Here's Just What You (She?) Wanted

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  • DLR Bridge
    ROCKSTAR

    • Mar 2011
    • 5470
    #1

    Here's Just What You (She?) Wanted

    Van Halen - Just What You Wanted 1977
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tsVM0w4q5g&feature=player_detailpage
    Van Halen performs unreleased song Just What You Wanted 1977. I'm along time fan of early Van Halen. I first heard Van Halen in a pool hall in 1979. I was pl...


    I can't get enough of this song. So much going on, yet so simple, and only 2 minutes and 47 seconds. Very dominant hook and chorus. The only thing I'd classify as a verse is the soft part after the intro. And that lasts what, 6 seconds? Coulda been a hit I tell ya.
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    • chuckjitsu
      Head Fluffer
      • Apr 2012
      • 321
      #2
      How many original unreleased songs do they have that didn't make to an actual demo?

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        • DLR Bridge
          ROCKSTAR

          • Mar 2011
          • 5470
          #3
          Originally posted by chuckjitsu
          How many original unreleased songs do they have that didn't make to an actual demo?
          Good question. Let's see, "The Shape You're In" "Down In Flames" "Bullethead" "Honolulu Baby" "One More Time" "Show No Mercy" "Eyes Of The Night". Those are the only non-demo club days ones I know of. I think.

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            • Satan
              ROTH ARMY ELITE
              • Jan 2004
              • 6664
              #4
              Originally posted by DLR Bridge
              Good question. Let's see, "The Shape You're In" "Down In Flames" "Bullethead" "Honolulu Baby" "One More Time" "Show No Mercy" "Eyes Of The Night". Those are the only non-demo club days ones I know of. I think.
              Just because they never leaked out to bootleg land doesn't mean there aren't demos in Eddie's vault. "Down In Flames" was scheduled to be on VHII and the band (Dave) even announced it as such when they played the song live in Japan on their 1978 tour. Reportedly the sessions for that album were over and done within one week but I'm guessing they went into those sessions expecting to record that song, and somewhere in the middle of the process, shitcanned the lyrics entirely and slightly retro-fitted the musical arrangement into a cover version of "You're No Good". And then 29 years later re-recorded the same song again and called it "Tattoo".

              As for "Bullethead", they dusted that off for ADKOT, and if that was one of the tunes that Wolfie picked out, then I'm thinking he must have had a proper demo to hear it on, because if all he heard was the same versions we all have - those awful recordings from the club gigs, it's really not much of an attractive song to work on, based on those tapes.
              Eternally Under the Authority of Satan

              Originally posted by Sockfucker
              I've been in several mental institutions but not in Bakersfield.

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                • DLR Bridge
                  ROCKSTAR

                  • Mar 2011
                  • 5470
                  #5
                  I wasn't responding as an authority on whether a demo was ever actually made or not for those songs. I was speaking soley as a fan who never heard demos of those particular tunes. Tis all.

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