All 131 Van Halen Songs Ranked

[FORD]

And in any fucking case, it should be illegal for a radio station to play Van Hagar at 7:45 AM.

Fucking Mittens Romney's Fear Channel is destroying "classic rock" radio.

[Seshmeister]

My top 10 Van Halen songs are...

10...Dance the Night Away
9...Cathedral
8...Little Guitars
7...Spanish Fly
6...Eruption
5...Hot For Teacher
4...Panama
3...Jump
2...Drop Dead Leggs
1...5150

You could give an infinite number of monkeys typewriters and it would take then millions of years to come up with that ranking..

Also given the time of the post and your spelling of 'legs' I'm guessing maybe not entirely sober post...

[VHscraps]

What does '5150' even mean? As a song title / theme / subject?

I mean, I can't say that I have really ever noticed the lyrics and what they say, but does the title of the song indicate that Sam was trying to tell us this was a song about ... oh, I dunno, Eddie? (self-declared '5150', or escaped loon). Or about the idea of being a '5150', escaped on-the-run lunatic?

I think somebody needs to pose the question to Sammy, for instance, the next time Rolling Stone publish one of his pleas for Eddie to phone him, of what exactly, dude, did you mean in that song '5150'?

Profound, or no - we need to know Sam? I mean, I could work out what 'Cruising and Boozin' from the pre-VH years was all about pretty easy, but this obscure stuff is making my head ache.

The only words I ever remembered, in truth, were 'I'll meet you half way', and I have to say, I am not sure that this is the kind of statement anyone would make to an on-the-run lunatic of the 5150 persuasion ...

[ZahZoo]

Searching for a deep meaning in any of Hagar's lyrics..? Ha!!

That well went dry shortly after he penned Bad Motor Scooter with Montrose...

[Nitro Express]

I think Sammy meditated behind a waterfall for a month to come up with the lyrics for Up For Breakfast.

[Terry]

Hagar's stuff...it's just a bunch of bumper-sticker gibberish. Always has been. Sung in an over-emoted manner, so if one doesn't pay attention to what he his singing vs. how he is singing it, Hagar's stuff might well sound profound. Like, profound if you are, say, a world class rock guitar player with a drinking problem.

I had to laugh back in 1996 when Eddie was bitching about Sammy's lyrical treatments on the stuff they were working on circa the Twister movie period, where Eddie was saying Hagar was unable to come up with profound lyrics to match the music Eddie was writing: I was like, um, it took Ed until 1996 to figure out Hagar was a mediocre hack?


You've got Allah in the East
You've got Jesus in the West
Christ, what's a man to do?


Great, Sammy! Very...profound...

[Nitro Express]

Hagar's stuff...it's just a bunch of bumper-sticker gibberish. Always has been. Sung in an over-emoted manner, so if one doesn't pay attention to what he his singing vs. how he is singing it, Hagar's stuff might well sound profound. Like, profound if you are, say, a world class rock guitar player with a drinking problem.

I had to laugh back in 1996 when Eddie was bitching about Sammy's lyrical treatments on the stuff they were working on circa the Twister movie period, where Eddie was saying Hagar was unable to come up with profound lyrics to match the music Eddie was writing: I was like, um, it took Ed until 1996 to figure out Hagar was a mediocre hack?


You've got Allah in the East
You've got Jesus in the West
Christ, what's a man to do?


Great, Sammy! Very...profound...

Haha! Well the whole story of Jesus came out of the east before Muhamed was even on the map. The west seems to be losing interest in Jesus. Christ what's a man to do? Hell if I know. People now seem to believe in tattoos and buy now pay later.