You gotta understand that when this album came out, there was NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT!!! We all ate it for breakfast,lunch and dinner. Personally, this is my favorite track!!❤❤❤❤
This was the 1st Van Halen album in 1978 w/ David Lee Roth on vocals... This self-titled record was a huge game-changer for rock music in '78 at the height of disco, new wave and punk... Van Halen were the first band in years when kids in America heard the record and went, "WHOA!" Nobody ever heard a guitar player like Eddie Van Halen... Van Halen had been actively playing since the early 70's when Eddie and Alex Van Halen were still in school in Pasadena, California... and girls loved them cos u could move to their grooves... and they did play rock covers of disco hits back in the day. When Gene Simmons of Kiss saw them play a club in L.A. in 1976... he was floored! He asked them if he could speak to their manager about getting Van Halen a record deal, and they went, "What's a manager? What's a record deal?" Simmons helped Van Halen to record their early demos and it took a while to get the band signed in 1977... Once the debut album took off in 1978 and sold 10 million copies in the US alone, even Black Sabbath found themselves being upstaged on tour by Van Halen opening for them. By 1980, Van Halen had released 3 albums and were the biggest American rock band...
New Wave hadn’t taken off yet and Punk had just got started. Simmons also did not get them their record deal but was the first to try. I wasn’t a fan of theirs when they first broke out, but they definitely changed R&R and music itself in a lot of ways.
@@GT-mq1dx One... I never said Simmons "got them a record deal"... He did their demos. Two... in 1978, punk rock was huge in the UK w/ the likes of Ramones, The Clash, The Damned, The Sex Pistols ... and New wave had already taken off w/ the likes of Blondie, the Cars, Talking Heads... Read and think before u talk...
@@sumonjamal1653 Punk was actually quite big in New York already with clubs like CBGBs….and the culture began to trickle into the west coast very soon after…I remember it happening, as I was in high school here in Ventura California at the time. VH even posed as punkers at one time to be able to check out the scene in an LA club that was featuring punk rock bands. (No need to get nasty with the guy, bro)
@@kdm71291 If u mean playing bars was 'big'... Punk rock was an underground scene. They hardly sold any records back then... in the US anyway. And that included Ramones... The Misfits... The Replacements... Dead Kennedys... Black Flag ... etc.
You have no idea! When this came out in 1978, I was an aspiring guitarist in the Long Island, NY music scene. VH started generating buzz before they even dropped any music to the nation. I picked up this album the day it dropped, you would not believe the affect this record had on virtually everyone. Just like when Hendrix hit the scene and blew everyone's mind. EVH had a similar affect. For the second time in my lifetime, the vocabulary of the electric guitar was expanded again.
"This riff and this sound is crazy" Just imagine what it was like back in 1978 compared to what music sounded like then, Van Halen exploded on the scene and changed the face of music!
I was in the 8th grade. They shaped our lives as 80's hair band rockers😂🎉 I'm Im still great friends with all of my school friends from age 5 on up. I will attribute much of this success to the hair bands of the 80's🎉🎉☄️🎸
My dad used to play it in the car driving me elementary school lol! It’s an iconic song for most every hard rock/metal band that followed afterwards. This is definitely on my work out playlist because it gets me pumped! From what I’ve read, and hearing David Lee Roth interviewed, they were a wild band who liked to party hard. David Lee Roth had a system set up where his bodyguards would hand women in the audience that Dave wanted to get with, numbers to go backstage after the show lol! It’s well documented. Yes this was the David Lee Roth era.
This song brings back so many memories I cherish for a lifetime. My bestfriend and I used to sing this song and jam to this song all the time and Van Halen had so much airplay in the late 70's when we were in our teens. She was hit and killed by a drunk driver on her prom night. These songs bring back those memories of just hanging out and rockin' and being crazy with best friends. I love Van Halen and it won't matter which songs you pick, they are all fabulous!! Thanks BP!!
Groundbreaking album from one of the Best American Rock bands. Everything they did up to the Van Gina era was killer. Wore out the vinyl of the first release, never heard anything like EVH before or since. R.I.P. Eddie.
My first live concert! It cemented VH and 80s rock as the music that still defines a generation. My kids know it, and now my 4 year old granddaughter knows it too. Timeless.
70s & 80s: sex, drugs, and rock-n- roll!! As a teenager in Junior High School - this was so new and revolutionary and raw!! The first 4 albums absolutely ROCK!! David Lee Roth - lead singer Eddie Van Halen - guitar and backing vocals Alex Van Halen - drums Michael Anthony - bass guitar and awesome high background vocals. Had the pleasure to see them 2x with David Lee Roth and 2x with Sammy Hagar. Always been my favorite band.
Most of these hardcore rock bands like this were reaping the benefits from the ladies but Van Halen live the lifestyle that was just over the top in every way
When I was a young boy 👦 in 1978, I was blown 😳 away by the guitar 🎸 solo. So was Joe Satriani, who lived in Berkeley and teaching guitar. So was Neal Schon of Journey, when Journey and Van Halen opened for Black Sabbath and other bands!
IN 1978 THIS ALBUM , THERE DEBUT WAS THE SOUNDTRACK TO EVERY CORNER OF THE U S A , I REMEMBER CRUISING DOWN THE MAIN STREETS WEEKEND NIGHTS AND THIS ALBUM , ACDC , OR ZEPPELIN COULD BE HEARD BLASTING OUT OF EVERY VEHICLE, THAT WAS THE GREATEST TIME BEING A TEENAGER...
I was 18 in the summer of 1982, when I was in the very front of the crowd (standing against the barrier about 4 ft from the stage), for VH's show in Madison, WI. I was directly in front of Eddie Van Halen - he was about 10 to 12 ft away, and I could see every bead of sweat. I especially remember this song - his fingers on the frets were an absolute blur during the solo towards the end of the song, while Michale Anthony, just rocked back and forth playing the same bass lines over and over. It was freaking awesome (and loud).
first time i heard this i was told If you want it you gotta bleed for it and it depends what you want. If you want to be a rockstar you gotta bleed for it if you wanna be a world class bodybuilder you gotta bleed for it etc. nostalgia moment this was the album i learned to never cut remove the cellophane wrapper to preserve the cover lol had to replace my brothers copy and that's how i got this album. Best mistake of my life lol
……best house music late 70’s early 80’s of the era ! Wild House Parties with Van Halen as the backdrop ❤️ great memories, wish I could go back in time for 1 month. 🤣 “Running With The Devil” 🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
From the first "Van Halen" to "Women and Children First" and "Fair Warning"... all three albums are filled with bangers, hits, and dirty grinders of tunes. Lyrically and musically. It was an entirely new music vocabulary that we didn't have before, and most of the hard rock over the past several decades can be six-degrees-of-Eddie right back to Van Halen. ☮💜🎶 "Mean Street" is a mind bending track that dates back to early Hollywood Gigs the band was playing.
Great reaction, BP! This is my favorite VH track! I was a junior in high school when this album came out, and it absolutely set the rock world on fire!
I saw them open for Sabbath 1978 in Dallas TX. I had only heard of them a couple days before the show. They kicked some serious ass that night. I think they were so good they got booted off the tour at some point.
@@markwilliams6394 Yeah, I didn't want to say it 'cause I'm a true Sabbath fan but they really got their clock cleaned that night. Ozzy was just off. But after seeing Van Halen in the very beginning I don't know of any band who could keep up with what they were doing. Those of us who experienced it know.
This song is off thier first album released in1978,one of thier first two radio hits.Van Halen did not have any love songs on thier first 3 or4 albums.This whole album is bangers just like this one,checking out you will love it!!!
Timeless song and album. Still sounds as fresh as it did the day it was released in 1978. Philadelphia Flyers hockey team use the "hey hey hey" section of this song as their goal song. Pretty cool. One of the greatest debut albums ever released in my lifetime.
OMG David Lee Roth was the real Van Halen. He might have been self centered, but when you think of Van Halen, this is what you think of.... Miss those days, music was at its best....
It’s more about Dave’s stance on song writing than a sexual innuendo. It works both ways, but it was more about “I’m not getting into this business to write weak, corny pop songs about love”.
I Seen Van Halen on October 10th 1980 at the Oakland Arena in Oakland California. It was David Lee Roth's birthday and He downed a whole bottle of whiskey on stage and threw the empty bottle backstage then he processed to try his karate moves and almost fell off stage. The he forgot the words To the song Jamie's Crying in the Middle of the Song. He really screwed up a good concert that I waited a long time to see and saved money to go to. Years later I seen Van Halen in concert in Fresno California with Sammy Hagar as lead singer what a big difference. It was Sammy's sisters birthday and she was guest of Honor and They played 4 hours,Definitely got my money's worth At This Concert 😊😊😊😊😊
this came out in 1978, pick up the album in Subic Bay PI base exchange , played this the day before we pulled into Alameda on USS Enterprise 901 Bose's lite up the hanger bay.
David Lee Roth’s Bonus Program had become quite the hit in the ’80s. The rocker would give five backstage passes to each crew member and ask them to bring him the girls they thought he would enjoy spending time with. The roadie who would make the ‘wisest choice’ would get $100.
When this album came out you could hear the sound of thousands of guitar players jaws hitting the floor while they scratched their heads wondering what they just heard (myself included). This band wrote the soundtrack of the best times of my youth!!!
This is my favorite VH song of all time. In the late eighties the controversial rap group 2 Live Crew used this track for their version that was titled The Fu*k Shop. The original song had gained even more popularity following the release of 2 Live Crew's album.
This is one of their Ear Bleeder songs where you turn it up to 12 and let it smash our brains out with musical power. You still need to Niel Peart Drum Solo Frankfurt.
This album was actually released in early 1978. I found out about them, and their debut album, because there was a mainstream news segment highlighting the band, in which the anchor speculated that Van Halen's (at the time) "unique" music style might be the next big thing. They def were one of the progenitors of the "big hair" heavy rock/metal era that followed.
David Lee Roth wrote this as a parody of a punk rock song. Duane Peters, punk rock singer and professional skateboarder, covered it with his band Die Hunns.
Eddie Van Halen is known as the best guitarist ever to play. He died in October of 2020 of a stroke. He was a very heavy smoker. The best Van Halen years are the ones with David Lee Roth as lead singer. Once he left the band in ‘85, and Sammy Hagar took his place, it just wasn’t the same, because David Lee Roth had such a distinctive sound. There’s nothing wrong with Hagar, I just preferred Roth. DLR is singing in the song you reviewed. You should watch a live show video so you can see Eddie play, and watch Roth’s style as frontman. Both are incredible. Great reaction BP. Appreciate it much.
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You gotta understand that when this album came out, there was NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT!!! We all ate it for breakfast,lunch and dinner. Personally, this is my favorite track!!❤❤❤❤
One of my favs as well....Always has been.
Ice Cream Man, here.
It was a a mind boggling LP.
Def Leppard and GNR can't even compare to the original VH
YES!!
Yes! When this album 1st came out, it was always playing in my bedroom. I can remember my Dad always telling me to turn it down.. 😂
one of the greatest debut albums of all time!!
👍👍💯💯
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This album changed the world!
Facts!
It changed my world, for sure.
"You know you're semi-good-lookin'" still one of my favorite lyric lines ever. Lol.
i always bust out laughing when i hear that line 😂😂
I cant believe this jam is 46 years old man ....Yes!!! this rocks out every time
This album was a game changer in 78. I was 10 but we still rocked it everyday. ✌❤
Blew my 10 year old mind away!!! :)
When this came out in 1978, you knew something had changed. It was different than most classic rock of the time.
Facts! Every band after VH looked to VH to emulate!!!
This was the 1st Van Halen album in 1978 w/ David Lee Roth on vocals... This self-titled record was a huge game-changer for rock music in '78 at the height of disco, new wave and punk... Van Halen were the first band in years when kids in America heard the record and went, "WHOA!"
Nobody ever heard a guitar player like Eddie Van Halen... Van Halen had been actively playing since the early 70's when Eddie and Alex Van Halen were still in school in Pasadena, California... and girls loved them cos u could move to their grooves... and they did play rock covers of disco hits back in the day.
When Gene Simmons of Kiss saw them play a club in L.A. in 1976... he was floored! He asked them if he could speak to their manager about getting Van Halen a record deal, and they went, "What's a manager? What's a record deal?"
Simmons helped Van Halen to record their early demos and it took a while to get the band signed in 1977... Once the debut album took off in 1978 and sold 10 million copies in the US alone, even Black Sabbath found themselves being upstaged on tour by Van Halen opening for them. By 1980, Van Halen had released 3 albums and were the biggest American rock band...
New Wave hadn’t taken off yet and Punk had just got started. Simmons also did not get them their record deal but was the first to try.
I wasn’t a fan of theirs when they first broke out, but they definitely changed R&R and music itself in a lot of ways.
@@GT-mq1dx One... I never said Simmons "got them a record deal"... He did their demos.
Two... in 1978, punk rock was huge in the UK w/ the likes of Ramones, The Clash, The Damned, The Sex Pistols ... and New wave had already taken off w/ the likes of Blondie, the Cars, Talking Heads...
Read and think before u talk...
@@sumonjamal1653
Punk was actually quite big in New York already with clubs like CBGBs….and the culture began to trickle into the west coast very soon after…I remember it happening, as I was in high school here in Ventura California at the time.
VH even posed as punkers at one time to be able to check out the scene in an LA club that was featuring punk rock bands.
(No need to get nasty with the guy, bro)
@@kdm71291 If u mean playing bars was 'big'... Punk rock was an underground scene. They hardly sold any records back then... in the US anyway.
And that included Ramones... The Misfits... The Replacements... Dead Kennedys... Black Flag ... etc.
You have no idea! When this came out in 1978, I was an aspiring guitarist in the Long Island, NY music scene. VH started generating buzz before they even dropped any music to the nation. I picked up this album the day it dropped, you would not believe the affect this record had on virtually everyone. Just like when Hendrix hit the scene and blew everyone's mind. EVH had a similar affect. For the second time in my lifetime, the vocabulary of the electric guitar was expanded again.
One of the greatest debut albums of all time.
Ice Cream Man by Van Halen is a JAM❤❤
I like 70s Van Halen Baby B .P U WHERE OFF BY A DECADE LOL
@@theodoreritola7641 There's not much Van Halen from that era.
My fave!
Just stop me when I'm passin by!
It's so fun, and jazzy at the same time 😂
"This riff and this sound is crazy" Just imagine what it was like back in 1978 compared to what music sounded like then, Van Halen exploded on the scene and changed the face of music!
This whole album is perfection - not a bad track on the whole album
Gotta love Ice Cream Man…loud on a sunny day, top down ( car folks, car), cruising the beach…EPIC
This was the fourth single from their debut album in 78
one of the best debut albums of all-time!
I was in the 8th grade. They shaped our lives as 80's hair band rockers😂🎉 I'm Im still great friends with all of my school friends from age 5 on up. I will attribute much of this success to the hair bands of the 80's🎉🎉☄️🎸
@@CroMagJohnson right? Zep1, Appetite, Van Halen, ...hard to beat
@@mattblatchley2061 yeah, those are all classics. i'm a big fan of boston's and skid row's self-titled debuts as well.
@@CroMagJohnson oh yeah...good ones!
This entire album is good.
all songs were awesome on the first 6 albums
One of my favorite VH songs!
So great 2 Live Crew sampled it for the "F*ck Shop" 😆
Very first song I learned on guitar. I was 10 when this came out. Great memories.
Oh, this is some of the best VH has to offer! Love old school VH!
Facts!
this is my favorite VH song. "I've been to the edge, and I stood and looked down"...
My dad used to play it in the car driving me elementary school lol! It’s an iconic song for most every hard rock/metal band that followed afterwards. This is definitely on my work out playlist because it gets me pumped! From what I’ve read, and hearing David Lee Roth interviewed, they were a wild band who liked to party hard. David Lee Roth had a system set up where his bodyguards would hand women in the audience that Dave wanted to get with, numbers to go backstage after the show lol!
It’s well documented. Yes this was the David Lee Roth era.
I always thought they were saying "You got to PLEAD for it baby."
Me too.
Same here!
Lyric Genius app is not always accurate.
VH baby!!! This album changed the world!!! Nothing like it at the time.
This song brings back so many memories I cherish for a lifetime. My bestfriend and I used to sing this song and jam to this song all the time and Van Halen had so much airplay in the late 70's when we were in our teens. She was hit and killed by a drunk driver on her prom night. These songs bring back those memories of just hanging out and rockin' and being crazy with best friends. I love Van Halen and it won't matter which songs you pick, they are all fabulous!! Thanks BP!!
This song, along with "Jamie's Cryin'," are my two favorite Van Halen songs.
Every track was played on the radio. That alone is insane. I'm 59, I was 13 when VH1 dropped, everything changed. Rip Edward ❤
Great track!!!! Michael Anthony doesn't get enough love for his harmony and bass playing
MA held it down!!
Groundbreaking album from one of the Best American Rock bands. Everything they did up to the Van Gina era was killer. Wore out the vinyl of the first release, never heard anything like EVH before or since. R.I.P. Eddie.
My first live concert! It cemented VH and 80s rock as the music that still defines a generation. My kids know it, and now my 4 year old granddaughter knows it too. Timeless.
I've listened to this song for 40 yrs and I always thought he said "Plead for it baby". It just makes more sense.
That's what I thought too.
Yep me too. He's definitely saying plead
I think of "bleed for it", as "you gotta work for it".
Ah! I've always thought it said, You have to Plead for it Baby!
Just made my Sunday morning! Song kicks ass! Hello from the coast of North Carolina
This song is an anthem…. So great!
70s & 80s: sex, drugs, and rock-n- roll!!
As a teenager in Junior High School - this was so new and revolutionary and raw!! The first 4 albums absolutely ROCK!!
David Lee Roth - lead singer
Eddie Van Halen - guitar and backing vocals
Alex Van Halen - drums
Michael Anthony - bass guitar and awesome high background vocals.
Had the pleasure to see them 2x with David Lee Roth and 2x with Sammy Hagar. Always been my favorite band.
Oh hail yes!!! Van Halen!!!
I've always been partial to their "Dance the Night Away", one of their more "pop" songs. No huge guitar riffs, but what a great hook...
The best album of Van Halen🤘
HOOKED 🪝 this tune what got me in 78' 🎵🎶 CLASSIC VINYL
Van Halen is timeless!!!
I thought he said, You've got to "Plead" for it baby! LOL
Most of these hardcore rock bands like this were reaping the benefits from the ladies but Van Halen live the lifestyle that was just over the top in every way
When I was a young boy 👦 in 1978, I was blown 😳 away by the guitar 🎸 solo.
So was Joe Satriani, who lived in Berkeley and teaching guitar. So was Neal Schon of Journey, when Journey and Van Halen opened for Black Sabbath and other bands!
IN 1978 THIS ALBUM , THERE DEBUT WAS THE SOUNDTRACK TO EVERY CORNER OF THE U S A , I REMEMBER CRUISING DOWN THE MAIN STREETS WEEKEND NIGHTS AND THIS ALBUM , ACDC , OR ZEPPELIN COULD BE HEARD BLASTING OUT OF EVERY VEHICLE, THAT WAS THE GREATEST TIME BEING A TEENAGER...
For some reason, this VH BANGER reminds of SUMMER!!! Mybe because we cranked it at the beach!!! LOVE IT!!! ❤❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This and Mean Streets were 2 of my favorite songs as a kid.
I saw them on this tour. Texxas Jam, 1978 Dallas Texas. It was 120degrees F on the floor when they were one of the opening acts.
This is their best work. This whole album is fire. Women and Children First is their next best album for sure. Great reaction.
Burnt this album up - To the dismay of my mom - dad actually actually encouraged blasting it -when it came out and it sounds just as good today
I was 18 in the summer of 1982, when I was in the very front of the crowd (standing against the barrier about 4 ft from the stage), for VH's show in Madison, WI. I was directly in front of Eddie Van Halen - he was about 10 to 12 ft away, and I could see every bead of sweat. I especially remember this song - his fingers on the frets were an absolute blur during the solo towards the end of the song, while Michale Anthony, just rocked back and forth playing the same bass lines over and over. It was freaking awesome (and loud).
Also love the riff from Unchained.
Played in a number of cover bands through the 80s and early 90s. And the song was in a set list every single time.
Original Van Halen for life.
Already hit the like button and haven't even started to listen to this banger!
The Mighty Van Halen 🤘
Trust. They were smashing. Every rock band in the 80’s tried to match them.
Mean Streets
Best Van Halen song
You are about the lyrics, these lyrics are tough!
Another one of their hidden gems is "Take your whisky home". Not many will request it, but it's fire.
underrated for sure.
This is my personal favorite VH song. And they have A LOT of great songs.
Van Halen the best. You have got to check.out Eddies son Wolfie. Wolfie is unbelievably talented and such a funny and sweet person.
I always took the bleed for it verse as what ever you want in life you have to be all in heart soul bleed for it baby
first time i heard this i was told If you want it you gotta bleed for it and it depends what you want. If you want to be a rockstar you gotta bleed for it if you wanna be a world class bodybuilder you gotta bleed for it etc. nostalgia moment this was the album i learned to never cut remove the cellophane wrapper to preserve the cover lol had to replace my brothers copy and that's how i got this album. Best mistake of my life lol
In my top 10 albums for sure.
Maybe the best stadium rock ever made. These guys were kickin seismographs for years.
……best house music late 70’s early 80’s of the era ! Wild House Parties with Van Halen as the backdrop ❤️ great memories, wish I could go back in time for 1 month. 🤣 “Running With The Devil” 🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
This entire album, front to back, was groundbreaking.
Yes. He should react to every song.
From the first "Van Halen" to "Women and Children First" and "Fair Warning"... all three albums are filled with bangers, hits, and dirty grinders of tunes. Lyrically and musically. It was an entirely new music vocabulary that we didn't have before, and most of the hard rock over the past several decades can be six-degrees-of-Eddie right back to Van Halen. ☮💜🎶 "Mean Street" is a mind bending track that dates back to early Hollywood Gigs the band was playing.
Great reaction, BP! This is my favorite VH track! I was a junior in high school when this album came out, and it absolutely set the rock world on fire!
"Unchained" is my go-to VH song, "So this is love" is a close second.
I saw them open for Sabbath 1978 in Dallas TX. I had only heard of them a couple days before the show. They kicked some serious ass that night. I think they were so good they got booted off the tour at some point.
I saw them Nov 1982
In Baton Rouge
Second row!! It was spectacular!!! So glad I got to experience the original VH at their prime. Most epic.
Saw that same tour with Sabbath but in Corpus. They kicked Sabbath's ass which is not easy to do.
@@markwilliams6394 Yeah, I didn't want to say it 'cause I'm a true Sabbath fan but they really got their clock cleaned that night. Ozzy was just off. But after seeing Van Halen in the very beginning I don't know of any band who could keep up with what they were doing. Those of us who experienced it know.
@me262a1 I saw them in 79 too.
This song is off thier first album released in1978,one of thier first two radio hits.Van Halen did not have any love songs on thier first 3 or4 albums.This whole album is bangers just like this one,checking out you will love it!!!
This is my all time favourite Van Halen song, great reaction, keep up the good work
Timeless song and album.
Still sounds as fresh as it did the day it was released in 1978.
Philadelphia Flyers hockey team use the "hey hey hey" section of this song as their goal song.
Pretty cool.
One of the greatest debut albums ever released in my lifetime.
OMG
David Lee Roth was the real Van Halen. He might have been self centered, but when you think of Van Halen, this is what you think of....
Miss those days, music was at its best....
Damn straight!!! He was pure 🔥
It’s more about Dave’s stance on song writing than a sexual innuendo. It works both ways, but it was more about “I’m not getting into this business to write weak, corny pop songs about love”.
I Seen Van Halen on October 10th 1980 at the Oakland Arena in Oakland California. It was David Lee Roth's birthday and He downed a whole bottle of whiskey on stage and threw the empty bottle backstage then he processed to try his karate moves and almost fell off stage. The he forgot the words To the song Jamie's Crying in the Middle of the Song. He really screwed up a good concert that I waited a long time to see and saved money to go to. Years later I seen Van Halen in concert in Fresno California with Sammy Hagar as lead singer what a big difference. It was Sammy's sisters birthday and she was guest of Honor and They played 4 hours,Definitely got my money's worth At This Concert 😊😊😊😊😊
this came out in 1978, pick up the album in Subic Bay PI base exchange , played this the day before we pulled into Alameda on USS Enterprise 901 Bose's lite up the hanger bay.
David Lee Roth’s Bonus Program had become quite the hit in the ’80s. The rocker would give five backstage passes to each crew member and ask them to bring him the girls they thought he would enjoy spending time with. The roadie who would make the ‘wisest choice’ would get $100.
When this album came out you could hear the sound of thousands of guitar players jaws hitting the floor while they scratched their heads wondering what they just heard (myself included). This band wrote the soundtrack of the best times of my youth!!!
Extremely classic rock!
This is my favorite VH song of all time. In the late eighties the controversial rap group 2 Live Crew used this track for their version that was titled The Fu*k Shop. The original song had gained even more popularity following the release of 2 Live Crew's album.
My favorite VH song. Next must be "Mean Street".
That beginning rift is my ringtone for my phone
That's pretty cool
This is one of their Ear Bleeder songs where you turn it up to 12 and let it smash our brains out with musical power.
You still need to Niel Peart Drum Solo Frankfurt.
Imagine you are a 13 year old rocker,…disco rules the airwaves and this comes out..Huge.
This is a song from the album that changed rock music forever! When I first heard this I'd never heard anything like it before!🎉
That snare drum & bass line,though😮
Favorite van halen song is right now eddie shows off his piano skills
This album was actually released in early 1978. I found out about them, and their debut album, because there was a mainstream news segment highlighting the band, in which the anchor speculated that Van Halen's (at the time) "unique" music style might be the next big thing. They def were one of the progenitors of the "big hair" heavy rock/metal era that followed.
With this, guitar was changed instantly and forever.
When he says "Bleed for it , " I would say means the old expression, Blood, Sweat and Tears, or Hard Work.
David Lee Roth wrote this as a parody of a punk rock song. Duane Peters, punk rock singer and professional skateboarder, covered it with his band Die Hunns.
VH owned the Sunset Strip from the late 70’s until the early 80’s, and they blew up, and dominated the whole rock scene.
Top 2 Van Halen songs AIN’T TALKIN BOUT LOVE & ICE CREAM MAN! Hope you react to Ice Cream Man too! ✌🏻☀️
Eddie Van Halen is known as the best guitarist ever to play. He died in October of 2020 of a stroke. He was a very heavy smoker. The best Van Halen years are the ones with David Lee Roth as lead singer. Once he left the band in ‘85, and Sammy Hagar took his place, it just wasn’t the same, because David Lee Roth had such a distinctive sound. There’s nothing wrong with Hagar, I just preferred Roth. DLR is singing in the song you reviewed. You should watch a live show video so you can see Eddie play, and watch Roth’s style as frontman. Both are incredible. Great reaction BP. Appreciate it much.
This song was and will always be FIRE! I loved this era of Van Halen
My favorite song by them. And they were f@&$ing AHhhh LotTTT 🤣
All of it, they were having all of it. And as junior high guys when this album came out they were our heroes for it.
This is my fav Van Halen song…
Thank you, Black Pegasus for keeping it real!!! No nonsense, no sugar coating, just flat-out keeping it real. Love it!!!!