I guess this is the end result when English isn't your first language, and there's a bit of German in the mix (they're Swiss). Swiss clocks turn into Japan dots, there's geisha houses, yellow girlfriends and rice-booze too. Fucking high-end stuff, this, but it still manages to look like Mensa material alongside a Herman Rarebell lyric.
And the music pretty much reflects Krokus' approach to music, i.e. let's take a chunk of Hotel California and write a song around it. Which was a bit clever considering that the rest of the time they spent in the studio was spent reconstituting AC/DC songs.
They cracked America for a short period which I couldn't understand until I realised European metal acts usuaally had to dumb down for the American market. I don't think Krokus were dumb, far from it, they like the Scorpions realised the cash was in the lowest common denominator end of the market and why bother attempting to write your own stuff when you could steal it. Nothing new in that except they made a career out of it.
By the way it wasn't off the turntable when I was 15. I loved it. 8-)
I guess this is the end result when English isn't your first language, and there's a bit of German in the mix (they're Swiss). Swiss clocks turn into Japan dots, there's geisha houses, yellow girlfriends and rice-booze too. Fucking high-end stuff, this, but it still manages to look like Mensa material alongside a Herman Rarebell lyric.
And the music pretty much reflects Krokus' approach to music, i.e. let's take a chunk of Hotel California and write a song around it. Which was a bit clever considering that the rest of the time they spent in the studio was spent reconstituting AC/DC songs.
They cracked America for a short period which I couldn't understand until I realised European metal acts usuaally had to dumb down for the American market. I don't think Krokus were dumb, far from it, they like the Scorpions realised the cash was in the lowest common denominator end of the market and why bother attempting to write your own stuff when you could steal it. Nothing new in that except they made a career out of it.
By the way it wasn't off the turntable when I was 15. I loved it. 8-)