Krokus - Change of Address (1986)

Posted By: hill0

Date: March 10, 2015

Change of Address is the ninth studio album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus, and is largely seen to be their least successful. It has been described as "plainly one of the worst efforts" from Krokus, and the band's website claims that they and their musical style were put under too much pressure from their record company. Unsurprisingly, Krokus changed their record label for their next studio album, Heart Attack. Andrew T of N.Y. metal band Blackout filled in for Kohler on select dates during this tour.

Change of Address is plainly one of the worst efforts from Swiss metal band Krokus. After the loud and energetic outfit had their single mega-hit years earlier with Headhunter, a not-so-gradual creative decline ensued that perhaps culminated (but didn't end) with the release of this limp recording. Artists like Bon Jovi and Def Leppard were re-categorizing metal during the mid-'80s, as the genre suddenly gained a huge mainstream audience thereby creating a commercial opportunity that caused many so-so metal acts to abandon their heavier musical roots. The resulting power-chord pop on records like Change of Address was consistently cliché and worthless. There is hardly any point in describing songs with titles like "Hard Luck Hero" and "Burning Up the Night," but they are, of course, laughably dopey and not at all ironic. People who appreciate hard rock and metal from this era's master practitioners (Iron Maiden and Judas Priest most notably) can hardly stomach records like Change of Address, as these sickly offerings had a very destructive influence on heavy metal/hard rock.
Review by Jason Anderson

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Tracklist:

01. Now (All Through The Night)
02. Hot Shot City
03. School's Out
04. Let This Love Begin
05. Burning Up The Night
06. Say Goodbye
07. World On Fire
08. Hard Luck Hero
09. Long Way From Home

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Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

Отчёт EAC об извлечении, выполненном 6. января 2012, 11:40

Krokus / Change Of Address

Дисковод: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203A Adapter: 5 ID: 1

Режим чтения : Достоверность
Использование точного потока : Да
Отключение кэша аудио : Да
Использование указателей C2 : Нет

Коррекция смещения при чтении : 48
Способность читать области Lead-in и Lead-out : Нет
Заполнение пропущенных сэмплов тишиной : Да
Удаление блоков с тишиной в начале и конце : Нет
При вычислениях CRC использовались нулевые сэмплы : Да
Интерфейс : Установленный внешний ASPI-интерфейс

Выходной формат : Внутренние WAV-операции
Формат сэмплов : 44.100 Гц; 16 бит; стерео

TOC извлечённого CD

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Имя файла G:\EAC - extract\Krokus - 1986 - Change of Address (ARCD 8402).wav

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Качество диапазона 100.0 %
CRC теста 24907511
CRC копии 24907511
Копирование… OK

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Конец отчёта

Personnel

Acoustic Guitar – David Mansfield
Art Direction – Howard Fritzson
Backing Vocals – Tom Kelly
Bass – Leon Gaer, Tommy Keiser
Cover [Back] – Ria Lewerke
Drums – Jeff Klaven
Engineer – Duane Baron
Guitar [Solo] – Allan Holdsworth (tracks: 9)
Keyboards – Jai Winding, Paul Fox

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