2011 album from the German Hard Rockers, a collection of re-recordings of their some of their choice cuts as well as covers of some of their favorite songs originally performed by The Beatles, The Stones, T. Rex, The Small Faces, The Kinks and others.

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Artist: SCORPIONS
Title: TOKYO TAPES
Street Release Date: 10/29/2002
Domestic
Genre: HEAVY METAL

Japanese edition of the German metal quintet's 1979 album,featuring the original cover art that was banned in the U.S.of the topless woman seated next to the man in a businesssuit, both in the back seat of a cab or a limo. Eighttracks, including 'Lovedrive' and 'Holiday'. A PolygramRecords release.

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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Artist: SCORPIONS
Title: TAKEN BY FORCE
Street Release Date: 10/29/2002
Domestic
Genre: HEAVY METAL

After the release of their next album, STING IN THE TAIL, and a three-year mammoth tour, which will take them across five continents, one of the most successful rock bands in the world, SCORPIONS, will be ending their career. During their 40-year career, SCORPIONS sold over 100 million albums and received many awards, such as the World Music Award and several Echos--the German equivalent to the Grammy. Today they still play sold-out venues around the world. Not long ago, 152,000 South Americans came to 15 SCORPIONS concerts between Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City. Their song "Wind of Change" has become an anthem for the fall of the Iron Curtain. The tour will launch in the band's home country Germany in May. After that, they will be touring through North America before they continue their journey through five other continents until 2012.

Lonesome Crow is not just merely the first album from Germany's Number 1 Hard Rock export, but also the first ever Brain release, issued in 1972. Lonesome Crow is both highly coveted by record Collectors for the famous catalog number of Brain 1001 and also because it presents the Scorpions in a way we would never hear them again; rough and ready, with surprising twists and turns and unusual song structures. One can clearly hear the legendary talent and chemistry between Michael & Rudolf Schenker who were still "united in rock" at the time. Lonesome Crow certainly belongs in every music lovers' collection.