Have you seen Junior's grades?! ILM Artist Poll #75 - VAN HALEN (Results thread)

I've just about now, 27 years later, gotten to where I can listen to Jamie's Cryin' without thinking about Wild Thing.

ahaha ok my no. 1 won't make it :(

Eruption my #1 because VAN HALEN!

• Did Nos. 15 & 14 really happen like that?

• I'll tell you what wasn't on my ballot - stuff like Ice Cream Man. Not a big fan of those shaloobidoobydoo jaunts. Didn't vote for Happy Trails either.

• I've always taken up for Van Hagar even though I'm firmly in the DLR camp. (But not the DLR "camp" I mention above.) Went through 5150 and OU812 as I was making my ballot, heard those "Stop lookin' out, start lookin' in, be your own best friend" lyrics and realized that I really can't take up for them as much anymore.

Pretty happy with the way this is rolling out though!

First time hearing Little Guitars, this is cool! Kind of like Van Halen doing Rush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHXbi1bC9T4

10. AND THE CRADLE WILL ROCK...
(Women and Children First; 1980) 377 points | 17 votes | 1 first place vote

rock on

i couldn't make room for Ice Cream Man but had to slip Happy Trails in at the end. i've always got time for a little of Dave's jazz scat, but a little does go a long way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Gk79FazKs

9. MEAN STREET
(Fair Warning; 1981) 391 points | 17 votes

TOO FUCKIN' LOW!

so fuckin good

maybe too early to call but it's looking like my only picks that didn't make it here are Happy Trails, One Foot Out the Door & You're No Good

the last one wasn't super-obvious for me. i'm not particularly in love with Ronstadt's version (Dee Dee Warwick OTOH...), but the atmospherics and DLR's vocals tipped it.

I'm no fan of the VH rhythm section, but to their credit with a very few exceptions they work with EVH like a true power trio. That is, when he is soloing there are rarely other guitars at work. Just the three instruments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llfjDUB66Z4

8. DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY
(Van Halen II; 1979) 404 points | 17 votes

meh

pfft i love "dance the night away" what a hook

Okay song, unsure why it's this high.

Amazing hook. It would've been my #1 or #2.

ugh alfred did you not vote

is that why "why can't this be love" is so low

sublime chorus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1YcV3EmAzs

7. I'LL WAIT
(1984; 1984) 461 points | 18 votes | 1 first place vote

^^^ my jam

would have been on my solos list, had i made one

ugh alfred did you not vote

is that why "why can't this be love" is so low

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson)

time will tell if we poll the test of time

"i'll wait" being top ten feels super ilm

super right

"Hot For Teacher" missing the top 10 hurts me. sad!

enjoying this, and haven't seen Dancing In the Streets yet? Assuming it's going to make it, that would be a pretty ILM choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYN7mTi6HM

6. JUMP
(1984; 1984) 485 points | 20 votes

i fell in love with this song all over again in the past week

also love alex's drumming in the bridge

10 year old Johnny Fever heard Van Halen for the first time:

At my dad's company picnic, some guy was playing 1984, the song, in his Chevy Blazer with the back hatch open. Being a bold youngster, I walked over and sat down cross-legged in awe of what I was hearing. THEN Jump started, and then Panama.

So, thanks unknown guy at my dad's company picnic. I've been a VH fan for 32 years because of you.

Jump video is about the most restrained DLR video I've seen yet. Probably the first time I saw him in action. VH was a radio band for me prior to that.

Really hoped "Atomic Punk," "On Fire" and "And The Cradle Will Rock" would be higher - all top 5 for me. My top 5 all pretty much were fighting for #1 - which I eventually gave to "Atomic Punk."

I don't dislike it, but I don't understand the adoration for "I'll Wait." The keyboard sound is pretty tacky.

I didn't vote for "Jump," but I do love the video. DLR with his Candice Bergen hair and Eddie's non-stop smile win me over every time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5txwFv-zYM

5. RUNNIN' WITH THE DEVIL
(Van Halen; 1978) 527 points | 21 votes | 2 first place votes

rest of the list beginning to clarify, i.e. it's "right now" four times right

Right Right Right Right Now

"I'll Wait" was my #1: Possibly the greatest New Wave move by a dinosaur band--it's their version of "The Model", and how can that not rule?

*throb*

A dinosaur band who were seven years into their recording career?

*throb*

― home organ, Tuesday, May 24, 2016

^^^ imagine Van Halen covering Janet Jackson.

The album's original release credits all songs to Edward Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth.(citation needed) The label on the UK single release for "I'll Wait" (catalog #W9213) credited Michael McDonald as a co-writer, but he was not credited on the US version of the single (catalog #7-29307).(citation needed)

Songs from this album which appeared on compilations released after a royalty renegotiation with the band's label Warner Bros. (Best Of – Volume I, 1996) and a lawsuit brought by Roth (during the preparations for The Best of Both Worlds compilation, 2004),[citation needed] were credited to Edward Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and David Lee Roth, with Michael Anthony's name removed from the credits, as evident in the end song credits of the 2007 film Superbad. Subsequently, Anthony has been removed from all songwriting credits on the 1984 album.

The ASCAP entry for "I'll Wait" lists Michael McDonald as co-writer with Roth and the Van Halens. Like many bands starting out on their career, Van Halen shared songwriting credit equally between all members (including guitar instrumentals, which were clearly composed only by Eddie), but subsequent claims would lend credibility to the view that all songs were entirely or predominantly written by Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth, with little input from Van Halen's rhythm section.

In 2004, Roth discovered that the rest of the band had renegotiated a more preferential royalty rate with Warner Bros. for all releases made during his time as lead singer, giving them a royalty rate five times greater than his(5) This was later rectified.

"I'll Wait" doesn't sound new wave to me -- it sounds like a rock band with syncopated synth.

Yeah. it's no more new wave than Foreigner's "Urgent."

what caused michael anthony's excommunication?

I don't understand the politics of songwriting credits. So does that decision mean Alex VH and Michael Anthony were paid no royalties after a certain point or at the beginning they got credit and no royalties?

what caused michael anthony's excommunication?

― mookieproof

he always looked unhealthy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAktV72_nnE

4. EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
(Women and Children First; 1980) 577 points | 23 votes

It looks like at the beginning, the formative years with DLR, they got credit and royalties, like a 4-way split, but that arrangement has been since revised.