‘Lightnin’ Bar Blues’ gives us a respite from the fury and like the earlier ‘No More Law and Order’, has a great harmony that sticks in your head and gets your toe tapping. Theres more sax and just a superb beat all the way through. ‘Visitor’ takes a bit of a darker twist lyrically, but keeps the pace and punch of the two preceding songs. It rattles along at a fair pace with more great guitar work and next track ‘Don’t Follow Me’ keeps up the tempo. ‘MC Baby’ is another rocker, its riff and beat reminds me briefly of Doctor Feelgood, before it explodes into another spiky Hanoi classic. Guitarist Andy McCoy wrote most of the lyrics on the album with contributions from Monroe and others. It, like many Hanoi songs gets a little darker with the lyrics. ‘Sweet Home Suburbia’ dives between the Stones circa ‘Exile’ onwards and the Clash. The band were full of talent and it shows and sounds throughout the album. ‘Teenangels Outsiders’ has some great terrific guitar moments and so many of us will resonate with the lyrics of our youth. A reggae like groove unpins a catchy tune with some great harmony. ‘No More Law and Order’ is straight out of the play book from the Clash. Recorded 40 years ago? Hell this sounds like yesterday! There is a real punch to this re(al)mix! Both of these are classic Hanoi Rocks tunes and instantly you can hear the freshness and vibrancy. With a new running order the album kicks off with the double header of title track ‘Oriental Beat’ and ‘Motorvatin’’. The original ‘Oriental Beat’ album was released in 1982 and its fair to say from the recent press release that Hanoi Rocks were not happy with that version of the album (although listening briefly to it today it doesn’t sound that bad!) and so here we have their ‘definite’ version. Then the tremendous ‘Two Steps From The Move’ landed and the band were poised for great success until tragedy struck with the death of drummer Razzle.ĭespite some attempts to continue the band then folded although more recently have got together on occasions whilst lead singer Michael Monroe has also enjoyed a healthy solo career and other band members have worked with a number of other artists. There was already 4 studio albums to then check out but to some extent to my ears at the time those got overshadowed by the live record. Looking and sounding like mixed up New York Dolls and Rolling Stones with a strong dose of glam and punk attitude, Hanoi Rocks first came to my attention with their blistering live album ‘’All Those Wasted Years’ when it was released circa 1984. 2 days ago Def Leppard With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Announce Album “Drastic Symphonies” Out On 19th MayĪfter 40 years Hanoi Rocks get to finish and release their own vision of how second album Oriental Beat should have sounded first time around.2 days ago Bring the Hoax release first single and music video from upcoming debut album.2 days ago HAMMERFALL | reveal lyric video for remixed & remastered version of ‘Riders Of The Storm’.
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