Hanoi Rocks - Oriental Beat

Hanoi Rocks may have been the best hard rock band Finland had to offer the world in 1982, but their sound and look was heavily influenced by the punk scenes of the late '70s in downtown New York and England. Oriental Beat finds Hanoi Rocks bringing the glam sound and look of The New York Dolls into the '80s. Oriental Beat is an album that finds itself slightly out of step with the music scene of the period -- it was too late for the prime punk period of the late '70s and it was too early for the pop-metal explosion of the mid-to-late '80s. Read More