Description

Still sealed digipak edition

London denimboys Tokyo Dragons are yet another band pulling the mirrored shades, leather vests, and moustaches so ironic they hurt, all in the name of “real rock and roll”. The thing these would-be saviors always forget is that a band comes along about every three months and says it’s the one saving the otherwise-neglected corpse of rock music. If everyone who claimed to bring rock back actually did it, Ace Frehley would be President of the United States, The Hellacopters on Mount Rushmore, and Cheap Trick would be busily rewriting power chords into the national anthem. Fans of pre-Mutt Lange Def Leppard, scrappy three-chord hedonists like Bad Wizard, cheap-beer-swilling Ac/dc and Thin Lizzy revivalists and even those into Buckcherry or L.A. Guns will find much to love about Tokyo Dragons. The singer’s a bit poncy and off, but Joe Elliot and Justin Hawkins are living proof that that’s never been a crime. There are isolated moments of guitar brilliance, too, some utterly infectious dual guitar runs that leaven the extreme cheese factor and novelty aspect of the band. This 2005 ep is more of same, that means garage/riff rock n roll with a high dose of party-feeling. I thought the debut was really good, but it left me longing for more; something for which this EP definitely has a cure. There are 7 songs on the EP. Three of them are new: “High On Hate”, “This Means War”, and “Everybody That’s Right”. Other songs are older songs from the debut. “Come on Baby” are featured three times; one of those times is as a video clip with a funny but kind of strange video where the key elements are female vampires, the band, and a forest. The three live tracks are “Get Em Off”, “Johnny Don’t Wanna Ride”, and “Come on Baby”. All three were recorded at the Hultsfreds Festival in Sweden by Swedish Radio. The band sounds much harder and meaner in a live situation, which is very positive.

Track list:
1. Come On Baby
2. High On Hate
3. Everybody That’s Right
4. This Means War
5. Get’em Off-live at Hultsfred festival 2006
6. Johnny Don’t Wanna Ride-live at Hultsfred festival 2006
7. Come On Baby-live at Hultsfred festival 2006
8. Come On Baby-video