Come On Dave, Gimme a Break - The Van Halen Thread

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Why I Hate This Album did an episode recently on Van Halen III. It was hilarious.They really destroyed it. MA only played bass on 4 of those songs.

I don't think I've ever listened to it all the way through.

Have you ever listened to How Many Say I?

Is that the one Ed sings?

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Why I Hate This Album did an episode recently on Van Halen III. It was hilarious.They really destroyed it. MA only played bass on 4 of those songs.

I don't think I've ever listened to it all the way through.

Have you ever listened to How Many Say I?

Is that the one Ed sings?

You could call it that

[wease]

Why I Hate This Album did an episode recently on Van Halen III. It was hilarious.They really destroyed it. MA only played bass on 4 of those songs.

I don't think I've ever listened to it all the way through.

Have you ever listened to How Many Say I?

Is that the one Ed sings?

You could call it that

Yeah, I couldn’t make it thru to the end.

[verb_to_trust]

How many , how many, say IIIIIIIIII

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I take it you DID make it all the way thru.

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Coronavirus got me back into playing guitar. I learned Panama today. Well I learned the parts I can't make it all the way through without messing up 50 times.

[darth_vedder]

I love me some Van Halen. Glad to see some Diver Down talk, I've always liked that album too and Little Guitars is fantastic. Way back when, I snagged the debut and Diver Down cassettes from my sister and that was my intro to Van Halen, along with 1984 (those songs were on MTV all the time). I don't really love VH, but I associate them a lot with my childhood and have strong nostalgic feelings for them.

For the Dave material, my rankings would be:
VH II
Women & Children First
VH
1984
Fair Warning
Diver Down

What are RM's thoughts on Van Hagar? I actually think if you combine some tunes from the first two Hagar albums, you can have a solid album.

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I love me some Van Halen. Glad to see some Diver Down talk, I've always liked that album too and Little Guitars is fantastic. Way back when, I snagged the debut and Diver Down cassettes from my sister and that was my intro to Van Halen, along with 1984 (those songs were on MTV all the time). I don't really love VH, but I associate them a lot with my childhood and have strong nostalgic feelings for them.

For the Dave material, my rankings would be:
VH II
Women & Children First
VH
1984
Fair Warning
Diver Down

What are RM's thoughts on Van Hagar? I actually think if you combine some tunes from the first two Hagar albums, you can have a solid album.

I love all the Sam stuff up to Balance. Way overproduced and the songs just aren’t there.

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I love me some Van Halen. Glad to see some Diver Down talk, I've always liked that album too and Little Guitars is fantastic. Way back when, I snagged the debut and Diver Down cassettes from my sister and that was my intro to Van Halen, along with 1984 (those songs were on MTV all the time). I don't really love VH, but I associate them a lot with my childhood and have strong nostalgic feelings for them.

For the Dave material, my rankings would be:
VH II
Women & Children First
VH
1984
Fair Warning
Diver Down

What are RM's thoughts on Van Hagar? I actually think if you combine some tunes from the first two Hagar albums, you can have a solid album.

I love all the Sam stuff up to Balance. Way overproduced and the songs just aren’t there.

I think For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge has some good stuff on it otherwise I am not a fan. The Dave stuff doesn’t take itself too seriously which I think lends this sort of atmosphere that doesn’t age as poorly as largely sappy love songs that got eaten up in the 80s age of excess. I agree with the prior post on Balance, which I thought was pretty good at the time but lacked the maturity to understand that playing many notes quickly is not the same as good.

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I love me some Van Halen. Glad to see some Diver Down talk, I've always liked that album too and Little Guitars is fantastic. Way back when, I snagged the debut and Diver Down cassettes from my sister and that was my intro to Van Halen, along with 1984 (those songs were on MTV all the time). I don't really love VH, but I associate them a lot with my childhood and have strong nostalgic feelings for them.

For the Dave material, my rankings would be:
VH II
Women & Children First
VH
1984
Fair Warning
Diver Down

What are RM's thoughts on Van Hagar? I actually think if you combine some tunes from the first two Hagar albums, you can have a solid album.

The Hagar stuff just sounds more dated. Although the keyboard tunes from the Dave years do too. Dreams for example I can almost laugh at for how corny the synth is. Hagar songs like Poundcake, Runaround, Finish What You Started, 5150 ect. are all pretty good though. That era of the band would have aged better with a more consistent rock sound as the approach but Eddie wrote Jump and that was that going forward. All the albums had to have the lame keyboard pop songs. I will say Right Now I always thought was cool.

[i got bugs]

What are RM's thoughts on Van Hagar?

5150 is the best VH song

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What are RM's thoughts on Van Hagar?

5150 is the best VH song

"Always one more, you're never satisfied"

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Dave Years:
1984
Fair Warning
Women & Children First
VH
VH II
Diver Down

1984 was the first VH album I owned. I think it's pretty much a perfect rock album. The first three Sammy albums are great. 5150 is probably my second favorite VH album. I think '84-'86 was the peak for all those guys including Dave's first solo album. After For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and Live Right Here, Right Now they probably should have put out that Greatest Hits album and called it a day.

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After For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and Live Right Here, Right Now they probably should have put out that Greatest Hits album and called it a day.

Agreed

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Dave years:
Fair Warning
Women & Children First
1984
VH II
Diver Down
VH

Sammy years:
FUCK
5150
OU812
Balance

Overall:
Fair Warning
FUCK
Women & Children First
1984
5150
OU812
VH II
Diver Down
VH
Balance


With Balance being so far below everything else, it should have never been recorded. I would honestly put that last album with Dave above it. Far above it.

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After For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and Live Right Here, Right Now they probably should have put out that Greatest Hits album and called it a day.

Agreed

Balance had some decent songs. Aftershock comes to mind. It's absolutely better than Diver Down

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https://www.nme.com/news/music/eddie-va ... ms-2653148

Holy shit

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You’d go crazy too if you were slicing pieces from your tongue and eating them.

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Wait, what?

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Back around that same time, give or take, he had been diagnosed with some sort of oral cancer. He had said at the time that he beat the cancer by having slices taken off his tongue then eating them. Of course now he has throat cancer so who knows what he’s doing for that.