Reception
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Even though Oriental Beat is considered a Hanoi-classic, many of the band members have called the album a failure. Michael Monroe has called the album great, but blamed the producer, Pete Wooliscroft, of ruining the albums sound by all-around bad producing and mixing. Wooliscroft had mixed the album while Hanoi Rocks was on tour, and didn't know what Hanoi Rocks was about, so he went with a completely different style on the mixing. Sami Yaffa had called the album "a piece of shit" in an 1985 interview. Even with these comments, the album was voted the 91st best rock album, in the "100 Greatest Rock Albums" poll by the Finnish radio station Radio Rock. Oriental Beat beat-out such albums like Kiss' Lick It Up and The Doors' Morrison Hotel.
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