Scorpions "Love At First Sting (50th Anniversary Deluxe Editions, 2015, 2CD + DVD, BMG, Digipak, Reissue, Remastered, 538159342)"

Love at First Sting is the ninth studio album by German rock band Scorpions. It was released in March 1984 on Harvest/EMI in Europe and Mercury in the US. The album contains "Rock You Like a Hurricane", "Still Loving You", and "Big City Nights", three of the band's most famous songs.

The album was recorded in 1983 and 1984 at Dierks Studios in Stommeln, West Germany. Initial sessions took place in Stockholm's Polar Studios in the Summer of 1983 with ex-Rainbow members Jimmy Bain on bass and Bobby Rondinelli on drums, but nothing made it to the final album. Love at First Sting is notable in that it was one of the first digitally recorded heavy metal records ever released.

It became the group's most successful album in the US, where it peaked at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1984, and went double-platinum by the end of the year, reaching triple-platinum status in 1995. The song "Rock You Like a Hurricane" reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the same year; "Still Loving You" reached number 64 on the same chart, number 14 in Germany, and number 3 in the French and Swiss single charts.

The original cover art was created by Kochlowski, which is a German graphic design company, and features a photo shot by renowned German photographer Helmut Newton. Despite the record company having shown the original cover art to retailers without any concerns, a complaint by Walmart in the US after the album was released resulted in PolyGram Records issuing a "clean" cover for use in several department store chains. The alternative cover was designed to be less controversial by simply showing a photo of the band members, which was the same photo as the one on the inner sleeve.

Tracklist:

Disc 1 (CD)

1. Bad Boys Running Wild 03:53   
2. Rock You like a Hurricane 04:10   
3. I'm Leaving You 04:13  
4. Coming Home 04:58   
5. The Same Thrill 03:30
6. Big City Nights 04:02  
7. As Soon as the Good Times Roll 05:02  
8. Crossfire 04:33   
9. Still Loving You 06:27   
10. Coming Home (Demo Version) 03:17   
11. Living at Night (Demo Song) 04:14  
12. First Sting Jam No.1 (Demo) 01:25  
13. Anytime (You Want It) (Demo Song) 05:16  
14. Still Loving You (Demo Version) 05:46

Time:    01:00:46  

Disc 2 (CD) - Live At Madison Square Garden

1. Countdown 01:58  
2. Coming Home 03:11  
3. Blackout 03:48  
4. Bad Boys Running Wild 04:11   
5. Loving You Sunday Morning 04:45   
6. Big City Nights 05:14   
7. Coast to Coast 04:58  
8. Still Loving You 05:52
9. Rock You Like a Hurricane 04:20
10. The Zoo 08:05
11. Dynamite 06:47

Time:  53:09  

Disc 3 (DVD)

1. Rock You Like a Hurricane (Music Video) 04:12
2. I'm Leaving You (Music Video) 04:13   
3. Big City Nights (Music Video) 04:49   
4. Still Loving You (Music Video) 04:43   
5. Still Loving You (“Peters Pop Show”; 30.11.1985) 04:45  
6. Rock You Like a Hurricane (“Peters Pop Show”; 30.11.1985) 04:10   
7. Still Loving You (“Na Sowas!”; 17.10.1984) 04:23  
8. Big City Nights (Rock Sommer/Monsters of Rock; Nürnberg; 13.09.1986) 04:14
9. The Story of “Love at First Sting” (Interviews with Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs and Herman Rarebell) 36:23  

Time:   01:11:52  

50th Anniversary Deluxe Editions. 

Digitally remastered. 

5 previously Unreleased tracks. 

Bonus CD: „Live At Madison Square Garden 1984“ (Previously unreleased),

Bonus DVD: Music videos, TV appearances and making-of „Love At First Sting“

16 page booklet with new liner notes, rare photos and memorabilia

2CD + 1 DVD

Disc 2 is recorded live at Madison Square Garden, New York City 1984)

DVD info :

DVD9 - PCM - 4:3 (Music Videos, TV Appearances) - 16:9 (Documentary) - NTSC Region Free - English - No subtitles - 73 min. approx.

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed at Dierks Studios, Stommeln (Pulheim), Germany.

Mastered at PolyGram Studios.