10 Best Rock Music Album Closers Of The 1980s

10. Still Loving You - Scorpions (Love At First Sting)

Though they've put out plenty of bangers in their near-60 year history, the one track most people will know German band Scorpions for is Rock You Like a Hurricane. And that's not just because it was in The Simpsons Game.

That song was the second track on the band's 1984 album, Love at First Sting. Great name, by the way. If you listen beyond Rock You Like a Hurricane, all the way to the record's close, you'll discover another song that might actually be even better.

Still Loving You is as classic a power ballad as you can get. The song starts out slow and soft, with lead singer Klaus Meine gently crooning about a lost romance. Then, about halfway through, everything changes.

The song suddenly erupts, bursting with all the energy it was trying to keep in. Everything gets louder; the singing; the guitars; the drums; all of it gets turned up to 11 as the protagonist's feelings of loss intensify. It's so big and overblown that it actually cycles right past cheesy and back round to being genuinely awesome again. A truly gigantic way to end a rock record.