Tribute to the Scorpions

This remarkable album I got was more than 10 years ago.Unfortunately I lost this CD 5 years ago. That's the reason why I purchase it again.The tracks are the most famous SCORPIONS hits, includes all anthems you can recall (every Scorps fans can put the track names here).Big name bands re-arrange these hits in an alternative way, THE NEW MELODY, THE NEW RHYTHM, THE NEW MUSIC STYLE.Speed metal describe a kind of 1970s hard rock, Neo metal show lots of glory heavy metal moments...Anyway it's a brand new concept for those "tributes to..." albums out there.THIS ONE IS THE BEST I THINK in terms of every little thing about SCORPIONS.

The Scorpions never sounded better. This tribute is well worth adding to your archives of metal. Inspired by the pioneers of metal, you can't help but like this one. Take away Therion's cover of Crying Days and Rough Silk's version of Is There Anybody There and your left with 16 killer tracks. The best thing about the cd is the artists choices of songs. Helloween's cover of He's a Woman She's a man is fast and heavy as well as Paradox's version of Dynamite. The covers hit the Scorps when they were definatly at thier best, older tracks such as Top of the Bill, Dark Lady, and Pictured Life. Tankard's cover of Coming Home is SUPPER SPEEDY, the best it can get. I HIGHLY recommend this cd. ONE OF THE BEST COVERS YOU'LL FIND OUT TODAY!

Great collection. Scorpions songs covered by new metal bands. Good versions of scorps songs..

Not bad.

I'll start saying that this tribute is highly recommandable to any power metaller who knows at least a few bands on the album.As the track list is not displayed, here it is :1. He s A Woman, She s A Man (Helloween)2. Rock You Like A Hurricane (Sinergy)3. Dynamite (Paradox)4. Still Loving You (Sonata Artica)5. Blackout (Stratovarius)6. Don t Stop At The Top (Children of Bodom)7. Dark Lady (Agent Steel)8. Top Of The Bill (Steel Prophet)9. Dampflockfuhrer (Prolopower)10. Coming Home (Tankard)11. Coast To Coast (Disbelief)12. Passion Rules The Game(To/Die/For)13. Pictured Life (Breaker)14. Polar Nights (Therion)15. Is There Anybody There (Rough Silk)16. Another Peace Of Meat (Metalium)17. Alien Nation (Seven Witches)18. Send Me An Angel (Custard)19. Rock You Like A Hurricane (S.O.D)Beware : If you've never heard of Nuclear Blast, or if you're a stranger to the names 'Stratovarius', 'Sonata Arctica', 'Children of Bodom', I wouldn't recommend it ... unless you like taking risks. But I think this is still great even for those who don't know bands from Nuclear Blast.If you know some of the bands, you may be surprised by their different sound. At first, I didn't recognize 'Children of Bodom' and 'Sonata Arctica', but the covers are damn great !However, I found something quite insulting in this album : S.O.D's cover of 'Rock you like a hurricane'. It doesn't last one minute, you just have time to hear a stupid scream and it's over. And the photo of the band inside the booklet confirmed my idea these guys are horrible.

Several sad bands but thanks to Helloween, Sonata Arctica (Awesome), Tankard, Therion, and especially Children Of Bodom it is worthy of 5 stars. Many of the bands were just boring, even sub-metal. Helloween, Tankard, and Therion stayed true to their styles... excellent bands as usual. Sinergy did a fine job... good to throw a female vocalist in there. Sonata Arctica blew me away with their progressive shock on the heavy cover of Still Loving You.Now what really made this album was the fact that Children of Bodom (my favorite band) played just awesomely ! It was really wonderful to hear death metal growls shouting "Don't Stop At the Top" and that's not even the real reason I love them so much. Unfortunately COB were the only DM band here... but they definately made this album Worth the Money ! Great guitar work through the whole album also makes me listen to this over and over. -Well those are my thoughts, thanks :-)

The words can't describe the joy I feel when I'm listening to this album. Ever track on here is worth listening to (except for the last one by S.O.D. which isn't even a minute in leangth). My favoret track on here is Sonata Arctica's cover of "Still Loving You." Buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it!!!!!!!!

As a Scorps fan for 25 years, I thought it would be at least interesting to hear different versions of the classics, and was intrigued that some of the less common songs had been covered here.However, if you appreciate the originals for the sound, arrangement and composition, steer well clear of this. Most of these bands think "tribute" means "speed it up and holler at the top of your voice". Most of the guitar sounds are good enough, but too many of these bands rely on the scooped mid-range chug sound which gets a bit dull after four or five tracks.The version of "Still Loving You" manages to combine the most terrible interpretation with some rather nice touches towards the end, whilst "Don't Stop At The Top" is utterly mangled. The version of "Coast To Coast" is an exercise in too much distortion, whilst APoM and PRtG are mauled and destroyed.Mind you, there's a couple of good efforts which are actually worth listening to - "Dark Lady"'s pretty good, and "Pictured Life" is impressive. "Top Of The Bill"'s OK too.Overall, though, this has to be a complete waste of cash simply because the original spirit of 90% of these songs has been disregarded in favour of a "who's got the chunkiest guitar sound and fastest drummer" competition.Honestly, if you've been a fan of the Scorpions since before Wind Of Change, leave this one alone. A far better idea would be if the band re-recorded these classic moments themselves with today's sound and technology - the oldies on "Live Bites" came out pretty good ... how about it?

Im großen und ganzen bin ich absolut positiv überrascht von dem Tribute Album. Sinergy mit ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE bleiben nahe am Original, dennoch spielen Sinergy mit viel Power was dem Song gut tut. Auch Children of Bodom mit DON'T STOP AT THE TOP haben das Original 1:1 umgesetzt, aber sehr hörenswert. Der Uebersong auf dem Tribute Album kommt von Sonata Arctica. Ihre Interpretation von STILL LOVING YOU ist der absolute Hammer und ein Hoererlebnis allererster Güteklasse. Am Anfang klingt das Lied wie das Original von den Scorpions, aber nur anfangs, dann nimmt der Song Fahrt auf so das es nur eine Freude ist, ungewohnt aber sensationell und einmalig gut. Auch die restlichen Lieder gefallen. Einzigst mein Lieblingslied COAST TO COAST von Disbelief gefällt mir in der Original Version um Klassen besser. Mein Fazit für dieses Tribute Album sind klar 5 Sterne und klare Kaufempfehlung für Scorpion Fans.

Having been a fan of the Scorpions for over 40 years I bought this CD out of curiosity. Some of the cover versions are true to the originals, others are quite different in style. Well worth a listen to.

A classic album for the classic German hard rock group in the tribute form this time. Recommended highly for other customers, too!