The Best of Scorpions

Infobox Album | Name = The Best of Scorpions
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Scorpions


Released = Original: 1978
CD: 1984
Recorded = 1974-1977
Genre = Hard rock, Heavy metal
Length = 38:48
Label = RCA Records
Producer = Various
Reviews = *Allmusic
Last album = "Taken by Force"
(1978)
This album = "The Best of the Scorpions"
(1978)
Next album = "Tokyo Tapes"
(1979)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate Covers
Type = album


Lower caption = Top: Japanese Edition Bottom: U.S. Edition

"The Best of Scorpions" is a compilation album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1978. It contains songs from their albums between "Fly to the Rainbow" and "Taken by Force". It does not contain any songs from their debut album, "Lonesome Crow".

The original German edition of the cover art featured an image of a scorpion stinging a naked girl's hip. The Japanese edition features an alternate "ass" cover. The 1984 U.S. re-release cover featured an image of a man wearing a leather jacket and a scorpion necklace.

Track listing

# "Steamrock Fever" (from the album "Taken by Force") (3:35)
# "Pictured Life" (from the album "Virgin Killer") (3:23)
# "Robot Man" (from the album "In Trance") (2:42)
# "Backstage Queen" (from the album "Virgin Killer") (3:12)
# "Speedy's Coming" (from the album "Fly to the Rainbow") (3:35)
# "Hell Cat" (from the album "Virgin Killer") (2:54)
# "He's a Woman, She's a Man" (from the album "Taken by Force") (3:14)
# "In Trance" (from the album "In Trance") (4:43)
# "Dark Lady" (from the album "In Trance") (3:25)
# "The Sails of Charon" (from the album "Taken by Force") (4:24)
# "Virgin Killer" (from the album "Virgin Killer") (3:41)

Note that the Japanese edition of this album features the original version of 'The Sails of Charon' with a length of 5:16.Other editions including the German and US versions feature an edited, shorter version with a length of 4:24