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One Vice at a Time by Krokus
One Vice at a Time is an album by Krokus, released in 1982. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Long Stick Goes Boom”, on 4 lists with a best position of #263.
One Vice at a Time, the sixth studio album from Swiss hard rockers Krokus, came out on Arista in 1982, and it wears its AC/DC worship right out in the open. Producer Tony Platt had made his name engineering for AC/DC, and he gives this lot the same stripped, punchy, all-killer attack: riffs like pile drivers and Marc Storace hollering over the top like a man who's just been dared to.
It's also the first Krokus record with Mark Kohler on rhythm guitar. The lead-off track, "Long Stick Goes Boom", is exactly as subtle as the title suggests, and it later ended up blaring out of the V-Rock station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. There's a beefed-up cover of the Guess Who's "American Woman", and a young Bruce Dickinson, newly hired as Iron Maiden's singer, sneaks in on backing vocals for "I'm on the Run". Rock Candy Records reissued it on CD in 2014.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from One Vice at a Time on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long Stick Goes Boom | 4 | #263 | – | 1990–1996 | |
| 2 | American Woman | 1 | #883 | – | 1990 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.