Track Listing

1. Rock You Like a Hurricane
2. No One Like You
3. Zoo
4. Loving You Sunday Morning
5. Still Loving You
6. Big City Night
7. Believe in Love
8. Rhythm of Love
9. I Can't Explain
10. Tease Me, Please Me
11. Wind of Change
12. Send Me an Angel

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21233 in Music
• Released on: 2001-06-12
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Great collection of hit tracks for a new Scorpions fan
The Best of Scorpions: The Millenium Collection from the 20th Century Masters series is a great CD for those fans who want to get know what the Scorpions are all about. You can't really complain about the cost; the track list makes it definitely worth the price.

The 2 most commercially-successful albums "Love At First Sting" (Rock You Like A Hurricane, Big City Nights, Still Loving You) and "Crazy World" (Tease Me Please Me, Wind Of Change, Send Me An Angel) are well-represented here. Although, having 2 tracks from the sub-par "Savage Amusement" (Rhythym of Love, Believe In Love) and only 1 from the vastly-superior "Blackout" (No One Like You) is a joke.

If you want a decent selection of great songs from one of the better rock bands of the 80s and 90s but don't want to spend a lot of cash, get your hands on this disc. If you want a more complete collection of great Scorpions music and don't mind spending a little more, pick up the 3-disc "Box Of Scorpions" set instead of this.

This is not their best.
Its hard to imagine that I'd criticize a best hits album by one of the greatest metal bands of all time. Its not that the songs they've chosen aren't good...the radio friendly standards of Rock You Like a Hurricane and No One Like You should always be on a greatest hits album. But to include the sappy ballads that characterized their late 80's and early 90's work as opposed to the absolutely masterful things that they came out with in the 70s is ridiculous. How about just one song from their 1972 debut, Lonesome Crow? How about the haunting In Trance from the album of the same name? Who hasnt heard Drifting Sun from Fly to the Rainbow and not been blown away.

Anybody wanting to catch the real best of the Scorpions would be well served by spending a little more and getting acquainted with their earlier work. The Scorpions became a hair band, but managed to forge the fundamental backbone of European heavy metal in the 70s.

Rush right out now and buy Fly To The Rainbow, Virgin Killer, and In Trance. Lonesome Crow, if you can find it will blow your mind.

Big hair at its best!
Along with Def Leppard and Tesla, these guys were the best of the so-called "hair metal" genre. The main thing I like about them in comparison to other bands of this ilk (even as compared to the aforementioned two) is that they didn't sound like every other band. Their music wasn't near as cheesy as, say, Whitesnake, Motley Crue, or, worst of all, Poison, (though it was still pretty cheesy, after all it is hair metal), and the vocals more closely resembled that of European power metal, like Helloween, moreso than the average glam wailer. Anyhow, these guys made some really cool music. They had some good hard-driving rhythms that are good for getting the old head banging, and some really good solos (say what you will about hair metal, but they always did manage to have some really good solos). And, of course, you have the ballads. I think "Believe in Love" and "Send Me an Angel" are a bit too corny for me, but "Still Loving You" and "Wind of Change" are just amazing. I think "Wind of Change" has got to be the best hair metal ballad ever written. It's not some mushy love song (in fact, I'm really not sure what it's about, nostalgia, perhaps?), and the vocal work is just bone-chilling. Okay, the whistling is a bit goofy (it works in GNR's "Patience", but here it sounds like he's calling Lassie), but everything else about the song is perfect. All in all, this greatest hits package makes for a pleasant listen. Seeing as how I usually prefer stuff like Metallica and Iron Maiden, and the songs I already knew ("No One Like You", "Rock You like a Hurricane", "The Zoo", "Big City Nights", "Tease Me, Please Me", and the aforementioned ballads) were the only ones that really did it for me, giving this five stars is a stretch, it's more like 4.5, but since they're way better than the average glam rockers, I'll be generous. If you like these guys (specifically Klaus Meine's unusual German-accented vocals), you might want to check out one of my favorite bands, Blind Guardian. They are the new kings of Germany. But, if you just want a taste of what the mainstream was like back before Korn and Limp Bizkit killed it, this is one album you oughta check out.