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"In Trance"*
"We'll Burn the Sky"
"The Zoo"
"Sails of Charon"
"Another Piece of Meat"
"All Night Long"
"Blackout"**
"Robot Man"***
"Virgin Killer"***
"Catch Your Train"***

― dave q, Monday, 7 April 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

* = he sings it like "I'm in a dress". Dialect humour not funny rite. Except they later did "He's a Voman, She'z a Man", so there could be a 'theme' here!

** = mainly for the Nina Hagen impersonation at the end, and the lyric "Look around and I see this face/ what the hell, have I lost my taste?"

*** = the 'Hendrix=metal?" debate was ages ago and nobody cares anymore, but Uli Roth is the missing link

― dave q, Monday, 7 April 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll just pick two albums - lonesome crow and the second one. mostly lonesome crow.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 7 April 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

What? No "Wind Of Change"? :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 7 April 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Dunno the really early stuff (or frankly anything that's not on Best of Rockers & Ballads and the later power ballad hits) b-b-but "Big City Nights"! "No One Like You"!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 7 April 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

sundar you abolutely MUST check out some of the 70s stuff w/ Uli Roth. Roth/Blackmore = BaaerMeinhof/Monty Python. I believe this is key in evolution Hendrix>Metal w/ M Schenker being parallel missing link > party end w/ Roth > more euro-end. When Jabs discarded the wah it completed morph > metal as now 'thought' of

― dave q, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

You have stolen my heart with that post.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i needed this thread.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

Coast to Coast
No One Like You
Big City Nights
Rock You Like A Motherfuckin' Hurricane
Wind of Change
Still Loving You
Believe in Love
Tease Me Please Me
Holiday
Virgin Killer

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 6 December 2010 04:25 (fifteen years ago)

five years pass...

I had a dream I was at a Scorpions concert and saw a banner that read "Heil! Heil! Rock n' Roll".

― A long little doggy like a dachshund? I already g (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 03:14 (nine years ago)

seven years pass...

OPO

Sails Of Charon

― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:44 (two years ago)

Excellent choice. Recently found a nice copy of taken by force to complete my Uli-era collection

― brimstead, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 22:19 (two years ago)

the 'Hendrix=metal?" debate was ages ago and nobody cares anymore, but Uli Roth is the missing link

...except the Roth-led Scorpions songs sound a lot more like Robin Trower imitating Hendrix than the original.

When Jabs discarded the wah it completed morph > metal as now 'thought' of

In fact, the non-Roth songs as early as In Trance sound like the earliest examples of "modern metal", beating Judas Priest's Sad Winds of Destiny by a year.

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:48 (two years ago)

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