- hard rock, rock, heavy metal, classic rock
- 41 min
- 9 tracks
- Mercury Records
Love at First Sting is the ninth studio album by German hard rock/heavy metal band Scorpions. It was released in February 1984 by Mercury Records in the US and in March 1984 by Harvest Records in the UK. The album contains "Rock You Like a Hurricane", "Still Loving You", and "Big City Nights", three of the band's most famous songs.
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Classical in form, spare, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10
- Forces Parallèles4/5 ★
- Rock Hard7.5/10
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Bad Boys Running Wild3:56
- 2Rock You Like a Hurricane4:13
- 3I’m Leaving You4:18
- 4Coming Home4:60
- 5The Same Thrill3:32
- 6Big City Nights4:09
- 7As Soon as the Good Times Roll5:03
- 8Crossfire4:36
- 9Still Loving You6:28
9 tracks, 41 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Scorpions
- Label
- Mercury Records
- Released
- 1984
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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