Best Van Halen Song

[typefitter]

Fact, not opinion.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Eh.

1) "Right Now" (even though it has been overplayed in arenas)
2) "Me Wise Magic" (David Lee should have come back)
3) "Jump"

 

[Songbird]

There's no such thing as Van Halen post-DLR.

Best song is Hot For Teacher or Panama or Jump.

 

[daytonadan1983]

Jamie's Cryin
Jump
Dreams

 

[DanOregon]

Dreams is right up there. Panama solid as well. Hot for Teacher is dreck.

 

[Songbird]

Dreams is right up there. Panama solid as well. Hot for Teacher is dreck.

LOL.

 

[Huggy]

There's no such thing as Van Halen post-DLR.

Best song is Hot For Teacher or Panama or Jump.

****ing right.

 

[Songbird]

To've'been David Lee Roth for a month in his prime ...

 

[DanOregon]

Imagine the perception of VH if Roth followed Haggar and not the other way around. Would they have been more respected? Less so? Attracted a different audience?

 

[Songbird]

Imagine the perception of VH if Roth followed Haggar and not the other way around. Would they have been more respected? Less so? Attracted a different audience?

Can't even begin to imagine that scenario.

They were just so tight.

 

[typefitter]

You guys, you're debating whether oceans contain water. You can't argue facts. It's Ain't Talkin' Bout Love and then everything else, except for when the guy from Extreme sang for them, which is proof that sometimes Hell rises to the surface and demons live among us.

 

[typefitter]

LOL.

A few years ago, I tried to find the four kids from that video. I found one, and he didn't reply to my requests for an interview.

 

[qtlaw]

Running with the Devil

 

[PCLoadLetter]

The correct answer to this is Dance the Night Away.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I always liked “When It’s Love.”

 

[Junkie]

There's no such thing as Van Halen post-DLR.

I will never for the life of me understand this take. Roth is inferior to Hagar in nearly every way. Hagar sings better, writes better songs, performs better live, is a solid musician as opposed to just an off-key screecher, and is just a better dude. Roth, who was awful live at his peak and has devolved into a clown, once had fake judo moves on his side, but that’s about it really.

All that said, @typefitter is correct. “Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love” is their best song and it’s not close. Of course, that’s 97% Eddie.

 

[Songbird]

In this case it has nothing to do with who sings better and writes better and performs live better.

It's about that thing -- "It" -- that you can't really define but you know it when you see it.

Hagar's Van Halen was never, if I may, appointment TV ... never It. DLR's Van Halen was.

That said, Right Now is as good as It gets.

 

[Scout]

It's Van Halen, not Van Hagar.

One of the great mistakes, IMHO, is not having Van Halen side 1 start with Eruption and then move into You Really Got Me.

So this should be the greatest Van Halen song.

Unsleave the album. Place side one face up. Diamond hits wax and this is what you hear.



Man, did they **** that up.

How any decent rock station plays them.

 

[Songbird]

It's Van Halen, not Van Hagar.

They were just compiling with Hagar.

 

[Junkie]

In this case it has nothing to do with who sings better and writes better and performs live better.

It's about that thing -- "It" -- that you can't really define but you know it when you see it.

If the "It" means being a no-talent clown with a creaky voice, who wrote cornball lyrics that mostly didn't make a ton of sense, and sucked out loud in concert, then yes, he had "it."

I think the fact that Roth went on in his solo career to become an even bigger cartoon character than he was while in Van Halen is pretty good evidence that he seriously lacked "it."