Music Monday : Bands you’ve never heard of (Part II)

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Music Monday : Bands you’ve never heard of (Part II)

Maybe not as unknown as last week’s feature (Helix), but I find few people who know who Krokus is (not that I have been going around asking). For the longest time in the 80s I thought they were Canadian, and by the time I stopped listening to them, their origin didn’t matter, but this band from Switzerland was on heavy rotation on our turntables.

In 1980, anything that had to do with Asian countries was cool and exotic right down to the fake oriental guitar riff and singing about geisha girls. I think this came out around the same time as “Turning Japanese” by The Vapors.

Wait. Did he just say, “My yellow girlfriend“? Didn’t catch that one when I was fourteen. Yikes.

One of the criticisms of the band was their unoriginality, but it’s obvious who thought the other’s logo was cool:

1981

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So, onto the music. You only get one guess which band was a major influence in this one:

1983 saw the release of Headhunter which was less AC/DC and a bit more Judas Priest in my opinion:

Scorpions you say?

Back to AC/DC:

1984 saw the release of their highest charting album.

Motley Crue had already covered Smokin’ in the Boys room, so…

Midnight Maniac reached #10 on the US rock chart.

I never new until today that this next song was written by Bryan Adams.

Bryan Adams has written some great songs but this one doesn’t work for me for a metal turned hard rock turned weaker rock…well maybe it does. Never bought another album. Maybe it I have time I’ll find a newer tune.

-Leon

Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.

My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/