Krokus Original Album Classics – I have been an obsessive hard rock/heavy metal fan and collector since the early 80’s. If it has a good guitar riff and attitude, I love it.
This box set contains CDs of Metal Rendez-vous (1980), Hardware (1981) and One Vice at a Time (1982) packaged in cool cardboard LP replicas.
Krokus Original Album Classics
Next year Crocus will become Def Leppard. — Krokus Manager Butch Stone for Circus Magazine, September 1983 Krokus — “Original Album Classics”
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They fulfilled the managers’ grandiose prediction above, but had a few good years during the great metal boom of the 1980s.
A derivative but fun piece of early 80s metal that included the Screaming in the Night radio station. Crocus at that time was considered a “new” band, but
They hardly caused a stir even in their homeland. A stylistic transition to hard rock a la AC/DC with the largely ignored 1978
) did little to change the decline of the band’s fortunes. It wasn’t until the 80s that Mark Storas, a singer from the tiny Mediterranean island nation of Malta, joined.
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That things began to fall into place. Storace’s gritty vocal style – a mix of Bon Scott’s pub rock and Robert Plant’s arena growl – fits the band’s raspy sound like a glove. The rest, as they say, is history.
While trying to re-acquire some of the Krokus albums I owned in my youth, I recently came across this great mini box set that is part of the affordable Sony/Legacy product.
In neat little cardboard cases that mimic the look of vinyl records. The set was a steal at ten bucks and I spent a week traveling down Metal Memory Lane with the trio of CDs.
On vinyl in the 80s, but since I no longer have a record player, I haven’t heard it in the dog years. Revisiting this album after more than two decades was like receiving a letter from an old friend.
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It’s about as inconspicuous as a car wreck on the front cover, starting nicely with the quick ‘Heat Strokes’ before kicking into second gear with ‘Bedside Radio’ and the heavy-hitting ‘Shy Kid’. “Tokyo Nights” is a mid-tempo track that gets the crowd singing along, almost like an early blueprint for “Screaming in the Night.” “Back Seat Rock N Roll” brings things to a satisfying thump.
(and indeed most of the band’s catalogue) thanks to Storace’s Bon Scott-esque vocals and Crocus’ penchant for double entendres and puns in lyrics and song titles, much like their Aussie heroes. What Crocus lacks in finesse, it makes up for in visibility and sheer volume!
It used to be on cassette, and it was played a lot back then, but I haven’t heard it in at least a quarter of a century. The boisterous “Celebration” kicks off the upbeat mood before “Easy Rocker” kicks in, welcoming the band’s leather-jacketed fans covered in rags from “those heavy bands.” Stinky Nellie immortalized a particularly obnoxious female fan, and it doesn’t take much imagination to figure out just how charming Mr. 69 is. Modern audiences will likely be shocked by a line on album closer Mad Racket, in which Storeys barks at an opponent: “This transvestite is
Was my least favorite despite some decent tracks. It just doesn’t have the fire of the two albums that round it out. .
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And was probably their coolest (as well as most derivative) album to date. It starts with one of the most famous Crocuses
Songs – such a smooth “Long Stick Goes Boom” (hint: it’s not about a stick of dynamite…) that rips AC/DC even louder than usual. Krokus looks to Thunder From Down Under for inspiration for the rest of the album, including “Bad Boys, Rag Dolls” and “Down the Drain”. Seriously guys, they owe Angus and Malcolm Young some royalties for this! Despite the almost complete lack of originality
Album, the fate of Crocus went quite quickly. The band made the unfortunate decision to abandon their headbanging, pedal-to-metal on subsequent albums such as 1984.
, favoring a smoother pop-metal sound aimed at American rock radio and MTV. The metal fraternity said “no thanks” to their new direction, calling Krokus a sellout and a leader. Storace left the band after 1988 without anyone noticing
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Reunion, and the band has been active ever since, although membership has been something of a revolving door from album to album. Krokus’ latest studio album,
Hi Leo, thanks for stopping by. You look at “Dynamite” you can never have too many AC/DC knockoffs haha
I found your site today through Steve Hoffman and I really like it. I also have the Krokus trinity (of 4) and haven’t heard them in over 20 years. The time has come. Greetings from Brazil
Thanks for reading FatFreddysCat. This was a great review of Swedish rockers Krokus – looks like I’ll be moving on to the K’s & Dust Off My Krokus albums and giving them a spin
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