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Hmmm too many.
Pre-"Van Halen" there's a ton of available songs, the best ones were put on a demo by Ted Templeman. ex. "Light in the Sky," (not "Up"), Big Trouble (best one, was supposedly redone then scrapped for DD and 1984), Get the Show on the Road, Babe Don't Leave me Alone, I Wanna Be Your Lover, etc.
However, note, most of that stuff was left off of VH1 because it was inferior to the stuff that came later. Even the songs that eventually made it onto other Van Halen albums, for example, "Voodoo Queen" became "Mean Street," and "House of Pain" went on 1984, SGMAD on II, and "Bring on the Girls" became "Beautiful Girls," had to be reworked significantly to get on the legit albums. If you wanna hear those, I know lots of places to get them. I'll post the link if anyone actually cares to hear the demos (both the Simmons mid 70s and Templeman '77 Demos).
But anywhoo, back to the topic, I'll go by album because one song is too hard:
Pre-VH: Big Trouble
VH: Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
VHII: Light Up the Sky/Dance the Night Away
WACF: Romeo Delight! (Though "In a Simple Rhyme" is fantastically crafted song
)FW: Unchained
Diver Down: Little Guitars
1984: Panama
5150: "5150"
OU812: "Finish What Ya Started"
FUCK: "Poundcake"
Balance: "The Seventh Seal(!)" ~great song, underrated :mad:
VHIII: Fire in the Hole, although I dislike the whole album's vocals in general. ~yes I have this album, even though I don't like it, flame away
Originally Posted by Ferdinandstrat
Originally posted by Angry Grimace
Hmmm too many.
Pre-"Van Halen" there's a ton of available songs, the best ones were put on a demo by Ted Templeman. ex. "Light in the Sky," (not "Up"), Big Trouble (best one, was supposedly redone then scrapped for DD and 1984), Get the Show on the Road, Babe Don't Leave me Alone, I Wanna Be Your Lover, etc.
However, note, most of that stuff was left off of VH1 because it was inferior to the stuff that came later. Even the songs that eventually made it onto other Van Halen albums, for example, "Voodoo Queen" became "Mean Street," and "House of Pain" went on 1984, SGMAD on II, and "Bring on the Girls" became "Beautiful Girls," had to be reworked significantly to get on the legit albums. If you wanna hear those, I know lots of places to get them. I'll post the link if anyone actually cares to hear the demos (both the Simmons mid 70s and Templeman '77 Demos).
But anywhoo, back to the topic, I'll go by album because one song is too hard:
Pre-VH: Big Trouble
VH: Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
VHII: Light Up the Sky/Dance the Night Away
WACF: Romeo Delight! (Though "In a Simple Rhyme" is fantastically crafted song
FW: Unchained
Diver Down: Little Guitars
1984: Panama
5150: "5150"
OU812: "Finish What Ya Started"
FUCK: "Poundcake"
Balance: "The Seventh Seal(!)" ~great song, underrated :mad:
VHIII: Fire in the Hole, although I dislike the whole album's vocals in general. ~yes I have this album, even though I don't like it, flame away
Pretty good choice of songs.
I would appreciate it if you could post the link to the demo's you mentioned. Sounds interesting.
Originally posted by Sir_Noodles
Runnin with the Devil
Little Dreamer
DOA
Spanish Fly
Somebody Get me a Doctor
Outta Love Again
Women In Love
Take Your Whisky Home
Unchained
Mean Streets
Hear About it Later
Secrets
Little Guitars
Panama
Top Jimmy
Hot For Teacher
Girl Gone Bad
House of Pain
Good luck to anyone who can come up with a better list than that
Add Romeo's Delight and The Full Bug and you've got the Roth years covered pretty well.
With Sammy, I like Best of Both Worlds, 5150, Black and Blue, Cabo Wabo, Poundcake, Runaround, Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do), Humans Being, and various others.
Cherone has a couple that I can manage to listen to including From Afar and Without You.
There's a couple of places you can get them. As much as I hate that site, and you have to sign up for their gay message boards, This site has the complete version of the "After Zero" demos done by Ted Templeman, as well as the complete Gene Simmons demos. www.classicvanhalen.com has a couple of the Simmons demos.
Originally posted by iron chicken
Pretty good choice of songs.
I would appreciate it if you could post the link to the demo's you mentioned. Sounds interesting.
Originally posted by exit sandman
At the moment, my favourite Van Halen song is Ain't Talkin Bout Love. It's got the awesome riff, an emotional solo.... the works.
Eddie is the man!
Tell me what your favourite is and why (riff, singingwhatever) and maybe I'll discover another gem.
Mean Street
Judgement Day
Tie.
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