70's Scorpions

Fat Freddy wrote:

I've only got VIRGIN KILLER and TAKEN BY FORCE out of their '70s stuff, but I dig'em both, for whatever that's worth.

TRY these out brother, both on RCA......for cheap

for me its:

very early 70's Scorps<mid 70's<late 70's<Lovedrive/Animal Mag/Blackout>Love at first sting>late 80's/1990>mid 90's>everything after that.

stepcousin wrote:

for me its:

very early 70's ScorpsLove at first sting>late 80's/1990>mid 90's>everything after that.

Check out Sting In The Tail if you haven't already. I'd completely given up on Scorpions but I kept reading good things about their last one and sure enough those reviews were correct.

James B. wrote:

I was a hugr Scorps fan in the 70's. Taken By Force is my favorite Uli record.

Attn: ProgDoom.....check out Electric Sun, Uli's band after Scorpions.

I have their first album. A bit too psychedelic, but great for any fan of 60's rock.

Didn't get into the 70's as much being from the 80's and loving Animal Magnetism and Love at First Sting, but will def give the earlier stuff another look

Looks like Scorpions are next to receive the Audio Fidelity CD treatment with Virign Killer:



Would have preferred Taken By Force, but this is cool. Hopefully they will do In Trance and Taken By Force in the future, followed by some of the 80's albums. Nice to see they aren;t using the horrid original album cover!

thejokeriv wrote:

Good Lord, that is one of the worst examples of promotional art I've ever seen. Nothin' says "German Hard Rock" like a dollar-store Virgin Mary figurine and a bloody action figure superimposed against the Alps... waitaminnit, what?

thejokeriv wrote:

Looks like Scorpions are next to receive the Audio Fidelity CD treatment with Virign Killer:



Would have preferred Taken By Force, but this is cool. Hopefully they will do In Trance and Taken By Force in the future, followed by some of the 80's albums. Nice to see they aren;t using the horrid original album cover!

Nice! I'll get that for sure.

Fat Freddy wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Good Lord, that is one of the worst examples of promotional art I've ever seen. Nothin' says "German Hard Rock" like a dollar-store Virgin Mary figurine and a bloody action figure superimposed against the Alps... waitaminnit, what?

I thought the promo art was pretty bad too........

This release was originally planned for over a year ago, but the record label couldn't find the master tapes for a couple of the songs. After about 9 months of looking the tapes were finally found and the remaster was completed.

tohostudios wrote:

stepcousin wrote:

for me its:

very early 70's ScorpsLove at first sting>late 80's/1990>mid 90's>everything after that.

Check out Sting In The Tail if you haven't already. I'd completely given up on Scorpions but I kept reading good things about their last one and sure enough those reviews were correct.

Sting in the Tail is excellent. Its the album that finally got the Scorpions to click for me.

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the record label couldn't find the master tapes for a couple of the songs. After about 9 months of looking the tapes were finally found and the remaster was completed.

It always disturbs me when you hear these kinds of things. Why can't labels hire an archivist? Or more importantly why didn't they have an archivist in the first place? Seems like this happens a whole lot.


Having just listened to In Trance, I can safely say it is my favorite Scorpions top to bottom.

jstate wrote:

Having just listened to In Trance, I can safely say it is my favorite Scorpions top to bottom.

Mine as well.

In Trance def has one of the better 70's Scorp's covers (IMHO)


Hare to pick a favorite tune as well

"Robot Man", "Top Of The Bill", "In Trance" and "Dark Lady"...All killer stuf

"Life's Like A River" is one of those first great Scorp's ballads

I was a complete child of 80's Scorps (Thanks to MTV and the No One Like You video). So much so that I didn't think anything came before Blackout in my world. That was a big mistake I corrected in time.

Rumors are that the next Scorpions reissue from Audio Fidelity will be "In Trance".

S.D. wrote:

Rumors are that the next Scorpions reissue from Audio Fidelity will be "In Trance".

Sweet!!!!! Hope they end up doing Taken By Force