Virgin Killer

Artist: Scorpions
Label: Bmg Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 035627003127
EAN: 0035627003127
ASIN: B0000073NK

Release Date: 1988-02-18

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Tracks:

Pictured Life
Catch Your Train
In Your Park
Backstage Queen
Virgin Killer
Hell Cat
Crying Days
Polar Nights
Yellow Raven

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Taken by Force
In Trance
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Customer Reviews:

THE best Uli Roth album,hands-down (whatever that means)!!.......2007-03-01

Virgin Killer is the ultimate Roth-era Scorpions record for me.The others are good,but this one just rocks more and has more variety,not to mention Uli is balls out on almost every track.Catch Your Train stands up to the legendary performance of Sails Of Charon quite well,in my opinion.I actually prefer it,as it just seems even heavier,and Uli is shredding all over the place.The whacked out chord in Crying Days will stick in your mind forever.There are so many great guitar moments on this disc,I could go on and on...the solo on Backstage Queen....the entire Hendrix-tinged Polar Nights.....just magic.

If you only get one Uli Roth cd,let this be the one.

A very good album.......2007-02-23

This is a really good album if you like old scorpions (Uli Roth era). I don't think it's quite as good as the other uli-roth albums (Taken by Force, Fly to the Rainbow, In Trance) but still good. (It has some excellent individual songs, but as an entire album it just doesn't have quite the same energy. Just my opinion.) Worth adding to the collection, though, if you're a fan.

Virgen Killer (SCORPIONS).......2006-11-23

Virgen Killer was a pretty good album for the year that came out and during that era the sound was raw and original this album has been part of my collection for many years,I do wanna point out that there's a missinformation from the EDITORIAL REVIEWS Michael Schenker had nothing to do with this album,the album you're refering to is LOVEDRIVE 1979 He played lead guitar on 3 songs after quiting UFO and went on to form his own band THE MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP (MSG)!

Completists only.......2006-10-12

A lot of other reviewers are hailing this as the best of the Roth-era Scorpions albums, but I find it to be the least. The sound is bad, it's amazing that this was produced by the same guy responsible for the in-your-face sound of "Lovedrive" and "Blackout". As a collection of songs, this is nowhere near as good as "Taken By Force", and doesn't have any individual tracks with near the impact of "We'll Burn the Sky", "The Sails of Charon", or the live version of "Fly to the Rainbow". It's also very short- under 35 min. in length- a byproduct of the songwriting not being there. The best rockers here work far better in their live versions on "Tokyo Tapes". It's the ballads that come off best here, especially "Yellow Raven", which has everything that made these guys great. What set them apart was their ability to have real emotional impact in music that rocked so hard, and that's not in evidence here. This is not by any means a bad album, just kind of lackluster. It's about as good as "Lovedrive", which might sound good if you're not familiar with just how great a band this was in the mid-70's. If I had not heard "Tokyo Tapes" first, with its far superior versions of some of these songs, I would probably like this one a lot better. Even so, "Taken By Force" would be a much better starting point to investigate the early version of this band. Leave this one for after "Tokyo Tapes" and "In Trance".

Certainly a killer album - pushes towards the full five stars.......2006-08-23

Many people will tell you the Scorpions suck. Most of them probably came of age during the late 80's when, truth be told, the Scorpions were looking pretty sad and redundant as they plied their trade increasingly to less sophisticated hard rock audiences throughout Eastern Europe. What people who dismiss the Scorpions probably don't know are albums like Virgin Killer.

This is top notch hard rock. In fact it's probably now in the realms of classic rock due to it's age and the fact that much of it hasn't aged, if you get my meaning.

Scorps come out of the blocks with two of their best tunes ever in Pictured Life and Catch Your Train. So many people can relate to these songs and they are pacey without being too frenetic. They are both perfectly paced hard rock. In Your Park is a ballad but not one of the later era Scorps power ballad disasters. This is followed by Backstage Queen which is fine and then we get Virgin Killer. A slab of metal par excellence, pretty much one of the greatest 70's metal tracks ever. And it still stands up today. Slashing guitars, histrionic vocals that descend into signature Klaus Meine shrieks by songs end and I mean that in the best possible way.

You can't follow a song like that with another outright metal tune and the Scorps knew it so they didn't, next track being Hell-cat which is light hearted, fun and still in possession of a bunch quality axe and vox shadings.

After that we get a few more mellow tunes to let the listener down gently and close out the album, Crying Days, Polar Nights and Yellow Raven. The latter two are excellent introspective little tunes that allow Klaus Meine to sing while the band add their own tweaks and tunings in the background. Superb stuff. Of the nine tracks here only Crying Days lets the team down a bit.

The reason this album has stood the test of time is that it is an actual album, within the space of just nine songs the band has managed to cover great hard rock, face melting metal, love ballads, introspective mellow numbers and funky fun rockers.

Unreservedly recommended. For futher info I'd direct you to the review by Darth Kommisar which was (as usual) well thought out.

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