Self Destruction

Hanoi Rocks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 19, 1996)
• Label: Geffen Gold Line Sp.
• ASIN: B000000OZE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #354,575 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Love's an Injection

2. I Want You

3. Cafe Avenue

4. Nothing New

5. Kill City

6. Self Destruction Blues

7. Beer and a Cigarette

8. Whispers in the Dark

9. Taxi Driver

10. Desperados

11. Problem Child

12. Dead by Xmas

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do whatever you have to do, but get a copy of this album., November 22, 2003

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Jonathan S. Mark "marjo_wycam" (Alexandria, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Self Destruction Blues (Audio CD)

This album shows that a group does its best work on the B-sides of its singles, because that is when they are not afraid to fool around and maybe fail.

Except that on this collection of B-sides and unreleased tracks, nothing fails. Every song is fresh and exciting.

When Hanoi Rocks was in existence I never paid them much mind. Recently I got this album and listened to it. The first listen I was playing it in the background and did not appreciate it.

Later on I listened seriously. Everything about this album is first-rate. Songs like "Self-Destruction Blues" are the best Blues Rock ever. The guitars, the harmonies even the little hooks in the melodies, everything. This band was a bunch of geniuses. In their own way they were as melodic as Burt Bacharach and as rocking as the Rolling Stones.

And to think they pulled it off in the era of the hair bands.

Do whatever you have to do, but get a copy of this album.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Closer to The Cramps than to Cinderella, March 17, 2004

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Graboidz (Westminster, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Self Destruction Blues (Audio CD)

I just happened to be watching VH1 Classics and saw a Hanoi Rocks video the other day, a remake of CCR's "Up Around the Bend". I had heard of Hanoi Rocks, but basically because of the Vince Neil incident, and I hadn't heard thier music until just the other day. I picked up a copy of Self Destruction Blues in the used bin at a local record store. I was expecting just another hair band similiar to Cinderella or Poison, basically judging the band by the lipstick and hair on the disc's cover photo. WoW! Was I wrong! This album is a link between late 70's punk bands like The Nervous Eaters and the Hair bands of the 80's like Britny Fox. I loved the raw sound of the guitars and vocals. The songs are catchy without being mainstream at all. If you are a fan of bands like The Cramps, New York Dolls etc you have to pick this up. If you like the Hair Metal of the 80's you should also like this if nothing else just to hear the roots of bands like Guns n' Roses.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE ABSOLUTE BEST!!!!! EVER!!!!!, November 15, 2003

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Erick Bertin (Santo Domingo, Heredia Costa Rica) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Self Destruction Blues (Audio CD)

This CD means so much to me. I fist got the Uzi Suicide cassette version back in '95 (which I still have in mint condition, and that I will keep until the day I die... I AM SERIOUS!), and I got hooked for life...in 2002, I got the remastered, english version that I am reviewing here for a real low price, which, in addition to the music, includes a series of essays that are really insightful about the Rocks, Hanoi Rocks that is, my beloved Hanoi Rocks to be precise!

It is through those essays (all 5 remastered cd's include one: Saigon Shakes, Oriental Beat, Self Destruction Blues, Back to the Mystery City and All those wasted years)that i got to know that "Self Destruction Blues" was not,in fact, a "new" record at the time of its release, but rather a compilation of B-sides and unreleased songs from the first recording sessions the band made, recorded all over the place: Finland (where the band is originally from), England, etc. I would have never figured that one out if not for the included essay, because the quality of the songs, and the record as a whole would never hint that.

Even tought I love every single Hanoi Rocks song ever recorded (I actually wonder if there are any more unreleased songs... seems to be the case, since there is a boxed set prepared for release...), this record is just one of those few that, as far as i am concerned, is perfect. Not a weak link here, not a average song, all of them are top notch!! My absolute favorites are "Cafe Avenue", "I want you", "Kill city kills" (simply unbelievable!), "Self destruction blues", "Whisper in the Dark" (awesome!!!), "Taxi Driver"...well, I guess i am naming them all, am I not? Sorry, I can't help it...

If you think GN'R rule, you should give the Rocks a listen, so you can have a taste of the real thing...god only knows what could have been... but let's not get depressed, let's celebrate life, and as long as we have the music that Hanoi Rocks crafted, we will be safe from the hordes of boring, lackluster music... so go on, get a cold one, raise your glass to Razzle and enjoy...