Hardware (album)

Hardware
Studio album by Krokus
Released March 1981
Recorded Roundhouse Studios, London, November–December 1980
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal
Length 37:33
Label Ariola
Producer Krokus
Krokus chronology

Metal Rendez-vous
(1980)		 Hardware
(1981)		 One Vice at a Time
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Martin Popoff [2]

Hardware is the fifth album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus. It did not match the success of their previous album, Metal Rendez-vous, going only Gold in Switzerland.[3] However, the album entered the charts in the US, UK and other European countries.

UK-based company Rock Candy Records reissued the album on CD in 2014.

Track listing

All songs by Fernando von Arb and Chris von Rohr, except where indicated

Side one
  1. "Celebration" - 3:23
  2. "Easy Rocker" - 5:28
  3. "Smelly Nelly" (Tommy Kiefer, von Arb, von Rohr) - 3:42
  4. "Mr. 69" - 3:02
  5. "She's Got Everything" - 3:58
Side two
  1. "Burning Bones" (von Arb, von Rohr, Marc Storace) - 3:37
  2. "Rock City" - 4:47
  3. "Winning Man" - 5:34
  4. "Mad Racket" - 4:02

Personnel

Band members
Additional musicians
Production

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1981 Billboard 200 (North America)[4] 103
German Album Chart[5] 56
UK Albums Chart[6] 44
Austrian Album Chart[7] 16
Swedish Album Chart[8] 50

Singles

Year Title Chart Position
1981 "Burning Bones" Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks[4] 46
"Winning Man" 26

References

  1. ↑ Hinds, Andy. "Krokus Hardware review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  3. ↑ KROKUS ONLINE - official homepage - Discography - HARDWARE
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Hardware Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  5. ↑ "Album- Krokus, Hardware". Charts.de (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  6. ↑ "Hardware Chart Stats". Chart Stats.com. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  7. ↑ "Krokus - Hardware (Album)". Austriancharts.at (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  8. ↑ "Krokus - Hardware (Album)". Swedishcharts.com. Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2012-08-06.