Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions

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Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions
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Compilation album by
Scorpions
Released28 May 2002
Recorded1979–2002
Genre
Length79:44
Label Hip-O Records
Producer Various
Scorpions compilations chronology
Classic Bites
(2002)		Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions
(2002)		 Box of Scorpions
(2004)
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Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions is a compilation album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 2002 by Hip-O Records. The final two songs, "Cause I Love You" and the title track are new tracks and were written for the compilation.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Rudolf Schenker and Klaus Meine, except noted

No.TitleOriginal album (year)Length
1."Rock You Like a Hurricane" (Schenker, Meine, Herman Rarebell) Love at First Sting (1984)4:12
2."Loving You Sunday Morning" (Schenker, Meine, Rarebell) Lovedrive (1979)5:36
3."The Zoo" Animal Magnetism (1980)5:28
4."No One Like You" Blackout (1982)3:56
5."Blackout" (Schenker, Meine, Rarebell, Sonja Kittelsen)Blackout (1982)3:47
6."Still Loving You" (Single version)Love at First Sting (1984)4:48
7."Big City Nights"Love at First Sting (1984)4:08
8."Believe in Love" (Single version) Savage Amusement (1988)4:04
9."Rhythm of Love"Savage Amusement (1988)3:48
10."I Can't Explain" (The Who cover, written by Pete Townshend) Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads (1989)3:22
11."Wind of Change" (Meine) Crazy World (1990)5:10
12."Send Me an Angel"Crazy World (1990)4:32
13."Don't Believe Her" (Schenker, Meine, Rarebell, Jim Vallance)Crazy World (1990)4:54
14."Tease Me Please Me" (Meine, Rarebell, Vallance, Matthias Jabs)Crazy World (1990)4:42
15."Hit Between the Eyes" (Schenker, Meine, Rarebell, Vallance)Crazy World (1990)4:31
16."Alien Nation" (Single version) Face the Heat (1993)5:01
17."Cause I Love You"Previously unreleased (2002)3:44
18."Bad for Good" (Schenker, Meine, Dieter Dierks)Previously unreleased (2002)4:02

Personnel

Scorpions
Additional musicians

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  2. "Hit Between the Eyes"
  3. "Tease Me Please Me" (VideoClip)
  4. "I Can't Explain"
  5. "The Zoo"
  6. "Don't Believe Her" (VideoClip)
  7. "Rhythm of Love"
  8. "Crazy World"
  9. "Can‘t Live Without You"
  10. "Blackout"
  11. "Dynamite"
  12. "Lust or Love"
  13. "Send Me an Angel" (VideoClip)
  14. "Big City Nights"
  15. "Rock You Like a Hurricane"
  16. "Wind of Change" (VideoClip)
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