WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST Re-visited

[Lady Cab Driver]

Excellent review! This should be on the official site. Anyone know anything about why there is nothing going down there?


Sorry, I hit the wrong button. I meant to quote and not edit. LOL!

- Max

[spmusicplyr]

i was 4 years away from being shot from my daddies left nut when this album was released, but sadly, this is my least fav of the 6 pack

[MAX]

Originally posted by Lady Cab Driver
Excellent review! This should be on the official site. Anyone know anything about why there is nothing going down there?


Sorry, I hit the wrong button. I meant to quote and not edit. LOL!

- Max

Maybe you should tell us? Hmmmmmm...............

[salsanin]

Hi frds

in Italy is I M P O S S I B L E find this Album on cd

( I have vinyl with poster and cd)

Excellent review.

Ciao a tutti !!!!!!

[teamaa104]

Could this be magic?
Possibly one of the best VH songs, its so different but Dave's voice on it is totally extreme, i love it!

Agree with everything you say

[tydhurst]

I loove Women and Chilldren first. Any album where And the Cradle Will Rock is followed by Everybody Wants Some is just Raldatious in my book!

[Nitro Express]

WACF for me brings back vivid memories of when that album released. We lived in a college town at the time and a friend of mine dug one of those old Schwinn tandem bikes out of his grandmother's garage. We thought it was cool and we fixed the flat tires and oiled up the chain and set out on the wierd bike built for two. We were riding around the university since the sidewalks were great for bike riding, not to mention skateboarding. Anyways we are riding by some dorms and some dudes had put their stereo speakers in the windows and had "And The Cradle Will Rock" cranked while they played catch with a baseball on the lawn below. As we passed these guys they were giving us a hard time and started calling us names. I guess they though people who rode tandem bikes were dorks and failed to realize it was a cool old antique. Well, nowdays it is. Anyways, I remember getting hit in the back of the head with something hard and actually blacking out and seeing stars. When I recovered from the star show, I started hearing those motherfuckers laughing their asses off and realized that they had thrown the baseball at us and hit me in the fucking head. We were just kids and they were college aged big guys and we just peddled like crazy and got the hell out of there. I ended up with a big fuckin lump on my head. To this day, when I hear "And The Cradle Will Rock" I think of getting hit in the head with a fuckin baseball.

A few months later, Van Halen came to our college town on the 1980 Invasion Tour. It was the second rock concert I had ever gone to. The first one was the Doobie Brothers. LOL! Anyways, Van Halen in a way was still a rowdy club band and still had that raw edge to them. They just blew me away. I thought Dave and Eddie were Gods and untouchable.

[Bill Lumbergh]

NOW WHERE'S THE FAIR WARNING REVIEW RIKK, YOU FUCKING SLACKER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bill Lumbergh]

Originally posted by Nitro Express
WACF for me brings back vivid memories of when that album released. We lived in a college town at the time and a friend of mine dug one of those old Schwinn tandem bikes out of his grandmother's garage. We thought it was cool and we fixed the flat tires and oiled up the chain and set out on the wierd bike built for two. We were riding around the university since the sidewalks were great for bike riding, not to mention skateboarding. Anyways we are riding by some dorms and some dudes had put their stereo speakers in the windows and had "And The Cradle Will Rock" cranked while they played catch with a baseball on the lawn below. As we passed these guys they were giving us a hard time and started calling us names. I guess they though people who rode tandem bikes were dorks and failed to realize it was a cool old antique. Well, nowdays it is. Anyways, I remember getting hit in the back of the head with something hard and actually blacking out and seeing stars. When I recovered from the star show, I started hearing those motherfuckers laughing their asses off and realized that they had thrown the baseball at us and hit me in the fucking head. We were just kids and they were college aged big guys and we just peddled like crazy and got the hell out of there. I ended up with a big fuckin lump on my head. To this day, when I hear "And The Cradle Will Rock" I think of getting hit in the head with a fuckin baseball.

A few months later, Van Halen came to our college town on the 1980 Invasion Tour. It was the second rock concert I had ever gone to. The first one was the Doobie Brothers. LOL! Anyways, Van Halen in a way was still a rowdy club band and still had that raw edge to them. They just blew me away. I thought Dave and Eddie were Gods and untouchable.

Cool story dude. The album brings back very strong memories for me too. VH 2 was the first album I ever bought on the first day..........as blown away as I was by that, WACF just totally knocked me out. It had it all(and still does) and then some!

[Noodles]

nice, rikk (gotta brush up on yer Rothability, tho ... misquoted lyrics abound. not as bad as that guy from the Vegas Mercury, tho. Whoa... where'dja get that shhhhit... ohmyGOD...).

my fave VH LP. Spring break 1980. i was in Rock-a-Rolla Records before they even opened the box from WB. grabbed the top-copy, ripped it open ... (wtf's this? a poster or sumthin?) ... on the turntable, spin spin ... 'turn it up'. yehhhh.... fucking amazing.

"top of their powers", exactly, Rikk. there was not even a shadow of disappointment back then when The New Van Halen Record came out. not for a couple more years yet.

Pure Magic. thanks for rollin' this one up for everybody to re-appreciate yet again, man.

** If y'all have the WACF Studio Sessions Remastered boot, it's majorly entertaining & way insightful into how the LP was birthed. checkout the roughs & scratchtracks of Cradle, EWS!! ... quite a lot from these made it into the final versions. + the untitled/unfinished instrumental jam is a F**KING blast ... a rollercoaster taxiride thru dark city just before dawn. and, you ain't got the fare, budro.

[Rikk]

Originally posted by Bill Lumbergh
NOW WHERE'S THE FAIR WARNING REVIEW RIKK, YOU FUCKING SLACKER!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL!!

You're right...I haven't done one for a while. Gimme a few days and I'll get one going.

[Bill Lumbergh]

Originally posted by Rikk
LOL!!

You're right...I haven't done one for a while. Gimme a few days and I'll get one going.

Cool bro!

[Rikk]

Been listening to the six-pack a LOT this week. I want to bump these and maybe get some good discussion. I'm proud of these write-ups I did.

[NATEDOG001976]

WACF, fucking rocks....might be my favorite VH album.

[fryingdutchman]

Rikk - Great stuff. Thanks for taking the time and putting in the effort to write the review.

Funny...I remember that upon it's initial release, WACF was near the bottom of my list of VH favorites. Then, after repeated listenings, it grew and grew like a monster hell-bent on dominating my home/car stereo.

Definitely an underappreciated album that deserves much more attention. It encompasses such wide-ranging styles that really showed how versatile the band was.