Reviews (page 6 of 7)
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
I feel like this might be the album that created pop punk (as opposed to punk or new wave). Whether that is a good thing or not, I leave to you. I must be honest, it did very little for me... I can see how it might have been important, but it's too affected, too studied to do anything for me. A lot of the noises are right, but they feel constrained by a hideous politeness.
really plain hair-metal
Didn’t hear anything that interested me, sounded like very underwhelming generic late 80s/90s rock BUT then I saw the date and the fact that this inspired a lot of future bands like Guns N’ Roses. Still very underwhelming, but 2 stars instead of 1 for being ahead of its time.
Very much reflective of the time -- early 80s rock/pop -- and I can see why it would popular. Didn't really do it for me, though. Not sure exactly why, but part of has to with the feeling I get when listening to most of their songs that there's just too much going on and not often in a way that brings it all together.
Not even their most popular album. Very very generic 80s pop
Aika tyhjänpäiväistä pehmorokkia. Vaikka onkin suomalainen bändi, niin ei pysty ihan kolmosta antamaan.
Non descript inoffensive and ultimately unremarkable hard Rock. 2.5 🌟
ну штош, со значимыми альбомами закончили, теперь можно и к финскому глэм-роцку... ...че это за хуйня, блять?) какие-то скандинавы, которые назвались в честь вьетнамской столицы (у них и про бангкок альбом есть, кста), поют про пляжи малибу, на фоне петух блять кукарекает (натурально). Ну я хз, короче, че тут оценивать, и что вообще оно делает в этом списке, ну три нормальных песни есть (Until I Get You, Beating Gets Faster и финальная Back to Mystery City), остальное какая-то странная чепуха, думал хоть веселья глэмового завезут и хуков запоминающихся, но чет нет. Ну 4/10, это никуда не годится
Definitely an 80s feel but not really good 80s. I was not familiar with any of the songs. No need to listen to again.
Back to Mystery City fait une entrée fracassante dans le classement des albums avec une pochette moche.
every other song is not available on spotify, how annoying. nice intro, deceiving probably. first song is okay, not crazy about it. same goes for the rest of the songs on the album. nothing special. lick summer love is the only song i like a little bit more and its not on spotify :/
You wanna talk 80s as pejorative? How about 80s as performative? I think what’s missed by the received wisdom that Hair Metal was an aberration is the fact that they actually embodied the fun that they had physically in their music. And just because something’s fun, doesn’t strip it of merit. Quite the opposite. Fun is essential. That being said, it has to be paired with at least one memorable song. This felt like musical candy floss without the aftertaste. Which is to say I remember snaffling down on it and getting a kick at the time. I couldn’t hum you a single snatch of a single song now, though.
Cute Finnish New York Dolls impresarios. Their English is as good as Johansen's but their joi de vivre duller, identity crises absent and wildness overwhelmed by too much attention on 'the look' and too little on gay abandon. Tooting Bec Wreck is a passable Stranded in the Jungle imitation though. Let's hope we get In Too Much Too Soon next so we can see how this shit's really done.
Not very fond of the genre
2/5
Could only listen to a couple songs on Spotify. The two songs were good though
Fun at times, but annoying at more times than that. It felt like the guitars and vola swere fighting against each other rather than complementing each other.
It only let me hear like 3 songs, they were alright i guess
A decent listen, Lots of the bands I used to listen to would name these guys as among their influences, but I have never got around to checking them out. I quite like, it didn't sound as dated as I expected, and the songs are really catchy. It does all get a bit samey quite quickly though.
Spotify only gave me a few songs from this album to listen to? And what I did listen to, I wasn't a fan of.
Ice Cream Summer sounds like Weezer. Rest of album is just okay but heard worse on this list.
Competent.
Meh
As far as I know they did not have any hit in the Netherlands. Had never heard of them. The album had a glamor rock sound especially the song 'Back to Mystery City'. That song sounded to me a lot like Mony Mony by Tommy James and the The Shondells.
Kinda felt like generic punk rock.
Ok, nothing amazing
Interesting Finnish Glam Rock before the time thought would be there. Not my jam.
Not for me. Way too generic and samey
+: Malibu Beach Nightmare, Sailing Down the Tears, Lick Summer Love, Back to Mystery City +-: Mental Beat, Tooting Bec Wreck, Until I Get You, Ice Cream Summer -: Strange Boys Play Weird Openings, Beating Gets Faster 3,2/10
Una banda con muchas voces en este album, resulta aburrido.
This must be a joke?
Random Finnish Glam/Hard Rock record from the 80's. Why am I listening to this?
Would rather be in Hanoi in 1968 than listen to this again.
When an album is so unlistenable that I quit after 3.5 songs, it’s like stealing a little personal time from this project. Yoink!
bad
Phew. Three things I can’t stand: glam rock, hair metal and cheesy punk rock all in one band: to me, Hanoi Rocks are the epitome of what ruined 1980s rock music. Rock music for the redneck dance-off at the village disco. Silly, built on cheap hooks and with a particularly strong visual element. Rock music for teenage posters. Absolutely unimportant, absolutely trivial, absolutely boring.
"Hanoi Rocks"—well, they don't rock me in the slightest. I find it to be a really lame effort. Glam, Punk, Hair Metal—I don't know. It’s either nothing at all or just a crude mishmash of everything; I find the songs truly boring. From a band that calls itself "Hanoi Rocks," I really expect more—a significantly more "explosive mix." Do they get any stars for this? Yeah, sure—the obligatory one.
It is a mystery to me as to how this is a must listen album. Maybe cause it is a collaboration of band members from other successful bands? Reading through some music history, these guys influenced bands like GNR, Poison and the hair band scene so that must be the reason for a spot on the list. Either way, pretty lame 80s hair. The intro is the best track and is unfortunately short. "Tooting Bec Wreck" is the only other bit of solace. I thought I was gonna get some strange boys playing weird songs for the rest but alas...I was put through a mediocre glam jam. I guess these hair balls deserve a listen purely for kicking off a terrible genre and spurning on countless garbage drag queen bands in the 80s. They all sure partied hard and got laid a lot though so for that...1.3 stars.
A full plate of hot, steaming, Finnish, hair metal wannabe, turds right in your ear hole. I dislike when he said, “I come from the outer space”. And there the joy ends.
I pray to god that I never have to go to Mystery City if this is what it sounds like.
I'll give it this much: it puts the one-star streak to three straight and five of the last six. Hey, 1001 guy, you probably could have made this 501, or even 301.
Does Hanoi Rock? I’m not so sure. This is bland, uninteresting hair metal that sounds exactly the way you think it does.
Dette er ikke spesielt spennende. Hadde forventa litt mer energi og cheese a la Malibu Beach Nightmare, men livet går liksom ut av gutta. Tooting Bec Wreck var den eneste låta jeg likte. At det er den som høres minst ut som resten av albumet er sjeldent et godt tegn. Tenk å skrive Beating Gets Faster og si "gutta, nå har laget en skikkelig bra låt, altså." Men du skrev den ikke for talentkonkurransen i syvende klasse, men for ditt fjerde studioalbum. Flaut. Sluttstykket er så dårlig at 2ern glipper.
No no no no no.
meine Güte was für ein geschrei..
Well that was generic
Crap
Couldn’t listen to this
The instrumentals were decent, the lyrics and the vocals were so far. Felt like I was trying to copy major bands, but missed the mark.
by what metric this was judged one of the 1001 albums you must hear before you die.
An other fucking 80's album in this white ass list. You mean you rather put this than any album of C. Berry even if every single guitar's riffs in this album are widely inspired by him... Trafic.... It's not worth than an other but I'm not in the mood..
Another one I never needed to hear. Gains a point for not being from England or the USA and having this sort of gloom hanging over it. Edit: No, sorry, it’s a deserved 1.
I've never enjoyed this band or their albums. Not an essential band or album at all. The writers have it wrong. They have very much so over estimated their influence on anyone. Hair metal, or as it is more often called today, glam rock, was really more inspired more by Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie, and Kiss than by bands like Hanoi Rocks. Throw out this cynical album and instead embrace the pure vapid joy and escape that they offered U.S. audiences in the 80s bands of Motley Crue, Poison, Whitesnake, Warrant, Extreme, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Mr. Big, Cinderella, Firehose, Nelson, Skid Row, and Guns N' Roses. I use vapid not as an insult but as a celebration, because it offered relief to U.S. audiences who were exhausted by Vietnam War, stagflation, and Watergate of the 1970s. They were also exhausted with the overly serious tone of the music industry from the 1970s and just wanted a bit of fun for once. You will get more out of it, if you enjoy it as the pure Dionysian expression it was intended to be, and not as music critics treat it, as some sort of failure because it didn't express enough outrage or virtue signaling to please the critics who seem to incorrectly view themselves as the proper gatekeepers of music.
Somehow listening to this made me dislike hair metal / glam rock even more than I already did. Shallow, vapid lyrics, cheap sounding 80s production, boring songwriting. I guess there are some moments that are kinda fun but this isn’t something I’ll be returning to.
80s New Wave trash. No melody. Pussyfoot themes. No toughness at all in any of these guys.
It really is just another glam metal 80s album. A bunch of trendy for the time dudes trying to be awesome and get the spotlight. The lead guitarist is really the thing holding them together at all. The rhythm section is pretty good on their own. But the singer can't sing, which can work with some bands, but he really just doesn't fit at all and rips. It's like he's trying too hard to have bite and ferociousness, but it either sounds like a random, weird animal or exactly what he looks like on the cover. The production, I think, is the real let down. I feel like they would be a lot more listenable if the sound had any substance. Just sounds hollow and shallow. Not a great album, but it has a few listenable, fun moments
I really don't know why this album of tired old rock tropes and cliches has made it on to this list.
Tried to give this another listen, but I really just don't like it. The first three tracks have an energy and playfulness I can almost get into, and when she interesting instrumentation, but then it devolves.
Not on Amazon Music
I really can't stand this hair metal type of music
Vocals, instrumentation, lyrics, and production were just cringy bad. We are all worse for having heard this. Still better than anything by Oasis.
When your crowning achievement is influencing Ratt and Motley Crue, you especially can't have a song about fucking a virgin into submission. I was most offended by the 50s rock pastiche.
this was actually unpleasant to listen to.
Three songs was too much, travesty on the ears.
Hanoi Sucks. 80's junk punk. Mediocre production value.
Nothing different to any other band like this around at the time. Not sure why it's in the list!
Just wasn’t it for me. I found myself drowning it out early on and through the rest of the album. Next pls
Ass
How did the costoms at the border acept this?
Not really that good, to be honest.
First listen
Ist die Band so schlecht oder tut sie einfach so als wäre sie eine neu gegründete Schülerband in den 70ern? Aber ok, in einem kleinen Club mit genügend Schnaps on top waren die vielleicht ganz lustig.
Boring
Thoroughly not-good. I hear nothing that even gives me a hint as to why this would be included on this list. From the years of their releases and their cover photos I'd guess that they are somehow credited for being on the vanguard of hair metal? But David Lee Roth had copied the New York Dolls look years before, and his little band was great. The music here is abysmal. Not only VH, but also Billy Squire were doing the "sexy-strut" thing far better at the same time, and without the jarring tendency of drifting into Bay City Roller's-esque bubble gum pop.
Never heard of them. After listening to their music, I know why. Not good.
On first impressions, this album was fine but one of the weaker rock entries in the list so far. Upon revisiting the album for this review, I liked it less. It's not really bad, but it gets the bottom spot. I could've lived without this one. Favorite track: maybe "Ice Cream Summer"
Look, I’m no music critic or an expert in what is good, but I for the life of me can’t figure out why this album is on here.
Two duds in a row. The production on this is so flat that it's easy to forget you're actually listening to it. It just pretty much happened in the same room as me and I can't really recall anything of note about it other than the in sax in _ Malibu Beach Nightmare_ which adds some much needed dynamics to an otherwise utterly forgettable album.
Another album, I have no idea why this is on this list. There may be millions of other records that would deserve a place here over this. Heck, most of the records that have been removed from the current book are better than this.
20
Absolutely dreadful
Does it though?
nothing mysterious about this.
sometimes i ask myself why certain albums are on this list…
The 80s were a rough time
One black mark against Finland.
Finsk glamrock? Förvånansvärt svängigt. Men inget som lämnar något bestående intryck. Varför spelar trummisen genomgående för ishockey-klscken. Var beredd att ge detta en mycket svag 2:.a, men titelspåret drog ned helhetsintrycket till en 1:a.
no
“Important” because this was basically proto-hair metal, but lyrically and musically a whole lotta what.ever. Not really worth the time.
Twin guitar glam rock bordering on hair metal (but a very soft metal, like aluminum). Pretty generic mid-tempo beats, no real riffs or gnarly solos or any of the sheer absurd excess that would make this fun, instead it’s random harmonicas, reverse delay effects, and chugging nothingness. An 80s Finnish Cheap Trick that’s barely a weak copy of the Scorpions. “Until I get You” is pretty good TBH
Not the best side of the 80s
A vortex of every rock sound that had come before and the emerging baby synth tech of the early 80s. New Wave party music by cheeky Brits sneaking obvious masturbation references past oblivious censors. Musically: kitchen sink-core. There’s some cool sounds in here. Tooting Bec Wreck is a highlight, a singalong with Beefheartian lunacy hiding at the center. Lots of Big Hair sound in the middle of the record. Pub and Stadium rock linked by increasingly fading Oingo Boingo weirdisms. Bret Michaels crawled out of this shit like Athena from Zeus’s noggin. At its best recalls Mr Bungle. At its worst, Warrant.
1 stern
The singer shouts not sings. Is that because they need to be heard above the noise.
It didn't take long to figure out this was from the 80's. Pretty generic pop rock with absolutely nothing that would lead me to believe this would be on anyone's "must" listen list. I won't say it was terrible but I don't think I would hang around very long even if it was a free concert. I save my 1's for the brutal, but this one not much above. 1.5
Boring and unoriginal
Have you ever watched a show or a movie and the subtitles say something like "wet squelching" and you immediately plug your ears because you don't want to hear goddamn wet squelching? That was me when I saw "Metal/Hard Rock" and "Hanoi Rocks" appeared on my screen. Absolutely disgusting
Do they? Big hair business!
Bad glam metal. Why is this here?
Absolutely not
Fuck off. EDIT: ok you know what, I was gonna go easy on this album, but why is this on the list?? Like, this isn’t particularly early for this style of music, it isn’t remotely good, I gave it a two at first because it’s listenable, but no. Fuck it. This gets a one for sheer bewilderment that it’s on the list
Boring as hell.
Did not like
puta q pariu glam é ruim demais vsf corno que fez essa lista banda horrorosa
Tight band. Their music just doesn't do anything for me.
Not a fan of glam/hair metal so this will be a long listen... yeah 1 song in and ive got a headache.... Pathetic. Bland.
80s pop rock, my favourite genre. Let's just forget that I have ever listened to this album.
"Annoy" Rocks, am I right??
"Oh, finally a rock album outside of the UK or the US in this list..." * Hanoi Rocks * "ARRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHH"
As forgettable an album as I’ve heard.
Everything wrong with the 80's in one album. It's just a bad version of Bon Jovi. Why the hell is this album even close to this list, just no!
No
Crap.
yea hair metal is just rough man
In a nutshell: uniquely 80s Sounds like a mashup of New York Dolls, Sweet, Mötley Crüe and Poison. Could be inspiration for The Hives. Not for everyone. Overall: 2/10
It’s a 1.5 —- it’d be a 2.5 or 2 — there’s a few songs that are a tad catchy and fun, but I found it obnoxious to listen to and will not revisit.
More like Hanoi Sucks. Getting through this was tough. Every song plays like super rubbishy, not at all glamorous early glam punk metal but they’re all like 5 minutes long and I wanted to get the first plane ticket out of this Mystery City pretty much instantly.
Inte min typ av pudelrock
No thanks.