1984 Turn's 30

[Kristy]

And? Your point?

Couldn't find any citation on Wiki?

[Von Halen]

Forgive me from being pedaaaaantic about this, but the Village Voice dude is wrong - Dec 28 1983 was the release date of the 1984 album, not January 9th, 1984.

I disagree.

[Satan]

Well, by process of elimination.......

Jan 9, 1984 - Monday.
December 28, 1983 - Wednesday.

In the US, records are only released on Tuesday. I honestly can't remember if that's always been the case, but if so, it would make both dates wrong.

[Kristy]

Then it would have been released January 3rd, 1984. Which it was.

[Von Halen]

Then it would have been released January 3rd, 1984. Which it was.

You are correct.

[Kristy]

Again, this goes to show Nick can't Wiki for shit.

[VHscraps]

You are correct.

I doubt it very much. I bought a US import of '1984' in Glasgow, Scotland the Friday before New Years - that makes my purchase date Friday December 30th, 1983.

[Nickdfresh]

Couldn't find any citation on Wiki?

[Nickdfresh]

Again, this goes to show Nick can't Wiki for shit.

I didn't write the fucking thing, the date sounded wrong to me as well. But that's not really the point of the article. is it?

[VHscraps]

My copy said (c)1983 too but I can't remember when we got it - maybe the UK release was a little earlier?

Could be that - I think some of the big labels back in the vinyl days used overseas pressing plants (Germany, the UK, or wherever they could find capacity) when there was a new album with anticipated high demand.

Maybe "early" copies made it into shops that stocked imports in the UK.

[Kristy]

I didn't write the fucking thing, the date sounded wrong to me as well. But that's not really the point of the article. is it?

January 3rd, 1984 is the fucking point.

[Nickdfresh]

It's been ages since I've been there, but Van Halen's official site once listed all of their albums and sales figures and I think it included the release dates IIRC. They seemed to have pulled it prior to Diamond Dave coming back into the fold. 1984 was "Diamond", over 10 million copies sold...

[Never was]

If you don't have pictures of the album being released then it never happened

[Terry]

1984 still holds up well to my ears, which is the only barometer worth anything to me.

[CreatureFrmTheC]

You have to understand, back in ancient times, when we folks in our late 40*s +, we had to drive to a place called a record store. When new Van Halen was released, it was a special day, walking into a Rainbow or Tower records, looking at the badass VH displays, then finally getting that fresh piece of shrink-wrapped cardboard in your hand. In line you check out the album art, browse around at other shit, and finally it's your turn to pay for your record. You drive home, put the album on the stereo, and give it a once over. Check out the jacket art, and look at every detail you can. You remember new Van Halen day. I specifically recall buying 1984 the day it was released, on the 9th. The reason this is so clear to me, is that it took about a week or 2 to get the reason why it had to be on the shelves on the 9th.