Van Halen Album Covers and Questions We May Have Abou them....

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That would be not only The Most E-Mailed image, courtesy of Yahoo, but also THE MOST VIEWED.

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The show is just so...bad. No other word. And I even sort of wanted to like it. The music he plays on it is also quite peculiar...like Motown covers played by trad rock bands. It gets worse when he starts talking about how rappers "sample and scratch their voice over old songs." I think he thinks every hip hop song is one man with pro tools...

Another thing: was he always talkative and sort of...intellectually aspiring? Coming from New Zealand, I'd never really heard of him before this year ("jump" was seen as a one hit wonder thing), so I didn't realize they were an institution...

Oh, and we like pictures. Here's the radio promo:

I'm from NZ too, but I have to say, this is news to me. Classic rock radio was full of Van Halen when I were a lad. Then again, classic rock staples != Top 40 hits. Not all the time, anyway.

btw-jump/panama=BOTH CLASSICX!!!

ALL SONGS COMPOSED BY ANTHONY, ROTH, VAN HALEN, VAN HALEN.

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AND MICHAEL MCDONALD?

You need to read Crazy From The Heat NOW.

I'll Wait (4:41) -
"I'll Wait" was a synthesizer-driven song co-written by Van Halen and former Doobie Brother Michael McDonald. Dave and Ted wanted this song kept off the album, but Edward and Donn pushed for it. This song is about the girl wearing men's underwear in a Calvin Klein advertisement. Roth tacked the picture next to his Sony Trinitron TV and wrote the lyrics to her.

1984 (1:07) -
"1984" was Eddie's improvised keyboard introduction to "Jump." It was originally over 30 minutes long and titled by Valerie Bertinelli.

photograph was taken by one of my college professors! there were two lawsuits involved with the image.

the first was between the photog and record label. apparently they never received permission to use it in the first place [a designer ripped it out of some magazine/book and scanned it in]. the second lawsuit involved the family who lived in the destroyed home, who apparently didnt want it plastered all over the world and claimed they never signed release forms. i believe their case was eventually dropped.

maybe not the song "abacab" but definitely that era of genesis.

HAHAHAHA!!! Too true.

Val finally comes back with her judgement: Cut the thing to a minute and call it "1984".

-- Shelly Winters Death Clip (theundergroundhom...), March 8th, 2006.
did van halen do prog-art ?
yeah i meant the sound and chords , not the melody.it sounds like "sarah jane" too.

All I've listened to today is Van Halen; on my second run-through of the DLR6 and nearly ready to start my third. They are just owning my ass. So good.

The little "ooh" right before the first verse in "Hot For Teacher" is perfect. Dave's little exhortations are the key to enlightenment.

Just learned recently that the cover of Fair Warning is actually only a tiny portion of a larger painting:

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Hmm, yeah, parts of it anyway. The upper left part of the Fair Warning sleeve doesn't match that portion of the painting. Still very cool though.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/they_tried_to_make_us_look_like_the_clash_van_halen

I picked up a vinyl 1984 last weekend with an upside down back cover. Just glanced at discogs, doesn't appear to be a common error (unlike Workingman's Dead). Not valuable or anything at least.