A little Uli Jon Roth story. Not far from where I live is a place called Warings Green in Solihull near Birmingham UK. There is a country pub called The Bluebell Cider House that has open mic nights. One of the patrons knew UJR and got him to play at one of these that took place outside on a balmy late summer evening. It was surreal but totally brilliant sat there with about 50 other people listening to him play a 45 minute acoustic set and better still it was free.
Thank you for some love for Unbreakable. Happy I got it on vinyl at the time as the first album of theirs I bought since Crazy World. Haven't bought any since either. Somehow Unbreakable struck a chord with me.
Pete, Steven and Simon, thanks for the entertaining evening. It was great hanging out with you guys, having a few pints, listening to long forgotten Scorpions songs and remembering the old days when they were just one of the Krautrock bands playing the local youth club.
Favorites: 1. Love at First Sting 2. Blackout 3. Crazy World 4. Taken By Force 5. Animal Magnetism 6. Virgin Killer 7. In Trance 8. Savage Amusement 9. Fly to the Rainbow 10. Lovedrive 11. Lonesome Crow 12. Face The Heat 13. Return to Forever 14. Sting in the Tail 15. Rock Believer Least Favorites: 1. Eye II Eye 2. Pure Instinct 3. Unbreakable 4. Humanity: Hour 1 5. Comeblack (reworking of songs compilation album)
top 10: 1. Taken by Force 2. Animal Magnetism 3. Lovedrive 4. Blackout 5. In Trance 6. Love at First Sting 7. Crazy World 8. Virgin Killer 9. Fly to the Rainbow 10.Lonesome Crow
I love watching the UK Connection each week, regardless of the chosen topic. Being a fan of the Sea of Tranquility channel from Australia when Steven dropped Natalie Imbruglia's name I couldn't stop laughing. Keep up the good work guys. Can't wait for next week.
Thank you guys, for your picks. All the damn time. My Top 5 favorite Picks: 1. Blackout 2. Love at First Sting 3. Rock Believer 4. Lovedrive 5. Fly to the Rainbow My Wildcard Picks: 1. Savage Amusement 2. Animal Magnetism My Least favorite Pick: 1. Eye II Eye My favorite Live Picks: 1. Tokyo Tapes 2. World Wide Live My Honorable Mention Picks: 1. Taken By Force 2. Lonesome Crow 3. In Trance 🎤🎸🎵🎹🥁 Life is better with music.
I like Pure Instinct. It might actually be the album that's the least edgy, but like you said- it still riffs. For the bad rep it gets it rocks pretty hard, dare I say- heavier than Bon Jovi? Certainly offering more than something like Oasis, or other popular bands at the time. Incredible lead guitar for a mid 90's album, as well. You and I might have one of the best outros Matthias has done since Coming Home. Does Anyone Know is obviously supposed to appeal in the same way that Wind of Change does, but there's something different going on with a lot of the others. There's a slight folk presence maybe on Time Will Call Your Name and Soul Behind the Face. For some reason these get me thinking of something like Styx's Cornerstone, where you had something like Never Say Never (which you'd think is throwaway but is actually quite unusual, which differentiates it from a standard ballad), mixed in with an actual folk song like Boat on the River. Then you hear Babe which is the actual commercial ballad and it stands out as being the only really awful song among a bunch that are trying to do something different. I've got no problem throwing Wild Child and some of the other rockers on a same playlist as the ones from other albums. I revisited this album to make sure some of these really weren't that bad and I can still have another go at it and not get pissed off. Granted, Eye to Eye failed to do the same when I heard those edm drums. I can stomach a number of the songs, but the bad ones in between are revolting. Yellow Butterfly, Mind Like a Tree, Skywriter, Aleyah, Obsession and 10 Light Years Away are ok by themselves. Still 19th if I had to rank the album, though.
@@gabriellarrubia1006 I like Pure Instinct too, it's one of my favorite albums by the Scorpions I like it because it is a very melodic album with many beautiful songs , it's not as heavy as the other albums which I like them too, I know the complain about this album is that it has too many ballads but i don't mind that at all, I love rock ballads and the Scorpions have shown that they are very good at that
Another great and fun show, thank you all. I've never been a big Scorpions fans but they have a lot of great music, for me in the 70s and 80s. My two favourite albums are "Tokyo Tapes" and "World Wide Live". The Last studio album I bought was "Savage Amusement" and don't think that I've heard much or at all they have done since and believe that I have not missed anything at all...
Thanks guys for yet another fun and interesting chat about a great rock band! My favourite two are `Love at First Sting` and `Lovedrive`. Wildcard `Taken By Force`. Don`t have least favourites because I only go up until 1988. Whilst saying that you have now made me think about tipping my toe into some of the later stuff!
Great show very entertaining! Two favorites- Blackout and Animal Magnetism. Least Favorites- Eye II Eye and Humanity: Hour 1. Wild Card- Rock Believer very strong album and saw them live two weeks ago in Detroit. The new songs went over great live.
Scorpions great band ! My favourite album Animal Magnetism. The only albums am not up on is the 90s beyond but from this video looks like am not missing much . And as for last weeks Motley Cure video loved it ! Growing up with a close metal family most of whom think Crue are the greatest thing since sliced bread it's nice to see there's at least 3 more people on the same page as me about them .
Agree with Steven. The two live doubles are essential listening. What always amazed me was that they sound like two different bands, even though the only difference in personnel was different lead guitarists.
Top show - based on my copy of World Wide Live i think Blackout is my favourite studio album. And from the description im pretty sure Eye to Eye is pants! I'm off to buy the Boston album in prep for next week.
The first time I heard SCORPIONS was when my older brother came home on leave from the Army in 1981 and brought with him a bunch of albums and two were Tokyo Tapes and Castle Donnington! I immediately loved them and wanted more and startred buying everything! I fell off after Savage Amusement, and I honestly can't get into the newer stuff, Rock Believer I've listened to it twice and liked it but I haven't spun it since. I prefer the ULI era, With that said... Favorites: 1. Taken By Force 2. Lovedrive Least Favorites: 1. Eye II Eye 2. Humanity: Hour I Wild Card: Lonesome Crow... bought it back in the day but never got into it until Pete brought it up on one of the SoT shows a couple of years ago and gave it another spin and i was blown away! and I have reached for it more often since.
Great show again chaps, 1 virgin killer 2 Animal magnetism. Worst 1 eye to eye 2 pure instinct. w\c both live albums. First caught them live in 1980 lovedrive tour which in uk was donnington monsters of rock. Have been lucky to catch them live many times since, though they don't come to the uk, not a lot of love for the scorps these days. Hey we've got the olds hoping to catch them in lille next year. If you like the older music, keep an eye out for uli jon roth , half of his concerts are of his scorpions era.
Favorites: 1. Taken By Force 2. Virgin Killer Least Favorites: 1. Eye II Eye 2. Face The Heat ( Although, some of their 2000's stuff, I haven't heard yet ) Wild Card - Love At First Sting ( That is where I came in with the Scorpions, I still like the hits from that album, it's not bad, nostalgia I suppose ).
You 3 ( trio) do a weekly bang up job every Saturday afternoon here , as I listen from NEW Jersey, 1.BLACKOUT/ 8️⃣2️⃣. 2. Taken by FORCE /7️⃣7️⃣. Great show guys 👍💯
1. Taken By Force 2. Blackout ... 8. Lonesome Crow 9. Love at First Sting WC: Tokyo Tapes I never bought a Scorpions album after LAFS, and I've never heard a song by them since that made me regret that decision.
I came in at In Trance in 1976 after reading the 5 star review in sounds music paper and it is still in my top 2, but that is how it goes with the first ones you hear always seem to stick. My second one was Tokyo tapes and as we all know it is a killer live album. And like Pete I love the Roth era but Blackout was amazing and they were awesome on that tour.
Pete stole a little bit of my wildcard thunder😅. I'll agree with Stephen about the two live albums. Simon: The 90s🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣... I pretty much agree with that. Favorites: 1. In Trance 2. Lovedrive Least Favorites: 1. Anything after World Wide Live 2. Eye to Eye Wildcard: Lonesome Crow I do like Unbreakable and Sting in the Tail for 2000s Scorpions. I'll have to check out the new one out since you guys are recommending it.
I got into Scorpions just as Uli left and my first albums were Tokyo Tapes and a Best Of compilation. I loved the first few Matthias Jabs albums, then was hugely disappointed but Love At First Sting (except for Rock You Like A Hurricane 🤘🏻). None of the subsequent releases have grabbed me like the late 70s and early 80s albums. Favourite two albums: Lovedrive + Animal Magnetism Least favourite: Love At First Sting + everything released after it. Wildcard: Tokyo Tapes
The Scorpions Animal Magnetism tour was, for various reasons, my first ever gig. Support was Blackfoot, who were phenomenal. Tomcattin’ had not long been released.
Steven, you are so right about bands who count only original member as part of the band, Cf. The Rolling Stones. Daryl Jones has been with them forever and is still not considered a member of the band.
My intro to the Scorpions was hearing Fly to the Rainbow in Happy Tunes Record store on eighth street in Greenwich Village in 1974 or 1975 - unknown here a the time. My choices 1. Fly to the Rainbow 2. Lonesome Crow 3. Taken by Force 4. In trance 5. Blackout
Going hard core with today's beverage: Unsweetened ice tea. I have only purchased Scorpions albums from 'Lovedrive' thru 'Worldwide Live'. I love them all, but listened the most to 'Animal Magnetism'. One of the best live bands. Seen them twice. First time straight back 3rd deck, 2nd to last row at the Oakland Coliseum stadium. Second time for 'Love at First Sting' at Cal Expo against the barricades between Klaus & Rudy.🤘
What an excellent band Scorpions were - 70's and 80's stuff is great. I only saw them once, in the early 80's ,(support band was Wolf) and they were great
Watching the World Wide Live VHS was what got me into rock music as a kid. Blackout is Scorpions at their pure hard rock best imo. However I think their best overall song is The Zoo.
Hi guys, just starting to watch, having just poured out my bottle of Badger Brewery's 'Fursty Ferret'. Going to type in my picks now before yours come up and influence my decision... Best 2 = 1 Blackout 2 Taken by Force Worst 2 = Eye II Eye & Animal Instinct Wildcard = Humanity Hour Nearly went with Tokyo Tapes as the wildcsrd but decided to stick with studio stuff... Right... listening time! See you on the other side...
I'm with Simon (it must be our northern genes) Blackout and Animal Magnetism are my favourite 2. Blackout was my gateway album for Scorpions, but there's so much gold going backwards, not so much going forwards. One of the few bands I will regret not seeing live, never really got the opportunity to be honest. Great Video
I've always liked Blackout and the other 80's album, but have lost touch after the 80's. I've just listened to Humanity album for the first time, on Steven's recommendation and I really like it, thanks Steven.
My top 2 favorites are Animal Magnetism and Blackout. Matthias goes bonkers on Blackout, and even when it goes slow it has my attention. Animal Magnetism just has way too many of my top 10/20 favorite songs even if deep down I wish it was more intense like Blackout. Dark, heavy album, though. Side two puts on a clinic. My least favorites are Eye to Eye and Unbreakable. I found redeemable material on both, but even the 17th best album seems miles ahead of these. My wild card is Savage Amusement (kinda cheating because it's my third favorite)- WAY too underrated in my opinion. Commercial? Maybe. Doesn't bother me. The opener is quite decent. Passion Rules the Game is gorgeous, and Rhythm of Love does have the groove that it says it does. I like that the talk box gets another shot in Media Overkill (after The Zoo this is fan service). The ballads have their moments, sound honest and can jump at you from nowhere (Walking on the Edge has that bit, people might know what I'm talking about). Then there's the deep cuts. There's some heavy, fast shit on this record that's maybe not being accounted for. In fact, if you flip things to put those up front, it's probably not that poppy. Great performance from Matthias, and interesting double rhythm guitar all throughout (Passion Rules the Game has great layering, for example). The production is also kinda fascinating. I hear things popping in and out in stereo like fireworks- almost as if the production is giving the music more motion. For a band that likes to dub things, have many guitar fills and spontaneous harmonics all around, it's a nice way to add color.
Top 5: 1. Taken By Force (Sails of Charon, We'll Burn The Sky, Your Light, He's a Woman She's a Man) 2. Fly to The Rainbow (Speedy's Coming, Drifting Sun, They Need a Million, FtTR) 3. Virgin Killer (Pictured Life, In Your Park, VK, Hell-Cat, Crying Days) 4. In Trance (Dark Lady, In Trance, Top of The Bill, Robot Man, Sun In My Hand) 5. Animal Magnetism (Make It Real, Hold Me Tight, Falling In Love, The Zoo, AM) Bottom 5: 15. Lonesome Crow (I'm Going Mad, In Search of The Peace of Mind, Lonesome Crow) 16. Sting In The Tail 17. Return to Forever 18. Pure Instinct 19. Eye II Eye
Fav s- Lovedrive & Taken By Force Least fav - Pure Instinct and Eye to Eye Wildcards - Lonesome Crow and Rock Believer I totally agree with Steven that Tokyo Tapes & World Wide live are the two absolutely essential Scorpions albums and while my Twitter response last week had them as my wildcards, considering that the wild card should be one that isn't their greatest I have changed my mind and although I initially decided to just go with Lonesome Crow will mirror Pete and add Rock Believer - not that I have a physical copy though , as I dont, and my fruity download is just fine. I also tweeted that as I had been re-listening to Scorpions (I so want to say 'the' in front of Scorpions as it just doesn't sound right without it ) over the last few weeks after the remarks made by Chris Alo about Alien Nation decided to recheck their 90's stuff - as I never listen to it. Crazy World & Face the Heat were ok though downward trending, then off the cliff they went, badly, but they did recover bit by bit - and then I went on to say about Humanity Hour "Have to say I dismissed it shortly after buying but on re-listening it is far far better than first thought and I'd now give it a good 7 or 8/10 at least" - that was however in response to someone who had Humanity Hour as one of their favourites so its probably them that Steven was referring to as supporting his view. My first two Scorps albums were Lovedrive and Tokyo Tapes bought at the same time, so I was already exposed to both eras, which means for me Lovedrive gets the nod due to my relationship with it (not mention that it has both Jabs and Schenker, Michael on it). Not long after I bought them I saw Scorpions at Reading Rock - they were just awesome. Then I bought Taken by Force, so again I have a longstanding relationship with that one. If I were to rank their albums though, Tokyo Tapes would be at no 1 and WorldWide Live at No 2 then for studio releases 1. Lovedrive 2. Taken by Force 3. Blackout 4. Virgin Killer 5. Animal Magnetism . 6 Love at First Sting 7. In Trance 8.Fly to the Rainbow 9.Lonesome Crow 10.Rock Believer. From '79 through to '85 Scorpions were one of my top five favourite bands. Then they went pffft... For my least favourites I disregarded Comeblack because its easy pickings and I very nearly added a third least favourite in Savage Amusement - as after what had come before it was just a big disappointment - Passion Doesnt Rule the Game should have been the title for one of the songs. It was their Hysteria wannabee album and in my opinion failed badly. As with Scorps though there are still maybe one or two songs on it that are ok but it was just dull and lifeless. Crazy World picked things up a bit and Face the Heat I think tried, though is only a smidgen better than Savage Amusement. Incidentally SA is the only Scorps album I never replaced on CD - I had to get Pure Instinct and Eye to Eye on CD as that's all I could get at the time, however until the last couple of weeks I never played them since fist purchase and then re-listened and confirmed my initial thoughts about their crapness - Pure Instinct is just completely lifeless, dull, and has no balls or pizzaz at all and like Steven I doubt I'll ever play either of them again - Humanity Hour I probably will though.
Other collabs w/Klaus I didn't mention in chat; w/Liel Kolet: Send Me An Angel, Bigger Than Life, Keep The World Safe & Jerusalem of Gold. Bis Wohin Reicht Mein Leben (Die Liebenden)[Klaus Meine & Zabine feat. Senait] from Schönherz & Fleer: Rilke Projekt - "In Meinem Wilden Herzen" Klaus & José Carreras (2014) - Wind of Change
Favourites I knew immediately, Lovedrive and Animal Magnetism. Least favourites, obviously the answers mentioned are the right answers but I don’t own any of those from the albums I do own least favourites are Lonesome crow and Savage Amusement Wild card the album that got me listening to Scorpions again Sting in the tail. The new album as said is great.
My favorite changes all the time. Today I'll say Lovedrive and Virgin Killer. I agree with Steven. The 2 classic live albums are the best. Least favorites are Eye To Eye and Face the Heat. I haven't heard all of the 90s albums. My wildcard is Lonesome Crow.
My favourite 2 are, Taken by Force and Tokyo Tapes (Blackout if only considering Studio albums) Least Favourite 2 are, Eye II Eye and Pure Instinct Wildcard is, Humanity Hour 1, The Zoo was my introduction to Scorpions on the Axe Attack compilation album.
I understand the hate for Eye II Eye, especially To Be No. 1, but I actually unashamedly like it a lot. I love love Lonesome Crow. My favourite song is Your Light from Taken By Force. What a hidden gem. The sweet spot for me is predictably 79-84, and Rock Believer is quite amazing, as is the Moment Of Glory album and dvd which is a separate entity from the album and truly amazing to watch.
I always love the outsider picks in the comments Damien. You've made my day. We like what we like, so whatever your choice is, is the correct answer. Thanks for watching!
Great show again Love the beer discussion at the start.Im not a lover of the jarl ale . Only tried it on draught maybe better in bottle. As to favourite Scorpion albums Mostly in agreement but would have to put Lovedrive top of the pile ,the following 3 all good.my other choice would be Love at first sting just As for least favourites,Eye to eye and sorry Steven but Humanity hour 1doesnt do it for me. As.for wildcard.i do like the latest one but would have to give some love to ULI Jon Roth era and go with In Trance.
I must admit that the more I drank of the Jarl, the less I loved it. I've been the same with a few of the Fyne Ales. Good choices too James, even if we don't agree on HH1! lol!
Lovedrive is their best I feel. Surprised the way it was almost completely overlooked here. Stone In My Shoe is great off Pure Instinct by the way, saves it from being amongst their worst two albums
It nearly edged into my top 2 Mia. I didn't spend longer talking about because I knew I'd be bending the rules later in the show! lol! Thanks for watching.
Very informative takeaway here. The orchestral album (never heard of it), the new album Rock Believer (sounded nondescript to me at first sting, ..eh sight), even the Humanity project being praised by Steven.
Favourites: 1. 'Taken By Force' (1977); 2. 'Love At First Sting' (1984); and 3. 'In Trance' (1975). Least favourites: 1. 'Lonesome Crow' (1972); 2. 'Sting In The Tail (2010); and 3. 'Pure Instinct' (1996).
I only have two scorpions albums. Worldwide Live and Crazy World. Recently listened to worldwide… fantastic live album. Although I’m always disappointed that they cut Holiday short!!!
My favourites: 1. Virgin killer 2. Lovedrive 3. Animal magnetism 4. Blackout Worst one: "Eye to eye", no brainer. Don't think "Pure instinct" or "Humanity hour 1" are terrible, of course they feature a lot of ballads, but that was their trademark and became their main market in those years. Nevertheless, I think the songs are quite good.
For me: Top 2: World Wide Live and Love at First Sting (mainly because they were both my first exposures to the Scorps.) Bottom 2: Eye II Eye and Humanity: Hour 1 (I do have Eye II Eye in my collection, the curse is real.) Wild card- Fly to the Rainbow
what a funny video that is. I've got a bit of a funny one. The Comeblack was released in a newspaper here in Greece advertising at the same time one of their farewell tours as well as a semiacoustic live album in Athens some time later. Well...... we bought it just you know and I haven't either one since then. My two faves are Lovedrive and Love at first sting. My two least faves are Eye II Eye and Prime instinct. My wildcard would be In Trance.
My Scorpions Album Ranking (including Live Albums) 24. Eye II Eye 23. Return to Forever 22. Pure Instinct 21. Unbreakable 20. Live Bites 19. Acoustica 18. Sting in the Tail 17. MTV Unplugged - Live in Athens 16. Humanity - Hour I 15. Savage Amusement 14. Crazy World 13. Face the Heat 12. Lonesome Crow 11. Rock Believer 10. Fly to the Rainbow 9. Animal Magnetism 8. Love at First Sting 7. World Wide Live 6. Lovedrive 5. In Trance 4. Virgin Killer 3. Blackout 2. Taken by Force 1. Tokyo Tapes 🎸 🎸🎸🤘🤘🤘
@@jimekberg World Wide Live is a great album. But I like "Tokyo Tapes" much better. It's my favorite live album of all time, along with "Made in Japan" and "Unleashed in the East".
@Garrick St. Martin Too polished. That's exactly what bothers me about the "World Wide Live" record. The record sounds like a typical 1980s production. But "Tokyo Tapes" sounds raw, organic and aggressive. And that's what I'm talking about.
The Uli John Roth era blew my mind and virgin killer and taken by force are my faves from this era however lovedrive and blackout are my other faves from the post Uli John Roth era
As usual a very entertaining show, keep doing what you do, in the absence of a larger Hudson VSquares this is the most entertaining show on the channel. I discovered the Scorpions via Rock You Like a Hurricane on the Kerrang Kompilation LP comp, must've bought 15 albums off the back of that, including WW live (I use live albums as a taster for a new band). Then got Blackout, Lovedrive, Tokyo Tapes, Savage Amusement, then Crazy World and that was it for me. Enjoyed Tokyo Tapes & Savage Amusement most but tbh they're not a band I've gone back to in a long while but did look up some you tube vids of Ace of Spades when Mikkey Dee joined. Think I'll check out the new album after the discussion here, interestingly (to me) the cover was done by Klaus Voormann the chap who did the Revolver cover.
I think there are other good albums after Crazy World. I'd say each one is worth checking out before totally dismissing them. If you've never heard 90's Motorhead going forward that's also worth checking out. Mikkey Dee had been in the band ages along with Phil Campbell. There's truly amazing stuff from that lineup. Not sure which ones would suit your taste but I'm crazy about Sacrifice, We Are Motorhead and Motorizer...
Saw them twice on the Animal Magnetism and Blackout tours at Hammersmith Odeon. Michael Schenker joined them for the encore on the night we saw them on the Blackout tour. Both shows were amazing but the Scorpion drum riser on the AM tour was bonkers. I kinda lost interest after that. I still love the 70's records with Uli Jon Roth and go back to them regularly.
Reference to Terry Butcher the footballer? I think he was playing for England when he injured his forehead resulting in a bloodstained bandage covoring his head. The Scorpions are new to me but I'm willing to listen and learn. Tonight, I am drinking San Miguel.
Favorites Lovedrive Taken by force Least favorites Eye to eye (it's bad) Face the heat Noteable mentions Tokyo tapes ( one of the best hard rock live album ever)
Great show again I wondered if you might consider doing a show on albums by house of lords brilliant band with a consistently strong catalogue just a thought
My two favourites. 1. lovedrive 2. Love at First Sting My two least favourites 1. Eye to Eye 2. Face the Heat Wild card - Sting in the tail an excellent album but what took them so long to use that absolutely made to measure album title. They should have used that album name in the 70’s. I wet myself when Simon mentioned what Yorkshire people call The Zoo. 😂😂 I’m from midlands and most people in Birmingham pronounce Saxon’s Wheels of Steel as Whales of Stale. 😂😂
Top show as ever Favourites 1 Blackout this is where I came in an album full of killer tracks Blackout just blows me away 2. Animal Magnetism Just love the Zoo lady Starlight and Make it Real Stinkers 1 Eye II Eye apart from Mind like a Tree the rest is awful 2 Pure Instinct From the cover to the songs belongs on a dung heap Wild card for me is World Wide Live Best version of these songs and also, I saw them at Knebworth in 1985 with Deep Purple it rained all the way through the set before no one cared because apart from Deep Purple this was the best support band of the day which also included Meat Loaf UFO Blackfoot Alaska Mountain & Mamas Bouy one of the best festivals ever I went to
After listening to all of the 2000s albums for the first time over the last week I can confidently say.... that they're all somewhere in the middle and this has been mostly a waste of time... so... Fav: Fly To The Rainbow - Fantastic, my favorite. Uli's first with the band isn't quite as simplistic as what they'd move toward over time. Virgin Killer - Great heavy rocker, the energy on this album is unparalleled. Least: Eye II Eye - Trash Pure Instinct - Bland and boring, Scorpions at their worst while still playing the kind of music they should be able to do well. Wildcard: Face The Heat - a pretty cool album stuck between a turd sandwich - no idea how this is as good as it is with the stuff that is... there around it. Moment Of Glory is great too!
Had always ignored (tries hard not to say 'the') Scorpions as I only knew them for that whistling shit (that I actually quite like, but not enough to want to hear more) until they played the first Ramblin' Man festival (2015 I believe). Went to check them out for a couple of tunes before moving on to whoever was on the prog stage at that point but ended up staying for the whole set because they were bloody fantastic. Really glad they didn't play the same night as Marillion as I'd have missed them. Anyway, my top 2 are Blackout and Love at First Sting. Don't have a bottom two as I've seen that they have a bunch of shitty albums and have assiduously avoided them, but will give my wildcard choice to Return to Forever (which I think actually WAS them saying, ' that farewell tour was a stupid idea, of course we're keeping on going') - it was the current album when I saw them and they played a few songs from it that went down really well (We Built This House is great for one) and I bought it along with some of the earlier classic stuff. By contrast I've enjoyed Rock Believer, but no so much as long-term fans seem to - that feels like an album for people who actually lived through all the really bad years to have something to finally rejoice about, if that makes sense?
Yeah James Kottak's drumming was actually kind of terrible... I remember hearing those meh snare fills on Going Out With a Bang and just shaking my head. No, not a bang...
@@TranquilityFireReid As you are getting older you get this combined curse and blessing of your brain not being able to retain useless information to the same degree as before, so I'm confident I'll forget about it soon enough.
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A little Uli Jon Roth story.
Not far from where I live is a place called Warings Green in Solihull near Birmingham UK. There is a country pub called The Bluebell Cider House that has open mic nights. One of the patrons knew UJR and got him to play at one of these that took place outside on a balmy late summer evening.
It was surreal but totally brilliant sat there with about 50 other people listening to him play a 45 minute acoustic set and better still it was free.
Fantastic story!
He played regularly in a pub in Bolton called ‘The Railway ‘.I saw him many times there .
So cool!!
I got into Scorpions in 1976, so albums like Taken By Force and Virgin Killer will always be my favorites.
Thank you for some love for Unbreakable. Happy I got it on vinyl at the time as the first album of theirs I bought since Crazy World. Haven't bought any since either. Somehow Unbreakable struck a chord with me.
Pete, Steven and Simon, thanks for the entertaining evening. It was great hanging out with you guys, having a few pints, listening to long forgotten Scorpions songs and remembering the old days when they were just one of the Krautrock bands playing the local youth club.
Thanks Gert!
Favorites:
1. Love at First Sting
2. Blackout
3. Crazy World
4. Taken By Force
5. Animal Magnetism
6. Virgin Killer
7. In Trance
8. Savage Amusement
9. Fly to the Rainbow
10. Lovedrive
11. Lonesome Crow
12. Face The Heat
13. Return to Forever
14. Sting in the Tail
15. Rock Believer
Least Favorites:
1. Eye II Eye
2. Pure Instinct
3. Unbreakable
4. Humanity: Hour 1
5. Comeblack (reworking of songs compilation album)
@@proudhammer62 My bad, I forgot to include that.
top 10:
1. Taken by Force
2. Animal Magnetism
3. Lovedrive
4. Blackout
5. In Trance
6. Love at First Sting
7. Crazy World
8. Virgin Killer
9. Fly to the Rainbow
10.Lonesome Crow
I love watching the UK Connection each week, regardless of the chosen topic. Being a fan of the Sea of Tranquility channel from Australia when Steven dropped Natalie Imbruglia's name I couldn't stop laughing. Keep up the good work guys. Can't wait for next week.
Thanks Alistair!
Nice work guys!! My favourites are fly to the rainbow,virgin killer ,taken by force, in trance
Thank you guys, for your picks.
All the damn time.
My Top 5 favorite Picks:
1. Blackout
2. Love at First Sting
3. Rock Believer
4. Lovedrive
5. Fly to the Rainbow
My Wildcard Picks:
1. Savage Amusement
2. Animal Magnetism
My Least favorite Pick:
1. Eye II Eye
My favorite Live Picks:
1. Tokyo Tapes
2. World Wide Live
My Honorable Mention Picks:
1. Taken By Force
2. Lonesome Crow
3. In Trance
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Life is better with music.
Thank you Dianne. Your Faves are a GREAT mix of old and new. Love it!
I love Eye II Eye, and Pure Instinct albums ...epic ballads, good riffs and awesome singing ...both Scorpion's classics....
And that is the beauty of music Nebo. Genuinely delighted to see some love for both albums. Thanks for watching!
@@TranquilityFireReid Thanks Steven ...always enjoying your reviews and eloquent explanations....
@@nebod1556 Cheers Nebo!
I like Pure Instinct. It might actually be the album that's the least edgy, but like you said- it still riffs. For the bad rep it gets it rocks pretty hard, dare I say- heavier than Bon Jovi? Certainly offering more than something like Oasis, or other popular bands at the time. Incredible lead guitar for a mid 90's album, as well. You and I might have one of the best outros Matthias has done since Coming Home. Does Anyone Know is obviously supposed to appeal in the same way that Wind of Change does, but there's something different going on with a lot of the others. There's a slight folk presence maybe on Time Will Call Your Name and Soul Behind the Face. For some reason these get me thinking of something like Styx's Cornerstone, where you had something like Never Say Never (which you'd think is throwaway but is actually quite unusual, which differentiates it from a standard ballad), mixed in with an actual folk song like Boat on the River. Then you hear Babe which is the actual commercial ballad and it stands out as being the only really awful song among a bunch that are trying to do something different. I've got no problem throwing Wild Child and some of the other rockers on a same playlist as the ones from other albums. I revisited this album to make sure some of these really weren't that bad and I can still have another go at it and not get pissed off. Granted, Eye to Eye failed to do the same when I heard those edm drums. I can stomach a number of the songs, but the bad ones in between are revolting. Yellow Butterfly, Mind Like a Tree, Skywriter, Aleyah, Obsession and 10 Light Years Away are ok by themselves. Still 19th if I had to rank the album, though.
@@gabriellarrubia1006 I like Pure Instinct too, it's one of my favorite albums by the Scorpions I like it because it is a very melodic album with many beautiful songs , it's not as heavy as the other albums which I like them too, I know the complain about this album is that it has too many ballads but i don't mind that at all, I love rock ballads and the Scorpions have shown that they are very good at that
Another great and fun show, thank you all. I've never been a big Scorpions fans but they have a lot of great music, for me in the 70s and 80s. My two favourite albums are "Tokyo Tapes" and "World Wide Live". The Last studio album I bought was "Savage Amusement" and don't think that I've heard much or at all they have done since and believe that I have not missed anything at all...
I was introduced to the scorpions fly to the rainbow on 8 track loved it still do great show guys
Thanks guys for yet another fun and interesting chat about a great rock band! My favourite two are `Love at First Sting` and `Lovedrive`. Wildcard `Taken By Force`. Don`t have least favourites because I only go up until 1988. Whilst saying that you have now made me think about tipping my toe into some of the later stuff!
If you do, I hope you enjoy it. I do!
Great show very entertaining! Two favorites- Blackout and Animal Magnetism. Least Favorites- Eye II Eye and Humanity: Hour 1. Wild Card- Rock Believer very strong album and saw them live two weeks ago in Detroit. The new songs went over great live.
thanks for the Unbreakable love, a great underrated record!!!
Loved the show. Thanks for the laughs. Cheers from Down Under
Scorpions great band ! My favourite album Animal Magnetism. The only albums am not up on is the 90s beyond but from this video looks like am not missing much . And as for last weeks Motley Cure video loved it ! Growing up with a close metal family most of whom think Crue are the greatest thing since sliced bread it's nice to see there's at least 3 more people on the same page as me about them .
Best return to form album ever .Loved Saxon,Maiden, Accept and AC/DC recent releases but this top of the pile.
Agree with Steven. The two live doubles are essential listening. What always amazed me was that they sound like two different bands, even though the only difference in personnel was different lead guitarists.
Yes, isn't it fascinating how much they'd changed and how quickly??? Thanks for watching!
Top show - based on my copy of World Wide Live i think Blackout is my favourite studio album. And from the description im pretty sure Eye to Eye is pants! I'm off to buy the Boston album in prep for next week.
I agree Steven, the Symphony album is superb. The live concert is worth watching.
The first time I heard SCORPIONS was when my older brother came home on leave from the Army in 1981 and brought with him a bunch of albums and two were Tokyo Tapes and Castle Donnington! I immediately loved them and wanted more and startred buying everything! I fell off after Savage Amusement, and I honestly can't get into the newer stuff, Rock Believer I've listened to it twice and liked it but I haven't spun it since. I prefer the ULI era, With that said...
Favorites:
1. Taken By Force
2. Lovedrive
Least Favorites:
1. Eye II Eye
2. Humanity: Hour I
Wild Card:
Lonesome Crow... bought it back in the day but never got into it until Pete brought it up on one of the SoT shows a couple of years ago and gave it another spin and i was blown away! and I have reached for it more often since.
Lonesome Crow is an underrated gem. In Search Of The Peace Of Mind is simply glorious.
Great show again chaps, 1 virgin killer 2 Animal magnetism. Worst 1 eye to eye 2 pure instinct. w\c both live albums. First caught them live in 1980 lovedrive tour which in uk was donnington monsters of rock. Have been lucky to catch them live many times since, though they don't come to the uk, not a lot of love for the scorps these days. Hey we've got the olds hoping to catch them in lille next year. If you like the older music, keep an eye out for uli jon roth , half of his concerts are of his scorpions era.
Favorites:
1. Taken By Force
2. Virgin Killer
Least Favorites:
1. Eye II Eye
2. Face The Heat ( Although, some of their 2000's stuff, I haven't heard yet )
Wild Card - Love At First Sting ( That is where I came in with the Scorpions, I still like the hits from that album, it's not bad, nostalgia I suppose ).
I love Klaus’ singing and his accent. “Let me take you far aweeeey”
You 3 ( trio) do a weekly bang up job every Saturday afternoon here , as I listen from NEW Jersey, 1.BLACKOUT/ 8️⃣2️⃣. 2. Taken by FORCE /7️⃣7️⃣. Great show guys 👍💯
Thanks Gary!
I love the Scorpions 70's style . Favorite albums : Taken By Force
Lovedrive
Super👍
Animal magnetism is my favorite Scorpions album😃👍
My first scorpions album
I respectfully disagree.
@markslezak8098 no one cares
World Wide Live is for me one of the best live albums of all time.
Absolutely!
yes and Tokyo tapes too.
1. Taken By Force
2. Blackout
...
8. Lonesome Crow
9. Love at First Sting
WC: Tokyo Tapes
I never bought a Scorpions album after LAFS, and I've never heard a song by them since that made me regret that decision.
The first gig I ever went to was on the Blackout tour. Fantastic! I will never forget the drum raiser going up and the band frozen in dry ice. Great.
Good show ❤ SOT thanks 👍
You totally sold me on the "Eye II Eye" album. Sounds like a fun one :)
This not the Contrarians channel here, Florian. 😁
Oh shoto, wrong channel ;)
I think eye to eye is about as contrarian as you can ever be
It's disturbing in a way, to see how much fun they seem to have in the music video for "To Be No. 1"...
It's definitely the place to start with this band! LOL!!
I came in at In Trance in 1976 after reading the 5 star review in sounds music paper and it is still in my top 2, but that is how it goes with the first ones you hear always seem to stick. My second one was Tokyo tapes and as we all know it is a killer live album. And like Pete I love the Roth era but Blackout was amazing and they were awesome on that tour.
Pete stole a little bit of my wildcard thunder😅. I'll agree with Stephen about the two live albums. Simon: The 90s🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣... I pretty much agree with that.
Favorites:
1. In Trance
2. Lovedrive
Least Favorites:
1. Anything after World Wide Live
2. Eye to Eye
Wildcard:
Lonesome Crow
I do like Unbreakable and Sting in the Tail for 2000s Scorpions. I'll have to check out the new one out since you guys are recommending it.
Love their new Album a return to form.
I got into Scorpions just as Uli left and my first albums were Tokyo Tapes and a Best Of compilation. I loved the first few Matthias Jabs albums, then was hugely disappointed but Love At First Sting (except for Rock You Like A Hurricane 🤘🏻). None of the subsequent releases have grabbed me like the late 70s and early 80s albums.
Favourite two albums:
Lovedrive + Animal Magnetism
Least favourite:
Love At First Sting + everything released after it.
Wildcard:
Tokyo Tapes
Pure Instincs is amazing album. Eye to eye is a good experemental one either.
Love drive for me the best. No filler. Great production. Good rockers, ballads, instrumentals. A classic for me.
And the great Michael Schenker
The UK connection continues to be my favorite series on the channel. I could’ve used a bit more swearing and drinking though🤣
I do enjoy it when Steven and Simon in particular make these British cultural references that Pete doesn’t get 😂
@@jimmycampbell78 George Formby being one!
Oh, I'll see what we can f@*#ing well do about that! Cheers Kevin!
The Scorpions Animal Magnetism tour was, for various reasons, my first ever gig. Support was Blackfoot, who were phenomenal. Tomcattin’ had not long been released.
Steven, you are so right about bands who count only original member as part of the band, Cf. The Rolling Stones. Daryl Jones has been with them forever and is still not considered a member of the band.
Infuriating, isn't it??
My intro to the Scorpions was hearing Fly to the Rainbow in Happy Tunes Record store on eighth street in Greenwich Village in 1974 or 1975 - unknown here a the time. My choices
1. Fly to the Rainbow
2. Lonesome Crow
3. Taken by Force
4. In trance
5. Blackout
Going hard core with today's beverage: Unsweetened ice tea.
I have only purchased Scorpions albums from 'Lovedrive' thru 'Worldwide Live'. I love them all, but listened the most to 'Animal Magnetism'.
One of the best live bands. Seen them twice.
First time straight back 3rd deck, 2nd to last row at the Oakland Coliseum stadium.
Second time for 'Love at First Sting' at Cal Expo against the barricades between Klaus & Rudy.🤘
What an excellent band Scorpions were - 70's and 80's stuff is great. I only saw them once, in the early 80's ,(support band was Wolf) and they were great
Watching the World Wide Live VHS was what got me into rock music as a kid.
Blackout is Scorpions at their pure hard rock best imo. However I think their best overall song is The Zoo.
Hi guys, just starting to watch, having just poured out my bottle of Badger Brewery's 'Fursty Ferret'. Going to type in my picks now before yours come up and influence my decision...
Best 2 = 1 Blackout 2 Taken by Force
Worst 2 = Eye II Eye & Animal Instinct
Wildcard = Humanity Hour
Nearly went with Tokyo Tapes as the wildcsrd but decided to stick with studio stuff... Right... listening time! See you on the other side...
Nice picks Iain - and a nice pint too!
@@TranquilityFireReid it certainly was - have a nice one put aside for Boston night too, with a wee malt to chase it down... No spoilers however...
@@iainhead9898 Sounds ideal!
Blackout by a million miles - All killer no filler - one of the greatest hard rock metal albums of all time.
I'm with Simon (it must be our northern genes) Blackout and Animal Magnetism are my favourite 2. Blackout was my gateway album for Scorpions, but there's so much gold going backwards, not so much going forwards. One of the few bands I will regret not seeing live, never really got the opportunity to be honest. Great Video
Favourites are Taken By Force and Blackout with their latest Rock Believer as my wildcard.
I came in with In Trance …. That and Virgin Killer are my faves - love all albums to Savage Amusement
I've always liked Blackout and the other 80's album, but have lost touch after the 80's. I've just listened to Humanity album for the first time, on Steven's recommendation and I really like it, thanks Steven.
My pleasure I K! Great to hear you're enjoying it!
@@TranquilityFireReid thanks for the reply. Ever considered "Big Country" ranking?
@@ik8034 I'm not sure how the other two chaps would feel about that but it's certainly worth considering.
My top 2 favorites are Animal Magnetism and Blackout. Matthias goes bonkers on Blackout, and even when it goes slow it has my attention. Animal Magnetism just has way too many of my top 10/20 favorite songs even if deep down I wish it was more intense like Blackout. Dark, heavy album, though. Side two puts on a clinic. My least favorites are Eye to Eye and Unbreakable. I found redeemable material on both, but even the 17th best album seems miles ahead of these. My wild card is Savage Amusement (kinda cheating because it's my third favorite)- WAY too underrated in my opinion. Commercial? Maybe. Doesn't bother me. The opener is quite decent. Passion Rules the Game is gorgeous, and Rhythm of Love does have the groove that it says it does. I like that the talk box gets another shot in Media Overkill (after The Zoo this is fan service). The ballads have their moments, sound honest and can jump at you from nowhere (Walking on the Edge has that bit, people might know what I'm talking about). Then there's the deep cuts. There's some heavy, fast shit on this record that's maybe not being accounted for. In fact, if you flip things to put those up front, it's probably not that poppy. Great performance from Matthias, and interesting double rhythm guitar all throughout (Passion Rules the Game has great layering, for example). The production is also kinda fascinating. I hear things popping in and out in stereo like fireworks- almost as if the production is giving the music more motion. For a band that likes to dub things, have many guitar fills and spontaneous harmonics all around, it's a nice way to add color.
Top 5:
1. Taken By Force (Sails of Charon, We'll Burn The Sky, Your Light, He's a Woman She's a Man)
2. Fly to The Rainbow (Speedy's Coming, Drifting Sun, They Need a Million, FtTR)
3. Virgin Killer (Pictured Life, In Your Park, VK, Hell-Cat, Crying Days)
4. In Trance (Dark Lady, In Trance, Top of The Bill, Robot Man, Sun In My Hand)
5. Animal Magnetism (Make It Real, Hold Me Tight, Falling In Love, The Zoo, AM)
Bottom 5:
15. Lonesome Crow (I'm Going Mad, In Search of The Peace of Mind, Lonesome Crow)
16. Sting In The Tail
17. Return to Forever
18. Pure Instinct
19. Eye II Eye
Fav s- Lovedrive & Taken By Force
Least fav - Pure Instinct and Eye to Eye
Wildcards - Lonesome Crow and Rock Believer
I totally agree with Steven that Tokyo Tapes & World Wide live are the two absolutely essential Scorpions albums and while my Twitter response last week had them as my wildcards, considering that the wild card should be one that isn't their greatest I have changed my mind and although I initially decided to just go with Lonesome Crow will mirror Pete and add Rock Believer - not that I have a physical copy though , as I dont, and my fruity download is just fine.
I also tweeted that as I had been re-listening to Scorpions (I so want to say 'the' in front of Scorpions as it just doesn't sound right without it ) over the last few weeks after the remarks made by Chris Alo about Alien Nation decided to recheck their 90's stuff - as I never listen to it. Crazy World & Face the Heat were ok though downward trending, then off the cliff they went, badly, but they did recover bit by bit - and then I went on to say about Humanity Hour "Have to say I dismissed it shortly after buying but on re-listening it is far far better than first thought and I'd now give it a good 7 or 8/10 at least" - that was however in response to someone who had Humanity Hour as one of their favourites so its probably them that Steven was referring to as supporting his view.
My first two Scorps albums were Lovedrive and Tokyo Tapes bought at the same time, so I was already exposed to both eras, which means for me Lovedrive gets the nod due to my relationship with it (not mention that it has both Jabs and Schenker, Michael on it). Not long after I bought them I saw Scorpions at Reading Rock - they were just awesome. Then I bought Taken by Force, so again I have a longstanding relationship with that one.
If I were to rank their albums though, Tokyo Tapes would be at no 1 and WorldWide Live at No 2 then for studio releases 1. Lovedrive 2. Taken by Force 3. Blackout 4. Virgin Killer 5. Animal Magnetism . 6 Love at First Sting 7. In Trance 8.Fly to the Rainbow 9.Lonesome Crow 10.Rock Believer.
From '79 through to '85 Scorpions were one of my top five favourite bands. Then they went pffft...
For my least favourites I disregarded Comeblack because its easy pickings and I very nearly added a third least favourite in Savage Amusement - as after what had come before it was just a big disappointment - Passion Doesnt Rule the Game should have been the title for one of the songs. It was their Hysteria wannabee album and in my opinion failed badly. As with Scorps though there are still maybe one or two songs on it that are ok but it was just dull and lifeless. Crazy World picked things up a bit and Face the Heat I think tried, though is only a smidgen better than Savage Amusement. Incidentally SA is the only Scorps album I never replaced on CD - I had to get Pure Instinct and Eye to Eye on CD as that's all I could get at the time, however until the last couple of weeks I never played them since fist purchase and then re-listened and confirmed my initial thoughts about their crapness - Pure Instinct is just completely lifeless, dull, and has no balls or pizzaz at all and like Steven I doubt I'll ever play either of them again - Humanity Hour I probably will though.
Always enjoy reading your thoughts Terry. Really appreciate the time you put into them. Always insightful. Cheers!
Other collabs w/Klaus I didn't mention in chat; w/Liel Kolet: Send Me An Angel, Bigger Than Life, Keep The World Safe & Jerusalem of Gold.
Bis Wohin Reicht Mein Leben (Die Liebenden)[Klaus Meine & Zabine feat. Senait] from Schönherz & Fleer: Rilke Projekt - "In Meinem Wilden Herzen"
Klaus & José Carreras (2014) - Wind of Change
Favourites I knew immediately, Lovedrive and Animal Magnetism.
Least favourites, obviously the answers mentioned are the right answers but I don’t own any of those from the albums I do own least favourites are Lonesome crow and Savage Amusement
Wild card the album that got me listening to Scorpions again Sting in the tail. The new album as said is great.
Hail Hail - Sting In The Tail!!
My favorite changes all the time. Today I'll say Lovedrive and Virgin Killer. I agree with Steven. The 2 classic live albums are the best.
Least favorites are Eye To Eye and Face the Heat. I haven't heard all of the 90s albums. My wildcard is Lonesome Crow.
My favourite 2 are, Taken by Force and Tokyo Tapes (Blackout if only considering Studio albums)
Least Favourite 2 are, Eye II Eye and Pure Instinct
Wildcard is, Humanity Hour 1, The Zoo was my introduction to Scorpions on the Axe Attack compilation album.
Loving the Wildcard Stephen!
I love that album.
I understand the hate for Eye II Eye, especially To Be No. 1, but I actually unashamedly like it a lot. I love love Lonesome Crow. My favourite song is Your Light from Taken By Force. What a hidden gem. The sweet spot for me is predictably 79-84, and Rock Believer is quite amazing, as is the Moment Of Glory album and dvd which is a separate entity from the album and truly amazing to watch.
I always love the outsider picks in the comments Damien. You've made my day. We like what we like, so whatever your choice is, is the correct answer. Thanks for watching!
Steven Reid is so funny! Love the funny faces and jesters while Simon is talking.
Thanks Gary! 🤪😜😝😃
Great show again Love the beer discussion at the start.Im not a lover of the jarl ale . Only tried it on draught maybe better in bottle. As to favourite Scorpion albums Mostly in agreement but would have to put Lovedrive top of the pile ,the following 3 all good.my other choice would be Love at first sting just As for least favourites,Eye to eye and sorry Steven but Humanity hour 1doesnt do it for me. As.for wildcard.i do like the latest one but would have to give some love to ULI Jon Roth era and go with In Trance.
I must admit that the more I drank of the Jarl, the less I loved it. I've been the same with a few of the Fyne Ales. Good choices too James, even if we don't agree on HH1! lol!
Favorite - Taken by Force and In Trance.
Least Favorite - Pure Instinct and Eye II Eye.
Lovedrive is their best I feel. Surprised the way it was almost completely overlooked here. Stone In My Shoe is great off Pure Instinct by the way, saves it from being amongst their worst two albums
Not overlooked at all. It’s my 4th favorite.
My number 1 by a country mile
Lovedrive is easily their best agree Mia Janis
Thumbs up for Pete from me re Rock Believer.
It nearly edged into my top 2 Mia. I didn't spend longer talking about because I knew I'd be bending the rules later in the show! lol! Thanks for watching.
Manns is a proper old school drink. In the 70s a popular drink was half a pint of Mild in a pint glass topped up with a bottle of Manns. A Brown Mild.
Very informative takeaway here. The orchestral album (never heard of it), the new album Rock Believer (sounded nondescript to me at first sting, ..eh sight), even the Humanity project being praised by Steven.
Favourites: 1. 'Taken By Force' (1977); 2. 'Love At First Sting' (1984); and 3. 'In Trance' (1975).
Least favourites: 1. 'Lonesome Crow' (1972); 2. 'Sting In The Tail (2010); and 3. 'Pure Instinct' (1996).
I only have two scorpions albums. Worldwide Live and Crazy World. Recently listened to worldwide… fantastic live album. Although I’m always disappointed that they cut Holiday short!!!
My favourites:
1. Virgin killer
2. Lovedrive
3. Animal magnetism
4. Blackout
Worst one: "Eye to eye", no brainer.
Don't think "Pure instinct" or "Humanity hour 1" are terrible, of course they feature a lot of ballads, but that was their trademark and became their main market in those years. Nevertheless, I think the songs are quite good.
Pete' s analysis of the Eye II Eye cover nails it! 😅Bombs away: 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅.....
Fav 2 Blackout and Love first sting. Least Humanity and eye 2 eye. Wildcard is Unbreakable or Savage Amusement
For me:
Top 2: World Wide Live and Love at First Sting (mainly because they were both my first exposures to the Scorps.)
Bottom 2: Eye II Eye and Humanity: Hour 1
(I do have Eye II Eye in my collection, the curse is real.)
Wild card- Fly to the Rainbow
We are all afflicted by the Curse!
Well, Steven raised the question as to why they made another album, Rock Believer. Short answer - stuck at home due to Covid.
Well I've said before, Lonesome Crow is my Favorite.
There are sure a lot of Bad Scorpions Albums, but the Worst has to be Eye II Eye.
I hear you Steven. Scorpions live are a whole other level.
what a funny video that is. I've got a bit of a funny one. The Comeblack was released in a newspaper here in Greece advertising at the same time one of their farewell tours as well as a semiacoustic live album in Athens some time later. Well...... we bought it just you know and I haven't either one since then.
My two faves are Lovedrive and Love at first sting. My two least faves are Eye II Eye and Prime instinct. My wildcard would be In Trance.
My Scorpions Album Ranking (including Live Albums)
24. Eye II Eye
23. Return to Forever
22. Pure Instinct
21. Unbreakable
20. Live Bites
19. Acoustica
18. Sting in the Tail
17. MTV Unplugged - Live in Athens
16. Humanity - Hour I
15. Savage Amusement
14. Crazy World
13. Face the Heat
12. Lonesome Crow
11. Rock Believer
10. Fly to the Rainbow
9. Animal Magnetism
8. Love at First Sting
7. World Wide Live
6. Lovedrive
5. In Trance
4. Virgin Killer
3. Blackout
2. Taken by Force
1. Tokyo Tapes
🎸 🎸🎸🤘🤘🤘
World Wide Live sounds much better than Tokyo Tapes.
@@jimekberg World Wide Live is a great album. But I like "Tokyo Tapes" much better. It's my favorite live album of all time, along with "Made in Japan" and "Unleashed in the East".
@Garrick St. Martin Too polished. That's exactly what bothers me about the "World Wide Live" record. The record sounds like a typical 1980s production. But "Tokyo Tapes" sounds raw, organic and aggressive. And that's what I'm talking about.
@@patrickschlosser8208 I don´t think Tokyo Tapes sounds near as good as Made in Japan and Unleashed in the east.
@@jimekberg I don't really care how the album sounds. i love the album
My favorite two albums
1. Love drive
2. Unbreakable
My widcard
Love At First Sting
Least favorite
1. Pure Instinct
The title track on Animal Magnetism is monstrous
Aha! I knew I wouldn't be the only Humanity Hour fan. Cheers Steven!
Cheers Iain! A man of good taste!
The Uli John Roth era blew my mind and virgin killer and taken by force are my faves from this era however lovedrive and blackout are my other faves from the post Uli John Roth era
Scorpions at Donington 1986 is in my top ten concerts list, World Wide Live a top 10 live album.
As usual a very entertaining show, keep doing what you do, in the absence of a larger Hudson VSquares this is the most entertaining show on the channel.
I discovered the Scorpions via Rock You Like a Hurricane on the Kerrang Kompilation LP comp, must've bought 15 albums off the back of that, including WW live (I use live albums as a taster for a new band). Then got Blackout, Lovedrive, Tokyo Tapes, Savage Amusement, then Crazy World and that was it for me. Enjoyed Tokyo Tapes & Savage Amusement most but tbh they're not a band I've gone back to in a long while but did look up some you tube vids of Ace of Spades when Mikkey Dee joined.
Think I'll check out the new album after the discussion here, interestingly (to me) the cover was done by Klaus Voormann the chap who did the Revolver cover.
I think there are other good albums after Crazy World. I'd say each one is worth checking out before totally dismissing them. If you've never heard 90's Motorhead going forward that's also worth checking out. Mikkey Dee had been in the band ages along with Phil Campbell. There's truly amazing stuff from that lineup. Not sure which ones would suit your taste but I'm crazy about Sacrifice, We Are Motorhead and Motorizer...
Saw them twice on the Animal Magnetism and Blackout tours at Hammersmith Odeon. Michael Schenker joined them for the encore on the night we saw them on the Blackout tour. Both shows were amazing but the Scorpion drum riser on the AM tour was bonkers. I kinda lost interest after that. I still love the 70's records with Uli Jon Roth and go back to them regularly.
Reference to Terry Butcher the footballer? I think he was playing for England when he injured his forehead resulting in a bloodstained bandage covoring his head.
The Scorpions are new to me but I'm willing to listen and learn.
Tonight, I am drinking San Miguel.
Correct stinkpooter.
I think it looks more like one of his team mates Mick Mills or Frans Thijsson
Love the Scorpions, but that Tainted Love cover is BRUTAL!!
Favorites
Lovedrive
Taken by force
Least favorites
Eye to eye (it's bad)
Face the heat
Noteable mentions
Tokyo tapes ( one of the best hard rock live album ever)
Great show again I wondered if you might consider doing a show on albums by house of lords brilliant band with a consistently strong catalogue just a thought
We are considering doing a chow that will incorporate HoL Dave. You've just reminded me about that - I'm on it. Cheers!
@@TranquilityFireReid OK Steve brilliant
My two favourites.
1. lovedrive
2. Love at First Sting
My two least favourites
1. Eye to Eye
2. Face the Heat
Wild card - Sting in the tail an excellent album but what took them so long to use that absolutely made to measure album title. They should have used that album name in the 70’s.
I wet myself when Simon mentioned what Yorkshire people call The Zoo. 😂😂
I’m from midlands and most people in Birmingham pronounce Saxon’s Wheels of Steel as Whales of Stale. 😂😂
Virgin Killer with Uli+ Love drive with Matthias. I grew up with In trance as my first album and I still love it the same.
Manns Brown Ale, go Simon! Proper old school working mens club beer. Often served warm whether the punter liked that way or not.
Top show as ever
Favourites
1 Blackout this is where I came in an album full of killer tracks Blackout just blows me away
2. Animal Magnetism Just love the Zoo lady Starlight and Make it Real
Stinkers
1 Eye II Eye apart from Mind like a Tree the rest is awful
2 Pure Instinct From the cover to the songs belongs on a dung heap
Wild card for me is
World Wide Live
Best version of these songs and also, I saw them at Knebworth in 1985 with Deep Purple it rained all the way through the set before no one cared because apart from Deep Purple this was the best support band of the day which also included Meat Loaf UFO Blackfoot Alaska Mountain & Mamas Bouy one of the best festivals ever I went to
2 favorite albums: Virgin Killer, Love at First Sting
2 least favorite albums: Eye II Eye, Acoustica
Wild card: Animal Magnetism (just because)
After listening to all of the 2000s albums for the first time over the last week I can confidently say.... that they're all somewhere in the middle and this has been mostly a waste of time...
so...
Fav:
Fly To The Rainbow - Fantastic, my favorite. Uli's first with the band isn't quite as simplistic as what they'd move toward over time.
Virgin Killer - Great heavy rocker, the energy on this album is unparalleled.
Least:
Eye II Eye - Trash
Pure Instinct - Bland and boring, Scorpions at their worst while still playing the kind of music they should be able to do well.
Wildcard:
Face The Heat - a pretty cool album stuck between a turd sandwich - no idea how this is as good as it is with the stuff that is... there around it.
Moment Of Glory is great too!
Had always ignored (tries hard not to say 'the') Scorpions as I only knew them for that whistling shit (that I actually quite like, but not enough to want to hear more) until they played the first Ramblin' Man festival (2015 I believe). Went to check them out for a couple of tunes before moving on to whoever was on the prog stage at that point but ended up staying for the whole set because they were bloody fantastic. Really glad they didn't play the same night as Marillion as I'd have missed them. Anyway, my top 2 are Blackout and Love at First Sting. Don't have a bottom two as I've seen that they have a bunch of shitty albums and have assiduously avoided them, but will give my wildcard choice to Return to Forever (which I think actually WAS them saying, ' that farewell tour was a stupid idea, of course we're keeping on going') - it was the current album when I saw them and they played a few songs from it that went down really well (We Built This House is great for one) and I bought it along with some of the earlier classic stuff. By contrast I've enjoyed Rock Believer, but no so much as long-term fans seem to - that feels like an album for people who actually lived through all the really bad years to have something to finally rejoice about, if that makes sense?
Love this post Joseph. Always great to hear of a band managing to change opinions on them through the power of their live show. Fantastic!
Fave:
1. Taken By Force
2. Blackout
Worst:
... anything after Savage Amusement (Crazy World is OK)
Don’t like the new album?
@@SuperClarky666 No. Peacemaker gave me hope, but the rest was a letdown
Mikkey Dee has saved the day once again!! 🤘
Yeah James Kottak's drumming was actually kind of terrible... I remember hearing those meh snare fills on Going Out With a Bang and just shaking my head. No, not a bang...
Top two favorites: Animal Magnetism and Love at First Sting. Two least favorites: Pure Instinct and Lonesome Crow. Wild card: Face the Heat
Damn, I didn't know the Pure Instinct album existed until now!
Shhh. No one noticed. Pretend like it didn't happen Strap. That way you'll never need to hear it!
@@TranquilityFireReid As you are getting older you get this combined curse and blessing of your brain not being able to retain useless information to the same degree as before, so I'm confident I'll forget about it soon enough.
@@StrappingOldLad 😂😂Suddenly having the olds doesn't sound so bad!
Top fav: 1. Taken By Force
2. Virgin Ķiller
Worst crap: everything after Blackout
Wildcard: In Trance, then maybe Lovedrive