Customer Reviews
Good! This album is good! - By: Reijo Piippula, 29 Jul 2010 
I like the scorions when they rock! This album has many great songs, key track - that is the title track. But there lots of many great songs - the first five songs rock the house always!
Blew me away - By: Ms. Kimberley V. Boskovic, 24 Jul 2010 
Fantastic powerful album, so hard to blieve that Klaus was having voice problems. Blackout is a thundering powerful studio anthem which kicks of the album nicely. Can't Live Without You is another powerful song with great guitar work & vocals. Dynamite packs a punch showing the great vocal range & the guitar tallent of Matthias Jabs & Rodulf Schenker. China White has a very heavy riff & Klaus' voice has great power on this track. The lyrics are quite & dark & doom laden, great song writing by the band. The ballads You Give Me All I Need & When the Smoke is Going down show the Scorpions tallent of being able to go from dark & heavy to gentle & meaningful fab songs. No One Like you is a fantastic track the guitar work & vocals are of a very high quality.
Allin all a great album well worth buying if you are a Scorpions fan or a rock fan !
delicious hard-rock - By: Patrick Mahieu, 10 May 2010 One of my favorites of my youth & rediscoveredin my giant vinyl-collection. But I wanted it on CD.
I had problems finding this item herein Belgium but Amazon helped me out! Thanks. To me it's the best Scorpions album ever. Sharp, hard, intelligent & a bright 'sound'. It's especially the clear but heavy sound of the guitars that hypnotises me.
'Arizona' is an incredible track to freak out with headphones.
Definative - By: GSCMX3, 30 Jul 2009 Scorpions music at it's best! Studio album, but still takes me back 20 years to seeing them live at Hammersmith.
inspiring heavy rock/metal from a band at their very best - By: amir m, 25 May 2008 from 79' to 84' the scorpions produced 4 albums that couldn't be touched with regards to superbly produced energetic punchy metal melody. blackout is perhaps the band's finest achievement of that period - the most "metal" of all scorpions releases. forget the scorpions that would regrettably lose their cool & be known as a "power ballads" band. this album has it all: top song-writing, fantastic arrangements & a delivery that just grabs you by the balls. lead player matthias jabs is on fire. singer klaus meine's vocals are blistering. he would never again reach this level of performance. the production from the legendary dieter dierks (the 5th scorpion) is clinical & crisp. i've never heard a better "metal sound". it's little wonder that the scorpions during this period would inspire future metal acts like guns n roses & ratt.
unsurprisingly their are many scorpions classics on this record - title track blackout, can't live without you, dynamite etc etc. as others here have said the ultra heavy "china white" is a metal gem. "arizona" is a personal favourite.
the clarity of this digital remaster is something to behold finally letting this classic work be heard as it should be. an essential record for anybody into metal & hard rock.
