Headhunter (album)
Headhunter is the seventh studio album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus, released in 1983. It achieved Gold status in the United States.[3] The track "Screaming in the Night" was the band's biggest hit to date,[4] and is still played on classic rock radio stations. Headhunter is the only Krokus album to feature Steve Pace on drums, and includes the Bachman–Turner Overdrive cover "Stayed Awake All Night".
UK-based company Rock Candy Records reissued the album on CD in 2014.
Track listing
- Side one
- "Headhunter" (Chris von Rohr, Fernando von Arb, Marc Storace, Butch Stone) – 4:30
- "Eat the Rich" (von Rohr, von Arb, Storace, Stone) – 4:14
- "Screaming in the Night" (von Rohr, von Arb, Mark Kohler, Storace, Stone) – 6:38
- "Ready to Burn" (von Rohr, von Arb, Kohler, Storace, Stone) – 3:54
- Side two
- "Night Wolf" (von Rohr, von Arb, Storace, Stone) – 4:10 (written for the animated motion picture Metal Hollywood)
- "Stayed Awake All Night" (Randy Bachman) – 4:41
- "Stand and Be Counted" (von Rohr, von Arb, Storace, Stone) – 4:07
- "White Din" (von Rohr, von Arb) – 1:50
- "Russian Winter" (von Rohr, von Arb, Storace, Stone) – 3:31
Personnel
- Band members
- Additional musicians
- Rob Halford - backing vocals on "Ready to Burn"
- Jimi Jamison - backing vocals
- Bob Ketchum - sound effects recorded at Cedar Crest Studios
- Production
- Tom Allom - producer
- Andy De Ganahl - engineer
Charts
Album
Singles
Certifications
Country |
Organization |
Sales |
United States |
RIAA |
500,000 [3] |
Canada |
CRIA |
50,000 [10] |
References
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- Freddy Steady
- Hansi Droz
- Remo Spadino
- Tommy Kiefer
- Jürg Naegeli
- Steve Pace
- Jeff Klaven
- Dani Crivelli
- Many Maurer
- Peter Haas
- Peter Tanner
- Tony Castell
- Carl Sentance
- Chris Lauper
- Patrick Aeby
- Stefan Schwarzmann
- Mark Kohler
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Live albums | |
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Compilation albums |
- Early Days '75-'78
- Stayed Awake All Night - The Best
- The Dirty Dozen
- Definitive Collection
- The Collection
- Best Of
- Long Stick Goes Boom: The Anthology
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Singles and EPs |
- "Tokyo Nights"
- "Heatstrokes"
- "Bedside Radio"
- "Winning Man"
- "Rock City"
- "American Woman"
- "Save Me"
- "Bad Boys Rag Dolls"
- "Stayed Awake All Night"
- "Screaming in the Night"
- "Midnite Maniac"
- "Ballroom Blitz"
- "Our Love"
- "School's Out"
- "Screaming in the Night (Live)"
- "Let the Love Begin"
- "Let It Go"
- "Wild Love"
- "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet"
- "I Want It All"
- "Angel of My Dreams"
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