HANOI ROCKS "BACK TO MYSTERY CITY" 1983 LICK UK GLAM CLASSIC STILL SEALED OOP LP
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LAST YEAR I LOST ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS TO CANCER, HE WAS A COOL MUSICIAN A DRUMMER BY TRADE, ORIGINALLY FROM SEATTLE, BUT RELOCATED TO L.A. IN 1985, HE AMASSED A VERY LARGE MUSIC COLLECTION, AND HAD KILLER TASTE FOR ROCK & ROLL, SADLY I AM SELLING OFF A LOT OF HIS COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF HIS WIDOW TO HELP PAY OFF DEBTS INCLUDING HOSPITAL BILLS, TAXES AND STORAGE UNIT FEES. I AM NOT TAKING ANYTHING FOR THIS SERVICE, DOING IT FOR MY FRIEND (MISS YOU DAVE!). THIS ITEM IS FROM HIS COLLECTION.
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ARTIST- HANOI ROCKS
TITLE- “BACK TO MYSTERY CITY”
TRACK LISTING- SEE PHOTOS & BELOW
A1 Strange Boys Play Weird Openings A2 Malibu Beach Nightmare A3 Mental Beat A4 Tooting Bec Wreck A5 Until I Get You B1 Sailing Down The Tears B2 Lick Summer Love B3 Beating Gets Faster B4 Ice Cream Summer B5 Back To Mystery CityCompanies, etc.
- Recorded At – Parkgate Studios
- Mixed At – Scorpio Sound
Credits
- Arranged By – Andy McCoy, Mike Monroe*
- Bass – Sam Yaffa
- Drums – Razzle
- Engineer – Andy Lyden
- Harmonica – Mike Monroe*
- Keyboards – Morgan Fisher
- Layout – Hilary Goodwright
- Lead Guitar – Andy McCoy
- Photography By [Cover] – Fin Costello
- Photography By [Inner Sleeve] – Justin Thomas (6)
- Producer – Dale Griffin, Overend Watts
- Rhythm Guitar – Nasty Suicide
- Saxophone – Mike Monroe*
- Vocals – Mike Monroe*
- Written-By – A. McCoy*, M. Monroe* (tracks: B3)
Notes
Full-size, full-colour photo and credits sleeve with lyrics to six of the album's songs.YEAR OF RELEASE- 1983
LABEL- LICK RECORDS UK
CAT.#- LICLP1
RECORD CONDITION- THIS RECORD IS STILL SEALED IN IT'S ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP
JACKET CONDITION- THE JACKET IS STILL SEALED IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP. THERE'S A VERY TINY APPROX. 1” OPENING IN THE SHRINK ON THE RIGHT EDGE. THIS IS STILL SEALED.
MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. HAS FEB. 1984 PRICE STICKER TOWER RECORDS
MORE INFO ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE-
Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish rock band formed in 1979. They were the first Finnish band to chart in the UK and they were also popular in Japan. The band broke up in June 1985 after the drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley died in a car accident during their first US tour in December 1984. Original vocalist Michael Monroe and guitarist Andy McCoy reunited in 2001 with a new lineup that lasted until 2009. Although musically closer to traditional rock n' roll and punk, the band have been cited as a major influence in the glam metal genre for bands such as Guns N' Roses, Skid Row and Poison.
According to Finnish radio and TV personality Jone Nikula, who was the band's tour manager in the 2000s, Hanoi Rocks's albums have sold between 780,000 and 1,000,000 copies around the world, but mostly in Scandinavia and Japan.
Oriental Beat and Razzle joins (1982)[edit]
In January 1982, Hanoi Rocks recorded its first music videos at the Lepakko, a concert venue and center of independent youth culture, for the songs "Tragedy," "Oriental Beat," and "Motorvatin'." That same month, the band released its second album Oriental Beat. The album was mostly well received by critics and magazines, including Sounds and Kerrang!, whose Dave Dickson continued to extensively cover Hanoi Rocks's career in the Eighties. The band spent the spring of 1982 touring in Sweden, and had its first Japanese breakthrough with "Tragedy." In May, the single "Love's an Injection / Taxi Driver" was released.
By June 1982, the band had permanently moved to London. Monroe met a Hanoi Rocks fan called Razzle at a Johnny Thunders show, and when Razzle found out that Monroe was the singer for Hanoi Rocks, he attended some shows, showed up backstage, and asked to be the band's drummer. McCoy and Monroe fired Gyp Casino for his drug use, depression, and suicidal thoughts, and Razzle was hired as the new drummer.
In August 1982, Hanoi Rocks released its third studio album, Self Destruction Blues. The album featured old singles like "Love's an Injection." Razzle had yet to join the band when the songs were recorded, but he is credited on the album. The album was released in October in Finland, with "Love's an Injection" spending a week at number one on the Finnish singles charts. The band also signed a contract with the Japanese record company Nippon Phonogram.
The band later said that without Razzle they probably would have broken up, since Razzle revitalized the band.
Tour in Asia, Back to Mystery City and a deal with CBS (1983)[edit]
By January 1983, the band was touring outside of the UK, Finland, and Sweden. The Asian tour was largely covered by British magazines, and the band was featured on the cover of Sounds. The tour started in Bombay, continuing in Hong Kong and Japan. In Japan the band was very popular, with fans breaking into hotels to see the musicians. The ticket prices for the show were as high as for stadium-fillers, and some phone booths in Tokyo played Hanoi Rocks songs. The tour continued from Tokyo to Vietnam.
In April, the band returned to London for the recording of their fourth album, and went to Israel, where it was not well received. Monroe could not leave the hotel because of his somewhat odd appearance: local people thought he was an improperly-dressed woman and would gather around and spit on him. Also, Nasty Suicide broke his ankle, and people did not like the band's loud playing style. In late spring, Hanoi Rocks toured London and Norway, and released a single before the new album, "Malibu Beach / Rebel On The Run".
The band's fourth album, Back to Mystery City, was released shortly afterward. It reached number 87 on British album charts. Hanoi Rocks toured the UK and in Finland until June 1983, when the band made a deal with CBS worth £150,000.
Back to Mystery City is the fourth studio album by the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks, released in 1983. It was produced by ex-Mott the Hoople members Dale Griffin and Pete "Overend" Watts, and was the first with Razzle on drums. Besides Hanoi Rocks, the album also features keyboardist Morgan Fisher, and Miriam Stockley on backing vocals, who had also sung with Pink Floyd.
SONG INFO
An acoustic intro that Andy McCoy came-up with in the studio.
"Malibu Beach Nightmare"McCoy wrote song at home while smoking hashish. The song was originally recorded in 1981 as a calypso version titled "Malibu Nightmare". This version was just made as a joke but it was re-recorded for this album, as a more serious rock song. The song was also released as a single.
"Mental Beat"The song is about speed, and was inspired by Michael Monroe wild behavior as a child. This was also the only song that (according to Pete Watts) drummer Razzle had a hard time recording.
"Tooting Bec Wreck"This song was inspired by a London apartment full of rats, in Tooting Bec, where Hanoi Rocks lived.
"Until I Get You"Andy McCoy wrote this song at the band's manager Seppo Vesterinen's house in Helsinki. McCoy hated the song but Razzle loved it, and wanted it on their next record. Ultimately, McCoy also fell in love with the song. The song is also a great example of Hanoi Rocks' melodic glam rock-style. Also, the arrangement for the song was inspired by Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen". L.A. Guns covered the song on their 2004 album Rips the Covers Off.
"Sailing Down the Tears"Written in 10 minutes, but the band still loved the song. The song was written as a mid-tempo, standard 70's rock-, pop-song.
"Lick Summer Love"This song sparked some controversy when it was released. McCoy wrote the song when he was 17 years old. The song deals with making love and having oral sex with his girlfriend. Monroe has since said that he thinks the song is an "awful slime-ball", and that he hated the lyrics.
"Beating Gets Faster"A love-song written by Monroe and McCoy.
"Ice Cream Summer"A song dealing with a summer romance.
"Back to Mystery City"At the time of its release, the song was very popular, but it has since been overshadowed by the many other Hanoi Rocks' hits. 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. The song is also composed in the same style as Tommy James and the Shondells' song "Mony Mony". The song's title was inspired by the London club Mystery City.
CUSTOMER REVIEWS
Clark Paull 5.0 out of 5 starsWe Can Only WonderSeptember 25, 2002
Format: Audio CD In light of the fact that it's become de rigueur over the past several years to routinely dismiss hair spray metal as a minor footnote in the history of popular music, and despite the fact that many friends are probably going to turn up their noses at me like a soiled diaper, I have to cop to actually liking some of the stuff. If you drill down through groups of goofballs like Tora Tora Tora, Britny Fox, and Pretty Boy Floyd, there are some real treasures out there lurking beneath the hookeresque garb and ozone layer-depleting styling aids (see Faster Pussycat, Dogs D'Amour, London Quireboys). 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. 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 attack, and hook-driven songwriting. If you're looking for a touchstone, think of them as the link between the Dolls and later pretenders like Motley Crue, Guns N'Roses, and Poison. In between the sound collage of bells, whistles, and blips that is "Strange Boys Play Weird Openings" and the album-ending title track, what the listener bears witness to is an infectious mix of lewd blues, punky pop attitude, and - always a big plus at Casa El Paull - big, soaring, sing-along choruses. "Back To Mystery City" documents a group of scruffy, street urchins on the brink of greatness, but our story has no happy ending, thanks to the drunken shenanigans of Vince Neil. Go figure... J. Holmes 5.0 out of 5 starsBack To Mystery City: strange boysOctober 20, 2005
Format: Audio CD boiled down to it's bare form, Hanoi Rocks is a hard rock band...pure and simple. from their blues-based song structures to their street tough attitude, this is rock and roll in it's most primitive form. the refining touch is added in liberal doses, as these Finnish boys digested the influence of glam rock, punk, and reggae and redirected it within their music to create some of best written and classic songs ever! how can anyone listen to cuts like the title track to this album and not recognize the genius at work here? these tunes are packed and overflowing with brilliant melodies, ultra catchy hooks, and riffs galore. just in case you might have not known, Hanoi Rocks was a direct influence on many (if not all) of the Los Angeles hair rockers from the 80's and 90's...Poison, Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses. but please don't hold those band names as reference points to the mighty Hanoi Rocks. because the Rocks had more class and firepower (not too mention a streak of weirdness and an embraceable sense of freakishness that their Los Angeles counterparts, due to unbreakable egos, would never be able to charm out of themselves) than all of those bands combined. this album contains classics such as the drugged and dazed "Tooting Bec Wreck" which stumbles and crawls along with it's howling melody and was a big live favorite back in the day. and the shimmering pop rock of "Until I Get You" is a definite standout on this record. the weirdness creeps in right from the beginning with the gentle folk strum of "Strange Boys Play Weird Openings." when is the last time you heard nature sounds of birds chirping and flowing streams when you pushed play on one of your other rock records? haha...like i said before, pure genius at work. a recommended album. a recommended band!I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. THE SHIPPING PRICE INCLUDES THE COST OF THE LP MAILER.
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