Commandos is the second studio album by Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band Stage Dolls

Stage Dolls

Stage Dolls is a Norwegian hard rock/glam metal band based in Trondheim, Norway. In 1982, Erlend Antonsen and Terje Storli played at local clubs in and around Trondheim. In need of a guitarist they called on Torstein Flakne, who by then had finished playing in The Kids...

. Like the first album it was recorded at Nidaros Studios in Trondheim

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 using the same producer, Bjørn Nessjø, and engineer, Rune Nordahl.

Commandos has a more mature sound and it charted for 11 weeks, peaking at no.8 on the Norwegian albumcharts (VG)

Verdens Gang

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. Making the band one of the most popular rockbands in Norway in 1986. The band also started to get attention outside of Norway and 'Commandos' was released in the US by BigTime Records. The title track gained considerable airplay on college-radio in the US.

Track listing

1. "Prelude" – 0:15
2. "Heart to Heart" – 4:34
3. "Commandos" – 4:03
4. "Yesterday's Rain" – 4:33
5. "Young Hearts" – 4:14
6. "Rock You" – 3:53
7. "Magic" – 3:41
8. "Who's Lonely Now" – 3:24
9. "America" – 3:43
10. "Don't Look Back" – 3:45

Band

• Torstein Flakne
  Torstein Flakne
  Torstein Flakne is the founder of the Norwegian band Stage Dolls. He is from Melhus and played in the band The Kids before founding Stage Dolls in 1985.-References:...
  
   – Guitars, vocals
• Steinar Krokstad – Drums
• Terje Storli – Bass

Sources

• http://www.stagedolls.com/discography.html
• Album slevenotes
• VG lista (Norwegian albumcharts) http://lista.vg.no/