- Audio CD (May 28 2002)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Hip-O Records
- ASIN: B00006690I
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Rock You Like A Hurricane |
| 2. Loving You Sunday Morning |
| 3. The Zoo |
| 4. No One Like You |
| 5. Blackout |
| 6. Still Loving You |
| 7. Big City Nights |
| 8. Believe In Love |
| 9. Rhythm of Love |
| 10. I Can't Explain |
| 11. Wind of Change |
| 12. Send Me An Angel |
| 13. Don't Believe Her |
| 14. Tease Me Please Me |
| 15. Hit Between The Eyes |
| 16. Alien Nation |
| 17. Cause I Love You |
| 18. Bad For Good |
Product Description
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Germans and heavy metal--hardly the combination to make one forget chocolate and peanut butter but, in the hands of Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine, and company, still something of a natural. If nothing else, the band's remarkable three-decade-and-counting career makes one grateful the Wehrmacht wasn't as persistent. But like this 18-track hits anthology, we come to praise the Scorpions, not bury them in cheap schnitzel gags. 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
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great compilation, but...,
By Edward Morales (College Station, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bad for Good: Very Best of the Scorpions (Audio CD)
...it could have been better. The new tracks are so-so; there's one too many songs from CRAZY WORLD; and "Still Loving You", "Believe In Love" and "Alien Nation" are edited. On the plus side, the sound quality is excellent and there's just under 80 minutes of music here. Here's what should have been instead:1. Loving You Sunday Morning
3.0 out of 5 stars
Covers the highly successful 1983-early 1990's era mostly,
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This review is from: Bad for Good: Very Best of the Scorpions (Audio CD)
The Scorpions are of one the finest bands from Germany and is an excellent Rock'N'Roll band. Since their first album was released in 1972 "Lonesome Crow" the band made several albums and was very controversial for their album covers like "Virgin Killer" and had a very metal sound during the 70's. With the arrival of the 80's rock and roll changed and so did Scorpions, the band had a more commercial and mass appealing sound than that of their 70's sound. The 80's are when Scorpions achieved big success and fame ever and it seems that since "Rock You Like A Hurricane" and their famous ballads "Still Loving You" and "Wind of Change" they've almost always been associated with the glammier 80's sound rather than that of their heavier roots. Not that there is anything wrong with the music they came out with during this time, I find it to be very enjoyable and many songs of that time among the band's best works but it seems like this compilation "Bad For Good" ignores almost entirely the 1970's material in favor of the more successful 80's material. Scorpions have a few compilation albums out there and "Bad For Good" form 2002 is part of the more popular ones.The hits are here, the songs that were played on radio and MTV are mostly here. The only 70's song on "Bad For Good" is "Loving You Sunday Morning" the rest is all post 1983. There isn't much to say really every song you'd expect is here; "Rock You Like A Hurricane", "Still Loving You", "Big City Nights", "Still Loving You", "Wind of Change" and others, there aren't any surprises at all. There are two new songs the title track and "Cause I Love You", I think they're both good Scorpions songs but personally I prefer "Bad For Good" the title-track. If you're looking for a collection of their 80's and early 90's hit, their most successful era then this should be what you're looking for. However this compilation is inaccurate in covering their entire career, I feel that if you're a band who's been around for this long the compilations and greatest hits album should represent everything you've done not just a portion of your career and "Bad For Good" doesn't do that. There are better and more comprehensive Scorpions hits collections out there but there are worse as well. In the end if you're especially a fan of their 80's-early 90's style this has pretty much all you need because the best of that era is on this greatest hits album. 3 stars.
5.0 out of 5 stars
My First Scorps Album,
By HeadbangerDuh (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bad for Good: Very Best of the Scorpions (Audio CD)
Even though I was a fan of metal since age 8, I never really picked up anything by the Scorpions, probably because of their name. But when this was released, I decided it was about time I got something by them. So I went out and got this. I was completely blown away. This is just true heaviness. It is pop metal, in the style of Van Halen and Def Leppard. It is really essential for fans of that type of music. While some songs should have been here like Another Piece Of Meat and Kicks After Six, this is a great compilation. True metal for the true headbanger.
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