

With 7 gold records and 11 platinums in the US (15 golds and 9 platinums in their homeland) and 18 songs charting at the Mainstream Rock Tracks (among which "No One Like You" reached #1), Scorpions are one of the most worldwide successful rock bands from mainland Europe - even though they would only have a belated recognition in America. While the bassist and drummer positions have changed over the course of four and a half decades, the Meine-Schenker-Jabs trio stayed on. While touring to promote their debut album, Michael, still an 18-year-old young gun, joined British rock band UFO in 1973 (at the start of their classic phase) and was replaced by Uli Jon Roth, who was a mainstay until 1978, when Matthias Jabs took over. Vote up their greatest albums of all time, and vote down the ones that don't measure up to their best works.Scorpions is a German rock band formed in 1965 in Hannover by Rudolf Schenker (vocals/guitar), Lothar Heimberg (bass) and Wolfgang Dziony (drums), which only started to actually take shape four years later with Rudolf's younger brother Michael Schenker and Klaus Meine joining on guitar and vocals, respectively. Make sure that you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums and if you have a favorite Scorpions album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular.įrom their 1980s classics Animal Magnetism (1980), Blackout (1982), and Love at First Sting (1984), to their most recent LP Rock Believer (2022), we've included all of your favorite Scorpions full-length projects below. If you think that the greatest Scorpions album isn't high enough on the list, then be sure to vote for it, so that it receives the credit it deserves.


To make it easy for you, we haven't included Scorpions singles, EPs, or compilations - only studio albums. This Scorpions discography is ranked from best to worst, so only the top Scorpions albums can be found at the top of the list. This was led by Rudolf Schenker and Matthias Jabs’s guitars, which gave the band a new metal sound, tempered with some of genre’s first power ballads. While the Scorpions formed in 1965 as a traditional hard rock act, the West German band evolved into one of Europe’s first heavy metal groups by 1978.
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The Scorpions are considered one of the greatest hard rock bands of all time, releasing a total of 19 studio albums throughout the duration of their career.
