Please click here to log in or create a Username for leaving comments. You cannot leave comments for this CD because you are How can you live without hearing Ice Cream Summer? anyhow great album but like everything they released no promotion. The UK press were saying Mike looked like a girl and the band were gay. I've got a foreign import of this that came with a bonus white vinyl 45. The cover of this is weird showing Andy Mcoy's Hand right by Michael Monroe's croch which is sick.Īn awesome Hanoi disc with one of the coolest ballads ever "Until I Get You" I totally agree with Jet about this cover, i think it was done for shock value but c'mon guys, there had to be something better. Alltheir albums are worth getting for their interpetation of the Dolls and the rolling stones. Hanoi Rocks - Back To Mystery City Lyrics Hey little girl wont you come along, yeah Well, Im gonna take you where I come from, yeah Its a place with no. Great glam band that restarted the glam/metal bands in the 80's. Sincerely.i expected more from it.it has great songs but i don't like it as whole.rate 7 Not good as Bangok,Saigon,Hanoi but still highly recommended. I love the song "Mental Beat" good vibe and melodies. Long as they are at least 4 songs in length.Įxisting comments about this CD From: MaciaS Please only submit officialĬD releases no bootlegs or cassette-only or LP-only releases.ĮPs and CD-singles from Hanoi Rocks are also welcome to be added, as Even if it is an obscure greatest-hits or liveĬompilation CD, we want to add it to the site. The ultimate goal is to make the discographies here at Heavy HarmoniesĪs complete as possible. Notice that a particular Hanoi Rocks CD release or compilation is missingįrom the list above, please submit that CD using the CD submission page. Visually, the band took its cues from the New York Dolls but musically they eschewed flashy guitar licks, macho posturing, and dissing the competition in favor of saxophones, a revved-up, punky, twin-guitar. The music discographies on this site are works in progress. From the git go, there's more to Finland's Hanoi Rocks, and its proto-glam magnum opus 'Back To Mystery City,' than meets the eyeliner. Live tracks, etc.), please post them in the corrections section of the If you see any errors or omissions in the CD information shown above,Įither in the musician credits or song listings (cover song credits, The song’s title was inspired by the London club Mystery City.Last studio album for LICK records, before being signed to Columbia (now Sony). The song is also composed in the same style as Tommy James and the Shondells’ song “Mony Mony”. Andy McCoy wrote the song about Hanoi Rocks’ adventures in the Far-East, the band’s fans and the buzz that was also surrounding the band in 1983. Monroe has since said that he thinks the song is an “awful slime-ball”, and that he hated the lyrics.Īt the time of its release, the song was very popular, but it has since been overshadowed by the many other Hanoi Rocks’ hits. The song deals with making love and having oral sex with his girlfriend. McCoy wrote the song when he was 17 years old. This song sparked some controversy when it was released. The song was written as a mid-tempo, standard 70’s rock-, pop-song. Written in 10 minutes, but the band still loved the song. Guns covered the song on their 2004 album Rips the Covers Off. Also, the arrangement for the song was inspired by Alice Cooper’s “I’m Eighteen”. L.A. The song is also a great example of Hanoi Rocks’ melodic glam rock-style. Ultimately, McCoy also fell in love with the song. Wird über Spotify absgepielt Wird über YouTube absgepielt. McCoy hated the song but Razzle loved it, and wanted it on their next record. Schau das Video für Back to Mystery City von Hanoi Rockss Back to Mystery City kostenlos und sieh dir Coverbilder, Songtexte und ähnliche Künstler an. This song was inspired by a London apartment full of rats, in Tooting Bec, where Hanoi Rocks lived.Īndy McCoy wrote this song at the band’s manager Seppo Vesterinen’s house in Helsinki. This was also the only song that (according to Pete Watts) drummer Razzle had a hard time recording. The song is about speed, and was inspired by Michael Monroe wild behavior as a child. This version was just made as a joke but it was re-recorded for this album, as a more serious rock song. Artist: Hanoi Rocks Title Of Album: Back To Mystery City Year Of Release: 1983 Genre, Style: Glam, Hard Rock Country: Finland Type, Quality: MP3 CBR 320. The song was originally recorded in 1981 as a calypso version titled “Malibu Nightmare”. McCoy wrote song at home while smoking hashish. Besides Hanoi Rocks, the album also features keyboardist Morgan Fisher, and Miriam Stockley on backing vocals, who had also sung with Pink Floyd.Īn acoustic intro that Andy McCoy came-up with in the studio. It was produced by ex-Mott the Hoople members Dale Griffin and Pete “Overend” Watts, and was the first with Razzle on drums. Back to Mystery City is the fourth studio album by the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks, released in 1983.
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