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Scorpions - The Zoo ( S1.1 )

 

Reception

Although the song was released as a single in 1980, it commercially underperformed with limited chart success, peaking at #75 in the UK. Even so, it is a critically acclaimed heavy metal song, one critic noting that "The Zoo" is both "ominously slow and melodically accessible" with a key element being the "Berlin burlesque vocal melody". On this note, it is used by many strippers in their stage act.

Single by Scorpions
from the album Animal Magnetism
Released	March 1980
Recorded	December 1979 – February 1980
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	5:28
Label	Harvest/EMI (Europe) Mercury (US)
Songwriter(s)	Rudolf Schenker Klaus Meine
Producer(s)	Dieter Dierks
Scorpions singles chronology
"Lovedrive" (1979) "The Zoo" (1980) "Lady Starlight" (1980)

Scorpions - The Zoo ( S1 )

 

"The Zoo" is a song by the German hard rock band Scorpions. It was written by group members Rudolf Schenker (guitar) and Klaus Meine (vocals). The song also features a talk box later on in the song.

Background

Schenker wrote much of the music during the band's first tour of the United States in 1979. When Meine first heard Schenker's riff, it reminded him of the band's earlier visit to a street in New York City humorously referred to as a "zoo". Meine later composed the song's lyrics, which contain references to city streets, especially New York's 42nd Street.

The song has been featured on a few Scorpions "Best-Of" compilations, including Deadly Sting, Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions, the box set Box of Scorpions, and a re-recorded version for the Comeblack album.

It has also been used in the soundtrack of the video game NBA 2K18.

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Scorpions - It All Depends ( L2 )

Yeah!

Takes my dinner
Drinks my beer
Spends my money
But I don't care

She's my love
She's my dear
Love is here
I was there

Ahhh!
Yeah!

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Scorpions ( I1 )

Scorpions - I'm Going Mad ( L1 )

Walking through the desert
You know what it's about
It's really from the church
Too foreign
That was never there
Yet you know I'm in heaven
But it is a hell
Sun is drying up my brain
The smile and installations
Are my pain
I'm going mad
I'm going mad
I'm going mad
Aaaayowwww!!!

Walking through the desert
You know what it's about
It's really from the church
Too foreign
That was never there
I'm goin' mad!
Sun is drying out my brain
The smile and installations
Are my pain
I'm goin' mad!
I'm goin' mad!
I'm goin' mad!
mad!

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Scorpions - Lonesome Crow ( D1 )

Lonesome Crow is the debut album by German hard rock band Scorpions. It was recorded soon after Scorpions became a fully professional band under the production of Conny Plank, apparently in only six or seven days, and released 9 February 1972 in the United States and West Germany as the soundtrack to the German anti-drug movie Das Kalte Paradies, and May 1973 in the United States. The album's style is darkly melodic, unlike the band's later work.

Personnel

Credits for Lonesome Crow adapted from Allmusic.

Scorpions

• Klaus Meine - lead vocals
• Michael Schenker - lead guitar, backing vocals
• Rudolf Schenker - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Lothar Heimberg - bass guitar, backing vocals
• Wolfgang Dziony - drums, percussion, backing vocals

Track listing

All tracks written by Scorpions (1972 Metronome Music).

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"I'm Goin' Mad"	4:53
2.	"It All Depends"	3:30
3.	"Leave Me"	5:06
4.	"In Search of the Peace of Mind"	4:59

Side two
No.	Title	Length
5.	"Inheritance"	4:41
6.	"Action"	3:56
7.	"Lonesome Crow"	13:31