Change of Address
Change of Address is the ninth studio album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus. It contains the singles "Burning up the Night ," " Let This Love Begin", " Say Goodbye " and "School's Out".
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Background
With the addition of the line-up by bassist Tommy Keiser, who joined the band already during the last U.S. tour as a replacement for Andy Tanas, Crocus was complete again for the recording of the new studio album. Mark Kohler, who had to import on The Blitz lack of alternatives nor the bass tracks, was thus again to switch back to rhythm guitar. Actually not a bad omen, but the band struck musically one direction, which pushed the hard-nosed Krokus fans in front of the head above all: Instead of a no-frills, rifflastigem Hard Rock, you got shallower, more melodic, Metal Pop keyboardlastigeren purposed. Just the glam metal movement that took seed at this time in the U.S. and the record company Crocus also so wanted to see is an explanation. That Tom Werman at this time, a proven and very successful glam metal producer, was a second. But crocus were on this album, just not that by which they were successful and what they were equally valued and worshiped by fans and the press. Nevertheless, it was also recorded in the Artisan Sound Recorders in Los Angeles Change of Address using the singles " Burning up the Night ," " Let This Love Begin", " Say Goodbye " and the Alice Cooper cover " School's Out " and the music video also to " Burning up the Night" and "School's Out" in turn earned remarkable success: the album reached # 77 in the Canadian charts, number 46 in Sweden, number 45 in the American Billboard charts and - as the Blitz previously - 6th place in the Swiss album charts. In addition, was and is the single " School's Out " with number 67, the highest chart position the band in the U.S. singles chart at all. Crocus was in demand also live, which, inter alia, one of completed shortly after the album release gig as a special guest of Van Halen front of 80,000 visitors to the Texxas Jam Festival in Dallas proved. Nevertheless, put this album that just in terms of a quick successor brought ironically, because of pressure from the record company the longest production time in the history of the band with him, a real low point of crocus represents the results of this unsatisfactory for the band album were, according to the brought for Jeff Klaven was the Swiss Dani Crivelli into the boat: and another change to the drums position - release of the first live album Alive and Screamin ', a change of record company, the recall campaign by bassist and songwriter Chris von Rohr - that Tommy Keiser had to give back. These reactions should crocus with the Successor of Heart Attack seems to get put on the right track. A special feature regarding the recordings of Change of Address set on the backs of the LP Cases significantly flawed printed track lists dar.
Title list
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- " Now" is frequently reprinted under the title " Now ( All through the Night ) ".