Taken By Force [EXTRA TRACKS] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Scorpions

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Hip-O Records
• ASIN: B00006WKY9
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,758 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
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Media Type: CD
Artist: SCORPIONS
Title: TAKEN BY FORCE
Street Release Date: 10/29/2002
Domestic
Genre: HEAVY METAL

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This album is worth 4 stars for "Sails of Charon" alone, January 18, 2005

By	Jeffrey Hubbard (Murray, UT United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

And, frankly, that song is why I bought it. That the rest of the album is solid 70's metal is icing on the cake. "Sails" is, quite simply, one of early metal's crowning achievements, especially for Uli Roth's disciplined yet mind-blowing guitar solo during the intro. Blackmore has NOTHING on this guy. Further, it's rhythm track is surprisingly funky, if you can buy that without hearing it. Trust me.

With the exception of a few tracks on "Blackout," I'm not much of a Scorps fan, but this album is really great, in its idiom. And, seriously, if you want to hear some of the finest hard rock guitar playing ever, pick up this bad boy.

You best believe!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scorpions most overlooked effort.., August 26, 2005

By	Mexican Wrestler (Cage Match) - See all my reviews

.. in my opion atleast. Think about this for a moment, "Taken By Force" is sandwiched between two landmark albums which makes it hard for it to get any credability. "Virgin Killer" is considered by many fans the definative 70's Scorps album while "LoveDrive" is very important historically in the Scorps career in which they embarked on the MTV route.

I will admit this upfront, even though i am a fan, i never liked any of their 80's MTV material too much. It was not that i thought it was bad, it's not, the 80's stuff is quite good actually, but it really never appealed to me the way the 70's material did because it was just too generic and commerical sounding for my taste; simplified riffs and generic stupid lyrics about loving/missing/wanting to be with your "woman" and "rocking out", almost every other song they wrote was about that. The lesson is that greed is a destructive force, it has the ability to completey ruin great bands (look at Metallica), for the Scorpions it meant abandoning creativity and artistic integrity for the almighty dollar, the damage has been done and can not be repaired, now you can hear "Rock You Like A Hurricane" at almost every sporting event around the country.

This album was actauly the swan song for the meaningful and artistic Scorpions, it was the last album with Uli Jon Roth, who i feel was the creative nucleus of the Scorps of the old days. The songs are all pretty diverse; basic hard rock, metal, pyschadelic and beautiful ballads all inhabit this dark, moody work of art. It might throw some for a loop if they are only used to the 80's Scorpions.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The album that got me into the Scorps, December 29, 2004

By	Ultra Magnus (Autobot City, Earth) - See all my reviews

I always had LOVE AT FIRST STING from these guys and listened to that alot, but TAKEN BY FORCE really made me love this band, it was this album that showed me the genius of the Scorpions. TAKEN BY FORCE is my favorite hardrock album now, i'v had it for about a year and listen to it all the time. I really think that the 70's Scorpions with Roth completely blows away the MTV scorpions of the 80's, for one thing, the music was more complex with albums like VIRGIN KILLER and TAKEN BY FORCE and more sincere instead of the "love,sex,fun,get laid" foolishness of there "succsesful" 80's albums. Every track is amazing, this album is a work of art and i can't name favorites, but Uli's guitar playing is unmatched, the greatest guitar player to ever walk the earth!