Deadly Sting

{{Infobox album | name = Deadly Sting | type = Compilation album | artist = Scorpions | cover = Deadlysting.jpg | alt = | released = February 2, 1995 (Europe) July 15, 1997 (United States) | recorded = 1978–1995 | venue = | studio = | genre = Heavy metal, glam metal, hard rock | length = 68:49, 76:07 (France) and 156:22 (US release) | label = EMI and Mercury (US release) | producer = Various | chronology = Scorpions compilations | prev_title = Hot & Hard | prev_year = 1993 | next_title = Born to Touch Your Feelings | next_year = 1995 | misc = {{Singles | name = Deadly Sting | type = compilation | single1 = Edge of Time / No One Like You | single1date = 1995 | single2 = Over the Top | single2date = 1997 }} {{Extra album cover | header = Alternative Cover | type = compilation | cover = DeadlyStingClean.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = }} }} {{Album ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/deadly-sting-the-mercury-years-clean-mw0000595586 | title = Scorpions Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years review | access-date = 2012-12-05 | last = Weber | first = Barry | work = Allmusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation}}</ref> | noprose = yes }}

'''''Deadly Sting''''' is a compilation album of hits and previously unreleased material by the German hard rock band Scorpions. The songs were culled from their catalog on the Mercury label.

==Background== ''Deadly Sting'' was released both as a single disc in 1995 and an expanded double-disc version in 1997. The single-disc album has 15 or 18 tracks depending on the country of release, which span from 1978 to 1988. The double-disc US release has 33 songs ranging from 1978 to 1995, including several previously unreleased studio tracks.

The original cover art gained controversy, as it depicted a naked woman being stung by a column of scorpions. An alternative cover with the woman airbrushed out was printed, which was used for the double-disc version of the album, subtitled '''''The Mercury Years'''''.<ref name="Metal Exiles interview with Klaus Meine">{{cite web |author=Jeffrey Easton |title=Metal Exiles interview with Klaus Meine' |url=http://www.metalexiles.com/_mgxroot/page_11070.html |publisher=metalexiles.com |access-date=April 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421000657/http://www.metalexiles.com/_mgxroot/page_11070.html |archive-date=April 21, 2010}}</ref>

==Track listings==

===1995 European release=== #"Coming Home" - 4:59 (from the album ''Love at First Sting'' - 1984) #"Rock You Like a Hurricane" - 4:12 (from the album ''Love at First Sting'') #"No One Like You" - 3:57 (from the album ''Blackout'' - 1982) #"Lovedrive" - 4:49 (from the album ''Lovedrive'' - 1979) #"Bad Boys Running Wild" - 3:55 (from the album ''Love at First Sting'') #"I'm Leaving You" - 4:17 (from the album ''Love at First Sting'') #"Passion Rules the Game" - 3:59 (from the album ''Savage Amusement'' - 1988) #"China White" - 6:56 (from the album ''Blackout'') #"Walking on the Edge" - 5:07 (from the album ''Savage Amusement'') #"Coast to Coast" - 4:42 (from the album ''Lovedrive'') #"Loving You Sunday Morning" - 5:37 (from the album ''Lovedrive'') #"Another Piece of Meat" - 3:31 (from the album ''Lovedrive'') #"Dynamite" - 4:12 (from the album ''Blackout'') #"Can't Live Without You" - 3:46 (from the album ''Blackout'') #"Edge of Time" (Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine) - 4:17 (previously unreleased)

===French edition bonus tracks=== #<li value="16">"Still Loving You" - 3:56 (from the album ''Love at First Sting'') #"Can't Get Enough (Part 1)" (live) - 2:06 (from the album ''World Wide Live'' - 1985) #"Can't Get Enough" (Part 2)" (live)- 1:42 (from the album ''World Wide Live'')

===1997 US release=== ;Disc one #"Loving You Sunday Morning" - 5:37 (from the album ''Lovedrive'') #"Lovedrive (Remix)" - 4:53 (from the album ''Lovedrive'') #"Holiday (Remix)" - 6:49 (from the album ''Lovedrive'') #"Make it Real" - 3:50 (from the album ''Animal Magnetism'' - 1980) #"The Zoo" - 5:30 (from the album ''Animal Magnetism'') #"Blackout" - 3:48 (from the album ''Blackout'') #"Can't Live Without You" - 3:47 (from the album ''Blackout'') #"No One Like You" - 3:58 (from the album ''Blackout'') #"China White" - 6:57 (from the album ''Blackout'') #"Dynamite" - 4:14 (from the album ''Blackout'') #"Bad Boys Running Wild" - 3:56 (from the album ''Love at First Sting'') #"Rock You Like a Hurricane" - 4:14 (from the album ''Love at First Sting'') #"Coming Home" - 5:00 (from the album ''Love at First Sting'') #"Big City Nights" - 4:11 (from the album ''Love at First Sting'') #"Still Loving You" - 6:29 (from the album ''Love at First Sting'') #"Coast to Coast" (live) - 4:53 (from the album ''World Wide Live'')

;Disc two #"Don't Stop at the Top" - 4:04 (from the album ''Savage Amusement'') #"Rhythm of Love" - 3:49 (from the album ''Savage Amusement'') #"Passion Rules the Game" - 4:01 (from the album ''Savage Amusement'') #"Walking on the Edge" - 5:09 (from the album ''Savage Amusement'') #"Believe in Love" - 5:24 (from the album ''Savage Amusement'') #"I Can't Explain" - 3:22 (from the album ''Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads'' - 1989) #"Tease Me Please Me" - 4:45 (from the album ''Crazy World'' - 1990) #"Don't Believe Her" - 4:56 (from the album ''Crazy World'') #"Wind of Change" - 5:13 (from the album ''Crazy World'') #"Hit Between the Eyes" - 4:33 (from the album ''Crazy World'') #"Send Me an Angel" - 4:34 (from the album ''Crazy World'') #"Alien Nation" - 5:45 (from the album ''Face the Heat'' - 1993) #"Under the Same Sun" - 4:54 (from the album ''Face the Heat'') #"Woman" - 5:58 (from the album ''Face the Heat'') #"In Trance" (live) - 4:13 (from the album ''Live Bites'' - 1995) #"Over the Top" (Matthias Jabs) - 4:25 (previously unreleased) #"Life Goes Around" (Klaus Meine) - 3:41 (previously unreleased)

==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Chart (1995) ! Peak position |- {{Album chart|Austria|39|artist=Scorpions|album=Deadly Sting|rowheader=true|access-date=December 29, 2024}} |- ! scope="row"| Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)<ref name=FINI>{{cite book|last=Pennanen|first=Timo|title=Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972|edition=1st|publisher=Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava|location=Helsinki|year=2006|isbn=978-951-1-21053-5 | page= 166 | language= fi}}</ref> | align="center"| 13 |- !scope="row"| French Albums (SNEP)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Album_S.php |website =Infodisc.fr |language=fr |access-date=9 June 2012 |title=Le Détail des Albums de chaque Artiste – S |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022124902/http://infodisc.fr/Album_S.php |archive-date=22 October 2014 }} ''Select ''Scorpions'' from the menu, then press ''OK''.''</ref> | align="center"| 15 |- {{Album chart|Germany|28|id=2020|artist=Scorpions|album=Deadly Sting|rowheader=true|access-date=December 29, 2024}} |- {{Album chart|Switzerland|32|artist=Scorpions|album=Deadly Sting|rowheader=true|access-date=December 29, 2024}} |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

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