The Official Van Halen, "Tattoo" review thread.

[Yount]

Obviously not. Rolling eyes must have a different meaning to you than it does me.

Screw interpretation.

[DlocRoth]

Umm......


Usually the phrase is which of your kids you LOVE more.

Oh yeah... I think I've heard it your way too.

[VanHalener]

You can take the peace and send it packin'.
Time to hammer the neighborhood with both garage doors wide open while some angry speakers spill their guts all over the road.

It's Van Halen time!

First up...

Tattoo

OWWWWWW!

[Zing!]

Picked up my truck from the mechanic the other day after having a couple of new tires put on. What was BLASTING over the radio? "Tattoo."

[Va Beach VH Fan]

One year ago today....

This Day in CVH/DLR History

1975
Van Halen plays at Gazzarri's in West Hollywood, CA.

1976
Van Halen plays Gazzarri's in West Hollywood, CA.

1987
David Lee Roth plays the Winnipeg Arena in Winnipeg, MN.

2012
Van Halen releases "Tattoo", its first single off the "A Different Kind of Truth" album.

[vandeleur]

Jeez seems like a long time ago , so much had happened since then .
Or maybe it's just because We've been kept more informed ,many thanks to VA and our DDE rep.

Any ways happy birthday tattoo and here's to the army and another year in van halen land like last year :D

[Zing!]

It was a helluva run that started right about this time last year. Funny thing is, I think I like Tattoo more now thanI did then.

[chuckjitsu]

Funny thing is, I think I like Tattoo more now than I did then.

With you on this one.

[vandeleur]

Yeah I agree

[Lose The Dress]

Tattoo really grew on my after a while. In fact, lately I have found myself listening to it more than ever. Really diggin it now. I saw where somebody re-did the video with lots of shots of hot chicks with cool tattoos and I'd say that maybe that made me like it more...Hot chicks make everything better.

[Terry]

Tattoo really grew on my after a while. In fact, lately I have found myself listening to it more than ever. Really diggin it now. I saw where somebody re-did the video with lots of shots of hot chicks with cool tattoos and I'd say that maybe that made me like it more...Hot chicks make everything better.

The song itself is okay...

It's kinda like Jump was for me when that was first released all those years ago, in that I wasn't necessarily thrilled with the music but the lyrics and vocal delivery were able to overcome my relative lack of enthusiasm for the instrumentation.

Tattoo is a sort of middle-of-the-road, medium-paced tune without a lot of frills. While I thought it was a bit foolish to release it as the single when ADKOT first came out and have it as the lead-off tune of the album, thinking about it NOW it makes perfect sense when considering the rest of the album. Like, if Tattoo had been buried in the middle of the record, it wouldn't really have stood out as much.

[ELVIS]

Oh, c'mon...

The song sucks...

It's like a bad DLR solo song...

Nothing like Van Halen...

It was complete sabotage to release that crap as the first Van Halen single in 30 years featuring DLR...

[vandeleur]

Am not as down on the song as e but it was a fuckwit idea for it to be the opening salvo of zero publicity :D

[ELVIS]

Personally, I think songs like Blood and Fire, Big River, You and your Blues, or even As Is would have all fared very well as singles with the right promotion...

[vandeleur]

Totally agree