Slash deluxe edition has me mad too. I wish they would at least announce "and 4 months from now you can pick up a special edition, if you prefer".

I remember when Slash's album came out thinking "Why didn't they release the Alice Cooper song?!" Well, now we know.

Release it all at once and give people the option to choose because I certainly won't be buying any "special" editions 5 months after having bought the original and only advertised album.

Record companies stay shooting themselves in the foot.

That stuff pisses me off all the time, also hate when they reissue decades old albums with new songs or demos, I refuse to rebuy the same CD I already own, I have thought of making an exception to Black Sabbath's Seventh Star and The Eternal Idol, but it is no wonder album sales are down, when not even a year after the original release they reissue the album with bonus songs

Nuclear Blast are famous for this.

I'm betting that the live broadcast of Accept from Hollywood a few nights ago will see the light of day on some "Special Edition" of Blood of the Nations within the next few months.

I hate to say this, but this is a reason people download.

Honestly, I can imagine a label reissuing an album if it's been out of print for years (like BOC's Imaginos a couple of years ago), but this is getting retarded.

It's just as bad as the movie companies that put out the same movie (regular dvd, bonus material edition, unrated version, directors cut, etc.) within months of each other.

For me this sort of thing has the weird effect of causing me to never buy albums (any version) I initially intended to. On almost all new releases the first thing I think is "wonder if another edition will be coming out down the line". Most of the time I hold off buying just on that chance. I then usually forget about it and never pick up any version that gets released. My attention span as a consumer is very short before I'm off to the next thing. Plus I've kind of gotta to the point of only albums I truly love and play to death get the upgrades. And only if the extras are something I'll get some use out of. I've come accept that those bonus dvds will never get played.


Haven't picked up Sting In The Tail yet, and to be honest this new version won't get me to run out for it. It goes on the "wait for it cheap" list.

I'm still hesitating about bying sting in the tail

I need to pull this album off the shelf and spin it again.

So it finally dawned on me what "SLY" means.

Still Loving You

Maybe that was common knowledge, maybe it's in the lyrics of the song, but I couldn't figure it out for the longest time.