Back to Mystery City
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| Studio album by Hanoi Rocks | ||||
| Released | May 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 1983 | |||
| Genre | Glam punk, hard rock | |||
| Length | 44:16 | |||
| Label | Johanna Kustannus, Lick Records, Nippon Phonogram | |||
| Producer | Dale "Buffin" Griffin and Pete "Overend" Watts | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | C+ |
| Kerrang! | (very favorable) |
Back to Mystery City is the fourth studio album by the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks, released in 1983. It was produced by ex-Mott the Hoople members Dale Griffin and Pete "Overend" Watts, and was the first with Razzle on drums. Besides Hanoi Rocks, the album also features keyboardist Morgan Fisher, and on backing vocals, who had also sung with Pink Floyd.
An acoustic intro that Andy McCoy came-up with in the studio.
McCoy wrote song at home while smoking hashish. The song was originally recorded in 1981 as a calypso version titled "Malibu Nightmare". This version was just made as a joke but it was re-recorded for this album, as a more serious rock song. The song was also released as a single.
The song is about speed, and was inspired by Michael Monroe wild behavior as a child. This was also the only song that (according to Pete Watts) drummer Razzle had a hard time recording.
This song was inspired by a London apartment full of rats, in Tooting Bec, where Hanoi Rocks lived.
Andy McCoy wrote this song at the band's manager Seppo Vesterinen's house in Helsinki. McCoy hated the song but Razzle loved it, and wanted it on their next record. Ultimately, McCoy also fell in love with the song. The song is also a great example of Hanoi Rocks' melodic glam rock-style. Also, the arrangement for the song was inspired by Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen". L.A. Guns covered the song on their 2004 album Rips the Covers Off.
Written in 10 minutes, but the band still loved the song. The song was written as a mid-tempo, standard 70's rock-, pop-song.
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