The Best of Scorpions
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The Best of Scorpions | ||
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Compilation album by Scorpions | ||
Released | Original: 1978 CD: 1984 |
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Recorded | 1974-1977 | |
Genre | Heavy Metal | |
Length | 38:48 | |
Label | RCA Records | |
Producer(s) | Various | |
Professional reviews | ||
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Scorpions chronology | ||
Taken by Force (1978) |
The Best of the Scorpions (1978) |
Tokyo Tapes (1979) |
Alternate cover | ||
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The alternate cover that was pirnted on the 1984 re-release. |
The Best of Scorpions is a compilation album by the German heavy metal metal band Scorpions, released in 1978. It contains songs from their albums between Fly to the Rainbow and Taken by Force. It also does not contain any songs from their first album Lonesome Crow.
The original cover of this compilation featured an image of a scorpion stinging a naked girl's hip. The 1984 re-release of the compilation featured an alternate cover showing an image of a man wearing a leather jacket and a scorpion necklace.
[edit] Track listing
- "Steamrock Fever" (from the album Taken by Force) (3:35)
- "Pictured Life" (from the album Virgin Killer) (3:23)
- "Robot Man" (from the album In Trance) (2:42)
- "Backstage Queen" (from the album Virgin Killer) (3:12)
- "Speedy's Coming" (from the album Fly to the Rainbow) (3:35)
- "Hell Cat" (from the album Virgin Killer) (2:54)
- "He's a Woman, She's a Man" (from the album Taken by Force) (3:14)
- "In Trance" (from the album In Trance) (4:43)
- "Dark Lady" (from the album In Trance) (3:25)
- "The Sails of Charon" (from the album Taken by Force) (4:24)
- "Virgin Killer" (from the album Virgin Killer) (3:41)