Stayed Awake All Night: The Best Of

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Stayed Awake All Night: The Best of
Compilation album by Krokus

Publication
(s)

August 29, 1989

Label (s) Arista

Format (s)

CD , MC

Genre (s)

Hard rock

Title (number)

10

running time

44 min 49 s

production

Tony Platt, Fernando von Arb and Chris von Rohr (One Vice at a Time)

Tom Allom (headhunter)

Bruce Fairbairn (The Blitz)

Tom Werman and Fernando von Arb (Change of Address)

Studio (s)

Battery Studios, London ( Great Britain ) (One Vice at a Time)

Bee Jay Studio, Orlando ( USA ) (Headhunter)

Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver ( Canada ) (The Blitz)

Artisan Sound Recorders, Los Angeles (USA) (Change of Address)

chronology
- Stayed Awake All Night: The Best of The Dirty Dozen: The Very Best of 1979–1983
(1993)

Stayed Awake All Night: The Best Of is a best-of compilation by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus .

background

After the musical low point Change of Address , on which Krokus no longer sounded like straightforward hard rock, but rather like a pop glam metal formation, the band drew their conclusions after this release: They split up after the release of the live album Alive and Screamin ' from the record company Arista at the time and from their parent company Ariola - on the one hand, because they were pushing the band away from hard rock and into the glam metal wave that was emerging at the time, both in terms of music and external appearance wanted and on the other hand because of the high pressure regarding the quick presentation of a successor to The Blitz . Since Arista continued to own the rights to the albums from Metal Rendez-Vous to Change of Address , after separating from Krokus, the first best-of compilation for the American market was finally released in 1989 with Stayed Awake All Night: The Best Of . This contains songs from the studio albums from 1982 to 1986, i.e. from the band's actually commercially successful years, but the compilation must be viewed critically. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that it only contains ten songs, which means that the CD's length was by no means exhausted. In addition, with "American Woman" ( The Guess Who ), "Stayed Awake All Night" ( Bachman-Turner Overdrive ), "Ballroom Blitz" ( The Sweet ) and " School's Out " ( Alice Cooper ) four of the ten included titles are cover versions which in turn gives the false impression that Krokus are a cover band. The last point of criticism is the disregard of band classics from the successful albums Metal Rendez-Vous and Hardware , although the label also owned the rights to these works. Arista should have two more with The Dirty Dozen: The Very Best of 1979–1983 and The Definitive Collection and Ariola published best-of-compilations of Krokus - though better rated by the fans - to follow.

Track list

  1. Headhunter (4:30) (Fernando von Arb / Chris von Rohr / Marc Storace / Butch Stone) (from Headhunter )
  2. Eat the Rich (4:14) (from Arb / von Rohr / Storace / Stone) (from Headhunter )
  3. Long Stick Goes Boom (5:15) (from Arb / von Rohr / Storace) (from One Vice at a Time )
  4. Screaming in the Night (6:38) (from Arb / von Rohr / Storace / Stone / Mark Kohler) (from Headhunter )
  5. American Woman (3:37) ( Randy Bachman / Burton Cummings / Jim Kale / Garry Peterson) (from One Vice at a Time )
  6. Midnite Maniac (3:59) (Storace / von Arb) (from The Blitz )
  7. Ballroom Blitz (4:00) ( Michael Chapman / Nicky Chinn ) (from The Blitz )
  8. Stayed Awake All Night (4:44) (Bachman) (by Headhunter )
  9. Our Love (4:35) (Storace / von Arb) (from The Blitz )
  10. School's Out (3:15) ( Alice Cooper / Glen Buxton / Michael Bruce / Dennis Dunaway / Neal Smith) (from Change of Address )

Cover versions

  • "American Woman" is a The Guess Who cover version. The song was originally released in 1970 on the album of the same name, The Guess Who .
  • "Ballroom Blitz" is a The Sweet cover version. The song was originally released in 1973 on the single "Ballroom Blitz" of the same name.
  • "Stayed Awake All Night" is a Bachman-Turner overdrive cover version. The song was originally released on the 1973 Bachman-Turner Overdrive album.
  • "School's Out" is an Alice Cooper cover version. The song was originally released on the 1972 album School's Out .

occupation

One Vice at a Time

Singing : Marc Storace
Lead guitar : Fernando from Arb
Rhythm guitar : Mark Kohler
Bass , percussion : Chris von Rohr
Drums : Freddy Steady

Headhunters

Singing: Marc Storace
Lead guitar: Fernando from Arb
Rhythm guitar: Mark Kohler
Bass, percussion: Chris von Rohr
Drums: Steve Pace

The Blitz

Singing: Marc Storace
Lead guitar, rhythm guitar: Fernando von Arb
Bass: Mark Kohler
Drums: Jeff Klaven

Change of Address

Singing: Marc Storace
Lead guitar: Fernando from Arb
Rhythm guitar: Mark Kohler
Bass: Tommy Keizer
Drums; Percussion: Jeff Klaven

Individual evidence

  1. cduniverse.com - Krokus - Stayed Awake All Night: The Best Of Krokus CD . Retrieved February 27, 2013.
  2. ^ Krokusonline.seven49.net - Chronological - Change of Address . Retrieved February 27, 2013.
  3. krokusonline.seven49.net - Discography - Stayed Awake All Night . Retrieved February 27, 2013.

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