There's a bunch of stuff that I didn't even know existed. "But at the same time, we found a couple more multitrack tapes with outtakes from the first album and second one as well. "We're gonna keep the album as it was, with just a better sound," he explains. The singer says there won't be any bonus tracks on the remixed Oriental Beat, but he did find other goodies alongside the original multitrack tapes that could eventually see the light of day. Monroe says the new-and-improved Oriental Beat - "the remix, the real mix," with "no overdubs, just as it was" - will arrive this November. But fate smiled on the band when a Universal Music employee uncovered the original multitracks in a warehouse. Hanoi Rocks originally wanted to remix Oriental Beat in the early '90s, when Guns N' Roses re-released their catalog on their Uzi Suicide vanity label, but the original multitrack recordings were lost and presumed gone forever. So all you can hear is like snare drum and vocal, and it just really ruined the whole record, probably set us back for a couple of years because of the sound of that record."
"There's a lot of great songs, but the mix was really, really bad. "The second was produced by this guy, Peter Woolliscroft - it was really horrible," Monroe tells UCR. While the album helped boost the Finnish glam-punks' international profile and features some of their most beloved songs, including the title track and "Motorvatin'," the band members have frequently and emphatically criticized its subpar production. First up is a remixed, 40th-anniversary reissue of Oriental Beat, the second album by Monroe's original band, Hanoi Rocks. The tireless rocker just released his latest solo album, I Live Too Fast to Die Young, in June, and he's got a slew of other projects in the works for the near future. New York, NY (Top40 Charts) It's a great time to be a Michael Monroe fan - and an incredibly busy time to be Michael Monroe. Top 100 Greatest Hip-hop/Rap Singles Of All Time.
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