Back to Mystery City

That was some glam rock for sure. Pretty much summed up the 80s hair metal scene in one album.

Didn't really show me anything new or that interesting so wondering about it's inclusion onto this list.

Minute slay.

Post punk, no matter good or not, bores me. I think this was good but still bored.

2.5

idk who tf this is, but it screams British and that they think its important. haha. i would say this is a period piece, a taste of euro hair metal in the 80's... and that's it. 2/5

2/5. Here they go again, giving me just a fun and exciting glam rock album with some sick solos and riffs. The first half rocks and then... crazy drop in quality. The songwriting and the music suddenly is lazy and gross, and not in the good way. Then it picks up a little again near the end but that middle ground is truly not great. I don't know how to rate it but I thought I was going to like this more than I did. Oh well, it is what it is. Best Song: Malibu Beach Nightmare, Tooting Bec Wreck, Until I Get You

01) Strange Boys Play Weird Openings - / 02) Malibu Beach Nightmare - 6,5 03) Mental Beat - 6,0 04) Tooting Bec Wreck - 5,5 05) Until I Get You - 5,5 06) Sailing Down the Tears - 5,0 07) Lick Summer Love - 5,5 08) Beating Gets Faster - 5,5 09) Ice Cream Summer - 5,5 10) Back to Mystery City - 5,0 TOTAL: 5,56 (56/100) Current ranking: 512/599

point8.

Bedient auf eine spaßige Art und Weise eine Nische zwischen David Bowie und Metallica, verliert aber schnell seinen Reiz und ist eher eine Herausforderung ans akustische Sitzfleisch. Nicht zuende gehört.

Very forgettable hair rock. The last song was cool though.

Quite liked the first track but it was downhill from there. Generic glam rock that wasn't particularly interesting.

Best Song: Until I Get You. Mopey lyrics, but the layered vocals were pretty good. Worst Song: Tooting Bec Wreck. Formulaic dork rock. Overall: This feels like music that's intended to be played in stadiums but is written and performed by a group that can only book dive bars. The ambitions and theatrics far exceed the quality of the music, and the resulting discordance is ugly to listen to.

The nicest thing I can say about this album is that it sounds like they're having fun. Described as the "Finnish glam rock EQ of Michelangelo's David." While I don't even remotely agree with that statement, I do have to appreciate that someone out there loves this album enough to put it in a book.

2 This band sounded really familiar to me, though I’m not sure exactly why because I certainly don’t recognize any of their songs. In looking them up, it turns out it was the drummer for this band that Vince Neil killed in his drunk driving accident. I’m not positive if that's the reason I know the name, but in any case, F Vince Neil. That said, in listening to this album, I have to say this is one of the most confusing inclusions to me so far. It’s not terrible by any means, but I’ve seen no real sort of acclaim surrounding it, and I don’t feel like I’m hearing anything all that special myself. Granted, I’m not the biggest hair metal fan normally, but by the genre’s standards, this felt incredibly tame. The songwriting isn’t the worst I’ve heard, but there also aren’t really a ton of hooks, catch, or edge to be found, nor is there really any substance in the lyrics. A lot of this comes off as cheesy, or in the case of Lick Summer Love - the token sexually explicit song seemingly required on every album of this era - pretty cringe. If this is your thing, that’s great, but personally, I have no idea what someone would get out of this album. For all the gripes I’ve lodged at hair bands, “boring” has not been one used until I heard this.

Why is this album on this list? And can I remember any of the songs less than 12 hours later?

Not much to like about this, hair metal at its worst.

Kinda corny

Nah.

Why is this on the list? Terrible. The worst type of 80's pap.

Listens: 3 Standout tracks: Tooting Bec Wreck Seems a bit post-new wave veering into classic hair metal with a Finnish twist, to be honest, if there was no mention of them being Finnish in the album/artist description I'd have never known that. I largely dislike new wave and I'm really really not a fan of 80s hair metal, so although there are a few catchy or weird tracks and some good guitar riffs, it's not particularly interesting or exciting to me. 2

Ok 2/5

2.5

bof

C'est rigolo mais tabarouette que ça sonne le cul. Sympathique et immémorable. 2.4 étoiles

This has no right to be on any respectable list. An extra star because Mystery City seems like a nice place to visit.

generic classic rock idk

I have no time for protocockrock.

Ah weird 80's rock doing everything you can to make us remember the smell of too much hairspray with a song. As far as glam rock goes it's not bad. If you are like me and don't enjoy glam rock you should pass this one up. It has some fun songs but after a while they all sound alike and drag on you. I swear this is one of those albums that got played in movies set in the 80's. It's on a radio as background noise but tells you the era perfectly.

It's ok, but again, the hipster critics have decided that this, rather than Motley Crue or Poison best represents Glam Metal. Or even Van Halen or Guns and Roses (though they do have an album here). I give it 2.5. The songs are ok, but nothing like Motley Crue's 'Girls Girls Girls' or even Van Halen's 'Hot for Teacher.' Those songs are, if nothing else, fun (and well played and performed.) There seems a caculation here that great rock and roll hides. It's ok, but I don't think a must listen.

2 - pretty generic and not very good

No stand out songs. Very forgettable.

I see this album is fairly influential for 80s hair metal, so ok. As far as the album itself goes...i mean, there are worse things but I have no idea what makes or great

This has 80’s flick rad energy

It seems like they're having fun out there, and it's got an annoyingly contagious sense of fun. That said, it is aggressively mid in basically every other aspect. I don't really understand glam metal, but I didn't aggressively hate this album. It wasn't a total failure.

Literally who? Sorry, don't mind me. I'm just going through the motions at this point. I need to preface this review with a reading of the 1001 Albums book as I am the natural predator of 80s music. As a man blessed with a patrician's taste in music, these dolled up, shemale-wigged glam rockers quiver in fear at the visage of my shapely, well-rounded form, bold placement of stubble and sumptuous, lady-pleasing choices in headwear. Okay, let's see. Axl Rose liked them. Theatrical live performances. Precursor to hair metal. Charted at 87 on the British charts. That's it. Fortunately, this album has an important caveat, which is that it's Finnish. This may very well be the only Finlandian album on the list, which I respect as this is my first-ever exposure to the wonderful country of Finland through music and I think this list could generally do with some more "world" albums. There are some good choices in here. I like the melodies of "Malibu Beach Nightmare" and "Back to Mystery City". The "dark" sound in the background of "Tooting Bec Wreck" is also very good. However, something important is missing from these songs that ultimately makes them feel hollow. The vocals have no bite for this style of music and the lyrics/vocals leave a bad taste in my mouth. That's all I have to say, really. It's just vaguely offputting. Maybe I shouldn't have skipped 80s album leg day as this decade is definitely an oversight in my ability to critique music.

You can hear their many influences and musical style in every unoriginal, boring track. An extra star for effort.

Interesting hair metal band. Some Axl Rose type backup vocals in some songs are pretty nice. Can't remember hearing them when I was young but it seems like something my older sister would have listened to. Not bad overall but I'm not sure I need to listen to it again.

This was kind of some freak shit but in a fun way. Good-fun rock album that takes some inventive and unexpected liberties in its riifs, instrumentation, and writing in general. Like some hair metal heads who love early Pink Floyd made a palatable alternative to Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Fav track: Strange Boys Play Weird Openings

This is some cheesy shit.

80s rock album, sounds like an early Guns 'N' Roses album.

I had preciously known Hanoi Rocks from the unfortunate tragedy of drummer Razzle’s death in Vince Neil’s car in 1984. After listening to this album I am okay with that knowledge alone. This wasn’t necessarily a bad album but it was definitely a product of the time. Most the album I was trying to classify it: was it a hair metal or pop/New Wave band? I still can’t get a bead on their identify. There are a few fun tracks, like Until I Get You, and Sailing Down the Tears. There is no regret listening to this album but I’m not going to be making a playlist from it.

Random thoughts: * I have never listened to Hanoi Rocks before. I have a vague memory of them being a punchline to a joke in the late 80s/early 90s. * It is very much an 80s sounding album. * They are Finnish! Are they the most famous pop/rock band from Finland? * Oh damn! They broke up due to the drunk driving incident with Vince Neil. Yikes. * They are the link from glam to hair metal. * Anyway, I won't be choosing this one again.

Mediocre hair rock from the 1980's. The opening tune is a parody on a folk song (out of tune recorder playing and all), not sure what it's doing there but I may like it more than the other songs. I like my metal less well behaved. I'll give it a 2 because I don't hate it, and it could be (have been) good fun live. But I don't know why this is on the list.

Didn't like this. 80s pop.

Primary-school level hair metal.

I already forgot what this album sounded like

Naff

Sounds like the fake hair metal band from vice city

Half of the songs are unavailable on Spotify. Not that I'd miss it, I'm not a fan of this sort of 80s rock tbh. Gotta love that 80s look though!

-all I knew about Hanoi Rocks is that they’re Finnish and Vince Neil killed the drummer. captivating lore already -this is admittedly sort of mediocre in a lot of ways. very annoying vocals and bad chemistry with the instruments.. but idk there were a few songs I fucked with. it’s anachronistic hair metal stuff I can only hate on it so much -Favorites are Until I Get You and Lick Summer Love

80s glam rock. It's okay. Lyrics are sometimes powerful and sometimes kind of random.

Rating: 5/10 Meh.

I'm guessing this is on the 1001 albums list/project because Hanoi Rocks influenced glam metal/hair metal, and I hear that. There were several times I'd hear a riff or melody and connect it to the more popular band that borrowed it or stole it (intentionally or not). But as far as I'm concerned, the bands they influenced took what Hanoi Rocks did and improved on it (at least the better ones did). The farther I went into the album, the less I enjoyed it, and eventually I just wanted it to be done. Thankfully it's not some ridiculous length like an hour. If this is the band's best album, then there's not much sense in wasting time digging into the others. It's definitely nothing I'd push on someone else to listen to either.

1.5 stars. I have heard of the band but not their music. No wonder why they are hardly mentioned these days or have their music played like other bands from the early 80s. I had to take a look to make sure I was playing the right album because, honestly, this seemed like a joke, as if the band was spoofing the genre with the awful singing. It is bewildering how it is included in the 1,001 albums.

One of the worst genres of music, but at least there’s some catchy choruses.

high 2

I don’t know what this is. It’s kind of fun but also lame? Super interesting beats then toned out by 80s monotony. I truly don’t hate it but I don’t love it either. 2.5

I've never been huge fan, possibly never listened to this album from start to finish. I have to admit, I don't like them that much. I do however understand how influential they were for the birth of glam rock and basically the whole scene that spawned Guns 'n Roses et. al. Andy McCoy is a talented guitarist, but not the kind that I prefer. Hanoi is not punk enough, they're not hard rocking enough and their music feels gimmickey. I'm going to listen to this album through (now half way) but do not expect to be blown away by any of the remaining tracks.

Confused as to how this was included…. Nothing particularly stood out to me. Kind of just classic 80’s rock, bang average

Just not my jam. Too much effort to listen to the whole thing.

I guess it's the type of music I usually like to listen to, but it was just way too forgettable for me to say I actually enjoyed or will remember the album

This sounds like it looks. Super 80's, which for me is not a problem. I like the punk energy and glam feeling when they come together successfully. But plenty here doesn't work, is just boring and pedestrian. My favorite is probably the minute or so it sounds a little Adam and the Ants in Tooting Bec Wreck. In sum I don't hate it, but there's also nothing special here justifying its inclusion on this list.

Another Must Hear Before I Die head scratcher here.. I don’t see the significance of this one. The album isn’t necessarily bad, but I don’t think it’s good either, and I know it’s not my thing. Moving on.

I could see this being a big influence on other bands, but it’s not something I’ll listen to again because I’ve heard it done better elsewhere

This is very silly hair metal and I kinda love it but also it’s dumb. Lol.

This was alright to have in the background, easy enough to listen to. Fairly mid rock and roll?

Definitely some 80s hair rock here. Not my favorite genre, but it's not absolutely terrible. I don't think I'd ever revisit this one.

Not a big fan of this one

I am not sure if these guys are serious or not? Bonus point as it is kind of fun!

Sometimes they will start a good riff and you'll think this will actually be fun, but then they'll do the corniest chorus you'll ever hear in your life and you will count the minutes until the album ends.

Burde kanskje gi litt mer pluss for å være eneste finske album på lista, men syns ikke dette var så veldig spennende. Høres akkurat ut som coveret ser ut. Beste låt: Ice Cream Summer, fordi den har en del med bjeller som er skikkelig julestemning.

Has not aged well

I don't think I've heard music from Finland so that is something new. That is about it for the something new. Some alright guitar but nothing better than the countless other small bands in this period. Tough to rate because I didn't hate it but just think it was a waste of time Rating: 1.7

Hanoi Rocks - Back to Mystery City This is stereotypical 80's music at it's finest. While they are some good songs on it here and there, nearly everything sounds exactly identical, so pretty much you are just listening to the same song 9 times (excluding the intro, which was indeed weird). It would've got a better score if the songs didn't sound repetitive and dull with the hooks and riffs they were delivering, so for now, this is fine. 1.- Strange Boys Play Weird Openings = 4/10 2.- Malibu Beach Nightmare = 7/10 3.- Mental Beat = 8/10 4.- Tooting Bec Wreck = 6/10 5.- Until I Get You = 8/10 6.- Sailing Down The Tears = 7/10 7.- Lick Summer Love = 7/10 8.- Beating Gets Faster = 8/10 9.- Ice Cream Summer = 8/10 10.- Back To Mystery City = 6/10 FINAL SCORE: 6.9/10

I don't think I'd ever heard of them before. It's fine, but they're no Scorpions.

Well....not the worst Brit shit on here.

A soft rock special that I would have loved aged 12. Was expecting something a bit more out there/ fun given the Finish connection. A bit disappointed.

I always wondered what Hanoi Rocks sounded like. They were one of those badges on the back of denim as a kid. It's kind of middling putative glam rock but the big problem is that, as it's their second language, the lyrics are painfully bad. Trite and obvious rhymes. It's not great, but then not everything is.

Not sure why this is on the list

A metade do disco disponível no Spotily demonstrou que se trata de hard rock típico dos anos 80.

I listen to it twice because I had the time but to be honest it's just pretty mundane glamrock to me

2.3 2x decent but nothing special

Bit glam for me

The mystery is why did this get on the list.

They say you shouldn't judge books by their covers, but I think you can judge Hanoi Rocks albums by theirs

Glam rock

Bland eighties rock. Not even bombastic enough to call it hair metal.

#366 - leap year. Well, second bad link in a row. Heard \"Lean On Me\", which was a blatant rip off of \"Money Money\" Actually band sounded better than expected so get 1 extra star

2.5

Why is this here? It’s ok, I guess.

This was pretty bad…

I had heard of Hanoi rocks but never actually heard any of the music. Now that I have heard it I’m unimpressed

There is some major 80s bias on the list because there is no way this is an album you should listen to before you die

Ummmm!!

Schlock hair metal

I originally wanted to say this is one of the worst 80’s Glam Rock albums I’ve ever heard, but I don’t even think it’s the worst. It’s just not really that Glam Rock as I expected. It felt like it lacked personality to me, and I just sat through the album like what am I even listening to. How does this make a list of albums you must hear before you die, yet other glam rock classics are missing? A baffling choice of inclusion with this one.

Tooting Bec Wrecked is the highlight amidst a lot of cheesy schlager-rock party tunes.

Not on Apple Music so I couldn’t really listen to it. But from what I read doesn’t sound like anything special to me.

Hey, at least it's only 25 minutes.

Album was okay. Nothing that interesting. 2.5/5 Probably won’t listen again

Meh

3.5/10 Dosta sam ravnodusan prema ovom albumu. Iz nekog razloga mi nije smetao u pozadini, niti sam ga nesto dozivljavao. Mjesavina punk rocka i glama sa pomalo tinejdzerskim tekstovima. Ajd barem je upbeat i skoro catchy. Sailing Down The Tears i Beating Gets Faster su mi donekle bile zabavne, a druge nisam ni primjetio. Na trenutke sam se malo osjecao kao u Drmešu, sto je vise do mene ali albumu definitivno smanjuje ocjenu. Jos jedan u nizu bendova otkud Steel Panther ocito crpi inspiraciju, ali ovaj glam rock mi nije najsvjetlija tocka 80ih.

It feels like a crossroads and also dated. I'm sure it was a fun band to see with incredible energy in person...at home. meh.

Only half an album on Spotify and it doesn’t seem worth the effort to dig out the rest. Seems very simple and basic. Timeless - not in a particularly good way, just like it’s mashed together with things from different periods.

Seemed like pretty run-of-the-mill rock to me. Recording quality dipped from time to time as well which just had me wondering what makes this album so special. No answers found, for me.

rock bateau

It was okay

Wasn't a fan of this one - I found it to be stereotypical 80's music. Had me cringing a little bit, to be honest.

2 stars - very boring.

Hmm rare keuze, niet echt een populaire band, nog nooit van gehoord en dit album niet eens in de top 4 van hun Spotifypagina. Erg vergetelijk

Het doet me denken aan van alles; gejatte drumritmes van The Ramones, gekopieerde riffs van Johnny Thunders, het zit er allemaal in. Maar moet toch wel toegeven dat het bij vlagen best aandoenlijk en catchy was. Maar echt goed is het niet hè? En al helemaal niet eigenzinnig. 5,5/10 Highlights: Tooting Bec Wreck

50

This was ok, nothing outstanding, generic rock album maybe.

Ret sjovt og rimelig sigende for slut 80'er rock.. okay, produktionen bliver virkelig skramlet og ringe mod slutningen.. det begynder at blive irriterende... Pænt ringe Black Sabbath cover... Fantastisk hvordan en plade kan starte et godt sted, men som bare smadrer hele lortet på vej ud og lægger en lort på ruinerne..

B-Tier Motley Crue. Bad

This is just the track list to a generic guitar hero game. And just because you use a harmonica doesn’t make you “innovative”. The generic 80s rock obsession on this list continues.

pretty average, nothing really stood out

Big chunks missing from Spotify, but I suspect I'm not missing too much given how similar the stuff that is there sounds. Harmless, but hardly earth shattering

Weird inclusion in this list...

I'm genuinely confused by this album, or at least its inclusion on this list. Nothing I heard seemed new, novel, or influential. The recording quality was mediocre, and song writing basic, the execution lukewarm.

It was alright. Didn’t blow me away, but there were a couple of catchy songs. I question the providence of the version I heard on streaming; the volume matching track to track seemed to be all over the place which created a bit of a disjointed listen.

It’s like hair metal meets the cure or something - not bad but not my favorite.

Bij het zien van de cover dacht ik al "oei" en ja hoor, het klinkt exact hoe de albumhoes eruit ziet: nogal foute glamrock uit de 80s. Daarom een 2.4*

no no no no no no no n-

It was....fine for hair metal, but is this really the album that's going to be the considered the "gold standard" for that era? Really? Somedays, I just don't know with this list...

generic rock n roll.. and every song sounds the same.. not bad but why is it on here? this list makes me wonder if most music is actually bad, which is why mediocre average things make in on here. but no, i've listened to plenty of good albums not on this list. so what's the excuse?

Im D with a bit of glam rock, this was pretty unremarkable though solid 2

Not good, but dumb in a kind of fun way. Eh, actually not that fun, though. I was going to round up from a 2.5, but by the end, it’s hard to go higher than a 2. I did sort of like “Lick Summer Love.”

This was average. Nothing special. Probably forget about it by tomorrow.

Nunca había escuchado hablar de ellos. Como dije en el disco anterior, si la historia los olvidó, por algo es.

J'ai l'impression que cet album est présent non pour sa qualité mais plutôt parce qu'apparemment il aurait eu une grosse influence sur la scène glam ? Quoiqu'il en soit il y a clairement une raison qu'on ne s'en souvient pas autant que ses contemporains : ça va de droite à gauche, la production et le mixing sont inconsistants, les compositions ne se démarquent pas. Vraiment rien d'intéressant à cet album. 3/10

I may not know a lot about mixing, but I was thinking the whole time how poor it sounded for being from 1983. I had the volume all the way up. Then Beating Gets Faster started and I had to scramble to turn it down. That song is probably the best even if only because the mix is so much better. Damn. I was excited for some Finnish glam rock. But this left me disappointed.

It's not terrible. Not remarkable either, even by the genre's standards

Cheesy and full of hair! Spotify only have half of the album, which was probably a blessing

Had a mate who was into this band, didn't see the attraction then and I still don't get it.

bummer, i was hoping this would be an overlooked gem

Bored to tears. Also not for me

Every song sounds like a Frankensteined collection of other riffs. Which isn't to say it isn't enjoyable at times, but it's not exactly memorable or all that good.

For some reason, not on apple music so I had to piece together what I could from other albums. Not bad stuff, but it's in that territory of '80s rock that we've already had enough of a dose of, nothing really distinct here. Very middle of the road, think I'd axe it, and not even being able to access the full album doesn't help. Favorite tracks: Strange Boys Play Weird Openings, Malibu Beach Nightmare. Album art: Cool, fine, whatever. 2.5/5

Really didn’t rate this at all.

Middle of the road and nothing memorable or catchy.

Unremarkable

So far on my list, it's one of the rare European albums that are not from the UK or Ireland - it's from a Finnish band. It's 1980s glam rock, quite fun, listenable, not very 80s sounding, but still not a very interesting album overall. Just average glam rock, and my question is - why this was included in this list? I couldn't find any informations if it was an influential album, or what's the reason it is different from the thousands of other glam rock albums.

As soon as I saw the album cover I knew this was gonna suck and I wasn't wrong.

Ha man, this album does not need to be on this list. It was fine, but in general just kind of shitty 80s glam rock. It has it's place but definitely not something you must listen to before you die.

nothing stood out. Background music

Not bad but I wouldn't revisit it. Middling 2.

Nothing really special here. Tooting Bec Rec was pretty good. Other than that pretty pedestrian.

Never heard Hanoi Rocks before. I wouldn't say I'm a fan of glam/hair rock but there are songs I can get into under the umbrella. Having said that, this album didn't do anything for me. I didn't particularly care for any of the hooks or choruses and I didn't find them very memorable. Favorite song was 'Tootin Bec Wreck'. I feel bad for it but I can't say I like this album or will even remember it.

I'd never heard of these guys and now that I have, my idea that the greatest Finnish export to the world is Kimi Raikkonen is unchanged. This album is the soundtrack to a minorly successful summer movie about teenagers in California in 1986, directed by a German man and filmed in pre-war Croatia. Not bad, just fairly forgettable.

This one isn’t on Amazon prime music and I wasn’t willing to sit through YouTube ads for it If I want to hear that drum beat I’ll just watch the old Dog Show skits

I'm not a big fan of this style. Nothing was awful about it but I'm not going to listen to it again.

Its okay! Nothing to special but there's a few bangers

Had a moment or two of being interesting. Otherwise, not worth my time. 2/5

I listened to the first 30 seconds of the first 4 tracks and didn't want to waste any more time.

after noticing some discrepancies with the lyrics, i dug around and learned that on spotify (as well as at least apple music according to another reviewer) tracks 4-7 are actually tracks 4-7 from their first album. can you just swing over to the debut and play the correct Mystery City songs there? no, that'd be too easy, Bangkok Shocks of course has the correct tracks 4-7. this works for and against my initial impressions, as it means both the vile lyric "the sweet taste from the lips between your legs" (which sent me down this rabbit hole) and my favorite song (Cheyenne, mislabeled as Lick Summer Love) are both not actually on Mystery City. without this valley and peak, it's pretty unremarkable. more fun and less grating than the glam metal bands they'd influence, at least

This album was better than I expected, but that's not saying much. There were songs that were some solid 80's rock and roll, but too much of it seems forgettable, throwaway, and a relic of a time that contains a lot of music most people are happy to just forget.

fuck shit to the rock and roll, bro!

Don’t really know how I missed listening and eating this one- it’s apparently been in my list for almost 2 years. Well, I listened, and it was typical of this list; barely better than some house band from a 1980s Club era.

m lo esperaba peor

Älkää luulko.. suomessa iskelmää lauletaan ei ole hanoi kaupunkia täällä... Harvoja maanpettureita on... Tosiasia..

líkar ekki þessi stefna. glammálmur. en allt í lagi.

Not particularly noteworthy. Not sure why it made this list.

Best Finnish Glam rock album of all time?

Uninspired, dull, and quite naff.

Was this really necessary? 4/10

Its ok

teollisuus kasveja 80 luvulta ö. tuedetään mistä lapset tykkää, nuoret, algoritmit täydellusesti viilattuna . tykkää homoista ne nuoret. ei siinä mitään...mitään vastaan ole.. miellekästähän musiikkia on vaikkakin artifisiaali älyköllä luotu. vähän acdc kuuluu läpi , sen lisäksi kun kaikki hair metal rokki tukkapojot lick summer love

Interesting to have some glam metal show up. Can't say anything really jumped out to me but this is fine. It all kind of blended together.

This album cover is so bad that it almost becomes good again. The vocal styling, annoying at times. Feels a bit repetitive, nothing jumping out. Beating Gets Faster starts off kind of cool but falls flat. Sounds like music that would be in the B-movie franchise The Best of The Best. There is potential, but needs a different vocalist and tighter arrangements.

I see the appeal but this is my least favorite style of rock. Last song is pretty cool though.

No clue why this album is included. This is also super weak to be classified as hard rock and metal

Started off interesting then rapidly turned the corner into cheesy shite.

Loud, clearly talented, but nothing memorable. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

Prototypical 80s hair metal.

Decent for a "big hair" band. But that entire genre is mediocre at best. While bands like Bon Jovi and Whitesnake were on the radio, you had bands like R.E.M., U2 (for a while), and The Cure relegated to college radio stations. This genre is lame. It produced a few fun songs, but a lot of the time that was when it strayed from the genre (for example, Motley Crue's first album is much more just pure hard rock, and it's their best). 2 stars.

It's okay. Not bad... not great

Another album that doesn't do anything interesting or do it well.

Not sure why this is in the list? Not a very good album

Pretty standard glam rock record here. A few of the songs had weird lyrical themes and the title track rips off Mony Mony?? There are some interesting production elements and noises that are a bit Pink Floyd-ish at times, so not all bad. Fav Tracks: Strange Boys Play Weird Opening (great title), Tooting Bec Wreck

Eh

Naja

Not a huge fan.

Meh. Average at best. Don' know why this is on this list. If I had never heard it, I would still feel completed in my music repertoire.

If I got AI to generate a generic rock album, it would produce this, right down to the odd band name and track titles (look them up). It’s got that uncanny sounds-fine-until-you-actually-listen quality. Shout out to Back To Mystery City which is Mony Mony (lol) and Ice Cream Summer where you get hit with a sudden exclamation of “bitch!” unexpectedly. Apparently these guys influenced Guns N Roses so take from that what you will. Listens: 1 Fave Track: Malibu Beach Nightmare Rating: 2

Bursting at the seams. Loud and chaotic with much more of a punk rock influence than I was expecting from a “glam rock” band. The best moments are when they slow down their frenetic energy and focus more on the hooks and the melody like on the songs “Tooting Bec Wreck,” “Beating Gets Faster” and “Ice Cream Summer” where the glam-rock formula comes more into focus.

There's no reason for this album's inclusion in this project. It's exactly fine. It's largely unmemorable, but it's competently made and inoffensive.

not nearly as bad as I was expecting, really. not a fan of the 80's glam metal contemporaries, but the addition of some sax and harmonica kinda elevates it? floor is still pretty low though. Tooting Bec Wreck is the worst name but maybe best track here with a good sing a long hook. Until I get you is a decent blues rock song filtered through cocaine and neon. If you like 80's glam radio rock, this is a head above the rest of the pack. but not enough to redeem it. I guess there's a better chance I listen to this again before Motley Crue ?

Everyone likes to pretend the 80s sounded like Blood Orange or Nation of Language or something but it actually sounded like this

Of it’s time. Maybe a reason they were new to me.

This album was overall unimpressive. It was fairly standard glam rock/hard rock. Apparently, Hanoi Rocks was influential for later glam metal bands like Poison and Skid Row. The fact that they’re Finnish is interesting but I’m not sure why they were included on this list.

so average i had to take a break from listening to these albums average glam pop rock from the 80s i dunno NNN

vraiment pas si fou. Je comprend pas trop l'inclusion, je trouve que ca derape un pue. Probablement pas dans les nouvelles editions. C'est pas mauvais quand meme... 2.85

Not really my style

Wasn’t horrible… wasn’t great… a couple of tunes had kind of a Ramones vibe (which I liked), but otherwise not particularly groundbreaking or unique.

Generic.

Glam rock isn’t my favorite genre, and the unsubstantial lyrics make this a miss for me.

Not really my thing

My moto is "trust the list". It is hard to believe that some of these selections are legitimately top1000 records. But for the most part I'm down to ride the coaster. This however..... this isn't even included in the best work from an obscure band. This band is the second fiddle to another lesser known band I mean by these standards about 10 albums on this list stand to me Mott the Hopple and Hanoi Rocks. That's 1% of the list, where as these bands should represent .02% if that.

Honestly never cared for this scene.

this was just mostly background music for me but i didn’t mind it, reminded me of the film detroit rock city and some of the songs were pretty cool i’ll be honest, don’t think i’d listen to them again, but doesn’t mean they’re bad…

Not Vietnamese. Or from Vietnam. Or having anything at all to do with Vietnam. At first. Serious Japan (the band) vibes here. Hanoi Rocks also became popular in Japan (the country), but no word on what Vietnam thought of them. Maybe they would have grown in popularity in Asia and elsewhere, but the band didn’t survive the death of their drummer, Razzle. Razzle was a passenger in a car driven by a drunk Vince Neil of Motley Crue, and the two people in the other car suffered brain damage. Neil only went to jail for 30 days. I had to find “Back To Mystery City” on YouTube, and I can't say my dedication to tracking down this album was worth it. I’m glad I signed out first to prevent a wave of hair band recommendations from poisoning my algorithm. What about Asia (the band)? They don’t get a spot on the list? “Heat of the Moment” is better than anything from Hanoi Rocks or Japan.

So bad. I get why they're on here if these are the guys who inspired a decade of butt rock. But so many bands like Crue, Ratt, Whitesnake, etc did it sooooo much better. These guys really blow.

These guys sound like they'd be fun to party with. Songs range from decent to woefully bad, but nothing exceptional. If I'm not mistaken, this is the only Finnish album on the list. A missed opportunity to include some viking metal instead. Damned shame that. 2 mascara sticks out of 5

this is actually less shockingly crap than "finnish glam rock" would suggest, but nowhere near non-crap enough to make me want to try and find the half of the album that isn't on spotify

Meh

hanoi rocks was sort of a b-list hair metal band in the early 80s. going in, literally the only thing i knew about them was that one of their members, razzle, was killed by vince neil in a car accident in which he was the passenger and vince was drunk. there were far more “misses” than “hits” on this album. yes, you can see some signs that maybe there was something special there, but most of the album fell flat with me.

2,5

11th September 2023 Listened across 2 days cos it’s half on Spotify. Chilled day with a gym visit. Can hear shades of Tommy James and the Shondells, lightweight pop punk. 2.5 if I could.

Not really sure what to make of this - it veered into almost Bay City Rollers territory in places, and had the feel of late-not-so-great Gen X at times, too. It was more fun that I expected, but still a bit too straight-ahead rock (other than the weird intro and birdsong interspersed in places) for me to really get into it.

Boring, no wonder I've never heard of this band before

Strange mix of punk, new wave, and hair metal. Some call backs to early rock and roll mixed in. Overall a confusing mix of styles with nothing that really stood out to me.

Mediocre at best. Nothing special here. I hear the are big in Finland - the rest of the is just fine without them. 2.5/5

Huh, vem hade trott att även finsk glamrock låter exakt som all annat glamrock? Nog inte min grej bara. Känns som meningslöst trummande och strummande utan mål eller känsla. Finns det känsla så är den överdriven och fejk. I vissa låtar kommer någon sorts substans fram. Som i 'Tooting Bec Wrecked', som faktiskt är riktigt bra. I mellanspelen finns några sorgsna bastoner och i refrängerna anas lite desperation. 'Until I Get You' också helt ok. Utöver det är det mest ingenting. Bästa låt: Tooting Bec Wrecked.

Not as bad as I expected from the cover, but still this really isn’t my bag.

Didn’t finish, it wasn’t offensively bad but I just knew it wasn’t for me.

Glam rock with 80s production, it's exactly what you'd expect. Trying to imitate others like KISS but with a childish sense of humor and fast energy. Everything about this feels commercial and derivative. Awful mixing, and inconsistent volume. Not a single outstanding track, but there were a few I could bear with. Favorites: Malibu Beach Nightmare, Tooting Bec Wreck, Ice Cream Summer

Sure. Some alright tracks. 2/5

Meh

5/10 glam rock. rien a se remémorer

Bit average

The kind of glam rock that I have trouble getting into. Sounds like they were not hugely successful, but were influential to some other glam bands who I also don't like listening to.

Uninteresting, bland, generic glam rock.

The most 80s sound ever. I felt like I was a 80s movie- and while that sound can be fine in a 80s movie montage a whole album is a lot.

Ok, you like the Ramones. I get it. I've heard high school demos recorded on a 4 track that have more soul and life than this album. I don't understand why I'm listening to it on the 1001 albums I have to hear.

I understand that this is highly influential. Unfortunately I’m not a huge fan of a lot of the bands that Hanoi Rocks influenced. Most of this just sounds plain silly and it only really shines at times on “Tooting Bec Wrecked” and “Beating Gets Faster”.

Generic af. I don’t even say af like the kids do, but it’s fitting here. These guys are just unspecial, watered down rum and coke when I ordered a Cuba Libre.

banal

Meh. 2/5

Sounds like a local high school band, some catchy tunes though

I think I can do without this.

Un poco aburrido (LNB)

I feel like Hanoi rocks is a classic band in legendary status. Maybe I wasn’t in the best mindset to listen to this but I wasn’t really into it. Seemed like a creative test almost

Nee, blegh!

Eens maar nooit meer.

Feels a very average 80s hair metal album, not sure why it’s on the list.

Uninteresting. Didn't finish this one.

Had some high points, but many low points. Far too many pitch changes, like a forerunner to shit boy bands in the 2000s.

Listened Before? N Hmmm... this is an interesting take on glam metal/hard rock from the early 80s. Their look was refined to almost an early-90s state, but the music is much harder and less harmonic than those late hair metal guys. It was okay, but nothing really stood out to me. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: none because it's not available on Amazon.

inspid

Пока что бови тока пожиже и панк Не понимаю, чем хочет быть этот альбом Странные копии разных больших артистичных 70-80х Не знаю, как альбом оказался в этом списке вообще

red leicester, wensleydale, gouda, roquefort, stinking bishop and Hanoi Rocks. a selection of cheeses. after 5 songs this got incredibly tiring.

Anyone giving this 5 stars needs to get off the smack and stop noncing monkeys in Belize

Somehow derivative of 80s pastiche only 3 years into the decade, this album manages to bring in all of the hokey harmonica and tiring vocal antics one would expect and then beat them to death over the course of 40 minutes. Not really any creative ideas here outside of some faint interest in the intro, and that's damning praise at best.

Catchy and fun at first but it sounds the same throughout and the lyrics almost couldn’t be worse. 4/10

This felt fluffy and unnecessary.

Just average. Didn't expect too much. Didn't get too much.

most of the album is not available. what I heard wasn't bad, very bowie like

Meh

Känns son The Hives har hittat inspiration från detta finska band. Tror att plattan behöver ett par lyssningar för att sätta sig.

Meh

Nothing of note to be honest - all a bit samey apart from the intro track.

j'ai peu de choses à dire

Thought it was fairly "meh" for glam rock. Didn't particularly dislike it but nothing stood out either.

Maybe it’s because I had to listen to it on you tube instead of iTunes but it got old kinda quickly.

For this to be one of the albums I have to listen to before I die, it is not easy to find on some services. However, after work - it is very glam 80s rock - which can be fun when you are in the mood for it.

Came in not expecting very much and that's exactly what I got.

bland

Late-to-the-game 70s style glam rock from 1983.... which I have nothing against. What I have something against is the lack of good songwrighting. Nothing here makes me want to listen to this again. 2/5

Interesting album. Couldn’t get into it, but I get the appeal frm the point of someone who appreciates rock/metal ina different way than I do.

Me pareció un tanto punk

Get ekki sagt að þetta finnska 80s hár-rokk hafi heillað mig mikið.

Was a solid rock album. Pretty generic sounding for the era.

This is pretty bland and generic, though its not as much of a torture session as yesterday's

hair band 80's sound. Not very distinctive to me, just okay.

This is not what I thought Hanoi Rocks was going to sound like. Am I crazy? As a glam rock consumer of the mid to late 80s, I thought they arrived much later than they actually did. So this is kind of a nice surprise, though still pretty thin. Engaging songs, but nothing that made me want to hear it twice.

Didnt really grab me

Rock is my bag, but this is not. Very forgettable!

An odd kind fusion of glam rock and punk. I mean, it wasn't bad by any means but probably won't be in my rotation.

Good last song.... why is this on the list?

It tinges with hair metal production and punk music. It sadly doesn’t do either of these things very well. To quote NOFX “I don’t think Hanoi Rocks.”

min første tanke va at detta såg plagsomt ut va heldigvis litt bedre men ikkje så veldig likte tooting bec wrecked for den va litt joy division aktig i starten

nah

Hard rock, tunge trommer, rimelig skinger vokal, et par okay numre

Scores low on the 'why is it on the list' scale (as far as I can tell it's special because... they're from Finland?) Gains back 2.5 stars for some rather fun and catchy glam rock bops.

Ok.

Dude whatever. This is absolutely not something you need to listen to before you die. This is something you find in your dad's CD rack and even he would be like "I don't remember this one". A 2/5 since I don't actually hate the songs here, they're really simple and kind of boring, but I can still listen to them. I'm mostly just baffled at why this was included.

The only possible reason this could be on this list is because the author has some nostalgic memories of listening to this while drinking beer in the parking lot after high school with his buddies or something. This is pretty bland and generic glam rock.

Nothing special, had to listen via YouTube which is never a good experience

Very inoffensive in what feels like a novel way.

Only thing I know about this band is that their drummer was the guy Vince Neil killed. This is mostly glammed up new wave - I was expecting hair metal, which would have been preferable. Amateur hour. 2.5/5.

This is music that a band would play in a cutaway gag from 30 Rock. Gotta respect that man’s hair tho.

I mean...I didn't HATE it, but I can't say there was anything memorable about this album for me. I guess my fave track was Malibu Beach Nightmare, and I have a memory of liking the first few tracks MUCH more than the second half of the album. Not a BAD album but would never re listen.

Non descript inoffensive and ultimately unremarkable hard Rock. 2.5 🌟

Not as bad as I expected. But still bad..

Well, this is mock rock at iut's worst I think, a pastiche of the New York Dolls, with sub Sex Pistols and Adam and the Ants. I get a Mott the Hoople without the talent or irony vibe. (Not surprising as it was produced by Dale Griffin & Overend Watts) I can get what they were trying to do but for me it is a mediocre punk/glam offering. If I had to choose a favourite Track it would be the title track. Not one for me I am afraid.

This is a sleazy unremarkable glamrock album which grabs their influences from Alice Cooper to the New York Dolls. The songs are very stock-standard, 13-in-a-dozen. Never bad, but never achieving anything more than mediocrity. Thus far, 50 albums in, I have the feeling that the creators of the list of 1001 albums you must hear before you die never really enjoyed hard rock much because the inclusion of the albums are terrible, even though there's so much greatness to be found in the genre.

I guess good for them for figuring out the 80s rock sound by 1983. It's pretty middle of the road, wouldn't turn it off but wouldn't turn it up

Somewhat generic post punk sounds.

Wow. This seems...random. For years my only exposure to Hanoi Rocks was from the car accident with Motley Crue (I can only hope they're not on this list) that killed their drummer. A bit of reading shows these guys (from Finland) were *hugely* influential on the early 80s hard rock scene, bringing a mix of glam and metal. Ok cool music history moment but what about the music? Yes as it turns out this has a strong early 80s sound but it's more Bowie+New York Dolls+Poison. If that's your bag. Aside from the fact that this sounds like a demo (I'm reminded of Van Halen's unreleased mid-70s demo that sounds similar yet better than this) the album is filled with simple melodies and predictable if not bad good-time party hooks, it's.... fine. So why is this on the 1001 list? Influence? I could be mean and complain that bands that merely influenced some emerging trends but weren't any good themselves should probably not be on this list (...but then i'd just be talking about the horrific abomination that were the Velvet Underground and that's playing dirty). "Sailing Down The Tears" sounds like a coke-fueled bash with Slash playing aside a drunk Alice Cooper. To sum up: this sounds like a good high school band that played their dance in 1983 and then should have gone to college and gotten better at songwriting instead of becoming Poison a few years later. 3/10 2 very dim and generous stars: early 80s "hard rock" for 13 year olds. At least there's melody.

Generic.

Meh. I like the beats but the lyrics are rather cheeseball

If I judged this record by the album cover photo alone, I would had given this a hard pass! It was produced by a couple ex-Mott the Hooples (NOT Ian Hunter or Mick Ronson), so it slightly has their sound, as well as maybe the NY Dolls and some riffs from the Dictators, though not done nearly as good as those bands. Parody at best, I expected worse, but they can still go back to mystery city, please.

Eh.

Nothing groundbreaking

Must admit I only ever knew the story of Razzle and didn't bother to ever listen to this band. Coming from Sweden or Switzerland or wherever it was I guess what they did was different, but I feel like many other LA bands were doing this genre much better than Hanoi Rocks were at the time.

Has a razor-thin punk edge to the glam rock that this definitely is. Malibu Beach Nightmare has a Ramones surfer music vibe and then weird rockabilly harmonica but it's a banger. They are somehow 'heavier' than more traditionally melodic glam rock whilst still having a very intense 80s vocal curl. Lick Summer Love is a horrendously rapey narrative in the way that the 80s kind of excused a lot in media. Beating Gets Faster has a Blue Oyster Cult feel that really stands out. The good - Malibu Beach Nightmare, Beating Gets Faster, Back to Mystery City. The low - Lick Summer Love

Bleh. Boring rock from the 80s

80s cheese