History Music / ScorpionsBand

* ContemptibleCover: A few, most notably ''Virgin Killer''.

* PowerBallad: "Still Loving You", "No One Like You", "Holiday", "When the Smoke is Going Down", "Wind of Change", "You and I", "Send Me An Angel"...

* CoverVersion: Big Mama Thornton via Music/ElvisPresley's "Hound Dog" and Music/LittleRichard's "Long Tall Sally" in ''Tokyo Tapes'', Music/TheWho's "I Can't Explain" for a collection album in the late 80s, {{Queen}}'s "Love of My Life", Music/TheCars' "Drive" and Music/{{Kansas}}' "Dust in the Wind", the latter three from ''Acoustica'', as well as half of ''Comeblack''.

* RearrangeTheSong: What ''Moment of Glory'' was all about.

* RockstarSong: "Can't Live Without You" and "Coming Home." "Always Somewhere" provides another take, in which living on the road keeps the musician apart from his loved one.

* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Averted. The name's ''Scorpions'' only -- no "The" in front.

* StrictlyFormula: ''Unbreakable,'' in reaction to the bad reception its studio predecessor got.
* ThoseWackyNazis: "Unholy Alliance," from ''Face the Heat,'' is a criticism of Neo-Nazi parties in the modern world.
* WarIsHell: "Under the Same Sun."

** The final studio album(or so they say)

-->''Move you legs stamp your feet''

* HeavyMeta: "Rock You Like a Hurricane", "We Let It Rock... You Let It Roll", "Raised on Rock", "Can't Live Without You"

* RockstarSong: "Can't Live Without You." "Always Somewhere" provides another take, in which living on the road keeps the musician apart from his loved one.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: "He's a Woman, She's a Man", from ''Taken by Force''.

* BadassGrandpa: Meine and Schenker.

* BadassGranpa: Meine and Schenker.

* ContemptibleCover: A few, most notably ''[[{{Lolicon}} Virgin Killer]]''.

* {{Lolicon}}: The original cover of ''Virgin Killer'' featured a naked pre-teen girl. Naturally, [[MoralGuardians some people]] weren't pleased with this, so they had to change the cover.

** Mercury Records replaced one ContemptibleCover with another by issuing a nudity-free cover for ''Lovedrive'', which instead featured what is [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/Scorpions_Lovedrive_alt.jpg/220px-Scorpions_Lovedrive_alt.jpg possibly the most phallic scorpion ever]].

After the release of ''Sting of the Tail'', the band announced the closure of its activities following its subsequent tour. However, they changed their minds and put out a new studio album in 2015.

* IntercourseWithYou: Many songs, like "Loving You Sunday Morning" and "Rhythm of Love". Mostly the lyrics aren't really explicit, but you can't help thinking about intercoursing to these songs.

* ExtremeLibido: "Can't Get Enough" by the Music/{{Scorpions}} is all about the subject, [[IntercourseWithYou like many of their songs]].

* Mikkey Dee: drums (joined 2016)

* Mikkey Dee : drums (joined 2016)

* Paweł Mąciwoda: bass (joined 2003)
* James Kottak: drums (joined 1996)

* ProtestSong: Much in the same vein of {{U2}}, we have "Wind of Change", "Under the Same Sun", "Crossfire", "China White" and "Living For Tomorrow". The latter may count as the most triumphant example - it's a plea for unity and laying down arms, played live in Leningrad at the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar.

** Averted with ''Taken by Force''. [=RCA=], presumably shell-shocked by then, changed it anyway to a [[MinimalisticCoverArt plain black cover]] with [[FloatingHeadSyndrome band photos]].
** Mercury replaced one ContemptibleCover with another by issuing a nudity-free cover for ''Lovedrive'', which instead featured what is [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/Scorpions_Lovedrive_alt.jpg/220px-Scorpions_Lovedrive_alt.jpg possibly the most phallic scorpion ever]].

* CoverVersion: Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog" and LittleRichard's "Long Tall Sally" in ''Tokyo Tapes'', TheWho's "I Can't Explain" for a collection album in the late 80s, {{Queen}}'s "Love of My Life", Music/TheCars' "Drive" and {{Kansas}}' "Dust in the Wind", the latter three from ''Acoustica'', as well as half of ''Comeblack''.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The band's debut album, Lonesome Crow, is straight {{Krautrock}} as opposed to rock music played by a bunch of Krauts.

* RockstarSong: "Can't Live Without You". "Always Somewhere" provides another take, in which living on the road keeps the musician apart from his loved one.
* SexDrugsAndRockNRoll: Well, minus the drugs. Very well illustrated in "Now!".
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Averted. The name's Scorpions only - no "The" in front.
* StrictlyFormula: ''Unbreakable'', in reaction to the bad reception its studio predecessor got.
* ThoseWackyNazis: "Unholy Alliance", from ''Face The Heat'', is a criticism of Neo-Nazi parties in the modern world
* WarIsHell: "Under The Same Sun".
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: "Blackout" (the song):

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: "Kami o Shinjiru" (also available with a French chorus as "Destin") is all about this.

* PowerBallad: "Still Loving You", "No One Like You", "Holiday", "When the Smoke is Going Down", "Wind of Change", "Send Me An Angel"...

* ProtestSong: Much in the same vein of {{U2}}, we have "Wind of Change", "Under the Same Sun", "China White" and "Living For Tomorrow". The latter may count as the most triumphant example - it's a plea for unity and laying down arms, played live in Leningrad at the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar.

* PowerBallad: "Still Loving You", "No One Like You", "Holiday", "When the Smoke is Going Down", "Wind of Change", "Send Me An Angel"...

* ProtestSong: Much in the same vein of {{U2}}, we have "Wind of Change", "Under the Same Sun", "China White" and "Living For Tomorrow". The latter may count as the most triumphant example - it's a plea for unity and laying down arms, played live in Leningrad at the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar.