Bad For Good: The Very Best of Scorpions | 
 enlarge | Artist: Scorpions
Label: Hip-O Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 2903
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 731454811828
UPC: 731454811828
EAN: 0731454811828
ASIN: B00006690I
Release Date: May 28, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Rock You Like A Hurricane | | • | Loving You Sunday Morning | | • | The Zoo | | • | No One Like You | | • | Blackout | | • | Still Loving You | | • | Big City Nights | | • | Believe In Love | | • | Rhythm of Love | | • | I Can't Explain | | • | Wind of Change | | • | Send Me An Angel | | • | Don't Believe Her | | • | Tease Me Please Me | | • | Hit Between The Eyes | | • | Alien Nation | | • | Cause I Love You | | • | Bad For Good |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: SCORPIONS
Title: BAD FOR GOOD: VERY BEST OF THE SCORPIONS
Street Release Date: 05/28/2002
Domestic
Genre: HEAVY METAL
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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 cliche 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 ueber alles! --Jerry McCulley
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 Packed With Mind Numbing Rock!!! November 21, 2008
jansley (Vernon, Texas)
Many have complained that this CD is not "complete" enough to represent this band. I don't care. It clocks in at 79:55 and all the songs save one are a great listen if you just want straightforward guitar riff rock.
The ballad "Wind of Change" (track 11) is the only song that I don't like - although it apparently was a big hit. It is just too much like all the crappy big hair 80's bands ballads that I never did like. There are a few other ballads on this CD (tracks 6, 8, 12) but they seem to have a little more bite (or should I say sting) to them and are OK.
The two new songs (tracks 17, 18) are fantastic. TMSAISTI.
Love @First Sting--ah, I mean Listen... October 28, 2008
Jeff Edwards (Twin Falls, Idaho)
I've been a big fan of the Scorps since I first heard my local radio station play 'The Zoo' circa 1982 or so, and after Blackout hit the stores, I bought it and I've been hooked ever since. Course, I had a significant dry spell starting around 1992, but about a year ago, I was surfing around the 'net and came across one of their earlier 'Greatest Hits' packages, and fell in love with them all over again.
The boys from Germany are BACK! With this collection we get a great selection of their previous hits, and they bless us with two NEW tracks as well! Talk about awesome, they're even GOOD ones, too. Not like some Greatest Hits packages that include one or two so-so to downright LAME new songs (Van Halen, are you listening??). I was pleasantly surprised that the new tunes were instantly likeable upon first listen.
Fans of 80's hard driving metal--at least the GOOD stuff, aka AC/DC, Def Leppard, Van Halen and other bands in the same vein, rejoice...this is a must-have for the Scorpion fan in all of us. Although I feel as I must pimp the fact that if you are a serious Scorpion fan, you probably ALREADY own most (if not all) of their previous CD's and therefore, you own all of the songs on this collection--minus the 2 new tracks, so I would then encourage you to purchase the 2 new songs and go from there.
A hurricane of rock from the Fatherland! July 3, 2008
William Dorfer
The Scorpions are definitely one of the greatest and most successful rock bands to emerge out of Germany, and they prove it to you 18 times of on this collection "Bad For Good: The Very Best of Scorpions". Now as you may realize, this is not an absolutely perfect compilation. There is, after all, the three-disc "Box of Scorpions" that goes for around 35 bucks or so. But hey, if you're planning on spending that much money, it might as well be on the original albums, right? Anyway...
This compilation has everything, packing a big, German-styled melodic-metal punch that delivers the goods. From the powerhouse rockers of "Blackout", "No One Like You", "Rock You Like A Hurricane" and "Big City Nights", to the beautiful ballads of "Send Me An Angel", "Wind of Change" or "Still Loving You", and the slower, more progressive tracks like "Loving You Sunday Morning" and "The Zoo" this album has plenty of greats.
In addition, it comes with two new songs, the balladic "Bad For Good" and the talk-box guitar riff driven "Cause I Love You". Plus, the album comes complete with great linter notes, photos of the band, and pictures of their ever-ridiculous album covers! So if you wanna get into the Scorpions, this is a great place to start. Thanks for the time, and peace.
Very nice selection June 8, 2008
E. Pegors (Fargo, ND United States)
I forgot how much I like their stuff. Even my two year old daughter loves it.
 Not as good as I would have liked May 5, 2008
Michael Bushey (Mildenhall, England)
This is not a bad alblum, but I think that there are far better Scorpion songs that the could have included on this CD.
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