Best (album)

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Best
Compilation album by Scorpions

Publication
(s)

September 1999

Label (s) EMI

Format (s)

LP , CD , MC

Genre (s)

Hard rock

Title (number)

17th

running time

occupation

production

Dieter Dierks , Keith Olsen, Scorpions

Studio (s)

Dierks Studio, Wisseloord Studio , The Netherlands

chronology
Eye II Eye
(1999) 		Best Moment of Glory (2000)

Best is a best-of album by the German rock band Scorpions . The album was released in 1999 by the EMI label.

Compilation

The album contains songs from all phases of the Scorpions, for example the song I'm Going Mad from the first album Lonesome Crow and appears for the first time on a best-of compilation. The songs date from Lonesome Crow to Crazy World . It is the only single best-of record by the band that includes songs from all time periods up to 1990. In addition, Love is Blind is a previously unreleased song. At the time of publication, the Scorpions were at a difficult time in their careers; the studio album Eye II Eye , released about half a year earlier, fell far short of the expectations of fans and critics, and sales figures also fell dramatically. During the tour, especially in Europe, they often played in halls that were only half full. With the release of this compilation , the band and record company tried to bring back at least some of the old fans . This worked out quite well, it turned out that the band's classics were still popular, and so this compilation was quite a success, especially in Europe. Former drummer Herman Rarebell described the record as the Flashback of a Good Time . Rarebell also wrote the composition and lyrics of the bonus track Love Is Blind .

Track list

  1. Loving You Sunday Morning
  2. Rock you like a hurricane
  3. Wind of Change
  4. Is There Anybody There?
  5. Holiday
  6. Rhythm of Love
  7. Passion Rules the Game
  8. Still loving you
  9. No one like you
  10. Another Piece of Meat (Live)
  11. In Trance (Live)
  12. I'm going mad
  13. He's a Woman, She's a Man
  14. Love is blind
  15. Always somewhere
  16. Make it real
  17. Send me an angel

success

The best of album won the IFPI Platinum Europe Award in Europe in 2008 for more than 1 million albums sold. A total of over 1.5 million units have been sold to date.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IFPI Awards from 2008
Scorpions
Rudolf Schenker  • Klaus Meine  • Matthias Jabs  • Mikkey Dee  • Pawel Maciwoda
Johan Franzon (live) • Herman Rarebell  • Francis Buchholz  • Achim Kirschning  • Uli Jon Roth  • Michael Schenker  • Ralph Rieckermann  • Rudy Lenners  • Jürgen Rosenthal  • Wolfgang Dziony  • Lothar Heimberg  • Karl-Heinz Vollmer • Joe Wyman • Ken Taylor  • Curt Cress  • Barry Sparks  • Ingo Powitzer • James Kottak


Studio albums

Lonesome Crow  (1972) • Fly to the Rainbow  (1974) • In Trance  (1975) • Virgin Killer  (1976) • Taken by Force  (1977) • Lovedrive  (1979) • Animal Magnetism  (1980) • Blackout  (1982) • Love at First Sting  (1984) • Savage Amusement  (1988) • Crazy World  (1990) • Face the Heat  (1993) • Pure Instinct  (1996) • Eye II Eye  (1999) • Moment of Glory  (2000) • Unbreakable  (2004) • Humanity - Hour I  (2007) • Sting in the Tail  (2010) • Comeblack  (2011) • Return to Forever  (2015)

Live albums

Tokyo Tapes  (1978) • World Wide Live  (1985) • Live Bites  (1995) • Acoustica  (2001) • Live 2011 - Get Your Sting and Blackout  (2011) • MTV Unplugged - in Athens  (2013)

Compilation albums

Best of Vol. 1  (1979) • Hot & Heavy  (1982) • Best of Vol. 2  (1984) • Gold Ballads (1988) • Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads  (1989) • Still Loving You  (1992) • Deadly Sting  (1995) • Deadly Sting - The Mercury Years (1997) • Best  (1999) • Millenium Edition (2001) • Bad for Good - The Very Best of (2002) • The Platinum Collection (2005) • Deadliest Stings (2008) • Icon (2010) • Icon 2 (2010) • Still in Trance (2012) • Born To Touch Your Feelings (Best of Rock Ballads) (2017)

Video albums

First Sting (1985) • World Wide Live (1985) • To Russia with Love and Other Savage Amusements (1988) • Crazy World Tour Live (1991) • Moment of Glory - Live (2000) • Acoustica (2001) • A Savage Crazy World (2002) • Unbreakable World Tour 2004 - One Night in Vienna (2005) • Live at Wacken Open Air 2006: A Night to Remember - A Journey Through Time  (2007) • Amazonia - Live in the Jungle (2009) • Scorpions Live in 3D (Blu-Ray 3D) (2011) • MTV Unplugged - in Athens  (2013) • Forever and a Day (2015) • Forever and a Day: Live in Munich (2016)

Singles

Is There Anybody There? • Lovedrive • Make It Real • The Zoo  • Blackout • No One Like You • Still Loving You • Can't Live Without You • Rock You Like a Hurricane  • Big City Nights • Rhythm of Love • Passion Rules the Game • Don't Believe Her • Wind of Change  • Send Me an Angel • Alien Nation • Under the Same Sun • White Dove • Does Anyone Know • When You Came Into My Life • Where the River Flows • To Be No. 1 • Moment of Glory • You Are the Champion • Humanity • Raised on Rock • The Good Die Young • Still Loving You - Je t'aime encore (feat. Amandine Bourgeios) • Dancing with the Moolight / Where the River Flows • We Built This House • Eye of the Storm • Going out with a bang