Best song off the first four Van Halen bums - please Ignore "Best song off the first four"

Albums even, rather than bums. Jesus, I just can't type today.

Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love

This is too hard. I'm having a hard time narrowing it to one or two from each album.

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Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love

I absolutely love "dance the night away"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ne6iNhv4Njc/S-iG_0Q2f7I/AAAAAAAAAQE/5khdAf0Nj5Y/s1600/movie+shark.jpg

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― balls, Sunday, April 10, 2011 9:17 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

I love a lot of this stuff, but I have to give it "Running With The Devil" since I bookmarked the fucking soundboard

This is seriously difficult. I mean, yeah, the debut is fucking untouchable, but I'm sorely tempted to give it to "Mean Street."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNJNCazmNnI

went with "Everybody Wants Some!!" over "Unchained"

― borkslovethewu (some dude), Sunday, April 10, 2011 10:14 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

unchained and everybody wants some are for sure the ones to beat. "and the cradle will rock" is pretty prescient to my mind about how hesher culture is going to feel for suburban types - that "unemployed/his folks are overjoyed" line is sort of a whole sunset strip metal attitude toward existence encapsulated.

this is a band whose descent into suckitude depresses me a lot - it is almost impossible to explain to anybody that they were cool, if you missed it it's not going to sound like it was any good I think

wth? You left "On Fire" off the list.

I'm into sci-fi so Atomic Punk.

"Jamie's Cryin'"
Gotta be something from the first although I would have gone for "Jump" had the fifth album been included.

this is a band whose descent into suckitude depresses me a lot - it is almost impossible to explain to anybody that they were cool, if you missed it it's not going to sound like it was any good I think

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, April 10, 2011 10:55 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

that's not my experience at all -- i know tons of people my age or younger who are in general agreement that the DLR era is unfuckwithable and that Van Hagar is pretty much a different band that doesn't have much impact on the original band's coolness (and if you're hating on 1984 then that's a whole other can of challops).

xp "Jump" is on the sixth album.

Wouldn't voted "On Fire", but I guess I'll go "Unchained"

Sorry for missing On Fire. Was cutting and pasted and must have deleted it by accident.

Possibly "Bottoms Up" .. hmmm

On Fire would've def been my choice, but I'll vote Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love instead.

hon mentions for Hear About it Later, Somebody Get Me a Doctor and Unchained.

Went with Unchained over Everybody Wants Some and Dance the Night Away. What puts it over the edge for me is this misheard lyric: "blue-eyed murder in a sci-fi dress".

Have you seen Junior's grades?

Kinda wanna do Eruption for the whole "woah dude"-ness of the first listening experience, then playing it for yr dudes and hearing them go, "woah dude".

http://starwarstoys.biz/wp-content/uploads/mvbthumbs/img_5506_back-to-the-future-part-1-1985-darth-vader-hd-720p.jpg

At the moment I'm finding it hard to look past Dance the Night Away, which is as perfect a pop song as a hard rock band has written.

Here's an interesting 1984 interview with Diamond Dave

Classic DLR quote two-fer, always a pleasure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKTc9VaNIiI

x-post That 1984 interview is great. If it was Gene Simmons, that all would have come off totally dickish, but DLR knows how to eat 'em and smile, so to speak.

that's not my experience at all -- i know tons of people my age or younger who are in general agreement that the DLR era is unfuckwithable and that Van Hagar is pretty much a different band that doesn't have much impact on the original band's coolness

seriously! I've never met anyone who doesn't get and make the distinction - there's even a hit single about it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0j0xBfRasw

There are TWO songs about it. Kind of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wxuQ9szJ3A

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

if its not Unchained then something is wrong...

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Nothing is wrong.

That stage patter makes me think Steve Zahn should play David Lee Roth in the movie.

Flawless top two but Cradle wz robbed

Went out of town and forgot to vote. Imagine a 1 next to Mean Streets.