Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Tuesday Tuneage
Krokus - “Long Stick Goes Boom”
1982


Along with Motörhead and Aerosmith, Krokus also had a song titled “Eat the Rich*”, but this one treads a more familiar path. The beat, the riffs, the vocals, the guitar simulating Pete Townshend’s Who’s Next synthesizer riffs ala “For Those About To Rock”: It’s a state of the art AC/DC knockoff. Not to mention the title is a har har phallic metaphor, just like the masters. This anticipates AC/DC-run-through-the-Xerox from the likes of Cinderella and Dirty Looks just a few years later … but I’ve the survived the eighties one time already.

*For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. - Luke 18:25