SCORPIONS Virgin Killer ORIG. COVER German Print RCA 76
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€ 31
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Jul 14, 2011
Sold Date
Jul 4, 2011
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Description
Versandkosten bei LPs im Inland: unversichert als Bücher- und Warensendung = 2,00 € / versichert über Hermes = 4,90 €.
THE SCORPIONS
"VIRGIN KILLER"
4th studio album by the German rockband with the original cover artwork featuring a nude prepubescent girl, which stirred controversy in the UK, U.S., and elsewhere. As a result, the album was reissued with a different cover in some countries.
RCA Records, German print, 1976, orange label, laminated cover, in a good condition!
Product Details
- Vinyl (1976)
- Original Release Date: 1976
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: RCA
- Condition: vinyl = VG-- (tiny hairlines and surface marks) / cover = VG- (some edgewear) / label = near Mint-
Tracklist
Side 1.
- "Pictured Life" (Meine, Roth, Schenker) – 3:21
- "Catch Your Train" (Meine, Schenker) – 3:32
- "In Your Park" (Meine, Schenker) – 3:39
- "Backstage Queen" (Meine, Schenker) – 3:10
- "Virgin Killer" (Roth) – 3:41
Side 2:
- "Hell Cat" (Roth) – 2:54
- "Crying Days" (Meine, Schenker) – 4:36
- "Polar Nights" (Roth) – 5:04
- "Yellow Raven" (Roth) – 4:58
History:
* 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.
* "Virgin Killer" set the stage for a string of stinging discs from the one 'n' only Scorpions. "In Trance" had it's moments, but the recording included a glut of filler material. With "Virgin Killer" the teutonic assault stung with vengeance... this is where the Scorpions really take hold and bring home the goods.
"Catch Your Train", "Hell-Cat" and the evil strains of the title cut, put the Scorpions squarely in the ring of contention, for the heavy weight division of hard rock 'n' roll. Uli Roth and Rudolph Schenker combined to hammer out riveting riffs that pound the senses throughout this disc, while Kluas Meine delivered with shrieking vocals.
Other stellar offerings from this 1977 metallic classic include the party-on "Backstage Queen", plus "Pictured Life", "In Your Park" and "Crying Days". "Virgin Killer" was just the start... for nearly a decade the Scorpions would drop a great album on the market, until the well ran dry in the mid-80's.
Versandkosten bei LPs im Inland: unversichert als Bücher- und Warensendung = 2,00 € / versichert über Hermes = 4,90 €.
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