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Track Listings
| 1. "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M" | |||
| 2. The Sound Of Silence | |||
| 3. Homeward Bound | |||
| 4. Kathy's Song | |||
| 5. I Am A Rock | |||
| 6. "For Emily, Whenever I May Find her" | |||
| 7. Scarborough Fair/ Canticle | |||
| 8. The 59th Street Bridge Song | |||
| 9. 7 O'clock News/ Silent Night | |||
| 10. A Hazy Shade Of Winter | |||
| 11. El Condor Pasa/ If I Could | |||
| 12. Mrs. Robinson | |||
| 13. Program Open: America | |||
| 14. At The Zoo | |||
| 15. Old Friends | |||
| 16. Bookends Theme | |||
| 17. Cecilia | |||
| 18. The Boxer | |||
| 19. Bridge Over Troubled Water | |||
| 20. Song For The Asking | |||
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Product Description
1. Pictured Life
2. Catch Your Train
3. Back Stage Queen
4. Virgin Killer
5. Hell Cat
6. Crying Days
7. Polar Nights
8. Yellow Raven
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By Adam
Format:Audio CD
With this album we hear more of Uli John Roth's Excellent guitar work, Klaus Meine's cool voice and lyrics, and 9 awesome songs. This album was released originally in 1977. This album features the songs:
1 Pictured Life
2 Catch Your Train
3 In Your Park
4 Backstage Queen
5 Virgin Killer
6 Hell Cat
7 Crying Days
8 Polar Nights
9 Yellow Raven
1 Pictured Life
2 Catch Your Train
3 In Your Park
4 Backstage Queen
5 Virgin Killer
6 Hell Cat
7 Crying Days
8 Polar Nights
9 Yellow Raven
And all of these songs are wonderful and excellent. "Hell Cat" and "Polar Nights" feature the voice of Uli John Roth as well as his guitar work. This album is a great rocker and I wouldn't be without it. Great work from a Great band.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Nev Daimler
Format:Audio CD
Continuing the aggressive production values of `In Trance', the Scorpions' fourth album delivers a further dose of ear-shredding heavy rock, with wailing guitars and piercing vocals thrust across a throbbing rhythm section. Yet `Virgin Killer' is more upbeat than its predecessor, moving away from the introspective shades that colour the band's early work and seeing them edge closer to the metal monster they would evolve into during the following decade. Opening with the incessant foot-stomp of `Pictured Life', wonderfully embellished by the rolling twin-guitars of Uli Jon Roth and Rudolph Schenker, following with the excellent, driving rock of `Catch Your Train' and moving effortlessly into the delightful `In Your Park' (a prime example of the band's abilities when it comes to writing ballads), VK could rapidly be considered the Scorpions' finest album to date. Unfortunately, even though `Backstage Queen' is perfectly adequate, it doesn't match what has come before and the Roth-penned title track is too clumsy and overblown to be taken seriously, although there is the ever-present, highly-impressive guitar work to improve matters.
Roth takes over vocal duties on two tracks, the first being the screechy, chaotic and shamelessly Hendrix-derived `Hell Cat'; by this stage, Roth's input on VK is not nearly as impressive as it was on `In Trance'. Thankfully, `Crying Days', a Schenker/Meine number, is gorgeous, it's wistful mood enhanced beautifully by some fine guitar work and excellent vocals. And Roth redeems himself and then some with the brooding, trippy heaviness of `Polar Nights' (again he wears his love of Hendrix on his sleeve) and the delightful closing ballad `Yellow Raven'.
`Virgin Killer' lacks the overpowering atmospherics and impressive consistency of `In Trance', but has more than enough in its grooves to proclaim it a prime example of Seventies heavy rock.
Roth takes over vocal duties on two tracks, the first being the screechy, chaotic and shamelessly Hendrix-derived `Hell Cat'; by this stage, Roth's input on VK is not nearly as impressive as it was on `In Trance'. Thankfully, `Crying Days', a Schenker/Meine number, is gorgeous, it's wistful mood enhanced beautifully by some fine guitar work and excellent vocals. And Roth redeems himself and then some with the brooding, trippy heaviness of `Polar Nights' (again he wears his love of Hendrix on his sleeve) and the delightful closing ballad `Yellow Raven'.
`Virgin Killer' lacks the overpowering atmospherics and impressive consistency of `In Trance', but has more than enough in its grooves to proclaim it a prime example of Seventies heavy rock.
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Ugh! Five ugly Krauts. Nasty.
Do you like Scorpions?
Do you like Virgins?
Do you like Killers?
Do you detest Simon and Garfunkel?
This is a seriously good ROCKING album from the Scorps, probably better known for its outrageous album art when it should be better known for its music.
As ever with early Scorps releases, it loses marks for them letting Uli Jon Roth's tonsils loose.
Buy.
Do you like Scorpions?
Do you like Virgins?
Do you like Killers?
Do you detest Simon and Garfunkel?
This is a seriously good ROCKING album from the Scorps, probably better known for its outrageous album art when it should be better known for its music.
As ever with early Scorps releases, it loses marks for them letting Uli Jon Roth's tonsils loose.
Buy.
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a metal classic
This is a classic metal cd, it features the non-censored cover and that's not a bad thing. The original cover was in poor taste. (take my word for it). Read more
Published 10 months ago by Michael Dobey
4.0 out of 5 stars
Killer cd
Very good cd, i don't like much the later era from the '90 but the older era is awsome.
Great hard rock, sounds good and highly recommended.
Great hard rock, sounds good and highly recommended.
Published 11 months ago by Yaniv Riahi
3.0 out of 5 stars
Album cover removed
It seems that with all of the controversy raised by the IWF over the Wikipedia entry, Amazon have self censored and removed the alternative album cover artwork.
Published on 9 Dec 2008 by Cantankerous
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