‘Van Halen: The Studio Albums 1978-1984′ Due For Release March 26th!

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Not that good ? I thought they were great songs. A little sterile. But what newer music isn't ? I put them at the end of my 1984 c.d. They sound good there. They are recorded better than anything on the new album. And Dave's voice is good on them.

To each his own...

They were obviously rush jobs... The melodies forced Dave to sing out of his normal range....

I just didn't dig them at all...

[VAiN]

To each his own...

They were obviously rush jobs... The melodies forced Dave to sing out of his normal range....

I just didn't dig them at all...

Agreed. But like you said.. Them ain't no regular crackers, are they?? We were starved!

[Mushroom]

I uploaded all the =VH= to my iPod, sandwiched Me Wise Magic and Cant' Get This Stuff... between the 6-pack and ADKOT and realized they are shallow efforts. Nonetheless, I am the guy those record companies love. But WB is not fooling me this time! I just purchased a new record player, so it's time to pull out the =VH= vinyl and compare to the CDs!

[BITEYOASS]

Unless they crack open the vaults and put some unreleased songs and outtakes on the re-released albums, no one will buy them! Mainly because EVERYONE HAS THEM OR CAN JUST BUY IT USED ONLINE, SO THEY DON'T GET FUCKED BY THE BIG WABBIT KNOWN AS FUCKIN' WARNER BROS.

[Zing!]

Not that good ? I thought they were great songs. A little sterile. But what newer music isn't ? I put them at the end of my 1984 c.d. They sound good there. They are recorded better than anything on the new album. And Dave's voice is good on them.

I still love Me Wise Magic, but CGTSNM hasn't aged quite as well. Maybe it's the sentiment in the lyrics considering what went down that year with the band, or maybe it's EVH's horrible tone, but I routinely skip past that track now.

[Monkeeman]

I love Me Wise Magic. Can't get................ is OK. A decent album track in my opinion.

[DLR Bridge]

I think That's Amore by Dean Martin and CGTSNM are the only two songs I've ever heard in my life with the words pizza pie in them. Just thought I'd put that out there.

[Zing!]

The same thing occurred to me. Hearing the word "pizza" in an Italian love song is one thing. Hearing the word "pizza" in a rock song is off-setting. Not too many could get away with it and make it work.

[DLR Bridge]

Those lyrics were a little corny.....I always thought Dave didn't have too much to do with the lyrics for those two songs...could be wrong. I think the whole structure of cgtsnm always sounded more like a cvh tune than me wise magic. I like mwm but it always seemed a little too busy.

Here's a DLR vs. VH wound ripping open fact for ya 4th. Dave had everything to do with those lyrics. They are a metaphorical bitch slap at the brothers. Look up the Popsmear interview with Dave from the late 90's. DLR definitely got the last laugh that time around.

[DLR Bridge]

You're not imagining things. You probably read it in Dave's book. He mentioned that they tried to bring in Desmond Child to write lyrics. Dave wasn't having any of that thank God. Could you imagine? No one would say shit about I'll Wait's words if that ever came to fruition.

[VHscraps]

Those lyrics were a little corny.....I always thought Dave didn't have too much to do with the lyrics for those two songs...could be wrong. I think the whole structure of cgtsnm always sounded more like a cvh tune than me wise magic. I like mwm but it always seemed a little too busy.

I quite like MWM. Thought the other tune was fairly mediocre - can't even remember what it goes like. Dave was doing far better stuff on YFLM.

But MWM, for me, is one of those late-Hagar era / Cherone era guitar parts where Ed seems to take a minute or two to get to the point. On Human's Being, the last song with Spam, it works. I only listened to VHIII once (in 2011 - hadn't heard a lick of it before) but it seemed to have quite a lot of those aimless guitar intros.

In the CVH days, I bet Ted - or maybe even Dave - would have told him just to ditch the intro and outro and cut it down to 3 mins.

[DLR Bridge]

Yeah 4th, he's the D-nozzle that wrote Living On A Prayer and a host of other nauseating things.

"...maybe that works out great for Bon Jovi. For Van Halen, it's syphilis." - D L fuckin' R

[VHscraps]

That's exactly who it was....Desomd childs.....didn't that tool write rediculously lame tunes for/with Kiss at one point? I have to re-read dave's book. I usually read it every summer on the beach....my memory isn't what it used to be.

That's one of the reason's Spam left. Ed didn't think his lyrics were serious enough and was bringing in other writers to do 'treatments' (like movie producers who bring in new writers to fo script treatments). That guy who produced Alanis Morrissette's first album was one name I heard mentioned. He produced dome of those songs .. name escapes me.

[VHscraps]

That's one of the reason's Spam left.

Shocking butcher's apostrophe there ... I swear it is this fcking tapatalk.

[DLR Bridge]

In the CVH days, I bet Ted - or maybe even Dave - would have told him just to ditch the intro and outro and cut it down to 3 mins.

And they would be right, but make no mistake, the long version of Believe Me / Take It Back is a stellar long composition. Songs like that deserved a spot on the second side of any of the first three LPs. God, I hope that song sees official light of day some time down the road.