In my book, yes. Yeah, it's from III, but it is a "Van Halen" song. Not quite sure what's worse, Ed's vocals or the gawd awful lyrics. I challenge anyone here to 1) sit through the entire 6 minutes of this and 2) not cringe/barf a little in your mouth listening to lyrics like "are you ever so silent when she wanted to talk or couldn't keep quiet when she needed a hug". Wow. I'm hard pressed to even come up with a Samburglar song that's even close to this. Ladies and gentlemen, I leave you with:
Is this the worst Van Halen song ever?
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I gotta say, it's still better than Up For Breakfast. In the case of How Many Say I, the two worst parts are the lyrics and Cherone playing the part of the singing coach throughout the song. If Ed put out a true solo album with him doing his best Tom Waits impersonation over some dark piano tunes or dirty blues, I think I'd be into it. As far as the piano playing goes on this particular song, it's just too schmaltzy. Perhaps, Liberace might have admired the effort, but not me or damn near anyone for that matter.Comment
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I see some entertainment value to it in this context...
I have a group of friends at my house, I pop in this song, jaws drop, then it becomes an instant joke, we laugh and we party on.
I have a group of friends at my house, I pop in Van Hagar, jaws drop, we eventually start arguing, and maybe a fist fight.Comment
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I gotta say, it's still better than Up For Breakfast. In the case of How Many Say I, the two worst parts are the lyrics and Cherone playing the part of the singing coach throughout the song. If Ed put out a true solo album with him doing his best Tom Waits impersonation over some dark piano tunes or dirty blues, I think I'd be into it. As far as the piano playing goes on this particular song, it's just too schmaltzy. Perhaps, Liberace might have admired the effort, but not me or damn near anyone for that matter.Comment
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Up For Breakfast opens with the Why Can't This Be Love sequencer or whatever it's called, goes into a decent enough drum-guitar fill, then falls into utter boringness IMO. But I'll concede. It attempts to be more in the vain or spirit of a Van Halen type song than HMSI. For all intents and purposes, they both suck. And here we are, on a Friday night, discussing it. There in lies the true travesty. Those fuckers better be making some new music right now.Comment
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I hear Eddie bought another dog and has taken up needle point.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Been watching this Sonic Highways thing for the past hour (while holding my breathe ) Not bad. Something about Grohl just wears on me, though. His 'every man's rocker' persona is just too much anymore. He makes himself out to be way bigger than the rest of his band or the music they're making.Comment
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I actually like the music for Up For Breakfast quite a bit, but those honeydew my melon lyrics- man. At least with other Sam era tunes ruined by his terrible lyrics (Black & Blue, Spanked, Amsterdam, Sucker In A 3 Piece, to name but a few), the music was at least decent. I find nothing redeeming about HMSI. The as you mentioned schmaltzy piano, the vocals (not just Ed) and the terrible lyrics are just a wicked three punch combo that I don't think is duplicated by any other VH song. (There is no such thing as a bad VH song with Dave, so the worst of all time would have to come from either III or the Samburglar era catalog)No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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I love the totally bezerk guitar playing on Sucker In a Three Piece. Of course Sam was too stupid to realize three piece suits were out of style when that song was written. The business fashion was double breasted suits, pleated trousers with cuffs. Three piece suits were in fashion in the 70's.
Not sure if that's a three piece, but he damn sure looks like a sucker wearing it.
As for the song.... pretty much a third rate Panama ripoff.Eat Us And Smile
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