Best Of Hanoi Rocks Vol. 1






1. Tragedy Bangkok Shocks... (1981)
2. Fast Car Bangkok Shocks... (1981)
3. Don't You Ever Leave Me Bangkok Shocks... (1981)
4. Oriental Beat Oriental Beat (1982)
5. Motorvatin' Oriental Beat (1982)
6. Lightnin' Bar Blues Oriental Beat (1982)
7. Self Destruction Blues Self Destruction Blues (1982)
8. Taxi Driver Self Destruction Blues (1982)
9. Kill City Self Destruction Blues (1982)
10. Dead By Xmas Self Destruction Blues (1982)
11. Sailing Down The Tears Back To Mystery City (1983)
12. Mental Beat Back To Mystery City (1983)
13. Malibu Beach Nightmare Back To Mystery City (1983)
14. Back To Mystery City Back To Mystery City (1983)
15. Ice Cream Summer Back To Mystery City (1983)
16. Fallen Star Back To Mystery City (1983)

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Best Of Hanoi Rocks Vol. 2





1. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Two Steps From The Move (1984)
2. Up Around The Bend Two Steps From The Move (1984)
3. I Can't Get It Two Steps From The Move (1984)
4. Underwater World Two Steps From The Move (1984)
5. Million Miles Away Two Steps From The Move (1984)
6. She's No Angel Nights Are So Long (1987)
7. Dead, Jail, Or Rock and Roll Not Fakin' It (1990)
8. While You Were Looking At Me Not Fakin' It (1990)
9. All Night With The Lights On Not Fakin' It (1990)
10. New York City 12 Shots On The Rocks (2002)
11. A Day Late, A Dollar Short 12 Shots On The Rocks (2002)
12. Moonlight Dance 12 Shots On The Rocks (2002)
13. Whatcha Want? Whatcha Want? (2003)
14. You Make The Earth Move Another Hostile Takeover (2005)
15. In My Darkest Moment Another Hostile Takeover (2005)

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Some of you might be interested in what I feel are one of the most underrated rock and roll bands of the 80's and beyond, Hanoi Rocks. These English-speaking guys from Finland had the bar blues songwriting nailed down and were major influences on later glam bands such as Guns n Roses. It's a little known fact that Axl Rose took the title of his mega-hit "Welcome To The Jungle" from their gritty tune "Underwater World" off of Two Steps From The Move, which is included here. Hanoi Rocks' music were ahead of their time, not quite metal, not really glam, mostly boozy, bluesy guitar rawk with wicked harmonica and saxaphone solos to boot. Although I did these best of compilations some time ago (divided into their early period/late and solo periods) I always seem to come back to listen to them time and time again. A lot of their albums are way out of print and hard to find so I devoted a lot of energy over the past few years to cobble this together.

If you like the bluesy swagger of the Stones or early Aerosmith then you'll sure to like these set of tunes from Hanoi Rocks. Enjoy.

suhhhhweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Awesome! Though I probably won't download these since I pretty much have all their stuff except a few of their newest albums.

I was at a bar last sunday and they had a dvd of some Hanoi Rocks videos or live shows or something. I made them play it again.

Now this is one mix I really, really wanted. Awesome, man!

In honor of this thread, perhaps Cory should change his screen name for the day to "Vince Neil Let Me Drive."

Me too. Kickass!

I was at rekkid store today and I was looking at an HR album, wondering what these guys were like...I'd always heard a lot about them

the album was called Dim Sum, which I don't see on this mix, so it may be good that I put it back down

thanks man!

Edit: OK, I don't see that album listed anywhere on allmusic, so I don't know what the hell I was holding

apparently, dim sum is just a promo disc. all the tracks that are on it are on sp's mix.

Bob, did you d/l this? I think you'd like it.

Where the hell is "11th Street Kids"?

Eh. You can't make everyone happy can you?


And I half expected someone to be shouting for the inclusion of Jetboy or Shooting Gallery songs here too.

Taxi Driver's on there, I'm happy.

Goddamn it Radcliffe. I hate it when you make me look stoopid.

Anyone catch Andy McCoy when he was touring with Iggy Pop when "Instinct" was out?

I saw them four or five times over the span of five months--it was fun watching Andy learn how to play the songs as they toured--totally sucked in April, was dead-on nailin' it come September.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to see the Ig until just a few years ago.

But I do own a book called "Neighborhood Threat" that documents that tour ( I think it was that tour - been years since I've read the book ) . Written by the guy from UK Subs that played bass on the tour.