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I *heart* Van Halen up through 1984, which I'm about half and half on. My aunt used to have a giant DLR poster in her room that depicted him shirtless and either tied to or just spread-armed up against a chain-link fence.

xpost - oh, Kenan, you're just looking for a fight with a statement like that.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Do they have any songs I would know besides "Jump"?

The Clash is one of the most overrated bands ever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The guitarist in the 0ptimistic is a HUGE Van Halen fan. At the end of tunes he always wants me to do this Alex Van Halen fill, the one that sounds like a motorcycle engine revving down.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost They really were, though. That first VH record is one of my all-time favorite records.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Do they have any songs I would know besides "Jump"?

Probably not.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

[edit] Singles
Year Title US Hot 100 US Mainstream Rock UK singles Album
1978 You Really Got Me 36 - - Van Halen
1978 Runnin' With The Devil 84 - - Van Halen
1978 Jamie's Cryin' - - - Van Halen
1978 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - - - Van Halen
1979 Dance the Night Away 15 - - Van Halen II
1979 Beautiful Girls 84 - - Van Halen II
1980 And The Cradle Will Rock... 55 - - Women and Children First
1981 So This Is Love? - 15 - Fair Warning
1982 (Oh) Pretty Woman 12 1 - Diver Down
1982 Dancing In The Street 38 3 - Diver Down
1982 Secrets - 22 - Diver Down
1984 Jump 1 - 7 1984
1984 I'll Wait 13 - - 1984
1984 Panama 13 - - 1984
1984 Hot For Teacher 56 34 1984
1986 Why Can't This Be Love 3 1 8 5150
1986 Dreams 22 6 32 5150
1986 Love Walks In 22 4 - 5150
1988 When It's Love 5 1 - OU812
1988 Black And Blue 34 1 - OU812
1988 Finish What Ya Started 13 2 28 OU812
1988 Cabo Wabo - 31 - OU812
1989 Feels So Good 35 6 63 OU812
1991 Top of The World 27 1 63 For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1991 Runaround - 1 - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1991 Poundcake - 1 - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1992 The Dream Is Over - 7 - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1992 Right Now 55 2 - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

xpost, lol

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Almost all of the Haggar stuff can eat me. But I do like "Why Can't This Be Love."

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Fun things: legitimately googling "Varicocele" at work and having your boss walk into your work space only to find pictures of giant penises on your computer screen.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

1978 You Really Got Me 36 - - Van Halen
1978 Runnin' With The Devil 84 - - Van Halen
1978 Jamie's Cryin' - - - Van Halen
1978 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - - - Van Halen
1979 Dance the Night Away 15 - - Van Halen II
1979 Beautiful Girls 84 - - Van Halen II
1980 And The Cradle Will Rock... 55 - - Women and Children First
1981 So This Is Love? - 15 - Fair Warning
1982 (Oh) Pretty Woman 12 1 - Diver Down
1982 Dancing In The Street 38 3 - Diver Down
1982 Secrets - 22 - Diver Down

those first four albums are all killer. i'm with jenny on 1984 but still, cheese and all, the first four records are boss.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to jenny, at least they were only pictures.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I had 1984 in my car right now (no pun intended).

I came in early today, and now I'm leaving to find out if Madison has real gelato or not.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

It doesn't feel like Women and Children only had one single.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

The Clash is one of the most overrated bands ever.

I can't tell if you're making this statement to just make waves or because you actually believe it. Either way, it's retarded.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

There are songs I'm surprised weren't singles, like Drop Dead Legs.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

then there's a song like "house of pain" which was probably of their best straight ahead rock songs. it was on their gene simmons produced demo, played live for 10 years then finally came out on 1984 when the band could no longer agree on the quality of the newer songs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

all this VH talk is making me want to burn a j in the back of camaro then go get a mullett.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I know! I miss my cousin Darrel. He was a goofball hick piece of trash, who made my early music listening experiences so damn rockin'.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to jenny, at least they were only pictures.

As opposed to actual penises?

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

exactly. i'm guessing if you were sitting around a some dudes from the office or perhaps just visitors or whatever where at your desk with their business draped over your monitor like some bad fringed vest it would be worse than pictures.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm listening to side 2 of 1984 now. The rest of the art room can just fucking deal.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

around a should be around with.

or whatever where shoud be or whatever were.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

later chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - Worse for all of us.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I also know "Right Now."

I can't tell if you're making this statement to just make waves or because you actually believe it. Either way, it's retarded.

Little of both, my friend.

Granted, I've only heard London Calling, but I really only like a few of those songs, like the title track, "Spanish Bombs," "Train in Vain," and "Lost in the Supermarket." And "Rock the Casbah" is obv. great. But there's also plenty of Clash songs that just sound like uninteresting bar-rock to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

If you don't like "Rudy Can't Fail" then you don't have a pulse.

I wholeheartedly believe later Clash records are mostly for shit (Cut the Crap, for example) but playing the "overrated" card based on a single album is kind of feeble, no? Not that I think you'd like their first record more (it does having some "uninteresting bar-rock" tunes) but it's also got a few that are true gems.

Rock music John doesn't like = uninteresting bar rock? It's a trend I've noticed.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sorry, I just brought the ILM. This is why I don't post there. I actually really hate arguing about music.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Yer right about me not liking "uninteresting bar-rock." Unless that's a term I just use for any music that I don't like. But generally meat-and-potatoes three-chord boozy rabble-rousing ain't my thing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Also a trend = my favorite Clash songs ("Supermarket," "Casbah") are the disco ones.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

How do you feel about the reggae ones?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Like which? I'm not a huge reggae fan, to be honest.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Like... well, off of London Calling, the obvious one is "Guns of Brixton."

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck yes. And the aforementioned "Rudy Can't Fail".

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I kinda like "Guns of Brixton." In fact, I almost included it on the list of songs I like from that album. I don't remember "Rudy Can't Fail," and it's not on my iPod.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Real-lx seems to be back.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, it's been back for about an hour. I just kept posting here b/c you guys were.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

It was working off and on for me until I just checked again.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

"White Man in Hammersmith Palais" is not good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

No, it's brilliant.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey John, you can borrow the Undeclared DVDs from me if you want. It's nowhere near as good as Freaks & Geeks but still entertaining, and most of the kids are pretty great. Plus, Loudon Wainwright III.

― n/a, Wednesday, 1 November 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Cool -- that'd be rad, Nick.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

anyone home?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

no? no one?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, well i'll be taking a nap on the couch so try not to slam any doors when you come in alright? thanks.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

HEYYYYY!

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

The Chicago thread never, ever dies. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

GOBBLE GOBBLE TURKEYS.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

FUCK A BUNCH OF GIVING THANKS. WE WANT MORE BOOBS.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

to explain: we ate, drank, and watched Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. We got our boobs on.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

damn, that'll teach me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

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