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Clocking in at 79 minutes and 55 seconds, the Scorpions have yet another greatest-hits compilation, this 2002 release on Hip-O entitled Bad for Good: The Very Best of the Scorpions. Two brand-new recordings can be found closing out the disc on tracks 17 and 18, produced again by Dieter Dierks, who is represented on 11 of the dozen-and-a-half titles here. Both songs, "Cause I Love You" and "Bad for Good," are in-the-pocket Scorpions performances, the kind of thing longtime fans expect, which the Scorpions wisely oblige. The six pages of Gerri Miller's liner notes, written in 2002, don't give too much detail on these new tracks, but the essay is a great overview of the group's career and is as essential as the 96k/24-bit mastering used on this single-disc CD. Though Universal had already released a 12-song 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection: The Best of Scorpions in 2001, and more than two and a half hours on 1997's 33-track Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years, Bad for Good: The Very Best of the Scorpions does live up to the title. Sure, "Rock You Like a Hurricane," "Loving You Sunday Morning," and "No One Like You" all invert and pervert that wonderful Pete Townshend riff from "I Can't Explain," but they are such wonderful and highly creative inversions which sound great alongside that Who gem, produced here in fine fashion by Bruce Fairbairn, that the Scorpions rock harder than the Who, polishing the grit of AC/DC and fusing the two sounds of those ensembles to create a very accessible and commercial formula. If you are into the group you can just hit play and repeat, for every track is a winner. The booklet contains whatever chart positions the songs may have obtained (mostly on the U.S. album rock charts).
© Joe Viglione /TiVo
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Klaus Meine, ComposerLyricist - Rudolf Schenker, Composer - Dieter Dierks, Producer - Scorpions, MainArtist - Herman Rarebell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1985 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Klaus Meine, ComposerLyricist - Rudolf Schenker, ComposerLyricist - Dieter Dierks, Producer - Scorpions, MainArtist - Herman Rarebell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1979 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Klaus Meine, ComposerLyricist - Rudolf Schenker, ComposerLyricist - Dieter Dierks, Producer - Scorpions, MainArtist
℗ 1980 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Klaus Meine, ComposerLyricist - Rudolf Schenker, ComposerLyricist - Dieter Dierks, Producer - Scorpions, MainArtist
℗ 1982 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Klaus Meine, ComposerLyricist - Rudolf Schenker, ComposerLyricist - Dieter Dierks, Producer - Scorpions, MainArtist - Herman Rarebell, ComposerLyricist - Sonja Kittelsen, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1985 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Klaus Meine, Author - Rudolf Schenker, Composer - Dieter Dierks, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Scorpions, MainArtist
℗ 1984 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Klaus Meine, ComposerLyricist - Rudolf Schenker, ComposerLyricist - Dieter Dierks, Producer - Scorpions, MainArtist
℗ 1984 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Klaus Meine, ComposerLyricist - Rudolf Schenker, ComposerLyricist - Dieter Dierks, Producer - Scorpions, MainArtist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
MIKE SHIPLEY, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Klaus Meine, ComposerLyricist - Rudolf Schenker, ComposerLyricist - Ian Taylor, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dieter Dierks, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Scorpions, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Gerd Rautenbach, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bruce Fairbairn, Producer - Pete Townshend, ComposerLyricist - Erwin Musper, Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Scorpions, MainArtist - Doc McGhee, Producer
℗ 1989 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Matthias Jabs, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Klaus Meine, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rudolf Schenker, Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Keith Olsen, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Erwin Musper, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Scorpions, Producer, MainArtist - Herman Rarebell, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Francis Buchholz, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Klaus Meine, Author - Rudolf Schenker, Composer - Keith Olsen, Producer - Scorpions, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1990 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jim Vallance, ComposerLyricist - Klaus Meine, ComposerLyricist - Rudolf Schenker, ComposerLyricist - Keith Olsen, Producer - Scorpions, Producer, MainArtist - Herman Rarebell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1990 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Matthias Jabs, ComposerLyricist - Jim Vallance, ComposerLyricist - Klaus Meine, ComposerLyricist - Scorpions, Producer, MainArtist - Herman Rarebell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jim Vallance, ComposerLyricist - Klaus Meine, ComposerLyricist - Rudolf Schenker, ComposerLyricist - Keith Olsen, Producer - Scorpions, Producer, MainArtist - Herman Rarebell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1990 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bruce Fairbairn, Producer - Klaus Meine, ComposerLyricist - Rudolf Schenker, ComposerLyricist - Scorpions, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1993 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Album review
Clocking in at 79 minutes and 55 seconds, the Scorpions have yet another greatest-hits compilation, this 2002 release on Hip-O entitled Bad for Good: The Very Best of the Scorpions. Two brand-new recordings can be found closing out the disc on tracks 17 and 18, produced again by Dieter Dierks, who is represented on 11 of the dozen-and-a-half titles here. Both songs, "Cause I Love You" and "Bad for Good," are in-the-pocket Scorpions performances, the kind of thing longtime fans expect, which the Scorpions wisely oblige. The six pages of Gerri Miller's liner notes, written in 2002, don't give too much detail on these new tracks, but the essay is a great overview of the group's career and is as essential as the 96k/24-bit mastering used on this single-disc CD. Though Universal had already released a 12-song 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection: The Best of Scorpions in 2001, and more than two and a half hours on 1997's 33-track Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years, Bad for Good: The Very Best of the Scorpions does live up to the title. Sure, "Rock You Like a Hurricane," "Loving You Sunday Morning," and "No One Like You" all invert and pervert that wonderful Pete Townshend riff from "I Can't Explain," but they are such wonderful and highly creative inversions which sound great alongside that Who gem, produced here in fine fashion by Bruce Fairbairn, that the Scorpions rock harder than the Who, polishing the grit of AC/DC and fusing the two sounds of those ensembles to create a very accessible and commercial formula. If you are into the group you can just hit play and repeat, for every track is a winner. The booklet contains whatever chart positions the songs may have obtained (mostly on the U.S. album rock charts).
© Joe Viglione /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:19:39
- Main artists: Scorpions
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Hip-O
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2002 UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2002 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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