"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Hanoi Rocks versus "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day

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I've loved the Hanoi song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" for years. It's one of the few highlights on their last album.

The Green Day song, it's good, but ultimately ... meh. I got sick of it before I even had a chance to like to thanks to it being overplayed on the radio.

I'll have to give this one to Hanoi.

― bsj30 (bsj30), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

THE GREEN DAY SONG IS NOT GOOD.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

these questions are getting increasingly annoying.

― Tynan DeLong (TynanTynan!), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Didn't we alrady have a thread on this?

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Esquivel

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh please -- Hanoi Rocks EVERY. DAMN. TIME.

I wonder if Green Day have ever heard it?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Alex is right, obv. Hanoi Rocks = Gods.

― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

esquivel seconded.

― reo, Friday, 16 December 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

i think they both suck donkey raper dick.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

It's one of the few highlights on their last album.
I just listened to Two Steps From the Move a few days ago. Every song on that thing is a highlight (well, except for maybe Underwater World, which I still appreciate as a maybe ripoff of "Submission").

their last album.
Oh, hey.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

There's a track there called "Reggae Rocker". This does not bode at all well. THE ERA OF GLAM REGGAE HAS FINALLY ARRIVED!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

I still love their cover of "Up Around the Bend," however silly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Don't even insult Hanoi Rocks by putting Green Day in the same thread as them. The Finns win every time.

― Kate Classic (kate), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Hanoi's always had reggae songs. But "Underwater World" one of the only songs they co-wrote with Ian Hunter.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Another Hostile Takeover is pretty good, as these sorts of things go.
From what I gather poking around this site Andy McCoy is the subject of a Finnish reality show a la The Osbornes.
And, shoot, I really wish I could read this article.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I saw them in Stockholm in January -- they tore it up. Lots of Venom shirts.

http://www.soundofthebeast.com/images/hanoi.jpg

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Lots of Venom shirts.

Somewhat surpsing.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it was somewhat of an uprising.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

"Underwater World" is graet!

― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Sunday, 18 December 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

You're right. For some reason the other day I skipped over it on the second listen through. I probably just wanted to hurry up and get to "Don't Never Leave Me".

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 18 December 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

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