@@2869may - Yeah, I always blamed the great Sammy Hagar for the demise of VH... Sorry Sam, Eddie was already selling out. One of the top rock guitarists in history, and he's faking his way through some basic 1980's keyboards. Makes perfect sense to me. 😉
@@_Common_Logic_ Come on man... they just grew up... Van Hagar made some great music, weather you like it or not... Numbers don't lie... I was HARD rocker myself DIO was one of my fav's. Old VH was GREAT "Drop Dead Legs", "Everybody Wants Some", And The Cradle Will Rock"..... But some new VH was good too..
@@2869may - Listen to the arrangements in songs like Everybody Wants Some, The Cradle Will Rock, Mean Street, etc., and then listen to the keys, bass and DRUMMING on the bubblegum, Talylor Swift love songs VH regurgitated when they "grew up". "Is this Love?" WTH?😄 Music went mindless, fun, and "easy" to listen to in the late '80s, never recovering from the MTV effect. Not always bad, but it is what it is. Van Halen and bands like ZZ Top who's "top sellers" were arguably backed by a drum machine followed the trend. I'm Not blaming the 'logical' business decisions, but I'm also not letting the sonic results slide. Even fun songs in "jest" like "Ice Cream Man" back in the day had more flair and technicality then MOST of the later releases. Some of the better songs allowed to sneek through in the later years were actually written by Eddie Pre-1983. As record sales are concerned, you can't use the number with any real accuracy. Sales coincidentally SKYROCKETED across the industry in the the late 80's and continued to rise at unprecedented levels until the mid 90's when CD prices had hit 20 bucks and people had the ability to record them with NO loss of quality... The internet put the nail in the coffin, as most sales figures are figured by DOLLARS and not numbers. Game over. Due to this, the spike in music sales across the board coincidentally mirrored Hagar's years with VH. EVERYONE had a chance at their "best selling album" coming out in those years. 5150 sold 11 million units (by most accounts) Britney Spears slung 20 million copies of "Oops! I Did It Again". VH was following a demographic. The money. FEMALES had also, for the first time ever started buying more music than men. The funny thing is that Oops I did it again was more "edgy" than a number of VH songs of the time. Hahaha. More proof of sales not being a good measure... Johnny Cash enjoyed his HIGHEST (by far) grossing album in 2003. That was AFTER he died with no new material. ;-) As for anything and anyone POST Hagar, no-one cared... Those sales (despite streaming) would never reach the Hagar or DLR days. They could have returned to the roots, but losing Anthony's harmonies and putting up with the unqualified nepotism (being Eddie's son fumbling his way through the catalog) was "jumping the shark". We understood the youth of the band and the trash talking of Eddie vs DLR, as BOTH were insane in their own right... But when they threw M.A. under the bus AND publicly trashed him, most had either given up on the brother's nonsense, or just focused on the VH they had grown up with. They SHOULD have taken a lesson from AC/DC. It can be done. I still love classic rock, but I'm a (weekend) jazz musician. I understand "growing up" (getting old). I'm just looking from a musical standpoint. I would have welcomed a "refined" VH as I matured, but I just was NOT impressed. My laptop is out of ink... I'm done. 🙂
Alex's drumming and Eddies Keyboarding stands out so phenomenally in this song and David Lee Roths Vocals, Come on Forget about it, such a great banger from the 80s.
Alex used the same transition fill too many times in this particular tune, for my taste, but... Yeah, he is one of the greats. The way he stops and starts a groove whilst KEEPING the groove? It's his signature talent. Supercool and super influential.
They became the best band ever with Sammy. Dave was not a contributor, just a distraction. Van Hagar was relevant for another decade after DLR hit the road. DLR did an album of covers to keep himself on Mtv….
@@GNXXRAY Dave was a major contributor to Van Halen. He was the lyricist plus the front man. Sammy Hagar was good also. The band had two different phases with the same guitarist, bassist and drummer, that's all. Plus DLR came up with the name Van Halen!
Drum work on this song is a pleasure to behold. A super tune from VH off of an amazing album. Alex holds the whole band together with that powerful beat and drive.
Alex was always the decision maker and leader of the band in the background. Kind of scary considering the band was so worried about his drinking they tried to send him to rehab.
This song still has meaning today. This generation isn’t into magazines anymore but insta models, only fans, few lyric changes and you’ve got a meaning full cover that will work today.
Little Guitars, I like that song, both parts together especially. I recently realized there's no guitar solo on Dance The Night Away. Just the harmonic thing. So I wonder why there would be a VH song without a solo
I play guitar but mostly just Neil Young level. But those old timey VH songs. Could This Be Magic! I would burst with pride if I could play and sing that lol sooo good
Alright my babies....I see that the both of you are really feeling this one. When your wailin' the Van Halen, you're giving the people what they want ‼️🔥💯🔥🎼🎶🎸🥁🎤🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
1987 was my wife (girlfriend at the time) and my 1st "song." I was a sophomore and her a freshman in HS. Here we are going on 36 years together (32 married) and both teachers! 3 songs captured our time from dating to marriage. In order: I'll Wait (VH), Thank You (Zeppelin) and at our wedding Open Arms (Journey).
Skipped out of school for the concert that tour. It was in April of 1984 at Cobo Hall in Detroit. That show was one of best concerts I've been to. Autograph was the opening act. Within 20 minutes they were booed off the stage.
Learning drums in the '80s, this song was a huge inspiration to me. I charted it out in sheet music and learned to play it. When you learn a part like that, it's just like knowing the lyrics of a song. I know every beat, even though I hadn't heard it in a while.
Believe it or not, the lyrics were actually penned by David Lee Roth and Michael McDonald! Owe it to producer Ted Templeman to get those two together for a composition. The second single released from 1984, yet the only one with no video to accompany the song. Highly underrated track.
It was the last single..I believe it went Jump, Hot For Teacher, Panama, I'll Wait....no video because by the time I'll Wait was released the album pretty much sold all it was going to sell because it was released near the end of the run of singles..I guess they weighed the financial benefits of a 4th video and were like "nah....the additional albums it would sell wouldnt cover the cost of the video" (of course im just guessing of the reason...I wish they would have made a video....black and white, Dave in a smoky room, laying in bed, by himself with magazine pics of the girl on his walls..the pics in color...etc..etc. A really stalker-ish vibe to it.)
I read they didn't originally give Michael McDonald credit for his collaboration into writing this song and they eventually corrected that....as they should have
@@padfolio true, yet due credit was held back for him because the band didn't want to be seen as 'sellouts' due to having him assist Dave in the writing. All in all, turned out great.
The song was written by band members Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth, along with Michael McDonald and produced by Ted Templeton. It was the second single released from the record and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite the song being a hit, no video was ever filmed for it. Roth’s inspiration was former super model, Christine Brinkley.
In 1984, Christie Brinkley was the subject for Uptown Girl 👧. Billy Joel dated her then and later married her. No 👎 bad blood between Roth and Joel. Joel did meet the late Eddie years later. RIP 🙏
I would cruise on a summer Friday night downtown with the sunroom off windows down and Crank'in this whole album......I still can smell the sweet small town smells.
Heartbreak in overdrive!! One of their best albums and one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Wish I could turn back the clock and do it all again !!!!
It's the snare and hi-hat that made this instantly recognizable as VH back in the day, when we were not use to hearing synth from them. So bright and in your face!
Love this song! This whole album is fire. Not a bad song on it. Top Jimmy is another lesser known song that is a real banger, especially Eddie’s guitar solo
It was forty years ago that album came out and we were playing that in my Trans Am on the way down to Fort Lauderdale FLA for Spring Break! I lived it and I loved it and I won't forget it. Btw I was 21 then
I knew you guys would love this song one my al time favorite songs ever and Alex Van Halen on the drums. I wish I could've took you 2 to one there concerts I took so many my friends to see them for there first time with they loved them but seeing them live and exsperince the feeling one there shows and of course eddies solo then the all knew what I was talking about and would rank there concert right up there with one there best shows.eddie on keyboards and David lee Roth classic and mike Anthony on bass the harominazing one my all time favorite band probably top 3 bands I have tied led Zeppelin and mettalica and Van Halen .this song so underrated yet its so awesome love this fn song
That was a great single, and one of my favorites of theirs. Loved hearing it on the car radio as I was, um, I can't remember where I was going at the time but I remember the song! Priorities, yeah!
One of my favorite songs by VH.. love the implementation of the keyboards and synths that backbone this song. The whole drive behind this song is awesome
VH is like a dream team. Both Dave and Sammy were great at singing, each bringing their own distinct sound. Eddie on guitar was the GOAT. Alex on drums always banging away. And Michael Anthony on bass (very underated) and the greatest backing vocals ever !!!
This is a little different for Van Halen, but I always loved this song. It showcases Eddie’s keyboard talents and it still has that Van Halen sound. Classic.
One of top 5 VH songs. Never, ever thought I would hear this live with David Lee Roth. Van Halen's last tour, with Roth (Wolfgang on bass) they did play I'll Wait. I started crying and I could've help it. No shame given the moment.
My boss at my new job is a Van Halen fanatic, even named his first born Halen lol Needless to say, the music he plays all day is🔥🔥 It's so cool you chose this one. It was just playing my last shift & I was like "Omg, I almost forgot this one!" Hadn't heard it in a minute & all these great memories rushed back! Awesome choice❤✌️
I'm bobbing my head to this song which I'm so used to and I stop and think, you two are hearing this for the first time. Sooo cool. Other than Eddie's great guitar work is Alex's signature snare drum sound. So distinctively Van Halen!
Eddie Van Halen was trained at the London school of music and was a concert pianist! He played all the key boards in this song! And his brother Alex was amazing on the drums!
I don't think he was trained (or even lived) in London and never learned to read music, nor was he concert pianist. He came to America (from the Netherlands) when he was a child at around 7yrs old and, yes, he did have classical piano training as a kid but never gave full blown concerts in the traditional sense but he did win a piano competition (while living in California) when he was around 12....Alex was also trained.
London School of Music???????? He and Alex learned classical piano in elementary school from an elderly piano teacher in Los Angeles named Stasys Kalvaitis. GET YOUR S - - T STRAIGHT!!!
I listen to every genre. Loving the tunes & reactions to what I grew up listening to in Middle & high school blaring from friend's car speakers in the school parking lot in Maryland after school orchestra & marching band rehearsals! Righteous, Rob Squad!
I'm a forever and always fan of Van Halen. Dave... Sammy ... doesn't matter. All of it is incredible music. And this one... This song... Is my favorite VH tune of all time. A masterpiece.
I was in high school when this came out, and was one of my choices when I signed up for Columbia House. I got it and the others on 8-track...yes...8-track in the 80's. I played this every day after school while doing chores. I'll Wait was my favorite on the album...great memories!
My very first album I ever bought. This was my favorite song from this album. Yes I like the other songs, but I liked songs that were not on the radio at the time.
Rest in peace, Eddie !!! there’s a guitarist out there, named Nuno Bettencourt of extreme he recently, and his band made a single called RISE BY EXTREME. He basically dedicatess the solo to him. This guy is probably the greatest guitarist alive right now.
I still remember seeing Rob react to ACDC Thunderstruck for the first time on another channel and he was all skeptical, now Eddie Van Halen is melting his face lol
This was the second single off of "1984", released in 1984 (duh) that (I think) was their biggest album of all time. It spawned "Jump", their only #1 hit, as well as "Panama", which also hit the Top 40. The fourth single off the album was "Hot For Teacher", which.... great song, but I'd recommend the lyric video (as parents, you might find the actual video a little too edgy). And this is your 14th Van Halen reaction. though if you want to get technical, it's your 10th with DL Roth as the lead singer (the other four were Sammy).
The album was slated to be number #1 on the charts by the end of a certain week in 1984.....and that certain week was the weekof the MJ infamous pepsi commerical/hair on fire incident happened and it gave a sudden 11th hour sales surge to his Thriller album and knocked VH's "1984" out of what would have been the #1 album in the country position. (Source: Michael Anthony revealed this while being interviewed by Howard Stern)
I can remember back in 05 my mom bought my dad the 1984 cd, I was ten years old an yea top jimmy n panama were cool but this song just got glued to me. My dad used to have this on vinyl back in '84 and go figure this was his favorite song of the album.
ABSOLUTE BANGER!! This song is so unabashedly 80's with the synth, but it still rocks SO hard! David Lee Roth wasn't too pleased that Eddie was dabbling more and more into the keys, but a composer and creator has to do what they want to do, and this was the result of that experimentation!! This has LONG been one of my top Van Halen tracks - it flows perfectly. For me, it's the unsung hero of the 1984 album. Everyone knows the Jump, Panama, Hot For Teacher, but I'll Wait & House Of Pain are heavy and dark and just awesome! Thanks for starting my Tuesday off great! Cheers.
.... Alex Van Halen shines in this song with the "fat drum" sounds... Shout out to their drum technician.... Eddie on keys & guitar.. I'd say Roth did very well on vocals/lyrics.
One of my favorite Van Halen songs, very underrated, not mentioned often. Brings me back in 1984 when i got the cassette tape, i was 11 years old and i loved that song right away. I love the entire album.
You make our night. All the music varieties. So much Godgiven talent hidden away, now we hear it and I even remember the day I rushed home to unwrap the Doors, at a babysitting job😅. Had to support my insatiable passion of music. Thank you.
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Their most underrated song imo. Great choice!
I agree... You hear in this song the direction Eddie wanted to take the music.... It sounds like Van Hagar BEFORE Van Hagar....
This happens to be my favorite Van Halen song.
@@2869may - Yeah, I always blamed the great Sammy Hagar for the demise of VH... Sorry Sam, Eddie was already selling out. One of the top rock guitarists in history, and he's faking his way through some basic 1980's keyboards. Makes perfect sense to me. 😉
@@_Common_Logic_ Come on man... they just grew up... Van Hagar made some great music, weather you like it or not... Numbers don't lie... I was HARD rocker myself DIO was one of my fav's. Old VH was GREAT
"Drop Dead Legs", "Everybody Wants Some", And The Cradle Will Rock".....
But some new VH was good too..
@@2869may - Listen to the arrangements in songs like Everybody Wants Some, The Cradle Will Rock, Mean Street, etc., and then listen to the keys, bass and DRUMMING on the bubblegum, Talylor Swift love songs VH regurgitated when they "grew up". "Is this Love?" WTH?😄
Music went mindless, fun, and "easy" to listen to in the late '80s, never recovering from the MTV effect. Not always bad, but it is what it is. Van Halen and bands like ZZ Top who's "top sellers" were arguably backed by a drum machine followed the trend.
I'm Not blaming the 'logical' business decisions, but I'm also not letting the sonic results slide. Even fun songs in "jest" like "Ice Cream Man" back in the day had more flair and technicality then MOST of the later releases. Some of the better songs allowed to sneek through in the later years were actually written by Eddie Pre-1983.
As record sales are concerned, you can't use the number with any real accuracy. Sales coincidentally SKYROCKETED across the industry in the the late 80's and continued to rise at unprecedented levels until the mid 90's when CD prices had hit 20 bucks and people had the ability to record them with NO loss of quality...
The internet put the nail in the coffin, as most sales figures are figured by DOLLARS and not numbers. Game over. Due to this, the spike in music sales across the board coincidentally mirrored Hagar's years with VH. EVERYONE had a chance at their "best selling album" coming out in those years.
5150 sold 11 million units (by most accounts) Britney Spears slung 20 million copies of "Oops! I Did It Again". VH was following a demographic. The money. FEMALES had also, for the first time ever started buying more music than men.
The funny thing is that Oops I did it again was more "edgy" than a number of VH songs of the time. Hahaha.
More proof of sales not being a good measure... Johnny Cash enjoyed his HIGHEST (by far) grossing album in 2003. That was AFTER he died with no new material. ;-)
As for anything and anyone POST Hagar, no-one cared... Those sales (despite streaming) would never reach the Hagar or DLR days. They could have returned to the roots, but losing Anthony's harmonies and putting up with the unqualified nepotism (being Eddie's son fumbling his way through the catalog) was "jumping the shark".
We understood the youth of the band and the trash talking of Eddie vs DLR, as BOTH were insane in their own right... But when they threw M.A. under the bus AND publicly trashed him, most had either given up on the brother's nonsense, or just focused on the VH they had grown up with.
They SHOULD have taken a lesson from AC/DC. It can be done. I still love classic rock, but I'm a (weekend) jazz musician. I understand "growing up" (getting old). I'm just looking from a musical standpoint. I would have welcomed a "refined" VH as I matured, but I just was NOT impressed.
My laptop is out of ink... I'm done. 🙂
Alex's drumming and Eddies Keyboarding stands out so phenomenally in this song and David Lee Roths Vocals, Come on Forget about it, such a great banger from the 80s.
Alex just crushed this. He's front and center..loud and strong. My fave drummer!
Alex used the same transition fill too many times in this particular tune, for my taste, but... Yeah, he is one of the greats. The way he stops and starts a groove whilst KEEPING the groove? It's his signature talent. Supercool and super influential.
RIP Eddie...!!!!!! VH will always tops when rock & roll is the conversation.
Probably not popular opinion, but this is my favorite song by them.❤❤❤❤ synthtastic
As a true Van Halen fanatic, I totally hear you! It has such a unique feel, and unstoppable energy. The drum sounds are truly a gift from god!
I like it pretty well... Maybe not my "fav" but it's up there.
@@choppingpenguin You hear in this song the direction Eddie wanted to take the music.... It sounds like Van Hagar BEFORE Van Hagar....
Not unpopular, it's my favorite VH song!
Agreed
The drum sound was awesome on this whole album, not to mention the brilliance of Alex Van Halen's playing!
To this day, I am still blown away by the drum production on this record. It sounds unfuckingbelievably good!!!
@@choppingpenguin Absolutely! I know Alex used rototoms but that snare is a real killer!
@@choppingpenguin I'm blown away that Jay and Amber don't know Alex is a Van Halen. Amazing.
@@allenwhitmer8192 Right, I don't believe they've ever made that acknowledgment.
@@magneto7930 Nope, the last one they did before this one, they said they didn't know the drummers name.
What stellar vocals from the one and only, David Lee Roth!💯
Yeah he was an excellent frontman. I never got into the Hagar thing. They lost their wildness
They became the best band ever with Sammy.
Dave was not a contributor, just a distraction. Van Hagar was relevant for another decade after DLR hit the road. DLR did an album of covers to keep himself on Mtv….
@@GNXXRAY Dave was a major contributor to Van Halen. He was the lyricist plus the front man. Sammy Hagar was good also. The band had two different phases with the same guitarist, bassist and drummer, that's all. Plus DLR came up with the name Van Halen!
Diamond Dave !
Van Hagar sucked.. it was the downfall of a great band.. They would have been better off finding a Filipino clone like Journey did …
Drum work on this song is a pleasure to behold. A super tune from VH off of an amazing album. Alex holds the whole band together with that powerful beat and drive.
Alex was always the decision maker and leader of the band in the background. Kind of scary considering the band was so worried about his drinking they tried to send him to rehab.
This song still has meaning today. This generation isn’t into magazines anymore but insta models, only fans, few lyric changes and you’ve got a meaning full cover that will work today.
Have you ever heard Source of Infection from OU812?
This song shows just how incredible Van Halen’s “rhythm section” was!!!!!!
Wife here..Van Halen is always Rocking..Love This is one of my personal favorites!!
Love this song. This and Little Guitars are easily the 2 most underrated Van Halen songs imo.
Both the intro and the song! Y'all will love it! It shows a deeper side of EVH's musicality and elegant technique.
Tom macdonald
Little Guitars, I like that song, both parts together especially. I recently realized there's no guitar solo on Dance The Night Away. Just the harmonic thing. So I wonder why there would be a VH song without a solo
I play guitar but mostly just Neil Young level. But those old timey VH songs. Could This Be Magic! I would burst with pride if I could play and sing that lol sooo good
@@mattjohn4731 That one was designed for radio release, a safe drive down the middle.
1984 - my high school freshman year. This was the most anticipated album that year and it didn’t disappoint. Every song is great.
Yes!! Takes me right back to 1984, cruising in my first car at 16 just blasting this out of the 6x9s in the rear deck…
Love that signature Snare.
"And The Cradle Will Rock"
"Finish What You Started" (Van Hagar)
"Finish" has a really cool syncopated guitar lick...I just can't replicate it.
Alright my babies....I see that the both of you are really feeling this one. When your wailin' the Van Halen, you're giving the people what they want ‼️🔥💯🔥🎼🎶🎸🥁🎤🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
1987 was my wife (girlfriend at the time) and my 1st "song." I was a sophomore and her a freshman in HS. Here we are going on 36 years together (32 married) and both teachers! 3 songs captured our time from dating to marriage. In order: I'll Wait (VH), Thank You (Zeppelin) and at our wedding Open Arms (Journey).
The first album I ever bought was Van Halen's debut. Every song on it is a classic. Still my favorite band.
Thanks! Always a great reaction. I couldn't find your Van Halen Mean Street reaction? Eddie at his shrediest, c'mon🎸
Skipped out of school for the concert that tour. It was in April of 1984 at Cobo Hall in Detroit. That show was one of best concerts I've been to. Autograph was the opening act. Within 20 minutes they were booed off the stage.
Learning drums in the '80s, this song was a huge inspiration to me. I charted it out in sheet music and learned to play it. When you learn a part like that, it's just like knowing the lyrics of a song. I know every beat, even though I hadn't heard it in a while.
They really shine in the chorus with everyone’s voices! Great song, good reaction!!!!
Believe it or not, the lyrics were actually penned by David Lee Roth and Michael McDonald! Owe it to producer Ted Templeman to get those two together for a composition. The second single released from 1984, yet the only one with no video to accompany the song. Highly underrated track.
It was the last single..I believe it went Jump, Hot For Teacher, Panama, I'll Wait....no video because by the time I'll Wait was released the album pretty much sold all it was going to sell because it was released near the end of the run of singles..I guess they weighed the financial benefits of a 4th video and were like "nah....the additional albums it would sell wouldnt cover the cost of the video" (of course im just guessing of the reason...I wish they would have made a video....black and white, Dave in a smoky room, laying in bed, by himself with magazine pics of the girl on his walls..the pics in color...etc..etc. A really stalker-ish vibe to it.)
Love the Ted Templeman shout out. Hell yea.
I read they didn't originally give Michael McDonald credit for his collaboration into writing this song and they eventually corrected that....as they should have
It was the second single after Jump. Panama was the third. McDonald only assisted Dave with the chorus.
@@padfolio true, yet due credit was held back for him because the band didn't want to be seen as 'sellouts' due to having him assist Dave in the writing. All in all, turned out great.
My favorite song from that album.
One of my all time favorites. Eddie's keyboard work is awesome. And that guitar solo is killer, Eddie's timing and rymth was unbelievable.
RIP Eddie
Underrated and underappreciated tune. Most bad ass synth and drums... Great VH
My all time favorite Van Halen song. Reminds me of my crush Linda Garcia in my younger days.
IMHO this is one of the best songs they have. You never get tired of hearing it..........
One of my favorite Van Halen songs! They rock 😅
I was a freshman in HS when this album was released. I listened to these guys all the time...and loved watching their videos on MTV.
The song was written by band members Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth, along with Michael McDonald and produced by Ted Templeton. It was the second single released from the record and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite the song being a hit, no video was ever filmed for it. Roth’s inspiration was former super model, Christine Brinkley.
In 1984, Christie Brinkley was the subject for Uptown Girl 👧. Billy Joel dated her then and later married her. No 👎 bad blood between Roth and Joel.
Joel did meet the late Eddie years later.
RIP 🙏
I love the guitar driven songs of Van Halen, but this one has always been one of, if not my favorite Van Halen song.
I love classic Van Halen. My older brother had their albums on vinyl in the early 80s. Heard them often.
1984. One of the best years ever. If you were a kid, a teenager, or in college. You had the best time of your life.
Van Halen is a very great band
One of their greats, yet under-rated songs. Thanx so much, stay groovy, Peace
I would cruise on a summer Friday night downtown with the sunroom off windows down and Crank'in this whole album......I still can smell the sweet small town smells.
Alex van Halen is on fire w the drums!!!!!!
OMG, 1 of my FAVES!!
Amazing thing about the song…, you don’t really realize that you don’t hear a guitar until about 2 minutes in. Then, it’s an amazing solo…
So sorry we lost Eddie Van Halen too soon 🥲...his music will live on 4ever!
Heartbreak in overdrive!! One of their best albums and one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Wish I could turn back the clock and do it all again !!!!
It's the snare and hi-hat that made this instantly recognizable as VH back in the day, when we were not use to hearing synth from them. So bright and in your face!
I bought a drum set as kid specifically for this song!!👍👍
Nice. I did too. Great knowing there's other people out there who have love for the drums. After a year I finally did learn this song.
I knew a kid when I was in school who loved the keyboard part from this song. He'd play it any time he had access to a piano. :)
Love Love Love Van Halen, another good one is "And the cradle will rock" ❤
This song transports me back to my childhood everytime I hear it💙
Love this song! This whole album is fire. Not a bad song on it. Top Jimmy is another lesser known song that is a real banger, especially Eddie’s guitar solo
this album came out when i was graduating. it was massive.
And drop dead legs
Hits me just right. One of my top favourite tunes. Great job ❤
Even my late mother, thanks to MTV only in her room, both she and I became VH fans. She liked VLR's acrobatics and showmanship!
It was forty years ago that album came out and we were playing that in my Trans Am on the way down to Fort Lauderdale FLA for Spring Break! I lived it and I loved it and I won't forget it. Btw I was 21 then
Van Halen ruled the 80s and great memories like no other for me and others for sure
I can't believe we started listening to music so long ago and then movies and now back to my favorite band.
Thank you for entertaining me for so long
A classic song from one of the best rock albums of all time. It is also in my humble opinion Van Halen's best album by a country mile. 👍❤
This song was one of my favorites growing up. I think it really showcases Alex's drum skill.
This is one of their best and most well know Van Halen songs🙂 I love this song🙂
My introduction to VH was this song. Heard it on a camping trip with the cub scouts. Still one of my favorites by them.
You guys are the first to play this that I know. Very popular radio hit that played over and over that year. Was a special time and place
I knew you guys would love this song one my al time favorite songs ever and Alex Van Halen on the drums. I wish I could've took you 2 to one there concerts I took so many my friends to see them for there first time with they loved them but seeing them live and exsperince the feeling one there shows and of course eddies solo then the all knew what I was talking about and would rank there concert right up there with one there best shows.eddie on keyboards and David lee Roth classic and mike Anthony on bass the harominazing one my all time favorite band probably top 3 bands I have tied led Zeppelin and mettalica and Van Halen .this song so underrated yet its so awesome love this fn song
That was a great single, and one of my favorites of theirs. Loved hearing it on the car radio as I was, um, I can't remember where I was going at the time but I remember the song! Priorities, yeah!
One of my favorite songs by VH.. love the implementation of the keyboards and synths that backbone this song. The whole drive behind this song is awesome
VH is like a dream team. Both Dave and Sammy were great at singing, each bringing their own distinct sound. Eddie on guitar was the GOAT. Alex on drums always banging away. And Michael Anthony on bass (very underated) and the greatest backing vocals ever !!!
This is a little different for Van Halen, but I always loved this song. It showcases Eddie’s keyboard talents and it still has that Van Halen sound. Classic.
One of top 5 VH songs. Never, ever thought I would hear this live with David Lee Roth. Van Halen's last tour, with Roth (Wolfgang on bass) they did play I'll Wait. I started crying and I could've help it. No shame given the moment.
Van Halen/Van Hagar. There is NO denying the extraordinary talent this group had and the incredible musical skill of Eddie
As usual Michael backing vocals and bass and Alex great drumming the driving force behind this song
One of their great songs.
The best decade and the best band from the 80's
Loved this since it was new. One of Roth's strongest vocals. Saw them do it live in 2012 and it sounded fantastic.
When I got to see them for the reunion tour ('08-'09) they included this absolute classic on their show. F-ing amazing.
I love it, Jay totally couldn't pick a spot to pause!!! LOL!! Such an awesome song. Don't want it to stop!!
This was the first album I ever bought . I was 13 when this came out .
My boss at my new job is a Van Halen fanatic, even named his first born Halen lol Needless to say, the music he plays all day is🔥🔥
It's so cool you chose this one. It was just playing my last shift & I was like "Omg, I almost forgot this one!" Hadn't heard it in a minute & all these great memories rushed back! Awesome choice❤✌️
I have this on LP, Cassette, CD and on my iPod. Love this album.
I'm bobbing my head to this song which I'm so used to and I stop and think, you two are hearing this for the first time. Sooo cool. Other than Eddie's great guitar work is Alex's signature snare drum sound. So distinctively Van Halen!
Bought this album as a record back in 1984 when it came out, was a great album. This one and their first album are probably the best
Brilliant song. One of my favourites.
Probably my favorite snare drum sound on any rock recording.
LOVE Van Halen! Always have, always will. Great choice and reaction.😊
One of my favorites. Hes killing those drums.
I love this song! You get a great headnod going with this one! I love air drumming this song!
Eddie Van Halen was trained at the London school of music and was a concert pianist! He played all the key boards in this song! And his brother Alex was amazing on the drums!
I don't think he was trained (or even lived) in London and never learned to read music, nor was he concert pianist. He came to America (from the Netherlands) when he was a child at around 7yrs old and, yes, he did have classical piano training as a kid but never gave full blown concerts in the traditional sense but he did win a piano competition (while living in California) when he was around 12....Alex was also trained.
No he didn't!!!!!
London School of Music????????
He and Alex learned classical piano in elementary school from an elderly piano teacher in Los Angeles named Stasys Kalvaitis. GET YOUR S - - T STRAIGHT!!!
Great iconic band
I listen to every genre. Loving the tunes & reactions to what I grew up listening to in Middle & high school blaring from friend's car speakers in the school parking lot in Maryland after school orchestra & marching band rehearsals! Righteous, Rob Squad!
I'm a forever and always fan of Van Halen. Dave... Sammy ... doesn't matter. All of it is incredible music. And this one... This song... Is my favorite VH tune of all time. A masterpiece.
I was in high school when this came out, and was one of my choices when I signed up for Columbia House. I got it and the others on 8-track...yes...8-track in the 80's. I played this every day after school while doing chores. I'll Wait was my favorite on the album...great memories!
My very first album I ever bought. This was my favorite song from this album. Yes I like the other songs, but I liked songs that were not on the radio at the time.
Synth bass mixed with the roto tom rolls makes this tune groove!
Rest in peace, Eddie !!! there’s a guitarist out there, named Nuno Bettencourt of extreme he recently, and his band made a single called RISE BY EXTREME. He basically dedicatess the solo to him. This guy is probably the greatest guitarist alive right now.
I still remember seeing Rob react to ACDC Thunderstruck for the first time on another channel and he was all skeptical, now Eddie Van Halen is melting his face lol
Next Van Halen to check out is When It's Love with Sammy Hagar on vocals
This was the second single off of "1984", released in 1984 (duh) that (I think) was their biggest album of all time. It spawned "Jump", their only #1 hit, as well as "Panama", which also hit the Top 40. The fourth single off the album was "Hot For Teacher", which.... great song, but I'd recommend the lyric video (as parents, you might find the actual video a little too edgy). And this is your 14th Van Halen reaction. though if you want to get technical, it's your 10th with DL Roth as the lead singer (the other four were Sammy).
The album was slated to be number #1 on the charts by the end of a certain week in 1984.....and that certain week was the weekof the MJ infamous pepsi commerical/hair on fire incident happened and it gave a sudden 11th hour sales surge to his Thriller album and knocked VH's "1984" out of what would have been the #1 album in the country position. (Source: Michael Anthony revealed this while being interviewed by Howard Stern)
I can remember back in 05 my mom bought my dad the 1984 cd, I was ten years old an yea top jimmy n panama were cool but this song just got glued to me. My dad used to have this on vinyl back in '84 and go figure this was his favorite song of the album.
Elton John “Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding” is epic. You really need to do the studio version.
Pretty good guitar on that song too!
@@RazorsEdge1810 Agreed. Davey Johnston rocks on that one.
ABSOLUTE BANGER!! This song is so unabashedly 80's with the synth, but it still rocks SO hard! David Lee Roth wasn't too pleased that Eddie was dabbling more and more into the keys, but a composer and creator has to do what they want to do, and this was the result of that experimentation!! This has LONG been one of my top Van Halen tracks - it flows perfectly. For me, it's the unsung hero of the 1984 album. Everyone knows the Jump, Panama, Hot For Teacher, but I'll Wait & House Of Pain are heavy and dark and just awesome!
Thanks for starting my Tuesday off great! Cheers.
So different from any of their previous stuff, a VH gem. Always gives me goose bumpage.
I love the ascending keyboards on this song " doo-doo doo-doo doah-doah doo-doo doo".
.... Alex Van Halen shines in this song with the
"fat drum" sounds... Shout out to their drum technician.... Eddie on keys & guitar..
I'd say Roth did very well on vocals/lyrics.
NICE! Love that album. "Little Guitars", with the intro, will rock you. Cheers!
One of my favorite Van Halen songs, very underrated, not mentioned often. Brings me back in 1984 when i got the cassette tape, i was 11 years old and i loved that song right away. I love the entire album.
You make our night. All the music varieties. So much Godgiven talent hidden away, now we hear it and I even remember the day I rushed home to unwrap the Doors, at a babysitting job😅. Had to support my insatiable passion of music. Thank you.