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David Lee Roth's recent appearance on JRE has me on a VH listening binge now
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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."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.
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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.
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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 said:
Jimminy Christmas. You are doubling down Hondo style on this one.BleachedAnusDawg said:
Diver Down is half shit cover songs. Their worst album. I'd rather listen to Van Haggar.creepycoug said:So anus is a connoisseur of VH; but JCs Diver Down and gives Jamie's Crying a B grade.
Jimminy Christmas.
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.
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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..BleachedAnusDawg said:
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 said:
Jimminy Christmas. You are doubling down Hondo style on this one.BleachedAnusDawg said:
Diver Down is half shit cover songs. Their worst album. I'd rather listen to Van Haggar.creepycoug said:So anus is a connoisseur of VH; but JCs Diver Down and gives Jamie's Crying a B grade.
Jimminy Christmas.
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.
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. -
LA bands were forced to do cover songs to get contracts in the late 70's and early 80'screepycoug said:
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..BleachedAnusDawg said:
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 said:
Jimminy Christmas. You are doubling down Hondo style on this one.BleachedAnusDawg said:
Diver Down is half shit cover songs. Their worst album. I'd rather listen to Van Haggar.creepycoug said:So anus is a connoisseur of VH; but JCs Diver Down and gives Jamie's Crying a B grade.
Jimminy Christmas.
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.
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.
Come on hear the noise etc
Slade was an early 70's band that is under rated so they were ripe to be covered -
Kinks version was 1965 and a great song. I like both versions equally. The Roy Orbison cover was solid too.creepycoug said:
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..BleachedAnusDawg said:
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 said:
Jimminy Christmas. You are doubling down Hondo style on this one.BleachedAnusDawg said:
Diver Down is half shit cover songs. Their worst album. I'd rather listen to Van Haggar.creepycoug said:So anus is a connoisseur of VH; but JCs Diver Down and gives Jamie's Crying a B grade.
Jimminy Christmas.
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.
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. -
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.
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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!!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!!!! -
My first concert ever. 1981. Van Halen. $10.
