Scorpions

[liquidvirus]

Has anyone heard their new album (unbreakable).
Really good and awesome guitar solo's

[Izzy]

I have always heard they are pretty good and have meant to get some of their stuff - is their a best of i could get?

[liquidvirus]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006690I/qid=1092081769/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-4218815-2725660
- this a pretty decent one

[slave2thegrind]

The 20th Century Masters Best of Scorpions CD is not bad if ur looking for a cheap greatest hits...there's only 12 songs on there tho...so it's pretty selective.

[Mr Cowbell ?]

Yes the 20th masters is good. They also have a newer greatest hits that has a few more tracks. They have an awesome DVD out "Savage a Crazy World" which is well worth the 15 bucks.  When is their newest cd they have been working on suppose to come out?

[SLCPUNK]

Scorps are a great band. I'm glad they have a new one out. I will check it out.

 

[POPmetal]

When is their newest cd they have been working on suppose to come out?

That would be Unbreakable and it came out earlier this year. It was released in May worldwide and in June in the US. It kicks ass!

Also, I would really recommend to everyone to get  Love At First Sting, Blackout, and Crazy World. These are classics that all rock fans should have in their collection!!!

[Cornell]

Scorpions rock!  I used to listen to them a lot before AFD came out. 

I just saw them live last year and they sounded exactly the same as they did many years ago.   I didn't realize that they had a new album out - I'll have to check it out!
 

[Walk]

Scorpions... Let's just say I haven't really been into them after seeing their pedophilic album cover Virgin Killer.  Yes, I know it was 1976, but it's still disgusting. I never really liked them in the first place, just a few tunes.

[Izzy]

Scorpions... Let's just say I haven't really been into them after seeing their pedophilic album cover Virgin Killer.? Yes, I know it was 1976, but it's still disgusting. I never really liked them in the first place, just a few tunes.

I saw that too and i was just appalled, i felt really sick - i still do just thinking about it - how are they allowed to get away with this - its child porn! I was not expecting to find that when i looked through their discography - its certainly not going to encourage me to get any of their stuff.

[POPmetal]

Yeah, that cover is done in really poor taste. I don't have that album. Anyone know if it's any good?

[Malcolm]

Shelly Harris of KNAC.COM recently conducted an interview with SCORPIONS guitarist Matthias Jabs. An excerpt from the chat follows.

KNAC.COM: I've heard that you've done it in the past, but on the world tour this year you are letting the fans in the different countries vote on the set list, which means you have to quickly get ready to play different songs for each country's leg of the tour. Do you already know which songs you'll be playing on this American leg?

Jabs: "I've seen the final result of the vote for the U.S. [the web site vote ended on Sunday, July 27], and we always sit together the day of the show, in the afternoon, because we need to let the lighting designer know ? you have to program the desk for the order of the songs ? so the crew needs to be informed exactly, but we are much more flexible. And we have a different situation in the first three shows, because we are playing with Sammy Hagar as a package, and that means in California, because of the strict curfews, and the situation ? there are three bands I think ? we don't play as long as we normally do. In Europe we play like two hours and twenty, and here it's just like 90 minutes, so that automatically changes the set, because we have to leave quite a few songs out. So, we will talk about the setlist when we all meet [before the first show] in a few days."

KNAC.COM: So, even though SCORPIONS obviously have a very long and extensive song list ? at least a hundred ? it's like you're ready to wing it and play whatever you have to play, really?

Jabs: "Yes, yes ? there's not one song that we don't know. Some of them, like #89, those songs are not so popular, and with us they're not so popular either. (laughs) And therefore we haven't played those, and if we don't have to play them, we won't, but everything in the top 50 we know right away. Also, we keep changing the set around. You can imagine the votes, the results in Russia, are totally different from the ones in the U.S., or in Spain, they vote for different songs than in England or Japan."

KNAC.COM: I know your most recent album, "Humanity - Hour One", came out last year, and will you also be playing some of those songs?

Jabs: "A few but not too many ? it has to be the right proportion. People don't like it if you play too many new songs, but we play three or maybe four. They [Americans] want to hear the back catalogue ? the 'Rock You Like A Hurricane', 'No One Like You', 'Holiday', 'The Zoo' and all that, and once you do that, the first hour is gone!"

[Genesis]

Scorpions... Let's just say I haven't really been into them after seeing their pedophilic album cover Virgin Killer.  Yes, I know it was 1976, but it's still disgusting. I never really liked them in the first place, just a few tunes.

I saw that too and i was just appalled, i felt really sick - i still do just thinking about it - how are they allowed to get away with this - its child porn! I was not expecting to find that when i looked through their discography - its certainly not going to encourage me to get any of their stuff.

What's to be appalled of? It's just a picture of a naked girl. There's a difference between that and pornography. With all the paedophilia crap going on, it seems that suddenly, pictures of naked children are somehow 'child porn'. Don't do a Kevin Rudd.