this is my first scorpion album and my first review so please be gentle, thank you. i was so moved by this album that i just had to write this. I am 51 years old and i have heard "hurricane" many times but never thought an entire album could be this good. thanks scorpions.
Be careful if you order the import of "Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years" since this is a single-disc version, even though Amazon repeats the description from the double-CD version. This is similar to the first disc in the double-CD version, with a few tracks from the second disc added and a different track order. The track listing for the import version is correct (yes I know, only 15 songs, I should have suspected a single disc). Boo to Electrola for using the same title and image as the double-CD domestic version for this.
"Best of" and "Greatest Hits" albums are, let's face it, not made for a band's hard-core fans who already own their entire catalog. They're typically marketed towards everybody else: the casual fans. That is, the people who don't own any albums from that band, but liked what they've heard (from a concert, radio, Mtv, etc.), and would enjoy a compilation of these songs from different albums.
When it comes to Scorpions, I'm in this second category. After seeing them live in '96 with Alice Cooper, I knew I had to break down and buy a CD of theirs once and for all. Especially after hearing "Coast To Coast", an instrumental that for whatever reason I absolutely fell in love with. So I bought "Worldwide Live". I liked it a lot, but I still preferred hearing the studio versions of all those songs I've come to know and like (The Zoo, Rock You Like A Hurricane, Black Out, No One Like You, Big City Nights, etc.) Plus, I also really liked those 90s hits and concert songs I heard (Tease Me Please Me, Don't Believe Her, Alien Nation).
Finally THIS CD, "Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years", hit the stores, and it was exactly what I was looking for. Quite simply, it had EVERY song I ever remember hearing from them! The audio quality seems good and consistant too. I even liked some of the few songs I wasn't originally familiar with.
So, if you like those Scorpions songs you heard on the radio or in the videos Mtv used to play, but never got around to buying any of their albums, just buy this one!
For anyone who likes the Scorpions I think this is probably your best choice of all their CD's. I have several other CDs and it is my favorite.
not wanting to re-purchase all the scorpians catologue on cd, this set is perfect for me. not a bad song on the cd's. this is the mercury years so the early rca songs are not here.
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