Album · Scorpions
Love at First Sting by Scorpions
Love at First Sting is an album by Scorpions, released in 1984. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 152 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Rock You Like a Hurricane”, on 92 lists with a best position of #11.
Love at First Sting, the Scorpions' ninth studio album, came out in early 1984, on Mercury in America and Harvest in Britain, with Dieter Dierks producing. This is the band's classic lineup at full tilt: Klaus Meine singing, Rudolf Schenker and Matthias Jabs on guitars, Francis Buchholz on bass and Herman Rarebell on drums, five Germans out of Hanover who had mastered the language of the American arena.
"Rock You Like a Hurricane" is the battering ram, a riff as blunt and catchy as a football chant, and "Big City Nights" struts right behind it with neon in its eyes. Then they turn the lights down for "Still Loving You", a slow-burning ballad that Meine sings like his heart is being wrung out, and "Coming Home" builds from a hush to a gallop. Those first three songs remain among the band's most famous, and the album went platinum in America.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Love at First Sting on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rock You Like a Hurricane#141 of all time | 92 | #11 | – | 1990–2026 | |
| 2 | Still Loving You | 37 | #31 | – | 1987–2026 | |
| 3 | Big City Nights | 22 | #185 | – | 1990–2024 | |
| 4 | Coming Home | 1 | #983 | – | 1990 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.