Pick Ten of your favorite Roth solo songs in order.

[CdnDlrfan]

1 Goin Places
2 Black Sand
3 Sensible Shoes
4 Nightlife
5 King of the Hill
6 Right Tool for the Job
7 Just like Paradise
8 Easy Street
9 Shyboy
10 I'm Easy

[Momshell]

Damn this was hard. Got it down to 10, but if I try to put em in order my head's gonna explode!
Yankee Rose
Damn Good
Going Places
Sensible Shoes
Slam Dunk!
Big Train
Land's Edge
Relentless
YFLM
Don't Piss Me Off

Now I need a nap!

[ALMOSTsaved]

These aren't in order and the reason is because the songs are interchangeable and I'm going with today's faves. That being said, if I put THESE ten songs on a CD today to listen to for the drive to and from work, I wouldn't skip a single one!

Big Trouble
A Lil' Ain't Enough
Yankee Rose
Hina
Black Sand
Knucklebones
Goin' Crazy
Easy Street
Coconut Grove
California Girls

[78/84 guy]

Yankee Rose
Black Sand
Sensible Shoes
Paradise
Lil Ain't enough
Damn Good
Hina
Knucklebones
Bump & Grind
Slam Dunk

[damngoodtimes]

1. Damn Good
2. Yankee Rose
3. Ladies Nite in Buffalo
4. Black Sand
5. Big Trouble
6. Just a Gigolo
7. Sensible Shoes
8. Hina
9. You Got the Blues, Not Me
10. Cheatin' Heart Cafe (j/k - let's go with Goin' Places)

I think I still agree with myself on this, but I might put Shoo Bop in there instead of Hina, just cause I was listening to that the other day. And it's not really for Dave: Beyoung, James and Ray were grooving big time on that track.

[DONNIEP]

I think I still agree with myself on this, but I might put Shoo Bop in there instead of Hina, just cause I was listening to that the other day. And it's not really for Dave: Beyoung, James and Ray were grooving big time on that track.

That was a great fucking band!!!

[VHscraps]

Because I can't rank them, here's my top ten Roth tunes in alphabetical order ...

Big Train - should be a show opener, even now (especially with the train on the album cover). A great vocal and lyric from Dave - one of his best ever.

Coconut Grove - an atmospheric reworking of a fine Lovin' Spoonful tune that doesn't stray too far from the original, but suits the timbre of DLR's voice

Easy Street - he never wrote it, but it is pure Dave. Strip club music. Dave sounds like he's singing in the shower just as he's getting ready to go out for a night on the town.

Hot Dog and a Shake - it kicks ass, even though it's obvious Mr. Vai was allowed to much plank-spanking time in his goddam Stucco Blue studios. Look at the credits - all the guitar parts were cut in his own kitchen, or whatever his studio amounted to back then). Not a single tune on this album was recorded by a band in one room at the same time. Not that there's necessary anything wrong with that in itself - it will just never be WACF-type of REAL. Still, no griping - it's good.

Just Like Paradise - yeah, it's pop fluff. But they still play it on the radio, and it still leaps out with an awesome sense of Daveness amongst whatever else they are playing. Writing a durable tune is not that easy.

Ladies Night in Buffalo - cool and restrained, and probably the only time you could say that about Vai (apart from his PiL session work)

Shoot It - the Daveness is evident right until the awesome fadeout line, 'it looks absolutely fantabulous from over here, baby'.

Sunburn - another tune that suits Dave's deeper voice. Notice all the tunes from YFLM? Yep, Dave's best album.

Tobacco Road - a raucous reworking and vast improvement on ANY other version of this tune, ever - and with a damn great vocal arrangement (Dave and Ted's work?)

You're Breathin' It - it swings. A bit Aerosmithy, maybe? It wasn't until I listened to the Urban NYC mix that I realised that the chorus is pretty funky.

[damngoodtimes]

That was a great fucking band!!!

Yep. I wish they had made an album of originals. There was plenty of time for it, but Dave's heart wasn't in it. It was VH or the grave....

[Yount]

The only sad thing about Dave back in VH is the great solo stuff he won't do live. I was listening to the Milan '88 show, the '02 Japan (not sure of city) show and a lil bit of '95 Vegas and it's really great stuff. The '88 show is great for an 80's show. High energy and danceable tunes. Surely the hottest chicks went to the Skyscraper shows and not Poison and White Snake, geez, those ballads would kill. Dave did "Wake up little Suzie" and "I've just seen a face" and they were heartfelt. He didn't need no shitty buzz kill ballad. S'pose Damn Good was closest too but at least those lyrics are cool enough to sing and laugh along to.

My fave solo DLR song atm is Tin Cup Chalice (Live on KC radio!)

[Yount]

Sunburn.

Last summer (Feb '12) I remember sitting in the hot afternoon sun, had a lil greeinspiration and of course a bottle of red listening to the cricket (test match please) and then YFLM and this song, looking up at the powerlines with the magpies perched da da da da da da da. My 90's were spent mostly in high school, discovering DLR and VH and carving my identity and sense of humour from albums like YFLM and Crazy from the heat. Here's to the memories!

[chuckjitsu]

This proved to be more difficult than I thought it would! In no particular order:

Big Train
Sunburn
Yankee Rose
Shyboy
Damn Good
Stand Up
A Lil Ain't Enough
Sensible Shoes
Counter Blast
King of the Hill

[jero]

Showtime
Hina
Drop in the bucket
Yankee Rose
YFLM
Ladies night in Buffalo
Shy Boy
Skyscraper
That's life
two fools

[jero]

encore: Hot dog and a shake (love the solo)

[VanHalenI]

No Big 'Ting
It's Showtime
Night Life
Yankee Rose
Slam Dunk!
Big Trouble
A Lil Ain't Enough
Just Like Paradise
Sensible Shoes
California Girls

[Lose The Dress]

Mine changes all the time, but currently:

1. A Lil' Ain't Enough
2. Big Trouble
3. It's Showtime!
4. Ladies Nite in Buffalo
5. Knucklebones
6. Bump N Grind
7. Yankee Rose
8. Wa Wa Zat
9. Damn Good
10. Hot Dog And A Shake