I'll Wait, Stand Up, Perfect Timing, Counterblast

[Howlin' Wolf]

4 tunes with terrible lyrics.

Sammy's got 4 dozen with terrible lyrics.

That is where it's at.

[DavidLeeNatra]

perfect timing has some great lines...never liked stand up or I'll wait...counterblast...what's wrong with that?

[audiospectrum]

Can't agree. I always liked stand up, what kind of fashion is this flash infatuation, is all this admiration mutual?? This is good stuff.

[Big Troubles]

I like the lyrics to I'll Wait and Perfect Timing.... Never did like Stand Up too much. Made me think Dave was going after another #1 hit like "Jump"...

Dave. Always telling us what to do. Run..Jump....Stand Up..Jump Back...Sit down (if yer name is Waldo)....

[thome]

In reff. to what .......?

:D
As in compared to .......?
:p

In the revised comparison of lyrical...?
:cool:

As per the contemplation of ......Hmmm...?
:eek:

[Big Troubles]

and Im learning counterblast on my Hamar right now. I must say, the lyrics, if studied, are weak to good. The song is outrageous though! I think it's a modern day Atomic Punk and it seems to get better everytime I listen to it.

[DeadOrAlive]

Originally posted by Howlin' Wolf


Sammy's got 4 dozen with terrible lyrics.


ONLY 4 dozen?

[bueno bob]

I don't know...I didn't mind any of those songs too terribly...although I will admit that "Counterblast" was one of those "skip over" songs on the CD...

So sue me...

:)

[Terry]

Thought the lyrics to I'll Wait were among the most interesting parts of the song, along with (don't laugh) Al's drumming, which I liked on that tune...didn't care for the keyboards or the guitar solo on it AT ALL. But the lyrics to I'll Wait were very unlike what I expected from Dave at that point...

Stand Up was okay in parts, but overall I didn't care for the chorus...sounds like some kinda brainwashing Up With People nonsense you got dragged into at a junior high assembly...

Perfect Timing is fine and dandy.

I really like Counter-Blast, although it has been pointed out that the lyrics at times read like someone gave Dave a sheet of internet terms and he went off and sang them, although I still get a chuckle when he sings of how he's gonna fax you into the atom age...

[DavidLeeNatra]

stand up

She looks like Monroe
It's a good impersonation
From start to finish
It's her better side
Head over heels
Yes, he feels a strange sensation
Excedrin Headache #65

That's the trouble with love
That's the trouble with war
You never get what you came for

Stand up, stand up
The more you do it
The less you fall down
Stand up, stand up
Put your head in the clouds
And your feet on the ground
Stand up, stand up
For the time of your life
You turn it up loud
Stand up, stan up

What kind of fashion
Is this flash infatuation
Is all this admiration mutual
Need no lessons
In emotiona starvation
Tat look in her eyes
Is too good to be true...

So now you got a good reason
Yeah, but you just gorra learn
It's what makes the world turn

Stand up, stand up
The more you do ti
The less you fall down
Stand up, stand up
Put your head in the clouds
And your feet on the ground
Stand yp, stand up
For the time of your life
You turn it up loud
And stand up stand up

[DavidLeeNatra]

counterblast

Tell me, tell me, tell me
Who's your favourite page
I'm gonna fax you
Into the atom age

My engine searching
Like a harpoon
Like a monsoon
In your chat room
Who are you
Are you online

Woman;
Your page or mine
My engine searching
Like a harpoon
Like a monsoon
In your chat room
Counter-blast

This is not a test
This is the first phase
This is not a test
This is the atom age
This is not a test
Are you online?
This is not a test
Your page or mine...

[DavidLeeNatra]

perfect timing

Is this just a passing fancy
Or another passing game
Is this just a little something
That fallen angels play?
I've had a million fantasies
But that was make-believe
Baby, open up this door before I freeze.

Girl stop complaining
You're afraid of the dark
We'll go the distance
I don't think it!s so far

I think it's perfect timing
Well I tried to send a message
Yes I tried the telefhone
But I guess that I ain't lucky
And my card say no one's home
If the cards are on the table
That's a calculated risk
That's if accidental angels
Do exist
Justo for a moment
If you think the moment's right
Let's not lose that moment tonight

Cuz we've got perfect timing
I'm thinkin'
This is the right time,
I'm hoping you feel the same
Cuz that light at the end of the tunnel
Is the front of an oncoming train.

[DavidLeeNatra]

I'll Wait

You've got me captured
I'm under your spell
I guess I'll never learn
I have your picture
Yes I know it well
Another page is turned

Are you for real?
It's so hard to tell
From just a magazine
Yeah, you just smile and the picture sells
Look what that does to me

I'll wait
'Til your love comes down
I'm coming straight for your heart
No way
You can stop me now
As fine as you are

I wrote a letter
And told her these words
That meant a lot to me
I never sent it
She wouldn't have heard
Her eyes don't follow me

And while she watches
I can never be free
Such good photography

I'll wait
'Til your love comes down
I'm coming straight for your heart
No way
You can stop me now
As fine as you are

(Guitar Solo)

You can't imagine
What your image means
The pages come alive
Your magic free
To everyone who reads
Heartbreakin' motor drive

Are you for real?
It's so hard to tell
From just a magazine
Yeah, you just smile and the picture sells
Look what that does to me

I'll wait
'Til your love comes down
I'm coming straight for your heart
No way
You can stop me now
As fine as you are

I'll wait
'Til your love comes down
I'm coming straight for your heart
No way
You can stop me now
As fine as you are

I'll wait

[DavidLeeNatra]

Originally posted by Terry
I really like Counter-Blast, although it has been pointed out that the lyrics at times read like someone gave Dave a sheet of internet terms and he went off and sang them, although I still get a chuckle when he sings of how he's gonna fax you into the atom age...

agree...for me it's the weakest...dave is not really "into" the subject to create pictures...

[Terry]

Originally posted by DavidLeeNatra
agree...for me it's the weakest...dave is not really "into" the subject to create pictures...

The upside is that Ray was fucking smokin' on that tune, and the whole vibe is very Van Halen 1ish to me, so it helps strengthen the tune despite what Dave wrote...

[DavidLeeNatra]

Originally posted by Terry
The upside is that Ray was fucking smokin' on that tune, and the whole vibe is very Van Halen 1ish to me, so it helps strengthen the tune despite what Dave wrote...

DLR band-album will go down in history as the unnoticed seventh VH album...it's closer to the "roots" than anything else dave did...

[Terry]

Originally posted by DavidLeeNatra
DLR band-album will go down in history as the unnoticed seventh VH album...it's closer to the "roots" than anything else dave did...

DLR Band album is just a killer album.

Killer.

About the only tune I didn't really care for on it was Tight, mostly for the chorus, which was just average...


I think Dave went in there and made that one with the idea of replicating the early CVH sound and style very much at the forefront of his mind, and agree that it is closer to CVH than anything else in Roths solo outings...some might say EEAS, and EEAS was CVHalenesque, but not to the degree DLR Band was...plus, I don't really think by 1986 Ed would have been capable of pulling off some of the things Vai did on EEAS, mostly because he wasn't playing like that anymore (am not saying Vai is 'better' than EVH or anything like that, but you listen to what Ed was doing on 5150 and what Vai was doing on EEAS, it's like Ed started to back off from the guitar heroics at that point),

[audiospectrum]

Originally posted by Terry
(am not saying Vai is 'better' than EVH or anything like that, but you listen to what Ed was doing on 5150 and what Vai was doing on EEAS, it's like Ed started to back off from the guitar heroics at that point),

For sure, it was as if Ed was trying to stay out of the spotlight because:

a - he had lost his touch
b - he was having major drug and alcohol problems
c - he hired a very mediocre talent in Sammy Hagar. (And this probably explains why there were no video's for the 5150 album, just a live video - to me it seemed like he was trying to stick his head in the sand, hope that the sheep buy the album and he can continue on being 'the greatest guitarist in the world' which just never worked because he underestimated Roth's input and talent.) And Sammy let him live his lazy lifestyle, which affected his creativity.

[DeadOrAlive]

I don't give a damn about shitty lyrics, Dave made kickass tunes. Lyrics may suck, but the music is something to groove too or maybe even whoop somebody's ass. It's great stuff man

[Howlin' Wolf]

Been listening to Skyscraper while I'm rollin' down the road in my cold blue steel...and Perfect Timing is starting to sound mo' better all the time...when I firs' started makin' records Ize plowin' four mules on de plantation...

[chi-town324]

i love stand up