Love at First Sting

Love at First Sting
A man and a partially nude woman locked in an embrace, with the man giving the woman a tattoo on her thigh.
Cover photo by Helmut Newton
Studio album by
Scorpions
Released13 February 1984 (1984-02-13)[1]
StudioDierks Studios, Stommeln, West Germany
Genre
Length40:55
LabelHarvest/EMI
ProducerDieter Dierks
Scorpions chronology
Blackout
(1982) 		Love at First Sting
(1984) 		Savage Amusement
(1988)
Singles from Love at First Sting
  1. "Rock You Like a Hurricane"
    Released: 30 January 1984[1]
  2. "Still Loving You"
    Released: June 1984 (US)[2]
  3. "Big City Nights"
    Released: August 1984 (UK)
  4. "I'm Leaving You"
    Released: November 1984 (US)
Alternate "clean" cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[4]
Forces Parallèles[5]
Rock Hard7.5/10[6]
Rolling Stone[7]

Love at First Sting is the ninth studio album by German rock band Scorpions. It was released in February 1984 by Harvest and EMI Records in Europe and Mercury Records in the US. The album contains "Rock You Like a Hurricane", "Still Loving You", and "Big City Nights", three of the band's most famous songs.

  1. ^ a b "News" (PDF). Record Mirror. 21 January 1984. p. 6. Retrieved 21 June 2024 – via World Radio History. The Scorpions bring out a new single 'Rock You Like a Hurricane' on January 30. It comes from an album 'Love at First Sting' which is released a couple of weeks later on February 13. The German heavy metal group start their world tour in Birmingham next week.
  2. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 721. ISBN 9780862415419.
  3. ^ Weber, Barry. "Scorpions Love at First Sting review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
  4. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 319. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  5. ^ Gaguet, Guillaume. "Scorpion Love At First Sting review". Forces Parallèles. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  6. ^ Lerch, Uwe (1984). "Review Album: Scorpions – Love at First Sting". Rock Hard (in German). No. 5. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  7. ^ Loder, Kurt (26 April 1984). "Album Reviews: Scorpions – Love at First Sting". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 14 October 2007. Retrieved 11 November 2012.