Song · Scorpions
“Blackout” by Scorpions
From the album Blackout (1982)
“Blackout” by Scorpions appears on 7 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1990 and 2002. It was first released in 1982 on the album Blackout. Its best result is #97 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #253 hard rock song of all time.
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"Blackout" is the title track of the Scorpions' eighth studio album, released by Harvest and EMI in 1982, and it nearly had no singer. Klaus Meine lost his voice while the album was being written and needed surgery on his vocal cords, unsure he'd ever record again; demos were even cut with Don Dokken, though none of those takes made the record.
Meine came back to sing lead, and he wrote the lyrics with Herman Rarebell and Sonja Kittelsen, while Rudolf Schenker supplied the music. Schenker and Matthias Jabs stack electric and acoustic guitars, with Jabs adding slide, Francis Buchholz plays bass and Rarebell drums and percussion, and the whole band piles in on backing vocals. Dieter Dierks produced and arranged it, and it's a flat-out hard rock bruiser. The album went platinum in the US by 1984.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 97 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 331 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 275 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 488 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 460 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 445 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 339 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
Also listed as: Black Out.
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