# Taken B-Side

Taken B-Side is an unofficial or bootleg compilation album by the German rock band Scorpions, released in 2009. It contains songs that were released only as bonus tracks of certain studio albums and includes new recordings, cover versions, live tracks and B-sides of some singles. Two of the tracks are not in the rock genre and were not performed by the band. One of them was based on a poem and it involved only the lead vocalist.

## Track details

Disc 1
* 1. Bonus track on the Japanese edition of Humanity: Hour I
* 2. From the compilation albums Stairway to Heaven/Highway to Hell and Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads
* 3, 4. Bonus tracks on the Japanese edition of Unbreakable
* 5. Studio track on the US edition of Live Bites
* 6. Studio track on the non-US edition of Live Bites
* 7. Bonus track on the Japanese edition of Eye II Eye
* 8. Bonus track on the Japanese edition of Pure Instinct
* 9. From the "Hit Between the Eyes" CD single and Freejack soundtrack
* 10. Bonus track on the Japanese and European editions of Face the Heat
* 11. From the "White Dove" CD single
* 12. From the "Under the Same Sun" maxi single
* 13. From the "You and I" CD single
* 14. Bonus track on the Japanese edition of Face the Heat
* 15. Bonus track on the Japanese edition of Acoustica
* 16. From the "Humanity" CD single
* 17. Studio track on the non-US edition of Live Bites
* 18. From the Japanese mini album Wind of Change
* 19. From the "You Are the Champion" CD single
Disc 2
* 1, 4. From the compilation album Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions
* 2. From the "Alien Nation" maxi single
* 3, 15. From the "When You Came Into My Life" CD single
* 5. From the "When Love Kills Love" CD single
* 6. From the European edition of Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads
* 7, 9. From the US edition of the compilation album Deadly Sting
* 8. From the "Veter peremen" CD single
* 10. Hidden track on the US edition of Face the Heat
* 11. From the "Miracle" CD single
* 12. From the "To Be No. 1" CD single
* 13. From the "Still Loving You" CD single
* 14. From the "10 Light Years Away" CD single
* 16. From the Acoustica DVD
* 17. From the "Fuchs geh' voran" vinyl single
* 18. From the Moment of Glory DVD
* 19. From the Schönherz & Fleer album Rilke Projekt – "In meinem wilden Herzen"

## Personnel

Band members
* Klaus Meine – lead vocals, tambourine
* Matthias Jabs – lead guitar, acoustic guitar (disc 1 tracks 11, 15; disc 2 tracks 5, 10, 16), talk box (disc 2 tracks 1, 13), rhythm guitar (disc 2 track 3), backing vocals
* Rudolf Schenker – rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar (disc 1 tracks 4, 6, 10, 14, 15, 17; disc 2 tracks 3, 5, 10, 11, 16), co-lead vocals (disc 2 tracks 6, 17), lead guitar (disc 2 track 8), backing vocals
* Paweł Mąciwoda – bass guitar (disc 1 tracks 1, 3, 16, 19), backing vocals
Past members
* Uli Jon Roth – lead guitar and co-lead vocals (disc 2 track 17)
* Ralph Rieckermann – bass guitar (disc 1 tracks 5-8, 11-15, 17; disc 2 tracks 1-5, 7, 9, 11-16, 18), upright bass (disc 2 track 10), backing vocals
* Francis Buchholz – bass guitar (disc 1 track 18; disc 2 tracks 6, 8, 17), backing vocals
* James Kottak – drums and percussion (disc 1 tracks 1, 3, 4, 15, 16; disc 2 tracks 1, 4, 5, 11-16, 18), backing vocals, rapping (disc 2 track 14)
* Herman Rarebell – drums (disc 1 tracks 2, 5, 6, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18; disc 2 tracks 2, 6-10), backing vocals
* Rudy Lenners – drums (disc 2 track 17)
Additional musicians