All Those Wasted Years

All Those Wasted Years

Track Listings

1. Pipeline

2. Oriental Beat

3. Back To Mystery City

4. Motorvatin

5. Until I Get You

6. Mental Beat

7. Dont Never Leave Me

8. Tragedy

9. Malibu Beach Nightmare

10. Visitor

11. 11th Street Kidzz

12. Taxi Driver

13. Lost In The City

14. Lightnin Bar Blues

15. Beer And A Cigarette

16. Under My Wheels

17. I Feel Alright

18. Train Kept-A-Rollin

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Mid-price reissue of the Finnish glam inspired metal act's 1985 album. Fully remastered from the original tapes. Includes new sleeve notes & fully annotated track listings. 18 tracks including 'Beer and a Cigarette'. 2001 release.

Tracks:

Pipeline
Oriental Beat
Back To Mystery City
Motorvatin'
Until I Get You
Mental Beat
Don't Never Leave Me
Tragedy
Malibu Beach Nightmare
Visitor
11th Street Kids
Taxi Driver
Lost In The City
Lightin' Bar Blues
Beer And A Cigarette
Under My Wheels
I Feel Alright
Train Kept A Rollin'

Customer Reviews:

One Of The Best Live LP's Ever.......2005-02-25

Classic Rock Magazine voted this one of the best live LP's ever....it out-ranked the much loved Made In Japan by Deep Purple!!!! Now that's saying something. I guess the real reason why i love this album is that it was recorded at a small venue, the Marquee in London, in December of 83. It has a kind of in your face vibe and the sound quality is amazing. I really have nothing bad to say about this LP..it's mixed very well...very clear. I just missed some songs that i wished were on this...such as Love's an injection or Devil Woman or Tooting Bec Wreck. I wish someone would dust off the tapes and release the entire show...there must be more in the vaults somewhere.

You will not be disapppointed.

hanoi revisited.......2000-10-08

i remember being introduced to hanoi rocks in the late eighties by catching a blurb in rolling stone that axl rose had considered them a major influence and decided to reissue the band's entire back catalog on cd. while this was noteworthy in itself, some of the album titles in the review were attention grabbers: "bangkok shocks, saigon shakes, hanoi rocks" seemed like a bold name for a debut and painted an air of mystery and exotica around the band. i soon had purchased the entire catalog. although i have long outgrown hard rock, hanoi rocks was an important band for me. it was the first group that i listened to that was under the radar, releasing its entire output on indie labels. it opened me up to the idea that radio was a very limited outlet for interesting music and that the best music was that which required a little bit of investigation to find. michael monroe was beautiful and oozed attitude, a drag queen not intimidated of grabbing the reins for a band that had a lot of musical muscle and real swagger. their debut was unaccomplished but had a spiky, out-of-the-gutter punk attitude that kept the whole endeavor afloat. "village girl" and "stop crying" contained amazing slices of music but were bogged by their kindergarten lyrics. the "oriental beat" album was the point where they started to embellish their music with the sort of exotica in which their name implied. "motorvatin", "visitor", "sweet home suburbia", "no law or order", and the title track were gloriously diverse and rocked unlike any other glam band before or since. in fact, despite the image, hanoi was not a glam band at all. however, they did use that music as a lens to filter punk, blues, candy pop, and r&b. as for this live album, it starts off killer and then sort of slumps in the middle before delivering a fantastic finale. the opening four song sequence demonstrates that once locked into a groove the band could entertain with inventiveness and precision. the encore of covers at the end are rather faithful to the originals but are done with a hungry vitality that surprises given the band was at the very end of their career trajectory. they decided to call it quits when their drummer, razzle, died in a car crash with a very drunk vince neil. it was a respectable decision and one i stand behind since the musical direction they were heading into with "two steps from the move" was conventional and stripped the band of all the exotica, diversity, and soul that they displayed on their prior releases. unfortunately, these releases are once again out-of-print and the band's most vital and interesting work is unavailable to dot com and record store browsers.

The Best Live Album Of 80's.......2000-05-26

Hanoi Rocks never sold millions of albums, but they were one of the best live bands back in th 80's. They were raw, wild and most of all they knew how to play their instruments. Maybe Andy McCoy is not Eddie Van Halen, but he really kicked ass with his guitar (one thing that Ed. never did). Unfortunately this is only live album of Hanoi Rocks, but it is the best HR. There is almost every classical Hanoi-tunes and in live athmosphere these songs are even better than in studio albums. If this band would have last, we never have heard band called Guns N' Roses.

the best live album ever !.......2000-01-06

hanoi rocks were at the top of their game when they recorded this. the album is alot more raw than their studio recordings. I would recomend this album for anyone who's a fan of punk or glam rock.these guys were stars its ashame they never got bigger.

Nothing wasted here--100% rock'n'roll!.......1999-10-28

A great, alas mostly forgotten, hard rock/glam band from those distant days of the early 80s. From the raucous, rampant energy of "Motorvatin'" to the sad, heartbroken lament of "Don't Never Leave Me" (re-arranged and recorded on their final album, "Two Steps from the Move"); from the bluesy, nightmarish howls of "Taxi Driver" (no, this is no ode to Travis Bickle) to the terrific covers that end the set: "Lightnin' Bar Blues," "Under My Wheels," "I Feel Alright" (actually it's the Stooges' "1970") and "Train Kept A-Rollin'," this is a terrific CD, and a bargain! When compared to other glam rock/metal bands of the same era (you know--Crue, Ratt, etc) those other guys don't stand a chance. About ten years ago I saw the live video for this, and it's amazing; they cover "Blitzkrieg Bop" too! Rock'n'roll this straight-up is a refreshing shot that burns!

Average customer rating:

All Those Wasted Years: Live!
Almost Perfect, but...
LIve & Kickin'

All Those Wasted Years
Hanoi Rocks
Manufacturer: Castle
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Pop Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Live Albums | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Back to the Mystery City
Self Destruction Blues
Oriental Beat
Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks
Twelve Shots on the Rocks

ASIN: B00005AFM9
Release Date: 2001-04-24

Tracks:

Pipeline
Oriental Beat
Back to Mystery City
Motorvatin'
Until I Get You
Mental Beat
Don't Never Leave Me
Tragedy
Malibu Beach Nightmare
Visitor
11th Street Kids
Taxi Driver
Lost in the City
Lightnin' Bar Blues
Beer and a Cigarette
Under My Wheels
I Feel Alright
Train Kept A Rollin'

Album Description

Mid-price reissue of the Finnish glam inspired metal act's 1985 album. Fully remastered from the original tapes. Includes new sleeve notes & fully annotated track listings. 18 tracks including 'Beer and a Cigarette'. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews:

All Those Wasted Years: Live!.......2005-10-21

Hanoi Rocks' powerful songs translated very well to record, but their real strength was in their live show. some of the mix sounds a bit chaotic and it sounds like there may have been some slight technical difficulties with the vocal monitors (?), but all the trashy glam messy essence is captured very well here. the live show is hampered a little bit by some odd song choices (why open with the instrumental "Pipeline"?), and a few glaring ommissions (no "Tooting Bec Wreck?" that song is just begging for a live version!), but this is a fine addition to the mighty Hanoi Rocks catalogue. cheers!

Almost Perfect, but..........2003-11-15

Right: listening to this CD, you get to understand clearly that this band set the foundation for this kind of fun, glam-my, in your face rn'r to make a big come back by the mid 80's, specially for a band like GN'R, who unashameledly stole their thunder... don't get me wrong, I am the biggest GN'R fan ever, but the fact remains that, without Hanoi Rocks, nobody would know who GN'R are... anyway... you might wonder why I only rated this superb record with 4 stars and not 5, if I claim to love the Rocks so much... as good as the CD is, there are a couple of glitches that I have to mention:

- Andy McCoy's guitar is extremely loud, or maybe Nasty's guitar is too low, I don't know, but take your time to listen to the record a few times with headphones on, and listen to songs like "Visitor" (my favorite on this CD, and one of my overall Hanoi's favorites...) or "Taxi Driver", and you'll know what I mean... I don't mind Andy's sound, quite the contrary (no other human being on this earth can play like him), but I can barely hear Nasty play... and once again, the GN'R comparison appears, because the exact same thing occurs with their "Live Era" CD, where Slash is all over the place and Izzy Stradlin's, but specially Gilby Clarke's playing is chocked by the volume of Slash's guitar...

-I am a singer also(for better or worse), and after listening to this record, I am led to believe that Micheal Monroe's monitors at the gig were malfunctioning, or maybe he didn't have any, because at times i get the impression that he couldn't hear himself sing, which is a terrible thing when you're a singer...Beware, i am not saying that he sings bad, I just think that the singing could've been better...

- The song selection: why so many covers? Why cover "Pipeline", an instrumental, when songs like "Village Girl", "Sweet Home Suburbia", "I want you", "Kill City Kills", "Toothing Beck Wreck" and many other classics were left out? Don't get me wrong, all songs included rock, but let's make some conservative numbers: Hanoi Rocks had 4 records released, so that's 40 songs to choose from, and every record has, at least, 4 songs each that ARE classics. 4x4=16. That means that they could have picked 4 songs from each record without any need of covers. That being said, the covers of "Lightning Bar Blues" and "Under my Wheeels" (best cover i have ever heard of this song) are great...

All in all, if you, like me, love the Rocks, Hanoi Rocks, that is, you can't go wrong with this CD... too bad some drunk jerk had had to ruin it all for the whole world...

LIve & Kickin'.......2002-12-27

One of the best live albums ever! Mike Monroe & Andy McCoy are brilliant together. They sound as good if not better than on their studio efforts. A great listen.