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

Was this a risk, Mookie?

As always, Snopes does a fine job in debunking this particular myth.

Indeed but a good 4 years prior, the mighty Black Sabbath had already done the inappropriate 'angel smoking' thing

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THANK YOU Alex!! I've been convinced of this ever since that LP was released, but everybody I've ever suggested it to is skeptical. I posed the question to the morons at alt.music.van-halen (which has possibly the lowest collective IQ of any newsgroup I've ever glanced through) and was ignored.

My secret non-single fave on that album is "Top Jimmy."

No, I'm pretty positive -- based on the memories of my middle school years -- that it ran "Jump," "I'll Wait," "Panama" and "Hot For Teacher." I also remember getting the album after the first two singles were out and being pleasantly surprised when I started hearing album tracks I already knew on the radio.

Jump (January 14th, 1984)
I'll Wait (March 28th, 1984)
Panama (June 6th, 1984)
Hot For Teacher (October 3rd, 1984)

I think the reason that didn't seem correct to me is that the album's videos made a big impression on my young MTV-addled brain, and it seemed like "Panama" was the 2nd one. I don't remember anything about "I'll Wait"; did it even have a video? Also it seems surprising that they would have followed up "Jump"'s radical change in sonics with the album's other synth-based song, rather than a more fan-base-reassuring rocker. So yeah, you're totally right - weird second single.

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This cover just hollers: WARNING! IMPENDING SUCKITUDE!

Haha.

Fun interview, Mr. Deeds. Wonder what he would say these days.

a year and a half ago i found "I'll Wait" in Gimme Gimme records, as an EXTENDED single, which as far as i could tell just meant a longer keyb intro

...pick up where VOA and NSGB left off and ROCK LIKE HELL!! shove some serious wailin down faggit eddie's skinny throat! SAMMY RULES, FUCK EDDIE AND FUCK ROTH!!

...Billy Corgan is a faget with no talent!!! "Those little white lies are gonna come back and haunt you"-Sammy Hagar

...DAMN CJ YOU REALLY DO GIVE DAVE'S NUT A JOB!!!!! UMMMM
WELL THAT MAKE'S A NOTHER DAVID LEE FAGOT ROTH FAN

...I could care less what happens to this band because I definitely won't go to any of their concerts to hear some fagget sing my fav VH songs.

There you go, Ned: Four different posters, four alternate spellings of the pejorative "faggot"! I can only assume they'd have an even harder time spelling your surname properly!

No, I take that back. I love every song on the album equally...as if they were my children.

1) drop dead legs is the best song on 1984.

2) david lee roth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sammy hagar

Ooooooh, I'm not the only one to have noticed this. When the video for "Jump" first debuted on MTV, that part where DLR adlibs was silent. A product of bad video editing, it just showed him yelling into the camera with no sound coming out of his mouth. Later, they dubbed some vocals in there to make that sequence not seem so awkward. So the "mix" that you're talking about is just the regular "Jump" with some crazy yelling tacked on for about two seconds.

I still swear up and down that I saw a version of The Cars' "You Might Think" video where at the end, instead of pulling off his face and a waterfall coming out of his head with the rest of the band rafting out on a bar of soap, Ric Ocasek just put his hand back down and lipsynched half-heartedly the rest of the song before just giving up and smiling as the music played out. RAW VIDEOS!

Panama is an allusion to weed, isn't it?

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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.

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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.