"; 17.10.1984), Big City Nights (Rock-Sommer / Monsters Of Rock; Nrnberg; 13.09.1986), The Story Of "Love At First Sting" (Interviews With Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs And Herman Rarebell), Live At Madison Square Garden (New York City, 07.06.1984), Matrix / Runout (CD1): SICX-30025 1 MASTER, Matrix / Runout (CD2): SICX-30026 2 MASTER, Matrix / Runout (DVD - Outer ring): SICX-30027 A0 2, Mastering SID Code (DVD - Outer ring): IFPI L271, Matrix / Runout (DVD - Inner ring): SICX-30027 A1 2, Mastering SID Code (DVD - Inner ring): IFPI L271. [6] The IWF stated that one of the reasons for reversing their decision was that it had increased public interest in the imagean example of the Streisand effect.[33]. Scorps were the best hard rock band in the world for a good while. . The original cover art (shown here . The wildcard of our list, Mama Lions Preserve Wildlife cover featured the singer nursing a lion cub. 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The image again gave rise to controversy in December 2008, when the British Internet Watch Foundation placed certain pages from Wikipedia on its internet blacklist, since it considered the image to be "potentially illegal" under the Protection of Children Act 1978, effectively classifying the website as child pornography. [10] Critic Vincent Jeffries of AllMusic contend that the album was "the first of four studio releases that really defined the Scorpions and their urgent metallic sound that was to become highly influential. Love at First was one of the first digitally recorded hard rock records ever released. 1984. Time is the virgin killer. Copy. PayPal. $119.00 Scorpions - Love At First Sting: lyrics and songs | Deezer I also highly recommend any 1975 album, it's perfect for gazing at the sky while chillin. 11 guitarists who shaped Derek Trucks' sound, Brad Angle, Compiled by Guitar World Staff, Ana Popovic: "The cancer took a lot out of me, and so did working towards getting better. She was photographed separately against a 20 foot by 20 foot sky backdrop and the scorpions on her were ones that had died in transit. Lovedrive - Wikipedia Coupled with the album title, the cover was extremely controversial, and was replaced with a photo of the band. Thank you for reading 5 articles this month*, US pricing $3.99 per month or $39.00 per year, UK pricing 2.99 per month or 29.00 per year, Europe pricing 3.49 per month or 34.00 per year, *Read 5 free articles per month without a subscription. This is the first album to feature Matthias Jabs on lead guitar, and thus the first record to feature the band's "classic" lineup. ), Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984). The songwriting team of rhythm guitarist Schenker and singer Klaus Meine was now capable of delivering equally infectious hard rockers ("Backstage Queen," "Catch Your Train") and power ballads ("In Your Park," "Crying Days"), all of them reliably ignited to thrilling heights by Roth's inimitable lead guitar pyrotechnics. Very Good Plus (VG+) BA1 1UA. We just did not think it would be a problem to put out a record like Lovedrive in America."[12]. 27 March 1984 Love at First Sting is the ninth studio album by the German rock band Scorpions, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music). trying to do a more or less way-off-the-mark Paul Stanley impersonation. For their fifth full-length, Hooked, the consummate gentlemen in Great White chose a design of a naked woman straddling a large hook being hoisted from the sea. The enigmatic cover art for Hurricanes third album featured a naked woman sitting on a biomechanical, H.R. It is about the song and the label was pushing the idea because they wanted to get the controversy to help the album sale and you cannot get better promotion than that. Scorpions Format: Audio CD 1,124 ratings $964 Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns See all 27 formats and editions Streaming Unlimited MP3 $9.49 Listen with our Free App Audio CD $9.64 3 Used from $5.64 1 Collectible from $22.99 Vinyl $29.18 4 Used from $29.60 20 New from $23.20 14 Collectible from $49.99 Audio, Cassette The original cover art for the album depicted a naked prepubescent girl. July 18, 1997. Love At First Sting (Remastered) CDs & Vinyl. Three days after this albums October 20, 1977, release, Lynyrd Skynyrds plane crashed en route to Baton Rouge, LA. How Jeff Beck passed the Telecaster torch to Jimmy Page and changed the course of rock history, Watch two bassists shred-off using Tosin Abasi's selective picking technique, Ozzy Osbourne names his dream supergroup and it features three guitarists. [12] In an interview conducted in early 2007 Francis Buchholz (the bassist for the band) recollects that the model depicted on the cover was either the daughter or the niece of the cover designer. Agree in all respects with the positive reviews of the overall sound from that 2015 pressing. Love at First Sting became the read more Similar Albums Pride White Lion 155,771 listeners Greatest Hits Nazareth 77,068 listeners Pyromania Def Leppard 203,402 listeners The Very Best of Rainbow Rainbow Album Cover Story #5: Do The Scorpions Shock You Like a Hurricane or Of course, the cover offended the moral majority in the U.S. at the time, and the album was repackaged to appease them. All of that after so many years, can you believe that? What are you waiting for. The title of British glam rockers Roxy Musics fourth album, Country Life, was reportedly taken from a U.K. rural lifestyle mag of the same name. The Most Controversial Album Covers Of All Time | uDiscover This artwork not only serves as a marketing tool for the records, it conveys the image of the musicians as well. This cover gives us a little boob shot in a subtle way that you might not even notice at first. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (1987). Features After the album was banned under new censorship laws, Dime & Co. went with the now-classic skull-impaled-by-drill bit motif. My copy is a Lear Jet Case. It was done in the worst possible taste. But the song has a totally different meaning from what people would assume at first. Ten more words to fill in space. "Love at First Sting" marks their once in a lifetime album, if I am not mistaken. View results. When Scorpions Courted Controversy With 'Virgin Killer' . 25 on IGN's 2007 list of the Top 25 metal albums.[7]. Uli continued to contribute rather more challenging and darker fare in the title track, the Jimi Hendrix-indebted "Hell-Cat," lackadaisical "Yellow Raven," and the show-stopping six-string masterpiece "Polar Nights." Perhaps that was just their way of telling the government it had its head up its ass. What songs have a "sitting on a rooftop and stargazing - Reddit 55 on the Billboard Top 200, which none of their previous five albums had dented at all. list. Controversial SCORPIONS Album Cover Removed From Swedish Online Scorpions - Love At First Sting (2012, 24 K + Gold, CD - Discogs Artist: Scorpions. There's less agreement over whether the British version of their debut albumfeaturing a topless girl (Baker's daughter, according to some sources) holding a vaguely phallic airplanewas in good taste. Be that as it may, the Scorpions obviously learned a harsh lesson with Virgin Killer and would show a little more judgement on subsequent albums like Taken By Force, Lovedrive and Love at First Sting, which continually pushed the erotic envelope without going completely overboard. Initial sessions took place in Stockholm's Polar Studios in the Summer of 1983 with ex-Rainbow members Jimmy Bain on bass and Bobby Rondinelli on drums, but nothing made it to the final album. Written based on this version: 1984, CD, Mercury Records. [8][9][10][11] At the beginning of the Scorpions' German tour in February 1979, Michael rejoined the band and the group reluctantly parted ways with Matthias Jabs. Virgin Killer is none other than the demon of our time, the less compassionate side of the societies we live in todaybrutally trampling upon the heart and soul of innocence. electric guitar: Rudolf Schenker. The cover image of the Black Crowes third album, Amorica, featured a closeup shot of a woman wearing a U.S. flag bikini that was brimming with pubic hair. Scorpions may well be the leader in boob oriented album covers. Despite the record company having shown the original cover art to retailers without any concerns, a complaint by Walmart in the US after the album was released resulted in PolyGram Records issuing a "clean" cover for use in several department store chains. Love at First Sting is the ninth studio album by German rock band Scorpions. Albums - Scorpions Shame on meI should have done everything in my power to stop it. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. GB 1984-03-27. The crisp, white heavyweight vinyl looks really sharp. Kausi 1. Scorpions - Love At First Sting | Releases | Discogs Mastering is actually really good and really tones down the 80s production values to sound as modern as Eurohairmetal can get. As a result, the album was re-issued with a different cover in some countries. Scorpions reached the peak of their long career with the 1984 album Love at First Sting. Yes! Virgin Killer - Wikipedia Digital Music. According to Aftonbladet, a SCORPIONS album advertisement classified as child pornography ran for 24 hours on Tradera, popular online marketplace and classifieds site from Sweden . To that end, Virgin Killer was very obviously styled as a sonic sequel to that successful template, almost a replica, in fact, but one where the band's inspired songwriting continued to deliver new golden nuggets for their fans. Dernire dition: 01.05.2015 23:51 SCORPIONS - Fan-Filmed Video Of Entire Monsters Of Rock 2023 Show In Annoyed/Exhausted At The State of Things Tenderness by Parquet Courts Time to Pretend by MGMT (edit: I linked the wrong video the first time) Spiders (Kidsmoke) by Twin Peaks (just learned today this is a cover of a Wilco song, but I love this version) The original cover featured a nude prepubescent girl, which stirred controversy in the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere. Featuring Traffics Steve Winwood, Familys Ric Grech and Creams Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker, Blind Faith are widely considered to be one of rocks first super-groups. Altered album covers must have a resume topped by at least one offense be that death, nudity and general ickiness. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. For their 1966 album, Yesterday and Today, the Beatles presented themselves as grinning butchers, complete with raw beef and dismembered baby dolls. Love at First Sting Scorpions | Last.fm He recorded lead guitars on "Another Piece of Meat", "Coast to Coast", "Holiday", "Loving You Sunday Morning" and "Lovedrive". The 100 Best Rock Bands Of All Time | YourTango Already familiar with cover art controversy (see following entry), German heavy metal act Scorpions once again got the censors' attention with the cover of their 1979 album Lovedrive, which featured a formally dressed couple in a pose where the mans hand was connected to the womens exposed breast by a wad of bubble gum. The Scorpions love boobs, for better and often worse. 2:00 PM. 1 on its March 2008 "The 50 Most Controversial Album Covers of All Time!" Will show some signs that it was played and otherwise handled by a previous owner who took good care of it. Good strong beefy sound and vocals are clear. Yes, controversy sells, sex sells etc. Controversy loomed, however, because of an erotic cover image by noted German fashion photographer Helmut Newton. Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by voggmo, Aug 7, 2008. Scorpions - Love at First Sting Album Reviews, Songs & More - AllMusic Scorpions - Love At First Sting (1984, Vinyl) - Discogs View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1984 Vinyl release of "Love At First Sting" on Discogs. Uli Jon Roth considers Virgin Killer and the previous release In Trance, his favourite Scorpions albums.[12]. Bow Wow Wow - See Jungle! Not too many bands enjoy the greatest success of their career with their ninth studio album, but thats precisely what Germanys Scorpions did when Love at First Sting arrived in record stores on March 27, 1984. Lovedrive is the sixth studio album by German band Scorpions, released in 1979.Considered by some critics to be the pinnacle of their career, Lovedrive was a major evolution of the band's sound, exhibiting their "classic style" that would be later developed over their next few albums. 1 - Sting - The Last Ship Live at the Public Theater. I thought it was funny, but women read a different inflection into it now. Is it really surprising that no one wanted to look at two naked, hairy hippies, even if one (guess who) ranks among the best songwriters of all time? It was the record company. Recalling the cover photo with the woman and the car, Thorgerson remarked: "Not exactly the most politically correct scene you've ever seen.