Tracks
Side A
- 11984Bad Boys Running Wild3:57E major
- 21984Rock You Like a Hurricane4:14E major
- 31984I'm Leaving You4:17E major
- 42025Coming Home4:09D minor
- 51984The Same Thrill3:34A major
Side B
- 11984Big City Nights4:09E major
- 21984As Soon as the Good Times Roll5:04
- 31984Crossfire4:32B major
- 41987Dutch Top 40: peak position 4 in week 14 of 1987, 13 weeks in the chartStill Loving You6:43C♯ major
Source of the Dutch Top 40 entries: top40.nl
Sound of Love At First Sting
Love At First Sting sounds brighter and more acoustic than the shelves on average, at a tempo around 133 bpm.
Quietest track: Still Loving You · most energetic: Coming Home
Across 9 tracks on the shelves. The mark and the small number: the average of the whole collection.
Timeline of the line-up
The six members of Scorpions around the time of Love At First Sting, with the years they belonged to the group. This is the band line-up around that time, not necessarily who is heard on the album. The thin line is this album and the red lines are the entries in the Dutch Top 40. Point at a line for more. A linked name has its own page.
Rudolf Schenker
Klaus Meine
Francis Buchholz
Herman Rarebell
Matthias Jabs
Paweł Mąciwoda197019801990200020102020Member of the groupAlbumDutch Top 40Still a member
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Frequently asked questions
When was Love At First Sting by Scorpions released?
Love At First Sting came out in 1984.
How many tracks are on Love At First Sting?
Love At First Sting has nine tracks, 41 minutes in total, spread over two vinyl sides.
Which tracks from Love At First Sting made the Dutch Top 40?
One track from this album reached the Dutch Top 40: Still Loving You. It got to number 4 in week 14 of 1987.
Which category is Love At First Sting in?
Love At First Sting is filed under studio albums. On the home page, sorted by category, the album sits on that shelf, among the other albums by Scorpions.
Which other albums by Scorpions are in the collection?
The collection holds two more albums by Scorpions: Crazy World (1990) and From The First Sting (2025).
Who was in Scorpions when Love At First Sting came out?
In 1984–2025, Scorpions consisted of Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine, Francis Buchholz, Herman Rarebell, Matthias Jabs and Paweł Mąciwoda. That is the line-up of the group in those years, not necessarily who is heard on the album. A linked name has a page of its own.
What do the percentages for the sound of Love At First Sting mean?
They come from an acoustic analysis of the recordings as they are on Spotify: per track a score from 0 to 100 for energy, danceability, mood and acoustic, plus the tempo and the key. They are the outcome of a model, not a measurement of the music itself; 93% acoustic means the model is fairly sure that mostly acoustic instruments are heard. The sound of the album is the average of its tracks, each track counting equally, and the comparison is with the average of all analysed tracks in the collection.
How do you play Love At First Sting?
With the round Spotify button after each track, or the whole album at once via the play button next to the cover. The music plays in the player at the bottom of the page and keeps going while you browse on. This needs one-time consent for Spotify.
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