Another Hostile Takeover

Artist: Hanoi Rocks
Label: Jvc Japan
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988002476725
ASIN: B0007OE3R0

Release Date: 2005-03-31

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Hanoi Rocks

Tracks:

Intro
Back in Yer Face
Insert I
Hurt
Devil in You
Love
Talk to the Hand
Eternal Optimist
Insert II
No Compromise, No Regrets
Reggae Rocker
You Make the Earth Move
Insert III
Better High
Dear Miss Lonely Hearts
Insert IV
Center of My Universe

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Customer Reviews:

Solid, If Unspectacular - Wait For The Domestic Issue.......2006-02-21

This one seems a little more forced than "12 Shots On The Rocks," not as well lubricated, missing some of the hip swivel and sway Michael Monroe and Andy McCoy normally exhibit, but don't blame new recruits Conny Bloom (guitars) and A.C. Christell (bass); their names aren't listed on the owner registration.

A credit for "beats and styles" in the liner notes to two guys with the same first name - "DJ" - throws up an immediate red flag that Hanoi Rocks may be ditching the girl they brought to the prom. Those beats show up on "Reggae Rocker," an embarrassing, stuttering, failed experiment/foray into hip hop with Monroe attempting to rock the mic and urging listeners to clap their like trained seals. "Talk To The Hand" is another clunker, a prime example of why it's never wise to base a song entirely around an irritating bit of hip hop street slang that sounded tired about the second time your little sister used it. Oh, and it sounds like post-addiction Aerosmith. God help us all...

Mercifully, though, these are just blips and the rest of the album finds the band re-discovering their stride, er, stagger. "Love" distills, in just 2:33, everything that once made this band special; barrelhouse piano, a blathering yet spirited Monroe vocal, and solid, chop-blocking guitar from McCoy. "Eternal Optimist," "You Make The Earth Move," and "Better High," all benefiting from a dash of good old-fashioned Hanoi Rocks drama, would fit comfortably slotted anywhere in the track listings of latter day albums in the band's canon like "Back To Mystery City" and "Two Steps From The Move."

Full marks all around to whoever decided to cover Phil Lynott's "Dear Miss Lonely Hearts." They nail it. Somewhere Phil is smiling. Hanoi Rocks still seems to defy categorization and there's still more to this band than meets the eyeliner; they eschew flashy guitar licks, macho posturing, and dissing the competition in favor of saxophones, a revved-up, almost poppy twin-guitar attack which treads a fine line between punk and lewd blues, and hook-driven songwriting. Thankfully, the 20-year piss break these guys took has done nothing to change their modus operandi much, prompting a sigh of relief from this scribe that was probably audible in Helsinki.

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