Van Shit

[Seshmeister]

Just had the horrific misfortune to hear a Van Hagar song called Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do) on the radio.

I can't remember ever hearing this fucking garbage before, Google tells me it was on the album with the weird kid cover. Fucking hell Sammy really reaches a new level of stinky shit on this one, it sounds like a walrus that has got trapped under a rock.

And the irony of the twat singing a song about suicide when most of the audience looks to the sky thinking 'will you please just go kill yourself'.

Nothing worse than one of the most dumb people in music trying to get philosophical about Cobain's suicide.


Is it right, uh, to take the easy way?
I don't know, I get down on my knees and pray
Now I'm saved, by a higher voice
Givin' up, givin' up, givin' up my choice

If I'm wrong, hey! Then I'll pay for it
If I'm right, yeah, you're gonna deal with it
'Cause I'll try, yeah I'll try for it
I'll try and I'll cry, even die for it

Girl, I don't wana hear what love can do
No, I, I can't tell you what's right for you
Oh, I, I, I tell you what love can do
No, I, I, I can't say when your time is through

I've seen the damage done
Oh Lord, I heard the shotgun
I felt the settin' sun on my kingdom come
Nooo!

Yeah! A-hey, hey, hey!

Don't tell me what love can do, uh
Hey hey hey! Uh!
Hey hey hey hey!
Don't tell me what love can do, alright
Hey hey hey!
What love can do
Hey hey hey!


Jesus suffering fuck it's like Vogon poetry - SHUT THE FUCK UP you stupid little man!

[Mr Walker]

Jesus suffering fuck

You're the best Sesh!

[chefcraig]

It just goes to show you what happens when an "artist" of extremely limited scope reaches too far, attempting to tackle a sensitive subject matter in a ham-fisted way and misses by a country mile. By way of comparison, just look at Neil Peart's empathetic and very moving treatment of the issue in the song "The Pass". No preaching is offered, nor any belittling judgment or attempt at social commentary. Rather than making a self serving move by clobbering people over the head through a big statement, Peart simply provides some insight through understanding, offering some comfort through hope and support.

The Pass

Proud swagger out of the school yard
Waiting for the world's applause
Rebel without a conscience
Martyr without a cause

Static on your frequency
Electrical storm in your veins
Raging at unreachable glory
Straining at invisible chains

And now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
Staring down into a heartless sea
Can't face life on a razor's edge
Nothing's what you thought it would be

All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars
Turn around and turn around and turn around
Turn around and walk the razor's edge
Don't turn your back
And slam the door on me

It's not as if this barricade
Blocks the only road
It's not as if you're all alone
In wanting to explode

Someone set a bad example
Made surrender seem all right
The act of a noble warrior
Who lost the will to fight

And now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
Staring down into a heartless sea
Done with life on a razor's edge
Nothing's what you thought it would be

No hero in your tragedy
No daring in your escape
No salutes for your surrender
Nothing noble in your fate
Christ, what have you done?

[Diamondjimi]

The Pass is a great song. Peart is a lyrical genious....
Holding Spambo's "lyrics" next to Neil's is like holding up a vomit covered t-shirt next to an Armani suit.

[kwame k]

Killer drummer and a great lyricist, too!

God, I hate him

[DavidLeeNatra]

Holding Spambo's "lyrics" next to Neil's is like holding up a vomit covered t-shirt next to an Armani suit.

can't say it any better!

[kwame k]

The Pass is a great song. Peart is a lyrical genious....
Holding Spambo's "lyrics" next to Neil's is like holding up a vomit covered t-shirt next to an Armani suit.

[Seshmeister]

This is why I rarely admit to liking Van Halen without a big explanation or wear t-shirts or whatever in public.

Imagine people thought you liked that shit...

[DlocRoth]

Amen to that!

It's a fucking shame too... prefacing a conversation about the mighty VH with anybody under 35........

[kwame k]

Funny you mention that..........I always use the line from that movie. I'm a Van Halen fan not a Van Hagar fan!

[chefcraig]

This is why I rarely admit to liking Van Halen without a big explanation or wear t-shirts or whatever in public.

Imagine people thought you liked that shit...

Amen to that!

It's a fucking shame too... prefacing a conversation about the mighty VH with anybody under 35........

It's almost as bad when speaking about VH with people my own age..."Who? Oh yeah, Van Halen...whatever happened to that guy? I loved "Just A Gigolo."

[Seshmeister]

[ZahZoo]

The only irony with that song is it got one of Ed's best Blues style guitar solo's in it. Other than that... it sucks shit.

[fifth element]

It just goes to show you what happens when an "artist" of extremely limited scope reaches too far, attempting to tackle a sensitive subject matter in a ham-fisted way and misses by a country mile. By way of comparison, just look at Neil Peart's empathetic and very moving treatment of the issue in the song "The Pass". No preaching is offered, nor any belittling judgment or attempt at social commentary. Rather than making a self serving move by clobbering people over the head through a big statement, Peart simply provides some insight through understanding, offering some comfort through hope and support.

The Pass

Proud swagger out of the school yard
Waiting for the world's applause
Rebel without a conscience
Martyr without a cause

Static on your frequency
Electrical storm in your veins
Raging at unreachable glory
Straining at invisible chains

And now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
Staring down into a heartless sea
Can't face life on a razor's edge
Nothing's what you thought it would be

All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars
Turn around and turn around and turn around
Turn around and walk the razor's edge
Don't turn your back
And slam the door on me

It's not as if this barricade
Blocks the only road
It's not as if you're all alone
In wanting to explode

Someone set a bad example
Made surrender seem all right
The act of a noble warrior
Who lost the will to fight

And now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
Staring down into a heartless sea
Done with life on a razor's edge
Nothing's what you thought it would be

No hero in your tragedy
No daring in your escape
No salutes for your surrender
Nothing noble in your fate
Christ, what have you done?

nice....ty

[sadaist]

Just had the horrific misfortune to hear a Van Hagar song called Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do) on the radio.

I kinda like the crunchy guitar riff intro. Sounds weird like it fades in & out. Not good enough to carry me through the rest of the song though. Another fine example of a cool riff Eddie came up with in his studio that was then squandered & ruined by Sammys interference.