New Van Halen Single Out Now. Album in Feb

Uriel

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Well erm... I used to be the world's biggest VH fan (or so I thought at the time). So - first new music since 2004, first new song with David Lee Roth since 1996 and first album with him since 1983 / 1984.

Sounds like Van Halen, in a formulaic sort of way. But unfortunately (for a single) I think it sounds like a 'b' side from the 70s. Half the song is borrowed from Down In Flames, which made it onto a couple of live bootlegs.

I kinda like one verse but really it's not a patch on the 1996 songs. I think they do reasonably well to cover for the lack of Michael Anthony on the backing vocals.

I'll probably buy the album (A Different Kind of Truth to be released 7th Feb), as I have all the others anyway...
 
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mowlio said:
also is this the theme to the girl with the dragon tattoo?
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As far as I know - nope - but I did just go and look it up, having heard the lyrics.

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo soundrack is Trent Reznor mostly - him out of Nine Inch Nails.
 
Heard it on Planet Rock this morning.

After ALL this time couldn't they have thought of some better lyrics haha.

Didn't like it.
 
Lyrics remind me of a lot of 90s solo David Lee Roth.

Honestly - a lot of early VH lyrics weren't that great but this is particularly uninspired. The bit about 'Uncle Danny' and 'the unions' gets vaguely interesting but everything else is a bit vacuous.

2 of the 3 new songs with Sammy Hagar on 'Best of Both Worlds' were dreadful lyrically too.
 
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It's not brilliant but I'll wait for the album because I was a mega VH fan in the 70's and DLR is my choice for the second best frontman of all time.
FACT -
When Van Halen supported Black Sabbath in 1978 on their first tour I went to see them at Victoria Hall, Hanley and Eddie Van Halen kept his back to the audience all through the set so we couldn't see what he was playing.
He also had his gear in a rocket.
When the roadies moved the gear off the stage it was done in a set 'dance type' routine and they got a standing ovation from the crowd.
 

More 70s b sides ahoy? Oh wait - it's a preview of another single :(

Can buy the mp3 at the rainforest along with another track called "The trouble with never".
 
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They have definitely made some bad decisions in the past but I think this new material is alright.

Let's be honest - it isn't going to beat anything that they did together back in the day... because really how can it? The stuff they did with David Lee Roth was fantastic - didn't listen to any of the stuff they did with Sammy.

I'd still like to see them live though, just to say that I have. I love their first few albums to bits.
 
Bad song but bad, bad, bad video. Uncle David does creepy Jagger routines, forgets the words every second scene, doesn't do retakes, production budget of two argos DSLRs (hence black and white, otherwise it would look like badly lit pr0n production), imovie editing... this is the place where rockstars come to die. End of the road.
 
This preview may have actually put a smile on my face.


It's a little bit Ice Cream Man by the sound of things. Mildly ridiculous but I kind of like it.

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OK - this confirms it: Roth lost his marbles a while ago and has been let out of the old folks home to go on a coach tour with his old colleageues...

 
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Even I will admit the lyrics are poor, although its good to see Eddie clean again.

David Lee Roth is the original and best, I've all but blanked out the Hagar years :p
 
OK - this is more like the early Van Halen I remember:


I think I'd have pushed that out as the single.

Dimple said:
I've got 54 Van Halen tracks on my MP3 player - 52 by DLR and 2 by Hagar.
Nothing by the other singer whose name completely escapes me.
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Gary Cherone. I actually liked VHIII but it was so far off direction to every other VH album that it may as well have been another band. Struck me as VH trying to do something Led Zepish.

I'd have loved to hear them do another album together actually. They pretty much had another one written and partially recorded when Cherone left. Most of the lyrics ended up on his Tribe of Judah record (leaked song titles from the VH album that never was litter that album's lyrics. I think Cherone may have used some music written by EVH in that too - although unconfirmed).

This ToJ song and the following VH song from Sammys brief second tenure are remarkably similar - both from the next recordings that Cherone and subsequently VH put out:
 
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A few more track previews:

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For the life of me, I cannot think why they chose to put out Tattoo as the first single. Hearing some of those I'm actually looking forward to this album now.
 
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They seem to be in full-on internet promo mode at the moment...

Interestingly, although David Lee Roth is giving interviews, the Van Halen family seem to be keeping schtum.
 
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