Back to Mystery City

Ret sjovt og rimelig sigende for slut 80'er rock.. okay, produktionen bliver virkelig skramlet og ringe mod slutningen.. det begynder at blive irriterende...
Pænt ringe Black Sabbath cover...

Fantastisk hvordan en plade kan starte et godt sted, men som bare smadrer hele lortet på vej ud og lægger en lort på ruinerne..

Not what I expected, essentially a glam rock album. Pretty good! Albeit an odd inclusion on the list

Pakkohan sitän on siniristilippua vähän heiluttaa ja todeta, että hyvä räminälevyhän se tässä. 4/5

Fun and light and wafty, just like their haircuts.

This was a pretty good 80s rock album. I appreciated that some of the songs had hook that I could see myself returning to. Not bad. 3/5.

Proto hair metal. Not exactly Chinese rocks

Hadn't heard of Hanoi Rocks before... not bad, in as far as 80s Glam Rock goes.

Fun ride, nothing made want to come back

This kinda glam hair metal classic rock stuff just does nothing for me.

The music on this album is pretty much just glam rock, which I do enjoy, but the vocals could let the album down a little bit, but not enough for me to dislike any of it. I overall found the album to be pleasant.

I consider this to be a high 3/5.

Fantastic, weird 80's glam punk. Similar to New York Dolls or Motley Crue. There is actually a tie in with Motley Crue and this band. Razzle, the drummer for Hanoi Rocks was killed in a car accident in '84. The car was driven by Motley Crue singer, Vince Neil.

Favourite songs: Until I Get You, Back to Mystery City, Lick Summer Love, Beating Gets Faster, Malibu Beach Nightmare, Sailing Down the Tears, Tooting Bec Wreck

Least favourite songs: Ice Cream Summer

4/5

There's nothing really wrong with this, except I don't understand the importance of it or why it's on the list. Everything here has been done better by other artists. It's totally fine, and I wouldn't turn it off. But it's not going to be put into heavy rotation, either.

When it came to Back to Mystery City, Initially, i didn't have the best feelings towards it, During the first half, It was alright but the voice and some of the instruments were not exactly the best sounding, They were sometimes annoying and could be a bit too much. Then, the second half came, and my god was it an improvement. Most of the stuff that had made some of the first half annoying was all gone by the second half as well as it showing some great guitar work and interesting musical ideas. This was probably one of the biggest examples of a turn around enough to raise this album from a 2 to a 3.5
Best Song: Back To Mystery City
Worst Song: Tooting Bec Wreck

This may well be the lowest 1 star rating I've awarded so far. Appalling stuff, of absolutely no merit whatsoever. Dimery must have been out of his mind to put this on the list.

A little chortle to myself when this pinged up. "Hanoi Rocks? Really?". Doing a bit more reading, clearly super influential and maybe we wouldn't have the wonderful range of Nordic power-metal, synth-metal etc without them. But, for all that, many many acts have done it WAY better since.

Their English is much better than my Finnish.

I wish it wasn’t.

I thought it was going to be rubbish 80's glam based on the cover, and the first few 1 star reviews on here... but I really liked this! They've got something about them. They have a real manic energy, with tons of personality and attitude. Nice rocking guitars and rock vocals. Plenty of 'waows' in there and so on. Good stuff!

This is labeled as glam metal on Wikipedia, but it's so goofy and all over the place I'm not sure that's an accurate way to pigeonhole it. There's almost a punk energy to their irreverence, but it mostly sounds like some bizarre strain of sarcastic power pop. If this is hair metal, I enjoy it a helluva lot more than almost any of the other big names of the genre. This went from 3 to 4 stars on second listen. I appreciate that they don't take themselves too seriously. Fun stuff.

Feels a very average 80s hair metal album, not sure why it’s on the list.

Never heard of this band before, but seeing THAT haircut, I had a rough idea what I was in for. This is pretty much everything I hate about 80s hair rock, not sure how it ended up on the list. Plenty of power chords and badly written lyrics. "Beating Gets Faster" is a prime example of that. Is "Lick Summer Love" written from the point of view of a rapist? Creepy AF