Song · Scorpions
“Chinawhite” by Scorpions
From the album Blackout (1982)
“Chinawhite” by Scorpions appears on 6 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1990 and 1999. It was first released in 1982 on the album Blackout. Its best result is #490 on the KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #693 hard rock song of all time.
"Chinawhite" grinds its way through Blackout, the eighth studio album from German hard rockers Scorpions, released in 1982 on Harvest and EMI. Guitarist Rudolf Schenker wrote the music, Klaus Meine wrote the words, and Dieter Dierks produced.
For a while the record looked as if it might lose its singer. Meine's voice gave out while the songs were being written, and he went in for surgery on his vocal cords with no guarantee he'd be able to record; in the meantime, demos were cut with Don Dokken, then fronting a Los Angeles band called Dokken that nobody had heard of yet. None of those tapes made the album, and Dokken gets only a backing vocal credit. As for this track, Schenker told Kerrang! he couldn't settle on one of his guitar solos for it, so the American and European releases each got a different one.
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 | 627 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 698 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 490 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 629 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 658 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 754 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
Also listed as: China White.
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