Bangkok Shocks Saigon Shakes Hanoi Rocks

by Hanoi Rocks

Bangkok Shocks Saigon Shakes Hanoi Rocks cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1981
  • Label: Johanna
  • Country: Finland
  • Length: 34:02
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Hanoi Rocks' debut introduced the Finnish band's streetwise mixture of glam rock, punk attitude, and melodic hard rock. The album's rough production and transnational imagery helped lay the groundwork for the group's later influence on glam metal and sleaze rock.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, rhythmic, raucous, accessible, punchy, riff-heavy, retro, fast

Tracklist

  1. Tragedy (3:54)
  2. Village Girl (3:10)
  3. Stop Cryin' (3:38)
  4. Don't Never Leave Me (3:55)
  5. Lost In The City (3:45)
  6. First Timer (2:54)
  7. Cheyenne (3:21)
  8. 11th Street Kids (3:45)
  9. Walking With My Angel (2:10)
  10. Pretender (3:30)

Credits

  • Hanoi Rocks - primary artist, arranged by
  • Nasty Suicide - arranged by, band [the boys in the band], guitar, twelve-string guitar, backing vocals
  • Sam Yaffa - band [the boys in the band], bass
  • Gyp Casino - band [the boys in the band], drums
  • Andy McCoy - band [the boys in the band], guitar, twelve-string guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals [on the intro], music by, lyrics by
  • Michael Monroe - band [the boys in the band], lead vocals, backing vocals, piano, saxophone [sax], harmonica, musical assistance
  • Peter Strindberg - lacquer cut by
  • Anna McCoy - musician [additional musician], handclaps

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