Your Favourite Van Halen Songs

[Blue Light]

I can't be the only Van Halen fan on this board, right? Post a list of your favourite tracks from the Mighty VH! I've got 10, but 1 or 3 or however many is fine, too

1) Unchained
2) Panama
3) Hear About It Later
4) Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
5) Top Jimmy

6) Runnin’ With the Devil
7) Poundcake
8) Romeo Delight
9) Beautiful Girls
10) Big River

[lancerman]

1. Dance the Night Away
2. Panama
3. Why Can't This Be Love
4. Ain't Talkin Bout Love
5. I'll Wait
6. Dreams
7. Runaround
8. Beautiful Girls
9. When It's Love
10. Jump

[Blue Light]

1. Dance the Night Away
2. Panama
3. Why Can't This Be Love
4. Ain't Talkin Bout Love
5. I'll Wait
6. Dreams
7. Runaround
8. Beautiful Girls
9. When It's Love
10. Jump

I really like those as well. They would've been on my list if I'd gone to 15, but I didn't want to get too carried away...

[WestPhillyPunisher]

In no particular order:

Hot For Teacher (my all time favorite VH song)
Panama
Running With The Devil
Ice Cream Man
Beautiful Girls
Jump

[WillieMorgan]

I can't be the only Van Halen fan on this board, right?

You certainly aren't. Loved Van Halen since the early 80's. Big fan of either Van Halen or Van Hagar. In fact I saw Van Hagar at the old Wembley Stadium in 1995. Bloody ace. Worth the entrance fee just to see Eddie do his thing. Best songs (for me anyway. I'll go for favourite tracks from each album):

Van Halen: Ain't Talking 'Bout Love
VH2 (difficult one. I see the whole album as a more relaxed version of VH1): Woman In Love
Women & Children First: In A Simple Rhyme
Fair Warning: Unchained
Diver Down: Little Guitars (1 and 2)
1984: Hot For Teacher
5150: Best Of Both Worlds
OU812 (another difficult one. A more commercial VH certainly): Feels So Good
F.U.C.K.: Judgement Day (great riff)
Balance: The Seventh Seal (what an album opener)
VH3: Without You
A Different Kind Of Truth: Tattoo.

Tips of the iceberg those though.....

EDIT - This prompted me into listening to VH3 for the first time in well over a decade. Odd album and, actually, the best track on it for me may well be 'Once'. It's just so different.

[basbash99]

1.Dance the Night Away
2. Panama

There are others I like but those 2 blow the rest away, for me anyway.

[Pa5cal]

Too many to list actually and I actually liked several tracks from the last album that hardly anyone bought!

[Doc Omega]

1. Take your whiskey home
2. DOA
3. Unchained
4. Top Jimmy
5. Hot for the teacher
6. Ice cream man
7. and the cradle will rock
8. Somebody get me a doctor
9. Everybody wants some
10. Mean street

[WillieMorgan]

Too many to list actually and I actually liked several tracks from the last album that hardly anyone bought!

Actually, the 'A Different Kind Of Truth' album really did quite well considering. It sold well over a million copies worldwide and for a band of Van Halen's age and longevity that is quite acceptable. Plus it was their first album in well over a decade.

Rock album sales are nowhere near the levels that they were in the 70's/80's/90's and it was never going to achieve multi-platinum status. It's rare that albums can reach those levels of market penetration in the modern era. Shame.

[Pa5cal]

Actually, the 'A Different Kind Of Truth' album really did quite well considering. It sold well over a million copies worldwide and for a band of Van Halen's age and longevity that is quite acceptable. Plus it was their first album in well over a decade.

Rock album sales are nowhere near the levels that they were in the 70's/80's/90's and it was never going to achieve multi-platinum status. It's rare that albums can reach those levels of market penetration in the modern era. Shame.

ah, ok - didn't know it sold well. But yes, the days of Pink Floyd The Wall selling hundreds of copies per second (or whatever that insane rate was) are completely gone with legal downloading (thus songs are sold vs full albums (unless iTunes forces the entire album on you)) and illegal donwoading....
I plan on finishing my own album one day and I'd be be lucky to sell 50 copies!!

[WillieMorgan]

ah, ok - didn't know it sold well. But yes, the days of Pink Floyd The Wall selling hundreds of copies per second (or whatever that insane rate was) are completely gone with legal downloading (thus songs are sold vs full albums (unless iTunes forces the entire album on you)) and illegal donwoading....
I plan on finishing my own album one day and I'd be be lucky to sell 50 copies!!

Really? Best of luck with that then. I hope you manage to create something you are really proud of.

It's not all doom and gloom either. There are so many promising young rock bands doing the rounds at the minute. They all know that they'll never release a 10 million selling block-buster album but they are still passionate about the whole rock 'n' roll lifestyle, the ability to create music and play it to a live audience. They'll never be multi-millionaires and be rich enough to drive Cadillacs into swimming pools and all that but as long as they can earn some sort of a living out of music then that's good enough. Rock has essentially turned into a cottage industry in the 21st century (albeit a big one) and it's all the better for it.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

-Mean Street
-Everybody Wants Some
-Finish What Ya Started (my one Hagar pick)
-Jump
-'Pretty Woman' cover

[bert]

for me, it's only three "GREAT" songs:

"Running with the Devil" , "Unchained" and "I'll Wait"

although the only thing I've ever heard with Hagar singing that I liked was "Poundcake"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=o1GJxVmYv-E

[ed2962]

People are going to laugh but I really like Little Guitars

Mean Streets

Panama

DOA

Dreams

Finish What You Started

And I like the Azteca Camera version of Jump...don't throw things at me!

[Pa5cal]

Really? Best of luck with that then. I hope you manage to create something you are really proud of.

It's not all doom and gloom either. There are so many promising young rock bands doing the rounds at the minute. They all know that they'll never release a 10 million selling block-buster album but they are still passionate about the whole rock 'n' roll lifestyle, the ability to create music and play it to a live audience. They'll never be multi-millionaires and be rich enough to drive Cadillacs into swimming pools and all that but as long as they can earn some sort of a living out of music then that's good enough. Rock has essentially turned into a cottage industry in the 21st century (albeit a big one) and it's all the better for it.

Thanks. I love my music but I have no ability to listen to it objectively. I have 2 things against me: first off, as you and I know have already discussed, there's no chance of crazy number of sales and 2, I am in the NiИ, Ministry, Marylin Manson category --> when's the last time you saw a band of that aggressive noise mounting the charts, eh?