The Official Van Halen, "Tattoo" review thread.

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  • ashstralia
    ROTH ARMY ELITE
    • Feb 2004
    • 6566

    he didn't rule it out iirc mate! hope you're well.

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    • Baby's On Fire
      Veteran
      • May 2004
      • 1747

      The song has a few highlights, but musically it seems like Van Hagar leftovers. It seems like the vocals were thrown over top of the music with very little collaboration. It feels like solo DLR meets Van Hagar.

      But I do think the album overall will be good.

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      • Jérôme Frenchise
        ROTH ARMY SUPREME
        • Nov 2004
        • 7218

        Originally posted by Baby's On Fire
        The song has a few highlights, but musically it seems like Van Hagar leftovers. It seems like the vocals were thrown over top of the music with very little collaboration. It feels like solo DLR meets Van Hagar.
        Listen to it again!

        ... and over again!
        posted by Ellyllions Men say, "I'll never understand women." That's a very lonely place to be if you're a woman because we don't understand half of what we do either.
        posted by ALinChainz Katy, Pipe down, pump off, and fly back to your cave you old bat.

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        • ashstralia
          ROTH ARMY ELITE
          • Feb 2004
          • 6566

          obviously BOF has been hacked. it's the only plausible explanation.

          i'm on my 50th listen and it keeps gettin better...

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          • ashstralia
            ROTH ARMY ELITE
            • Feb 2004
            • 6566

            sexy dragon magic.

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            • VHscraps
              Veteran
              • Jul 2009
              • 1874

              just love the way it ends, with those swells that were also the beginning part of Down in Flames.

              It's almost like there's a subtle message in that - the end is the beginning, and the beginning is the end.

              Or - we're fkkin back.

              This is VH ... back to front, upside down, all ways round. As someone rightly pointed out on here the other day: listen to VHI and the 1984, and you think whoooa? what happened? It's like two different bands, but then again it's not. You can say the same - I reckon - for any two of the 6-pack if you put them side-by-side: no two of them sound the same, but they all have the vibe, and the attitude that is Van Halen.

              For those who are not getting this - esp. over at the VHND comments section - I can only guess they were expecting a carbon copy of something from the past. But VH never did that - that's the whole point, and one of the things that separated them from Van Hagar, and any other band.

              This new VH is just another facet of that.
              THINK LIKE THE WAVES

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              • K-tuna
                Groupie
                • Jan 2012
                • 97

                Originally posted by sadaist
                I actually give Sammy the benefit of the doubt on those for the lyrics. Eddie was in a very bad way and kept forcing Sam to rewrite lyrics. Same as he did to Dave in 1996. But even without listening to the actual words, the singing just doesn't fit the songs for me. Lame.
                Oh man, ESPECIALLY in the case of "UP for Breakfast" I can't get that at all. Are you sure?
                If you read any of the interviews with Ed circa 96 and the Twister debacle ( that led to them dumping Slammy) ..the main reason ED was pissed with Slammy was and I'm paraphrasing but " ....all he could do is write about pussy."

                Like In the case of the "Humans Being" they had to fight him to not put a love song using Tornado' in the lyrics and he kept coming back with the word Tornado in the song. Finally , they had to just write the lyrics and hand it to Sammy and say " sing this, please"

                Then again with " UFB" maybe they were just fed up and let it slide. Point is, its a shame because the riffs in that song were damn cool.

                Anyway , back on topic----

                I hope Itunes get some previews of the other tunes up in the next week or so. they're locked out now, but heres hoping to at least hear the studio version of STW.
                Last edited by K-tuna; 01-11-2012, 09:25 AM.
                "I Don't feel tardy...."

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                • Mr Walker
                  Crazy Ass Mofo
                  • Jan 2004
                  • 2536

                  Originally posted by ashstralia
                  (please do a vinyl one important people, we'll buy it!)
                  Agreed!

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                  • Baby's On Fire
                    Veteran
                    • May 2004
                    • 1747

                    I'm still getting the message on Amazon that the song is not available. Anyone else having the same problem?

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                    • K-tuna
                      Groupie
                      • Jan 2012
                      • 97

                      Originally posted by Baby's On Fire
                      I'm still getting the message on Amazon that the song is not available. Anyone else having the same problem?
                      I know the preference of using Amazon is there with a lot of members, but since they're goofing so bad , have you tried Itunes?
                      "I Don't feel tardy...."

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                      • Angel
                        ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                        • Jan 2004
                        • 7481

                        I can't stand reading the comments on Youtube anymore... Can't wait for the entire album to come out and put these idiots in their place. I love the song, and it's the freaking single, which is usually my least favourite. I remember how disappointed I was when I first heard "Jump", and I still cringe whenever I hear it....
                        "Ya know what they say about angels... An angel is a supernatural being or spirit, usually humanoid in form, found in various religions and mythologies. Plus Roth fan boards..."- ZahZoo April 2013

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                        • binnie
                          DIAMOND STATUS
                          • May 2006
                          • 19145

                          What does it matter if people don't like it?

                          Youtube exists as a place for people to bitch....
                          The Power Of The Riff Compels Me

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                          • ZahZoo
                            ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

                            • Jan 2004
                            • 9160

                            Nice way to start the day... BLASTING Tattoo. It's a good morning kicker...
                            "If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”

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                            • chefcraig
                              DIAMOND STATUS
                              • Apr 2004
                              • 12172

                              I stopped caring about Youtube commentary years ago. The posters there are more often than not utterly ignorant buffoons, and hell, a good amount of the folks that post the clips themselves appear to be brain-damaged. Either way, you end up attempting to decipher ghastly amounts of illiterate gibberish, and quite honestly, I can get metric-tons of that at work.









                              “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
                              ― Stephen Hawking

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                              • Jetstream
                                Foot Soldier
                                • Dec 2011
                                • 609

                                been listening to Tattoo nonstop but I think there is something to the song which sort of hit me about the backing vocals which I do not think anyone has suggested. Dave in his solo work liked to add that major low voice to the harmonies on his solo lp DLR Band and it might very well be him on Tattoo but I don't think it is. Eddie has a very low voice and I think it is Eddie going Tattoo really low and not actually Dave. Dave sure the hell is capable of it and it really sounds like Eddie's voice to me if you listen close. I know it is just the video and people in videos just sing along but it is not out of the question that low voice is Eddie in the lines 'tattoo tattoo'.
                                I got lost in the...

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