Scorpions- Big City Nights & Blackout | Reaction [Scorpions Band Part 1] 

There's a reason the Scorpions have been around for 57 years and still touring, the music stands the test of time, people still relate to it.

When I was in high school (mid-to-late 80's), believe it or not, they actually had Scorpions band posters on the walls of the school hallways, promoting something like stay in school or don't do drugs. The fact that they cared enough to do a campaign for school kids was pretty cool in my book.

The Zoo is my favourite Scorpions song, it has a beat and groove that you get lost in, heavy on the drums and bass.

My first concert! This was the opening song...always in my heart.

You should listen to these songs from the World Wide Live album 1985. They sound even better live. The whole album is totally fire.

For some reason today I've been listening music released in 1984... Beautiful year, I was a 14 Y old boy in school in 1984. Fuck! How I love Big city nights and whole album. "I'm leavin You" is a great song from that album too. Pdta. Blackout sounds like metal? Well both albums (Blackout 1982 and Love at first Sting 1984) are heavy metal. They did hard rock in 70s and after this two albums they return to hard rock.

THE ZOO LIVE WILL GET YOU LOVING THAT SONG THEY ARE JUST A GREAT BAND

My first two albums when I was a kid was Van Halen 1984 and Scorpions Blackout. Had them on cassette for my Walkman.

I would definitely be into a couple of Scorpions songs a week. Once you get through the Blackout album. I'd love to see you do the same thing for Animal Magnetism and Lovedrive. Keep rocking T. Scorpions rule!

I saw them right before decibel laws went into effect nationwide.Loudest concert I ever attended.Crystal clear as well

This is the music u listen to. Its the weekend, ur going for a drive, ur excited to get to the destination so you crank this on the car stereo. And everyone is just pulled into this vibe. Pure musical joy.

Love the Scorpions.

Looking forward to seeing them live in a few weeks… for the 3d time. Fantastic live band - always rocking bangers! Klaus’s voice is still fantastic even after this long a career! Can’t keep it under the speed limit when listening to Scorps in the car!

ahh the 80s. back when metal was fun! these are their 2 biggest albums. you can definitely listen to every song on both. i think their biggest song was Wind of Change. they had a different lead guitar in the 70s you have to hear him (Uli Jon Roth) but he quit and they got Mathias Jabs who was perfect for making them huge in the 80s. Saw them at The US Festival '83 and they stole the whole damn day.

Tons more great Scorpions songs for you to discover. They have 7 studio albums prior to the Blackout album going all the way back to 1973

You’re exactly right; his voice is magnificent.

I saw them live in Germany in 1983 while I was in the army, I loved it!

I'll watch Scorpions stuff no problem, good tracks here and I like the double shot. The were pretty popular songs and got heavy radio play plus they are always in the concert rotation, the band plays these 2 songs a lot. I went to several of their concerts in the 80's and 90's and met the whole band once too. They are one of the few who can bring it live, and sound just like album. High energy on stage too. - Tasha already did Blackout a year ago though. 😛

Scorpions BEST LIVE BAND EVER... Seen them many time sounds just like the album 💯😉🎵🎶

Robot Man--Speedys comin--Intrance--Is There Anybody There--Holiday---Just a few great tunes from the Scorps.

Blackout is one of my favorites, just a pure jam! Maybe the 2-fer is the way to slip in some deeper songs with the big hits.

There is a tale that this song is about a party they had with Judas Priest's guitarists and member of a very young Def Leppard.

One the greatests band in the world!!

Yes Yes Yes to Scorpions! Make it Real , You Give Me All I Need and Bad Boys Running Wild.

Yes! Classic Scorpions!! Loving you Sunday Morning, Always Somewhere, Falling in Love, Bad boys running Wild, I’m leaving you.

I seen this tour” in 1984(I graduated high school in 83) THAT- was incredible

Great songs! We used to sing "Big T**ty Nights" hahaha! Blackout was a great album it's about waking up with a shall we call it an not so great looking woman... Rock on T!!!

Scorpions are one of my favorite bands. Got to see them live back in the day, they sounded great live too.

Their B side stuff rocked! Had all of their stuff and blasted it in the car, at home, and in the boat on the lake! Timeless

Absolutely LOVE the Scorpions!!!!!

I have seen them twice... Checkout the song ... The Zoo... and also every true metalhead from the 80s has the Blackout album !

One of the two lead guitarists in this band, Rudolph Schenker, has a brother named Michael. He was fairly famous in his own right. One of his many projects was a band named MSG (Michael Schenker Group). Might be worth just checking him out.

First concert ever in 1984 was Scorpions Love at First Sting. They recorded World Wide Live on this tour. It was AMAZING!!

Just saw them in their 2022 North American tour that kicked off in Toronto August 21st Man What a show !!!!!! These guys haven't lost a beat Just as good 20 yrs ago

🎶 You keep me Burnin..... Always Yearnin 🎤 🎶 Love the Scorpions! Hard to pick a favorite, aside from the hits I love "Now" it's just crazy fun.

This track has testicles! Easily my favorite Scorpions Jam & Album.

Klaus is a living legend, as are the Scorpions. I got to see them three times . 1987, 1988, 1999. Seemed like each concert was better than the last! They ere AWESOME!! Long Live the SCORPIONS...

if you remember their 70s stuff was more hard rock, then it turned more metal in the 80's, then once they got more recognition turned more popish, that's why you should have done Big City nights after.

Awesome reaction. I just saw them in Vegas, I love them!

The Scorpions were a favourite of my dad but they were popular enough that my generation appreciated them in the 1980s. They the oldest band still touring, drummer Mickey Dee is the youngest, I think he recently turned 51 or 52. Mickey was the drummer for Motorhead for many years up until Lemmy passed, so how about some Born To Raise Hell (featuring Ice T) or Killed By Death?

Hey T ✌. Scorpions was one of the first bands I got in to...check out their early stuff ( 70's )

rock you like a hurricane , big city nights, bad boys running wild , im leaving you , coming home , blackout , dynamite , cant live without you , no one like you , you give me all i need , arizona .... their catalog is looooooong , and good ;)

Scorpions World Wide Live....That is one of the best Live Albums out there. All their Hits up till that year. Give it a Listen.

blackout is one of the greatest riffing songs of all time,left a big impression on me when released in '82 as a 14yr old,imagine having this & Ozzy's 'diary of a madman' released around the same time,geez i was spoilt

My favorite songs from The Scorpions.....Blackout and The Zoo. Saw them back in 83 at the US Festival in Devore California. They were by far the best band playing out of all that were there.

LOVE LOVE LOVE The Scorps!!! If you wanna take a deep dive try "In Trance" from the album of the same name! So amazing!

T this is my favorite album. Scorps is my favorite band. Buddy turned my on the them in college. I havent been the same since.

I bet you would really like a older Scorpions song called "Sails of Charon" came out in the late 70's. Testament did a great cover of it too. Hope you like it.

Great taste. The Scorpions rock!

these are just 2 of the reasons they are STILL my favorite band ;)

glad ur finding out and enjoying what weve known and enjoyed for decades ;)

Blackout (1980) and LoveDrive (1979) we're absolutely their their 2 best albums altho Love At First Sting (1984) was by far their biggest selling album. I saw them on that tour with 67,000 others outdoors in Phoenix, Az. Labor Day weekend. Aerosmith opened. My sister found a Polaroid camera on the ground. I snatched it out of her hand and took off for the front. I got separated from my sister and my girlfriend, tripping on acid. I didn't see them till the Scorpions we're doing their Encore, and the crowd in front of me parted and my sister fell on the ground right in front of me. Unbelievable show. I cried through Holiday. It was so loud and crystal clear and note perfect to the album. It was amazing. Should have seen the crowd go nuts when they played Arizona. Man, what fun times.

This music sounds better on vinyl like most of the older music does. I got a whole collection of my old albums on vinyl still play them today on my home audio system.

This band was the first I saw in concert. They were so good! Vixen showed up to watch and caused a bit of a stir, but the funniest thing was when they played their new song 'Winds of Change', most of the audience decided that was a good time to visit the bathroom! 😆

The Scorpions arrived in N. America at the cusp of rock music returning in full force and breaking big on radio, just as disco was starting to wane... When MTV became a promotional juggernaut, the Scorpions rode that wave too... Commercially, they were outselling Iron Maiden and Judas Priest by 1984 as 'Love at first sting' would sell 3 million copies in the US, mainly because girls loved the band's ballads ("Holiday"... 'Still loving you' ... 'When the smoke is going down'). The primary reason the Scorpions were so good live was because they spent a lot of years on tour in the 70's, before they broke big in the 80's... Klaus & Rudolf Schenker (guitar) were the only original members, but the 1980 line-up had Francis Buccholz (bass) since 1974... Herman Rarebell (drums) since 1978... and Matthias Jabs (lead guitar) since 1979... the Scorpions played 181 shows between 1984 to 1986 on the 'Love at first sting tour'... They were truly exhausted and took a year off, and it took another year before a new album 'Savage amusement' was released in 1988... the producer Dieter Dierks wanted it to be as big as Def Leppard's 'Hysteria' album, but that didn't happen (it sold platinum). But it was the 1990 album 'Crazy world' that sold 2x platinum on the strength of the ballad 'Wind of change'. Unfortunately, the 90's came in, and the Scorpions became 'uncool' in the grunge era... longtime bassist Francis Buccholz left the band, bassist Ralph Rieckerman joined... their 1993 album 'Face the heat' failed to reach gold sales... longtime drummer Francis Buccholz left the band after the 1995 live album 'Live bites'... Scorpions' 1996 album 'Pure instinct' was another commercial failure - critics complained it had too many ballads. A session drummer played on the record, then drummer James Kottak joined the band. In 1999, the Scorpions tried to 'modernize' their sound using electronic beats and that album 'Eye II eye' was a disappointment... Clearly, fans did not want an industrial version of Scorpions... The band's fortunes did rise again w/ the next 3 records returning to hard rock - 'Unbreakable' (2004)... 'Humanity: Hour 1' (2007) ... and 'Sting of the tail' (2010).

"no one like you" is probably their most popular song! One of my favorites! You should check it out, if you haven't, sorry.

Your comments at the end are spot on. Tight is right! Don't F around could not be a better statement!

Bro, these guys are really good!!! Been a fan since the early 80's !!!!

RHYTHM OF LOVE

Brings back memories. Pre-funk song with your boys prior to hitting the town ... Let's go get it!

Two of my faves by the Scorps. Oh man... is right! If Blackout doesn't get your blood pumpin', you don't have a pulse. That's an aggressive tune, man. The golden era... right on, man.

Hey T . I saw them on the Love at First Sting Tour in 80's. I think Y&T opened for them.🤔 I really like the song The Zoo and Big City Nights. The Zoo is not a fast song like blackout but it's so cool. You need to hear it and react to it. I think rock you like a hurricane was the biggest hit maybe for them in US. They also had Tease Me Please Me but I don't think it was a big hit. Thanks for all you do. It takes me back. 😊👍

12:37 yes Exactly my guy well said 🤘

I have been a 🦂 Scorpions fan since the early 80's and in the last couple of years I have discovered their 70's music like entrance, always somewhere,sails of Cheron,etc. Note: Klaus and Shenker are both in their early Seventies and are still Rocking; hopefully they can have the Longevity of Mick Jagger.

I think he's got one of the best voices in rock and roll of all time really great band great reaction T🔥🔥🔥🔥☮️♥️ I consider these guys rock and roll more than a heavy metal band yeah it has all the great songs on her man still Loving you is very very awesome

My top 3 favorite Scorpions songs Big City Nights Bad Boys Running Wild Lady Starlight All great songs!!!

By far my favorite scorpions album "Blackout"

Don't sell yourself short by listening to only arena rock Scorps. Listen to the early releases with one of rocks greatest guitarists side by side with Klaus. Fly To The Rainbow, In Trance, Virgin Killer and the album most fans back then considered their Magnum Opus. Taken By Force. Music for music's sake, not to obtain radio play.

You should listen to Holiday by them or a really old first album Lonesome Crow.

"Rock You Like A Hurricane" is SO overplayed that if I'm listening to the radio and it is playing I IMMEDIATELY change the station. Sincerely, "Paradise City"

It's really hard to name the one favourite song. Maybe "In Trance" from the Uli era and "The Zoo" from the Mathias era. But you should also listen to Klaus' duet with Tobias Sammet on Aventasias "Dying for an Angel" PS a gem is "Koyo no tsuki" on Tokyo Tapes

My favorite song on Blackout is the song Dynamite. It might be my favorite scorpions song overall. Totally bad ass rocker like Blackout. Another great one is Another Piece of Meat from Lovedrive. Some others are Make It Real and Don’t Make No Promises (Your Body Can’t Keep) from Animal Magnetism. And Check out Y&T. They fit exactly in that same vibe from that era and are a tight, great olaying band.

Got to check out Sails of Charon, Scorpions from the 70s, check out the performance video, Ule John is one of the most underrated guitarists

Love Blackout

Im leaving you from that album is amazing. Great album.

His voice is still as strong today as ever

So many good songs from the Scorpions. Here are a few other albums that you can't go wrong with: Intrance, Animal Magnetism, Lovedrive, Worldwide Live, Savage Amusement, and Crazy World. I can't count the number of times I saw this band and they were always amazing . This will be an awesome journey for you to dive into.

Blackout and world wide live are my two favorite albums by anyone. Forced on me by my older brother in college at the time, I would soon listen to them on my own over and over. Hey I was in elementary school, not much else to do, ha. I dont know if they are really the best albums in rock but circumstances plus their quality make them mine.

I have to agree with all your points. This band rocks. I always was drawn to Klaus’s vocal. Dude was amazing.

so i lived in a town called Tipp City, OH. i played the hell out of this cassette, and we'd be out cruising. we'd always sing "Tipp City, Tipp City nights!" everytime. corny stuff, lol. edited to add, what ended up being my all time favorite Scorps album is Tokyo Tapes. every song kicks ass on it.

Checkout You Give Me All I Need and Arizona both on the Blackout album. Another thing about those 80's bands is that they needed to sound as tight live as they did in the studio. Because there were alot of people back then going to concerts and alot of live videos on MTV were basically lipsynced. imo

One of my favorite bands. We saw them in the late 80s at Blossom Music Center (near Cleveland). It was an outdoor amphitheater with a roof over part and then sloped hillside for the rest. We were 20 rows back from the stage and the music was so loud that it moved your clothing, moved your hair. They sound live exactly like the studio recordings.

Klaus is the shit on blackout. He actually lost his voice before recording this record and had surgery and STILL came back and shredded his voice....for ROCK!!

Rock You Like A Hurricane became famous because sports teams were using it to pump up fans during games. NHL teams all used it at some point in every game in every city. Most people know the song but not the band.

scorpions and whitesnake coming to San antonio September 24th can't wait it's gonna be awesome

the poster on the wall on the left of you thats the best MAIDEN album ever, Piece of Mind! (but i also like the Scorpions), i have seen them both in concert in the 80's , in Forest National Brussels, Belgium!

Was hoping youd keep playing the blackout album right through 😜👍👍 been loving it since 83 ( I was 14 ) keep rockin, bro 🎸🥁

Scorpions always a good choice but I still drift back to early scorps like Animal Magnetism. Blackout is more in that vein. It would be cool to do a full album exploration. Or with some other bands

Way back in the day, I was cruising around listening to this and I hear my young daughter in the back seat singing her little heart out "Pig city, pig city nights!" Blackout is one of my favorite albums - I would LOVE to hear you do the whole thing and then go back even farther and check out the Lovedrive album

Animal Magnetism is another banger by Scorpions!!🤘🏻🤘🏻

Scorpions are my favorite band. I can suggest so many songs by them. I’m gonna see them in concert in a couple of weeks. Klaus still sounds incredible at 74 yrs old.

Trust me on this. I have been a Scorpions fan my entire life. But hear me out if you want the goods. This rhythm guitar player for Scorps, Rudolph Schenker, he fantastic and consistent. But his younger brother, Michael, who taught Rudy how to play, started Scorpions in 1965 with him and plays lead. He left the band after one year and joined UFO. He is hands down, the most influencial guitar player in heavy rock. He never got the uber fame his brother did, but he is the GOAT. So many bands would not exist without him. Metallica's guitar player Kirk Hammett heard Michael's lead on the song Mother Mary and went out and got a guitar and started playing. Def Leppard's singer said in an interview that they saw UFO when they were nobody and saw Michael and said, "Are we doing this or what?" Iron Maiden opens every concert with UFO's Doctor Doctor because it's Maiden's favorite guitar player. When Randy Roads died, Ozzy called Michael to offer him the gig but Michael didn't want to play other people's music. He wanted to create. He is your guitar hero's hero that the general masses don't seem to know about. Sorry so long but please check out a UFO song with Michael in his prime in 1979 playing the live Hot and Ready or any song really off that live album. The dude is just on fire. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b6lHWuSVUYU.html

The early eighties were about hard rock... As the eighties progressed Things got poppy and then poppy and then more pop metal I so much love the early eighties hard rock, it's my favorite music era

hard to pick a favorite from the Scorpions , they have SO many GOOD ones , but if forced to pick , prolly Bad Boys Running Wild , SO tuff and raw , and jammin ;)

First song I heard of theirs. 1983.

🔥🔥Scorpions 70-s80’s the best years. Everything from Corky Park , Send me. An Angel pure🤮🤮

Yes scorpions I be there once a week with u there new album just came out few months ago rocks hard too

both songs are also on the "wolrd wide live" album, and the songs you mentioned. Live even better.

me and my 2 friends were way into the new wave of British metal in the early 80's, so we knew of these bands way before they broke out into mainstream and way before they became popular... we were still freshmen in high school mind you. so my very first concert was Scorpions on the Blackout tour, band before them was an unknown band named Iron Maiden... but I knew their whole discography lol, opening for them was a totally unknown band from my neck of the woods the Great Pacific Northwest... Queensryche, with only their EP to pull from, but I loved it, so much so that they were the band I seen most in concert, 2 times Judas Priest, 3 times Iron Maiden, 5 times Queensryche.

Amen T, very astute analysis. You nailed it bro. I've been a fan of the Scorps since I was a kid, and I was a young man when this album came out. I've been lucky enough to see them a couple of times live. You should check out some of their early stuff, like The Sails of Charon.