tracks

Rock You Like A Hurricane
Loving You Sunday Morning
The Zoo
No One Like You
Blackout
Still Loving You
Big City Nights
Believe In Love
Rhythm Of Love
I Can't Explain
Wind Of Change
Send Me An Angel
Don't Believe Her
Tease Me Please Me
Hit Between The Eyes
Alien Nation
Cause I Love You
Bad For Good

notes

Comes with a 12-paged booklet (inside the booklet is an essay / liner notes and chart entries of the band).

Editorial Assistance: Barry Korkin
Licensing: Robin Schwartz

Tracks 6, 8, 16: single versions
Track 10: cover version of The Who
Tracks 17, 18: new recordings

Tracks 1, 6, 7 taken from Love At First Sting album (1984)
Track 2 taken from Lovedrive album (1979)
Track 3 taken from Animal Magnetism album (1980)
Tracks 4, 5 taken from Blackout album (1982)
Tracks 8, 9 taken from Savage Amusement album(1988)
Track 10 taken from Best Of Rockers 'N' Ballads compilation (1989)
Tracks 11 to 15 taken from Crazy World album (1990)
Track 16 taken from Face The Heat album (1993)

Amazon.com
Sure they're big, dumb, and obvious, but weren't the Ramones? Isn't Britney? (Especially Britney!) It is, after all, no mean feat to forge a bona fide rock stereotype, let alone become a self-perpetuating parody of said cliché in the bargain. Fashions may come and go, but the Scorpions still "Rock You Like a Hurricane"--and now at sporting events the nation over, no less. The material here leans heavily on the Hanover band's '80s prime, a period when they burnished their melodic pop-metal tack--if not their traditional spandex couture--all the way to the top of the charts, capping a decade of journeyman hard-rocking. There isn't much here from their formative '70s period (with the exception of Animal Magnetism's metal-shuffle "The Zoo"), but proto-power ballads like "No One Like You" and "Still Loving You," and hook-filled, power chord pomp like "Big City Nights" helped pave the way for the rise of the glam metal of Poison and G'N'R in the late '80s--and hey, thanks for that. That hard-pop sense also comes to fore on an '89 cover of the Who's "I Can't Explain" and a pair of undeniably consistent new recordings, the title track and "Cause I Love You." Scorpions über alles! --Jerry McCulley

℗ © 2002 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

credits

Arranged By – Dieter Dierks (tracks: 1 to 9)
Art Direction, Design – Smay Vision
Compilation Producer – Mike Ragogna
Executive-Producer – Pat Lawrence
Liner Notes – Gerri Miller
Mastered By – Erick Labson
Photography By – Anastasia Pantsios, Ebet Roberts, Krasner / Trebitz Photography
Producer – Bruce Fairbairn (tracks: 10, 16), Dieter Dierks (tracks: 1 to 9, 17, 18), Keith Olsen (tracks: 11 to 15), Scorpions (tracks: 11 to 15)
Research [Photo] – Geary Chansley
Written-By – Dieter Dierks (tracks: 18), Herman Rarebell (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 13 to 15), Jim Vallance (tracks: 13 to 15), Klaus Meine (tracks: 1 to 9, 11 to 18), Matthias Jabs (tracks: 14), Rudolf Schenker (tracks: 1 to 9, 12, 13, 15 to 18), Sonja Kittelsen (tracks: 5)
Arranged By – Dieter Dierks (tracks: 1 to 9)
Art Direction, Design – Smay Vision
Compilation Producer – Mike Ragogna
Executive-Producer – Pat Lawrence
Liner Notes – Gerri Miller
Mastered By – Erick Labson
Photography By – Anastasia Pantsios, Ebet Roberts, Krasner / Trebitz Photography
Producer – Bruce Fairbairn (tracks: 10, 16), Dieter Dierks (tracks: 1 to 9, 17, 18), Keith Olsen (tracks: 11 to 15), Scorpions (tracks: 11 to 15)
Research [Photo] – Geary Chansley
Written-By – Dieter Dierks (tracks: 18), Herman Rarebell (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 13 to 15), Jim Vallance (tracks: 13 to 15), Klaus Meine (tracks: 1 to 9, 11 to 18), Matthias Jabs (tracks: 14), Rudolf Schenker (tracks: 1 to 9, 12, 13, 15 to 18), Sonja Kittelsen (tracks: 5)

companies

Distributed By – Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Universal Music Enterprises
Copyright (c) – Universal Music Enterprises
Produced For – Breeze Music
Published By – Island Def Jam Music Group
Mastered At – Universal Mastering Studios West
Glass Mastered At – Sony DADC

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