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fusing the best elements of glam, blues, pop, and some strong dub/reggae undertones (mostly in some of the basslines used in a. but frankly, Hanoi Rocks contains alot more charm and better songs than any of those bands. bands like Poison, Motley Crue, and Guns N' Roses.

#Hanoi rocks oriental beat back cover full

Due to this tragic turn of events Oriental Beat has to unfortunately stand as an album by a band full of potential that sadly was never given a chance to fulfill it. sadly, Hanoi Rocks always seemed to be standing on the side, watching as the bands who they influenced skyrocketed to stardom. In 1984, the band's drummer, Razzle, died in a car accident as a passenger in a car driven by Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil the band broke up a year later. Hanoi Rocks Finland Import Lp Oriental Beat (Nude Cover) On Johanna - Nm. By listening to this album you can see the influence Hanoi Rocks had on the artists that followed them. Hanoi Rocks Oriental beat CD 1985 PVC Passport Records Rare OOP Guns N Roses. Oriental Beat Lyrics: Im gonna take a holiday, be somewhere far away / I wont be back for a while, for a long, long time / I wanna get away from the west.

Oriental Beat shows where punk would have gone in the '80s if new wave and synthesizers never came along. A slick '80s hit-making producer like Mutt Lange ( Def Leppard) or Bob Rock ( Mötley Crüe, the Cult) could have made this band huge in the States. The drums sound like they were recorded in another building separate from the rest of the band. Despite a respectable amount of potential on most of the album, poor production limits the effectiveness of many tracks. 'Motorvatin'' and 'Devil Woman' would easily have found a home on MTV circa 1987, and feminine-looking, lipstick-wearing, glammed-out lead singer Michael Monroe's image would have been plastered all over music television right next to Bret Michaels, Vince Neil, and Jon Bon Jovi. Guitarist and chief songwriter Andy McCoy does his best Johnny Thunders on 'Teenangels Outsiders.' Other tracks on the album show the band displaying a sound that would be emulated by many future pop-metal bands. Baby' and 'Oriental Beat' find the band closely resembling English punk rockers the Damned. The band shows its punk and glam influences not only with its look on the cover of the album but also with the music performed on the album as well.

Oriental Beat is full of big singalong choruses and catchy riffs that would have made the band heavy players either five years earlier or later. Oriental Beat is an album that finds itself slightly out of step with the music scene of the period - it was too late for the prime punk period of the late '70s and it was too early for the pop-metal explosion of the mid-to-late '80s.

Oriental Beat finds Hanoi Rocks bringing the glam sound and look of the New York Dolls into the '80s. Hanoi Rocks may have been the best hard rock band Finland had to offer the world in 1982, but their sound and look was heavily influenced by the punk scenes of the late '70s in downtown New York and England.