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'I really dig London's cockney pub-culture and 'Boiler' is a pub-song like that. It's about the illusions, with which it all starts, but eventually it leads to broken dreams, when you notice where using them has taken you.' The song has gotten to flow in development, and doesn't feel so personal anymore.' 'At first it was a love song to Anna (McCoy's then girlfriend), but it built stuff on top of it, - all of my love songs have been made with Anna in mind - but like I said, it's grown from the original version. I think, that we might release it as a single later.' As a song, I think it's fucking great and this version is what the original should have been. 'Well yeah, we fucked up that song so bad back then, that we had to remake it now. Everybody can have their own interpretation.' I don't want to say anything about the lyrics. 'What could I say about it? It's a cool song, it swings. But I figured it also has a kind of humorous side to it. It has good ground, because it's one of the facts of life. I put some stuff into the song that anybody can relate to. But in the end Bob looked through it and re-did the whole song. 'It had mine and Ian Hunter's lyrics originally. There will be no ugly girls in my high school'. There will be no costumes at our swimming pool.

HANOI ROCKS TRACKS FROM A BROKEN DREAMS HOW TO

'I tell the little buggers what to wear, I show them how to set and dye their hair. It's about this dude, who thinks 'why the hell should I sit in school and study, because the system is a piece of shit'. What do you do? Quit high school just to queue in unemployment line.

'Or like 'Quit High School', like it was originally called. The recordings for the album were already over, but I called Bob and he came over to London, where we recorded the song.' After a few gigs, we decided that we want it on an LP. We played it and it sounded fucking good. Then one time at rehearsals we were jamming and I remembered it from Nasse's tape. The song 'Futurama' was later covered by the band Bang Tango.Īndy McCoy's comments on the songs from a 1984 issue of Suosikki. The line ' Welcome to the Jungle' featured in the song 'Underwater World' arguably inspired the long time Hanoi Rocks-admirer Axl Rose to write the eponymous song for Guns N' Roses, due to its similar tone and similar use of fifths (power chords). Following drummer Razzle's death, the group canceled their concert dates and eventually broke up, while on the verge of an international breakthrough. While touring to promote the album, Hanoi Rocks rose to fame in Japan even more and had two sold-out concerts in New York City. Still, Two Steps from the Move is often considered as a glam rock/ hard rock classic. The album also gave Hanoi Rocks their first gold record in Finland, but not until 1986 after the group had already disbanded. Two Steps from the Move was Hanoi Rocks' biggest hit when it was released, reaching number 28 on the UK Album Charts and the singles 'Up Around The Bend' and 'Don't You Ever Leave Me' also rose up the singles charts. The song was later released on The Best of Hanoi Rocks compilation, and appears as a bonus track on this albums reissue. There was also supposed to be a title-track, but according to Razzle it was replaced with 'Up Around the Bend'. A music video was also made for 'Don't You Ever Leave Me', but the song differs from the album version as it's shorter, has a different guitar-solo and only features Razzle's spoken words in the middle. A music video was also made for 'Up Around The Bend', which received much airplay on MTV and it still remains one of the most expensive rock-music videos. The album also features some of Hanoi Rocks' biggest hits, like ' Up Around The Bend', ' Underwater World', 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams', 'Million Miles Away' and ' Don't You Ever Leave Me'. Ezrin knew that a more hard rock-style would sell more units in the United States. Ezrin wanted the album to have a heavier atmosphere and darker guitar playing than the band's previous efforts, still keeping it melodic and punky, and he also worked on the writing of almost every song on the album. The album's producer, Bob Ezrin had previously worked with big-name artists like Pink Floyd, Kiss and Alice Cooper, which was one of the main reasons Hanoi Rocks' wanted him to produce the album. Andy McCoy and Nasty Suicide later used the name as the name of their album, when they worked under the moniker ' The Suicide Twins'. Originally the album was supposed to be called Silver Missiles And Nightingales, but the name was changed at the last minute. Before this album, all of Hanoi Rocks' albums were released on Lick Records and Johanna Kustannus, but this was the band's first album on a major label, CBS.

Hanoi rocks tracks from a broken dreams