構成数 | 1枚

合計収録時間 | 02:36:50

Scorpions: Klaus Meine (vocals); Rudolf Schenker, Matthias (guitar, background vocals); Francis Buchholz (bass, background vocals); Herman Rarebell (drums, percussion, background vocals). Additional personnel: Michael Schenker (guitar); Ralph Rieckermann (bass). Producers: Dieter Dierks, Bruce Fairburn, Scorpions. Compilation producers: Bill Levenson, Bas Hartong. Recorded between 1979 and 1993. Scorpions: Klaus Meine (vocals); Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs (guitar, background vocals); Francis Buchholz (bass, background vocals); Herman Rarebell (drums, percussion, background vocals). Additional personnel: Michael Schenker (guitar); Ralph Rieckermann (bass). Producers: Dieter Dierks, Bruce Fairburn, Scorpions. Compilation producers: Bill Levenson, Bas Hartong. Recorded between 1979 and 1993. Includes liner notes by Martin Huxley. It's quite difficult to find a young person who knows about the Scorpions. Even when their careers were peaking in the '80s, they were never widely recognized, existing always as more of an underground band. The lack of hit singles produced by the group is by no means a judgment of its talent, however, as Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years proves. Some may find the fact that Mercury made the compilation a double-disc set surprising -- again due to the band's small following -- but the album is far better than the single-disc collection Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads. Following chronologically from 1979 to 1993 (thus covering the years in which the band enjoyed its most success), Deadly Sting rips through the favorites "Loving You Sunday Morning," "The Zoo," "Blackout," "No One Like You," "Big City Nights," "Still Loving You," "Rock You Like a Hurricane," "Rhythm of Love," "Wind of Change," and "Don't Believe Her," finally concluding with two unreleased recordings from 1995. Though these tracks are far cries from the songs that proceeded them, that doesn't stop Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years from being the most essential album from one of the most under-rated hair bands of all time. ~ Barry Weber

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