Originally Posted by VAiN
Gonna have to go check now
Gonna have to go check now
fuck your fucking framing
Is it just me or does TATTOO get better with each and every listen??
Yezz it do!
It gets better with every listen.. I'm so pumped for the album
It does. And I keep hearing new things in it which is typical of CVH's music. I liked it from the first time I heard the 30 second sample - I thought it was so good I got chills and for just a moment I was back in 1984. I'm sure it won't be my favourite track on the album as I prefer their harder stuff, but it's a perfect single. Catchy tune with very cool lyrics and rocks hard enough to give you a taste of what's to come.
Several people I know either were not wild about or absolutely disliked it at first have all told me that it totally grew on them. I liked it at first listen but get more and more into it each time I hear it.The fan made video really brings slot to the songs visual in my opinion.
The fan video is good, but definitely pedestrian. It's too much like what everyone would envision upon hearing the song unaccompanied by a video in the first place. I think, for art's sake, what VH came up with was appealing yet visually too simple. The lyrics are screaming out for better visuals than just four guys banging out the song.
As far as videos go, I either want to see a live performance or Hot For Teacher zaniness. Anything in between falls a little short, IMO. That being said, if I never saw another video again in my life, I'd be fine. The pictures we put in our heads will always be the most suitable imagery.
Since i bought the track on itunes the first day and burned it onto a disc, i have listened to it about 4 times a day in the car. It is a damn good tune. It is not what i expected coming out of the gate but i have to believe there was a reason they picked that track to lead off. I don't think this will even be close to the best stuff that is waiting on that disc 2/9.
RIDE TO LIVE, LIVE TO RIDE
LET `EM ROLL ONE MORE TIME
Agreed. It's like, "ya see this? Look out for THIS!!"
Yea I noticed that as well. Alex I hope will not be reflected on the album the whole time this way.
Can't Control your Future. Can't Control your Friends. The women start to hike their skirts up. I didn't have a clue. That is when I kinda learned how to smile a lot. One Two Three Fouir fun ter thehr fuur.
#1 on the billboard hard rock....
Looks like someone got to the "Cheezy Boyz".
The video was taken down.
WE'RE ON A MISSION FROM ROTH.
So I finally got to blast Tattoo in the car instead of my shitty ear buds. I'm a train person. The chorus sounds so much better through speakers. Can't quite explain how, but I do know I love the song even more with real speaker presentation.
Just done the opposite - first time I've listened to "Tattoo" on my hi-fi headphones, and I find it even more kickass like that, though I have pretty good Jamo loudspeakers in my sitting room (that is parquet-floored, which makes sound even "warmer"). You can hear more details with headphones on IMO, but I agree that music needs air too, so maybe both listening methods are complementary.
I had a one-week self-imposed break without listening to "Tattoo", because I had nearly reached overdose - the song is highly addictive... And well, it doesn't work less on me after that 8-day gap!
Still 2 more weeks to wait, buddies!
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Yesterday, my 10 year old, who has been rocking Tattoo on the ipod she regularly steals from me to take to school, asked me: what else is DLR famous for (other than VH)? So I start in…”well, after he left VH in 1985”…and she goes “what do you mean he left VH?” and at that moment I had a revelation: kids, teens today may very well have memory of or exposure to Van Hagar; that whole era really could be completely erased until they are well indoctrinated (inoculated) enough to go back and look at the whole story. My kids already think California Girls, when it comes on the radio, is a VH song even though I’ve explained a couple of times it’s not, which just doesn’t seem to sink in their heads since they identify the singer’s voice with the band rather than the overall sound. So it gives me hope…on the other hand, the teen girls I know are into Bieber, which makes we wonder if the Second Coming is close at hand...of course the fact that VH is finally releasing another album after 20-odd years almost makes it a certainty.
^ magnificent!
There is a TV show called Big Time Rush on Nick or Disney, whatever. I think the concept is teens at boarding school or college, but it’s Nick so it’s stupid sitcom stuff, not sex (hey, I survived without my parents monitoring my TV or music so my kids can do the same). About 3 weeks ago, my kids come running DLR is on TV. So I come running (the magic of DVR). It was some sequence where they are having a party and this host of “funny” characters come through the door. They play a few bars reminiscent of Jump and an obvious DLR (really more Dana Carvey) character comes in, does a “bibbidy-bop” and moves on. My first reaction was horror, then pride that my kids would recognize the reference, and then I thought it was kind of cool that the show’s writers (who must be in their 30s or 40s) are passingC VH/DLR on to today’s teens.
It's all about getting to them early, tho I think we may have to give up a whole generation that came of age in the 1990s as lost to the cause.
mate the kids aint ever gonna like mum and dad's music between the ages of 12-25. this is from 22 years of teaching music.
really italia golitely? your english is far better than my italian!
really italia golitely? your english is far better than my italian![/QUOTE]
Chicagoan by birth, currently Italian by circumstance.
sweet as.
it's just not the same. has to be dan.
Look, Jack, I need to hit the rack, but I can't because they stacked the kick ass so high in this song I can't stand back.
Five more times and I'm out!
~Only you can prevent low volume~
Ha ha I just posted the same thing (not as colorfully) in another thread. It's going to take some sleeping pills or a WHOLE bunch of liquor.
Oh dear.
Two more times after that for Shoes.
OWWWWWW
Do it to it!
Wolfie's so shy, he NEVER looks at the camera. I like this new band cos it's two very shy, very talented guys framing one helluva mouth in front and centre.
Roth speaks, the rest don't have to 'cause the music already does it for them.
There's been a few goosebump references for certain parts of the new music.
I got one...
TATTOO
From the time period in the video clip where Eddie's solo hangs in as Dave sings the 3rd verse and through to the final chorus.
Social commentary to a kick arse rock groove. Last chorus just brings it home. Song has layers. Worth hearing again and again.
"Uncle Danny
had a coal tattoo
he fought for the unions
some of us still do
On my shoulder is a number
of the chapter he was in
That number is forever
like the struggle here to win
Everybody!
Last edited by Yount; 01-29-2012 at 07:42 PM.
Alex wearing sunnies inside
Looks like the Tattoo video via youtube has past 3 Million views in the first 3 weeks, not bad! Nice average of a million views a week, cant wait to see if the boys will drop another video, would love to see Blood and Fire!!!
I Got Your 3 Million Views, baby!
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~Only you can prevent Bette Midler~
I am taking a bro to the D.C. show, but my bro says he does not like Tattoo. Says maybe it will grow on him.
Dispensing a heavy dose of wood shampoo is under consideration.
~Do you know where your billy club is~
i'm only listening to tattoo every other day or so. still love it!
i emailed my mate the link, knowing he's one of those alternative '70's punk or die!' dudes. i knew he'd hate it...
so next time i see him i says 'didya watch that video?' hehe..
he sang the chorus to me, (pretty well) then told me he hated it..
now he can never unhear it.
The video and band (mostly Dave) is able to be deadly serious as well as tongue in cheek, something Hagar can't do (He's either wailing in some deep ballad or hamming it up at a tequila party in his songs - BORING CLICHE NO BRAIN STUFF)
Van Halen - and 97% of it is Roth - is how Roth describes the Stones; "They move right, so it works."
Indeed.
This song is grate...the video, not so great. I don't understand the talk about bad keyboards, I think the "80's Japan sound keyboards" give this song a speacial loose an relaxed favor...remember when Van Halen turned into a cheesy keyboard band in the 80's....well it ain't so anymore!!!
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Much like yourself as the Jim Morrison of Nazi bunker flies
Is anyone back to listening to this song?
I liked it when it came out (the video, not so much) and OD'd on it. Then when I got my hands on the album, I avoided it entirely to listen to the other tunes. But NOW I find myself going back to listen to it just as much as the other tracks. I think it stands up great, and in trying to put aside any baggage it may have as carrying the weight of being the single, it's a damn good song.
Anyone else?
Yeah I'm kinda getting back into it.
I have honestly had to put the whole thing down for awhile. I still like tattoo but don't get excited about hearing it. I have to wait a long time before I get to see a live show so I don't want to get burned out.
I still like this song, especially live...............so cool...........love it................
it's gonna hurt!!!!!!!!
Great jam kicking ass and taking names at this location with a little help from my garage kings
~Mr Cerwin & Mr Vega~
That's why it works. Could you imagine if they were all attention hogs? Frankly Dave likes being the rock star and the Van Halens don't. They pretty much just want to do the music and let someone else do all the Public Relations stuff.
I think Dave just IS the rockstar. His personality leaves no other choice. He has to take the hit. And his shit - the shit we love - is deep and full of shadow so nobody knows too much about Van Halen or could lead you to the place either. He deflects the media onto himself (which he enjoys mostly) while Van Halen can be rockstars without being rockstars. Win-Win. Ed gets to hide out and create like a real artist - Dave gets to manipulate the media and provide the 'face' for the ladies.
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