V'Moto-Rock — 5 / A Fény Felé, Hungaroton (Audio CD)

In VERY GOOD condition! As pictured! Buy with confidence!

Product Details

• UPC: 59918117124520
• Product Type: Audio CD
• Artist: V'Moto-Rock
• Release Year: CD compilation of 1986 and 1987 studio albums
• Genre: Hungarian Rock, Pop Rock
• Publisher / Distributor: Hungaroton
• Catalog Number: HCD 71245
• Country of Producing: Hungary

Product Features

• Format: Audio CD, standard jewel case
• Tracks: 19
• Audio: Stereo
• Language: Hungarian (lyrics)

Overview

V'Moto-Rock arrived in the mid-1980s as part of a generation of Hungarian rock and pop-rock bands that had more in common with Western new wave than with the officially sanctioned "beat" sound of a decade earlier. 5 / A Fény Felé compiles material from their 1986 and 1987 studio albums onto a single CD — the Hungaroton HCD 71245 release makes both LPs accessible in one sitting. The band's sound is clean, melodic, and built around strong hooks, with a lyrical sensibility that was unambiguously contemporary for its time.

This Hungaroton CD is a straightforward reissue aimed at collectors of Hungarian rock from the later Kádár era and at anyone who caught V'Moto-Rock on Hungarian radio in the late 1980s. The production has dated well, and the disc holds up as a genuine document of what Hungarian pop-rock sounded like in the years immediately before the political changes.

Track Listing

1–10: from the 5 album (1986) / 11–19: from the A Fény Felé album (1987) (individual track titles and timings: see disc label for full listing)

Interesting Facts

• V'Moto-Rock formed in 1982 and became one of the more commercially successful Hungarian pop-rock acts of the mid-1980s.
• The band's name combines a scooter brand reference (Vespa/Moto) with "Rock" — a nod to the youth culture and mobility that Hungarian rock bands were increasingly allowed to reference.
• Hungaroton's HCD series was the primary vehicle for releasing Hungarian popular music on CD through the late 1980s and 1990s.
• The "A Fény Felé" (Toward the Light) album title, released in 1987, carried the slightly metaphorical optimism typical of Hungarian popular music in the late reform-socialist period.
• Hungaroton, founded in 1951, remained the dominant Hungarian record label throughout the socialist period and into the 1990s — their HCD pressings from this era are considered reliable collector's items.

Publishers

Hungaroton Records, Budapest. Catalog no. HCD 71245. © Hungaroton.

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