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David Lee Roth's recent appearance on JRE has me on a VH listening binge now

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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,280 Founders Club

    So anus is a connoisseur of VH; but JCs Diver Down and gives Jamie's Crying a B grade.

    Jimminy Christmas.

    IFL Diver Down. Bought it at some stoner’s garage sale at 1am walking back from the Ave to my house in Wallingford senior year.
    Do you also enjoy taking in top-40 cover music by The Afrodisiacs at Tulalip Casino on a Tuesday evening?
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  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam
    VH1 is a masterpiece of an album, but Van Halen doesn't have the body of work to be the GOAT.

    Great band, not the GOAT.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ergk9eF7398&list=PLF2093196B6962D11

    Horribly underrated on the list of VH's greatest albums.


    Turns you from hunted into hunter
    You go an' hunt somebody down

    Somebody said "Fair warning", Lord
    Lord, strike that poor boy down!

  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ergk9eF7398&list=PLF2093196B6962D11

    Horribly underrated on the list of VH's greatest albums.


    Turns you from hunted into hunter
    You go an' hunt somebody down

    Somebody said "Fair warning", Lord
    Lord, strike that poor boy down!

    Dirty Movies is a fucking classic.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,025

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ergk9eF7398&list=PLF2093196B6962D11

    Horribly underrated on the list of VH's greatest albums.


    Turns you from hunted into hunter
    You go an' hunt somebody down

    Somebody said "Fair warning", Lord
    Lord, strike that poor boy down!

    Dirty Movies is a fucking classic.
    Sinner's Swing is a personal fave.

    Danger in the rear view mirror
    There's trouble in the wind
    Badness bringing up the rear
    The menace's loose again
    She looks so fuckin' good
    So sexy and so frail
    Something got the bite on me
    I'm goin' straight to hell
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,671 Swaye's Wigwam
    Hot For Teacher rocks. The rest...meh. I don't like it but I can't take it seriously enough to hate it. Over synthed, soft, made for radio/mtv fluff with no edge.
  • HillsboroDuck
    HillsboroDuck Member Posts: 9,186
    Doogles said:

    El_K said:

    VH is my favorite band of all time. But that interview was all over the place. Everybody knows the VH brothers basically have a gag in Roth’s mouth that states he can’t talk about VH.

    The brothers would have been eaten alive if the internet was around in 1985. As 15 year old kid and my favorite band just released one of their biggest albums and broke up. Imagine the news we would have gotten back then. Instead of reading your friends copy of Shit Parader.

    EVH would rather sell Converse knock off shoes than put out music. Sometimes I wonder if I chose the wrong favorite band of all time when I was 7 to 9 years old.

    When I was 3 years old I settled on KISS and Styx. Get on my level.
    And people say being gay is a choice.
    Massively underrated poast.
  • IPukeOregonGrellow
    IPukeOregonGrellow Member Posts: 2,183
    Thread chincomplete without the greatest video of the 80s.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWQRDI7mTyw
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,017

    So anus is a connoisseur of VH; but JCs Diver Down and gives Jamie's Crying a B grade.

    Jimminy Christmas.

    Diver Down is half shit cover songs. Their worst album. I'd rather listen to Van Haggar.

    Jamie's Cryin' is good, not great. Literally 8 other songs that are better on that album if you like rock music with energy and Eddie's best shredding. Don't get me wrong, on Diver Down it wouldn't be the top track, no doubt.

    You are not a VH connoisseur, which is why you don't realize these things.
    Jimminy Christmas. You are doubling down Hondo style on this one.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,017
    dflea said:

    VH1 is a masterpiece of an album, but Van Halen doesn't have the body of work to be the GOAT.

    Great band, not the GOAT.

    That's basically my point. The fist one was ballz. Then they held firm for a bit, and then went full retard with 1984 and sythesizers. I hear that it wasn't Roth's fault, and that one of the many many things he and Eddie use to fight about was Eddie on the keyboards. It goes that DLR said, "people come to see you as the guitar hero, not the keyboard hero."

    He was right.
  • El_K
    El_K Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,488 Swaye's Wigwam
    If you take it I’ll Wait and Jump off 1984 and had two other guitar songs, 1984 would be way better. Arguably better than the first album.

    I also farted.
  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,169 Standard Supporter

    So anus is a connoisseur of VH; but JCs Diver Down and gives Jamie's Crying a B grade.

    Jimminy Christmas.

    Diver Down is half shit cover songs. Their worst album. I'd rather listen to Van Haggar.

    Jamie's Cryin' is good, not great. Literally 8 other songs that are better on that album if you like rock music with energy and Eddie's best shredding. Don't get me wrong, on Diver Down it wouldn't be the top track, no doubt.

    You are not a VH connoisseur, which is why you don't realize these things.
    Jimminy Christmas. You are doubling down Hondo style on this one.
    Let me help you out. You put that album as your second favorite of theirs. You have disqualified yourself from being taken seriously on Van Halen hot talk. All of the great songs they put out and you like the album that is half cover songs. Get outta here.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,017
    edited March 2019

    So anus is a connoisseur of VH; but JCs Diver Down and gives Jamie's Crying a B grade.

    Jimminy Christmas.

    Diver Down is half shit cover songs. Their worst album. I'd rather listen to Van Haggar.

    Jamie's Cryin' is good, not great. Literally 8 other songs that are better on that album if you like rock music with energy and Eddie's best shredding. Don't get me wrong, on Diver Down it wouldn't be the top track, no doubt.

    You are not a VH connoisseur, which is why you don't realize these things.
    Jimminy Christmas. You are doubling down Hondo style on this one.
    Let me help you out. You put that album as your second favorite of theirs. You have disqualified yourself from being taken seriously on Van Halen hot talk. All of the great songs they put out and you like the album that is half cover songs. Get outta here.
    You base this on covers, as if one of their all time best songs, on the vaunted first album, wasn't a cover. Fuck it. I like VH's You Really Got Me as much as the Kinks' version. On Diver Down, Pretty Woman, Where Have All the Good Times Gone, etc. are good tunes. I like VH's cover of those better than the originals. It happens. Dancing in the Streets is horrible, so I'll agree with you there, but there aren't many albums that dont' have at least one song I could do without..

    But yeah, I'll take VH's cover of Big Bad Bill over Peggy Lee's version any day. Sue me.

    You either like a song or you don't. IDGAF if it's a cover. Some covers are actually better. I didn't even know the Kinks did Where Have All the Good Times, and after listening to it went back to the VH version.

    Fair Warning didn't sell, and Diver Down did. I assume that's because people liked it more.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club

    So anus is a connoisseur of VH; but JCs Diver Down and gives Jamie's Crying a B grade.

    Jimminy Christmas.

    Diver Down is half shit cover songs. Their worst album. I'd rather listen to Van Haggar.

    Jamie's Cryin' is good, not great. Literally 8 other songs that are better on that album if you like rock music with energy and Eddie's best shredding. Don't get me wrong, on Diver Down it wouldn't be the top track, no doubt.

    You are not a VH connoisseur, which is why you don't realize these things.
    Jimminy Christmas. You are doubling down Hondo style on this one.
    Let me help you out. You put that album as your second favorite of theirs. You have disqualified yourself from being taken seriously on Van Halen hot talk. All of the great songs they put out and you like the album that is half cover songs. Get outta here.
    You base this on covers, as if one of their all time best songs, on the vaunted first album, wasn't a cover. Fuck it. I like VH's You Really Got Me as much as the Kinks' version. On Diver Down, Pretty Woman, Where Have All the Good Times Gone, etc. are good tunes. I like VH's cover of those better than the originals. It happens. Dancing in the Streets is horrible, so I'll agree with you there, but there aren't many albums that dont' have at least one song I could do without..

    But yeah, I'll take VH's cover of Big Bad Bill over Peggy Lee's version any day. Sue me.

    You either like a song or you don't. IDGAF if it's a cover. Some covers are actually better. I didn't even know the Kinks did Where Have All the Good Times, and after listening to it went back to the VH version.

    Fair Warning didn't sell, and Diver Down did. I assume that's because people liked it more.
    Kinks version was 1965 and a great song. I like both versions equally. The Roy Orbison cover was solid too.
  • 89ute
    89ute Member Posts: 2,479
    Early, early, early 80's, may have been '79, I threw my T-Shirt at David Lee Roth, skimmed the top of his head. We were just a few rows back.
  • El_K
    El_K Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,488 Swaye's Wigwam
    Is it me but does Pretty Woman sound better on the radio when you hear Intruder along with it?

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club
    El_K said:

    Is it me but does Pretty Woman sound better on the radio when you hear Intruder along with it?

    KISW Double Shot Thursday’s!!!!

    Diver Down sounds amazing on vinyl!!
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    My first concert ever. 1981. Van Halen. $10.
  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,035 Standard Supporter

    Jamie's Crying is a solid B song from VH. Not even close to a top-20 of their hits.

    No way. The lyrics aren't great, but EVH chainsaws that mother fucker from beginning to end.

    True Story: Wife went to school with Floyd Rose's daughter. Any VH fan knows the connection, but can they identify it for the boreds? If not, you're all posers.
  • Southerndawg
    Southerndawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,346 Founders Club

    Jamie's Crying is a solid B song from VH. Not even close to a top-20 of their hits.

    No way. The lyrics aren't great, but EVH chainsaws that mother fucker from beginning to end.

    True Story: Wife went to school with Floyd Rose's daughter. Any VH fan knows the connection, but can they identify it for the boreds? If not, you're all posers.

  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,035 Standard Supporter
    Chicken Dinner!
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,216 Founders Club

    Jamie's Crying is a solid B song from VH. Not even close to a top-20 of their hits.

    No way. The lyrics aren't great, but EVH chainsaws that mother fucker from beginning to end.

    True Story: Wife went to school with Floyd Rose's daughter. Any VH fan knows the connection, but can they identify it for the boreds? If not, you're all posers.
    I locked the tremolo bar in place on my Strat.