I forgot to say - Mike Monroe sometimes plays the saxophone.
It is here that one begins to make out the beginnings of the band's greater existential shadow. `Stop Cryin' is full-on urgent dumb Spector-pop with a artfully breathless middle eight. They're good at that that cheap ache thing. See? You just keep on wanting to hug them. `You became a legend in my life / when I saw you in a picture topless'. `Village Girl' is jerky it comes in clumps, with a stupid chorused guitar and then another stupid wah guitar. All Hanoi Rocks lyrics are touching like this it's the Gnostic power of composing in a foreign language - Hanoi lyrics are like Abba lyrics - just that little bit off-kilter and out of focus. Cute lyrics: `Life is like tragedy / it reminds me of a symphony on the radio / first a little bit too fast then a little bit much / too sloooow'. Some gentle sneering more pouting really, but no messing about: they mean it, man. It's, like, one of their must-play classics. And cigarettes and Gibson Firebirds and Gibson Thunderbirds and otherworldly accents and Mike Monroe was just so beautiful.īangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes begins with the chugger-pop glitterbubblebomb genius of `Tragedy'. Like a superannuated Dolls, Hanoi were solipsistically suffused with flair, attitude, tunes, humour, soul, glamour, warning signs and a lot of hats - cool, black, wide-brimmed hats that made them all look a bit like Zorro. Alright, they looked like women - get over it - but what women. Don't blame Hanoi Rocks for all that - Hanoi got it right.
HANOI ROCKS CHEYENNE LYRICS PLUS
Nobody else who attempted to do this was as successful as Hanoi Rocks (others stank phoney phuckers) this, plus their decadent Scandinavian mystique, is the reason for their much-heralded influence on some of the more unfortunate developments of the big haired 1980s (Poison, Faster Pussycat, everything else like this). Hanoi fused (Stooges) punk with (Alice Cooper) glam the results were convincing because they were somehow righteous about it. If you like the name of this record, you will like the music inside. This LP gets half its points for the title alone. It has that "we are producing this, our first album, ourselves!" cheap tin-can reverb, which dates it a little.
They produced the first album themselves. In England, that is.īangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks - Lick 1981 Reader shit! Seb Hunter? I LOVED "Hell Bent For To the history of Finnish rock and roll music. These people are all inexorably important. Razzle: plump drummer in spandex (killed)
Gyp Casino: uncool / fortunately soon to be fired and replaced by Nasty Suicide: drunken rhythm guitar / tassels They were:Īndy McCoy: visionary gypsy axe god (Keef meets Thunders meets a Turkish buccaneer meets three junkie flamenco dancers and a paralytic tramp meets Lee van Cleef in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) / best-dressed man in History of Universe / songwriter / leader / sonic reducer, ain't no loser / substance abuser I am here today to write about legendary Finnish glam band Hanoi Rocks. Hello, my name is Seb Hunter and I am a 34 year-old bad-toothed limey liberal with long hair and an unwarranted superiority complex. It's a hoot! And it has lots of funny pictures! Everything else written on this page is by Seb Hunter, Britishman author extraordinaire. Buy it today! So I invited him to review Hanoi Rocks' catalog, he found the time and gusto, and here we go! If you like his writing style, definitely pick up the book from Fourth Estate publications. It's about Seb's youthful dream of becoming a glam metal star, but also serves as a witty-as-a-comedian history of the heavy metal genre. Not sure if it's been released in the US yet, but it's heating up the UK charts and the damn thing is funny as all goshdarn goodness. Seb Hunter is the author of a hysterial yet touching (?) memoir entitled Hell Bent For Leather: Confessions Of A Heavy Metal Addict. Hanoi Rocks (Guest Review By Hilarious British Writerman Seb Hunter)Įxciting Glam Rock from Finland! special introductory paragraph! Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks Oriental Beat Self Destruction Blues Back to Mystery City All Those Wasted Years Two Steps From The Move Rock 'n' Roll Divorce Twelve Shots On The Rocks Lightnin' Bar Blues
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