Hanoi Rocks: Classic or Dud?

Classic, just because they have an awesome name. The music can just fuck off though.

Jesse Camp: Classic or Dud?

He was dead annoying, further proof that people will vote for anything that amuses them for 5 seconds.

Because he's the type I can see overdosing on soda and Pop Rocks, and because his 15 minutes were up he dies a relatively anonymous death.

Ah well, the career is dead at any rate.

TWO STEPS FROM THE MOVE: Not as good, only other HR album I've heard. Guns N' Roses swiped the phrase "welcome to the jungle" from this. Somewhat unique as an early 80s band of equal appeal to punks (Dead Boys/Damned/Lords of the New Church division) and glam rockers (early Motley, future GN'Rers), plus from Finland.

Post Hanoi bands:

Cherry Bombz: Never heard 'em.

Jetboy (feat. HR bass player): First album FEEL THE SHAKE mentioned in Chuck Eddy's Accidental Evolution; never heard it. Second album DAMNED NATION, "Groove Tube" okay, rest sucks. Dud.

Shooting Gallery (feat. HR guitarist/songwriter): One self-titled album, 1992, went nowhere, band split, quickly forgotten. Dud for the loser career aspect, disc itself okay-but-nothing-special L.A.-style glam/sleaze rock; beats Jetboy's same.

Michael Monroe (HR singer): NOT FAKIN' IT was a notorious (commercial) dud. Still in bargain bins here, 10 years on. Cover art parallels likewise commercial dud, Deborah Harry's ROCKBIRD. Songs themselves excellent, with oddball session cast ("She's No Angel" credits Jimmy Ripp, Ian Hunter, Little Steven, Nasty Suicide, Anton Fig, and Brian James), crushed/obliterated/destroyed by sterile production. Still, worth the odd play, esp. "All Night With the Lights On." Named himself after Marilyn.

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Fucking classic. I go through an obsessive Hanoi phase about twice a year. As I listen to Bangkok Shocks at the moment, I feel like today is going to be the start of the latter-half-of-the-year infatuation for me.

I guess you've all heard that they reformed a few years back? They've put out a couple of LPs which have been getting pretty good reviews (especially the latest one) here, but I'm not sure if they've been released outside Finland.

I had Self Destruction Blues and Bangkok Shocks Saigon Shakes Hanoi Rocks on cassette when Geffen reissued them in the early 90s and really dug them but hadn't listened to them probably since like 95. Got back into them a couple months back re-picking back up those two records and Oriental Beat.

Hanoi Rocks was a fine band. The thing hearing these records with a fresh ear that many years later is how straight rock and roll they were. Weird thing to me was how often sonically similar ground Hanoi Rocks was covering as The Clash. Considering their influence was in metal/hard rock, their sound on those early records is really a mash of rock styles.

Well dang.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/michael-monroe-meets-vince-neil-39-years-after-crash-killed-hanoi-rocks-razzle-183608065.html

it's blowing my mind that this is 39 years ago. i saw them with razzle in leeds in '84; i was visiting my sister and she took me to see them (i had never heard hanoi rocks before this). vivid memories!

Show me some men who look like old lesbians!

Two Steps From the Move is such a fun album, but also so weird and silly. I mean, all the lyrics of "High School", Razzle's (I believe) spoken word bits, there is so much going on. Earlnash's post from 2013 otm.