Scorpions one of my favorite bands, in the last couple of years I started listen much often the 70’s records and those records grows up on me.
The band of the seventies is hard heavy and obscure, with Uli Roth amazing guitar work, thats why I change completely the original my maybe order of this list.

Pioneers on the hard rock and early heavy metal scene in Germany.
Scorpions started in late 60’s, in 1972 they recorded their debut album, the band's only album with lead guitarist Michael Schenker – just 16 at the time of the recording – as a full-time member. He soon left to join UFO and was replaced by Ulrich Roth until 1978. After that the band lead by Klaus Meine And Rudolph Schenker wrote the most famous songs and music and got the recognition and worldwide success.

1.Scorpions - Taken By Force

2.Scorpions - In Trance

3.Scorpions - Virgin Killer

4.Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow

5.Scorpions - Lonesome Crow

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1.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

2.Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz

3.Judas Priest - British Steel

4.AC/DC - Back In Black

5.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

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The best albums of 1980

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

3.Judas Priest - British Steel

4.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

5.Rush - Permanent Waves

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While the order in each decade is purely personal preference, there are several rules for a song qualifying for the list. First off, the band has to be notable. I'm not going to define what that means, but I'm sure you'd agree all the bands in the list are notable. There are plenty of riffs from obscure bands I'd rather put, but I know my love for Tarby doesn't make him the greatest riff maker of the 21st century. Second, each artist can only appear once in a decade, this is to prevent the best riff makers from hogging the list and adding some variety, showing how metal has changed over time. Decades are measured by when the song was recorded, not released, and when it's unclear the beginning of recording is used. This is mainly because a lot of definitive early metal songs were released in 1970, but recorded in 1969. Third, the song itself has to be notable. Here are things that can qualify as being notable: the song was release as a single, has music video made for it, was released as a single, was the title track for an album (note that Crawl through Knives meets this criteria because it was the original title for Come Clarity, and there is no way in hell Come Clarity is getting best riff of the decade ), is included on a greatest hits compilation album, was nominated for a Grammy or musical award of similar caliber, was included as a track in a notable film or video game, was covered by a notable band, or has a Wikipedia page for some miscellaneous reason. Finally, the song needs to be metal. Misirlou gets the pass despite predating metal as it was probably the single most influential song on the development of metal, and while many of the other songs in the other songs are better classified as hard rock, I can find a source listing them as heavy metal.

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2.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

3.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

4.Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

5.Deep Purple - In Rock

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1.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

2.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

3.Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations

4.AC/DC - Back In Black

5.Rush - Permanent Waves

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1.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

2.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

3.AC/DC - Back In Black

4.Saxon - Strong Arm Of The Law

5.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

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1.Scorpions - Blackout

2.Scorpions - Love At First Sting

3.Scorpions - Lovedrive

4.Scorpions - Virgin Killer

5.Scorpions - Humanity - Hour 1

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1.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

2.Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz

3.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

4.Angel Witch - Angel Witch

5.Judas Priest - British Steel

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Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.

1.Accept - Balls To The Wall

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Accept - Eat The Heat

4.Adagio - Underworld

5.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

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These are the 211 essential hard rock/metal albums of the 80's, as were selected by the Greek Magazine "Metal Hammer" (August 2001 issue).

The albums followed by a star are the "must have", whereas the rest albums are the "could have".

1.Angel Witch - Angel Witch

2.AC/DC - Back In Black

3.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

4.Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations

5.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

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Looking at the top ten list of metal from 1974, I couldn't believe you only listed 6 albums, and none of them were Fly To The rainbow, where Uli Jon Roth truly ripped. This inspired me to list, although a lot of their music I more often than not think is a pop sellout or just not really that metal and I really do enjoy the Humanity album more than I've liked most of their stuff since like World Wide Live, the deserving top 6 for giving credit where credit is due.

1.Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow

2.Scorpions - Virgin Killer

3.Scorpions - Taken By Force

4.Scorpions - Animal Magnetism

5.Scorpions - Love At First Sting

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Metal albums from 1980.

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

3.Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations

4.Def Leppard - On Through The Night

5.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

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As a long time guitarist, i have a passion to learn and play guitar riffs and solos and these ones are an ultimate guide for guitar playing. Some solos are just more memorable than others and the following are the most well craftted solos i have heard till now.

1.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

2.Scorpions - Love At First Sting

3.Judas Priest - Painkiller

4.Symphony X - The Odyssey

5.Savatage - Edge Of Thorns

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Scorpions are my favorite band. They have always been since I started listening to Metal music. So after years of listening to them and playing their songs, I have arranged their albums from what I feel is their greatest album to their weaker albums...

1.Scorpions - Love At First Sting

2.Scorpions - Blackout

3.Scorpions - Savage Amusement

4.Scorpions - Lovedrive

5.Scorpions - Humanity - Hour 1

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