Their low-budget videos were some of the best things on MTV back in the day.

I realize how old I am now, when somebody listens to this classic song from my teenage years, and it is their first time hearing it in 2024.

Another great song by Van Halen is called "Panama" and have a wonderful day

David Lee Roth (singer) is also into martial arts, that's why he is able to do that.

Eddie had the most infectious smile. His brother Alex on the drums, was the hardest worker in the video.

Let’s give some love to Alex Van Halen absolutely killing it on the drums!!!! ❤❤

Eddie was just on a whole other world. He'll always be missed.

Van Halen were THE party band in the 80s. Before the term "hair metal" was coined, there was "teeth metal" because the band members were smiling! The singer WANTED to be there! This band invited girls to come along for the ride, as opposed to the darker metal that had existed before. This was definitely the feel good, fun song of 1984. Great reaction!

This captured the 80s very well. Just a good time, feel good tune.

When I was in the army we always played this song in the plane extreme loud and shouted along before we went parajumping. Goosebumbs every time I hear this song. Gives you so much energy.

You would love “Panama” by Van Halen as the video exemplifies the fun that VH put into rock !! RIP EVH …

80s, van halen t-shirts, albums, mtv videos, those were the great times in high school.

the keyboard riff is one of the most iconic 80s sounds ever , takes me back EVERY time i hear it

I was a gymnast back when this song came out, jump was so badass to tumble to.

8:00...........you are one, astute, young lady regarding the happiness/sadness aspects of seeing these guys perform. It is truly an art we are losing with Van Halen's generation of performers, I, for one, am grateful it's down on record and video for all to continue to enjoy. Don't cry 'cause we lost Ed.........smile that it ever happened in the first place.

You NEED to watch the video for "Panama". One of the greatest opening hard-driving guitar riffs from the 80's... no lead in, no intro... just an explosion of Eddie blasting through the speakers from the drop of the needle. A song about a car. One of their best rock songs in the David Lee Roth era.

Bassist Mike Anthony had the best harmony vocals ever. A true rock star.

Eddie is so missed. The world isn't the same without him in it. Great reaction video. I always loved Van Halen because they were always about having fun.

"Panama" is another good one!

That opening hits so hard for those of us who grew up on this. Brings back memories of jumping off the back porch with a couple kids from my neighborhood accompanied by cheesy air guitar using old tennis rackets.

Aileen - you were adorable doing your little dance moves and smiling taking it all in. Made the video a lot of fun to watch.

I was a kid in the 80's. People had fun. You saw the joy on their faces.

This world really really needs more reactions that get Aileen dancing... just as precious as the Van Halen boys!

The spirit of Eddie lives on through his son, Wolfgang--who is also a very talented musician & a chip off his dad's block for sure.

Their album 1984 was highly anticipated. Back in the day there were release dates of albums. I know they still do it, but it doesn’t compare to the old days. By this time Van Halen was huge and I remember going to the record store with some buddies the day this album came out. Crowded, long lines, but the vibe was happy. Some people were buying the album, some the cassette and some were buying both. Popped the cassette in the cassette player once back in the car and, man, we weren’t disappointed. We had smiles just like the ones in the video.

A.S., for those of us that literally grew up with the influence of the band's music- and the evolutional journey of Eddie's work. Now that he is gone, it feels like there is a part of us that is missing. It was like losing a friend. I saw the band on the opening night of the Balance tour. They were with Sammy Hagar by that time.

Album released in January '84, I was a senior in high school, and to this day, it's about the best video I've seen. Loved them guys back then, it was so exciting as an 18 yr old! My gosh, you crying made me cry, realizing Eddie is gone!

Always so weird to see them here at their happiest just moments before the band implodes. Your joy watching this is something to behold. What an adorable human being.

Great reaction! Love your honest and heartfelt reviews of the music I grew up on. You would have had so much fun in the 80's. This was the anthem for the summer of '84! Just so much fun and their music was such a part of my teen years. Glad you got to hear the magic that is Van Halen.

Love Van Halen, both eras (Roth & Hagar). Another good live performance was "One Way to Rock" from their 1989 tour in Tokyo. It was a Hagar solo but Eddie put his own spin on it. So many good songs to check out for this band like "Hot For Teacher", "Panama", "I'll Wait", "Runnin With The Devil", Ain't Talkin Bout Love", "Unchained", "Mean Street", "Atomic Punk", "Dreams", "Poundcake", "Right Now", "Why Can't This Be Love", "When It's Love", "Judgement Day", & "Top Of The World" to name a few!

They are in their prime and having the time of their lives. The energy is infectious, full of joy. This video is so well done capturing some beautiful smiles, dancing and goofing around not to mention the great talent on one stage. One of the great positive and early music videos bringing back fabulous memories. The beauty of youth, happiness and hope for the future. 😎❤💫

They looked so happy in this video for sure. Love your reaction. Thanks for sharing.

They are so cute in this video. Having fun being together and playing music and messing around.

Aileen, your dancing gives me life!

David Lee Roth been a martial artist since he was 12 - heres his credintials.. 5 Degree's of Black Belt in TAEKWONDO, 2 Degree's of Black Belt in NINJITSU, 1 Degree Black Belt in Chinese KENPO KARATE, and a Blue Belt in Gracie JIUJITSU... so yep, np with jumps,kicks & splits lol

Its a pleasure watching you react. Your always positive, as well as beautiful. I was so lucky to see a lot of these great bands in concert. I would have to say the 70s and 80s had the best rock music ever made...long live ROCK AND ROLL

This Van Halen video brings tears to my eyes. I'm a chronic nostalgic.

David Lee Roth (Van Halen's original vocalist) said that Van Halen's sound was rock music that had grooves that u could move and dance to... along w/ vocal harmonies that were memorable. That was why Van Halen appealed to so many women in the peak of their career. Despite the goofy and smiling party image, Van Halen was a mix of drugs, alcohol, tensions and egos clashing... 'Jump' became a #1 single in 1984 (their only #1 hit) but it was a tough sell for Roth because he opposed Eddie Van Halen playing keyboards on Van Halen records. Eddie Van Halen wrote the music on keyboards in 1981 but Roth hated the track and refused to write lyrics and sing on it... David Lee Roth was the singer and he acted like the band's taskmaster - only he would decide which songs would make it on Van Halen records... Fed up w/ Roth's hesitation, Eddie Van Halen insisted in 1983 that 'Jump' would be on the Van Halen '1984' album... it was their first synthesizer-heavy song (along w/ "I'll wait") that made the record. Roth wrote the lyrics to 'Jump' apparently inspired by TV footage of a guy on the ledge of a building attempting to jump and take his own life! But it was perceived as an inspirational song... Van Halen's '1984' album sold 10 million copies in the US and was a huge hit on MTV and radio w/ the singles 'Panama' ... 'Hot for teacher'... "I'll wait"... but on tour that year, the band was imploding w/ substance abuse and infighting... David Lee Roth was always drinking and barely singing onstage and the others were no better off... In 1985, David Lee Roth recorded a solo EP 'Crazy from the heat'... hoping it would become a Hollywood movie while Van Halen were on a break. Eddie Van Halen was writing a new album which was keyboard-heavy and Roth was not enthusiastic about the music... Somehow, Roth parted ways w/ Van Halen that year. Unsure of how to move forward, Van Halen contacted numerous singers... ultimately hooking up w/ veteran solo singer Sammy Hagar, who finished the next Van Halen album '5150' in 1986 (which went to #1 in the US charts) ... while David Lee Roth launched his solo career w/ the album "Eat 'em and smile"...

Amazing song. It is very nice so many radio stations playing it after almost 40 years. Nice reaction 👍🤟

Your presence is absolutely amazing

Beautiful lady with a beautiful smile. Yeah, VH is one if the best rock bands ever. RIP Eddie!

Van Halen is a beautiful mix of hype songs, fun tunes, ballads, and anthems. Such an amazing group.

Happy times for sure. This was the first Van Halen song I heard back in the 80s. Still like it and the lyrics mean more to me now.

The eighties was the BEST decade! I wish I could go back and live them all over again.

Aileen - your reaction brought tears to my eyes - but tears of joy! Thanks for the honesty.

Ms. Aileen, this is by far the BEST reaction to this song that I’ve seen! Love your enthusiasm, it’s infectious! Keep them coming!!❤️

For you younger generations, if you want to know what the 80s were like, it's this song.

I watched this every day on MTV. Good times.

Such a fun song. Brings a smile to our face. Thanks for a great reaction.

Diamond Dave was a hell of a front man! He was so flexible because he practiced Chinese martial arts for years!

You did a great job articulating small details of the era and the band. Great job. Really enjoyed your commentary.

"the guitar is another limb for him" You said it. His wife, Valerie Bertinelli, recounted that basically the guitar was *Always* attached to him. p.s., the Diamond Dave was the greatest, but check out "Why Can't This Be Love" (Live) from the Sammy Hagar era. Both are equally amazing IMO.

Best time growing up! Eddie will always be the man of Van Halen...keep ROCKN!! \m/!! RIP EDDIE CUZ YOU ARE DEEPLY MISSED 😢

Just a truly great feel-good song. Love the instrumentals on the keyboard and guitar and David Lee Roth is infectious.

This is a classic and fun fact the 1984 Chicago Cubs and WGN used it for their intro. So this song hits double for me 😁

Loved your reaction. You really understood what made Van Halen great, their energy!

“Don’t Tell Me What Love Can Do” is one of Van Halen’s most under appreciated songs from their last full album with Sammy Hagar called “Balance” Rocks hard!

Aileen, you brought me to tears at the end of the video because I grew up with Van Halen and you expressed the emotions that all of us feel when we watch Van Halen videos and see how much fun they had and how much joy they brought to all of us …Eddie Van Halen was like Magic Johnson in that he was legendary and always smiling and it made you like them that much more !..keep those Van Halen reactions coming !!,

From one Van Halen fan to another, that was a great reaction. You get what that band was all about. Well done.

Just a trivia mention since you've been captured by Eddie's unique sound and enjoyed "Eruption" - the instrumental song for the end credits of Twister is by him and his brother Alex, "Respect the Wind".

Of all the channels who do this type of reaction format, yours is the best. Always genuine, happy, and positive. Thank you.

I'm 51 and saw that amazing video on the real MTV when it first aired. Timeless song. Awesome group.

There are many good music reactors on YT, but you, Aileen, are the BEST! Thank you for another great reaction! I am reliving my first times hearing these bands/musicians through your fabulous reactions - which feels awesome! 😀

VH's "1984" LP/vinyl (cassette) was their final time together (w/Roth). Surreal it's 40 yrs. ago. Time flies! Along with "Jump", I luv Panama, Hot For Teacher, Drop Dead Legs, and Top Jimmy. RIP, Eddie VH. 🎸🐐 EDIT: Happy they reunited with Roth in 2012. Released one final album together.

Love all this venturing out to other decades. XX

Just had to say real quick as I'm watching this, not only is this song infectious as it is, so is always your energy and vibes during these sorts of videos/reactions ❤

I had the great fortune to see Van Halen in concert in 1984 & they were beyond fantastic! Believe it or not when they performed this song it was almost identical to the video jumps and all by David Lee Roth. I gained a whole new respect for Eddie Van Halen's guitar skills after seeing that concert. One of the best concerts I have ever seen and I have seen some great ones! Hard to believe that was 40 years ago.

David Lee Roth has been a martial artist for years, so not surprising he could do all those flexible moves.

thank you for listening to the music that I grew up with.. Im so glad that you can here real music.....

Some of the groups I grew up with are Seals and Crofts, Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Carpenters, Three Dog Night, CCR, Deep Purple, The Doobie Brothers, The Sweet, Doctor Hook, Steely Dan and many others. We used to have American Top 40 every Sunday night.. We also had The Midnight Special and later on Don Kirchner's Rock Concert. It was a whole different world then. I really enjoy seeing young people hearing the music I grew up with

Aileen, it was fun to watch your reaction. "Jump" was released in the U.S. in December 1983, & it was Van Halen's first & only #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts. For those unaware about the Van Halen brothers, Eddie (guitar) & Alex (drums). They were both born in The Netherlands (Amsterdam), & they are both Dutch (Father) & Indonesian (Mother) ethnically & American nationality wise. The Van Halen family immigrated to the U.S. (Pasadena, California) in 1962 & the rest is history.

What a great reaction!! Glad you loved it! I was 12 yrs old when this came out and looked forward to this video every night. It was also fun putting this tape in the jambox outside as we played football in the front yard.

THE feel-good rock song of the early 80's

That guitar tapping technique that Eddie had...many people think that he brought it into the rock music scene. Well, he came up with the name of 'tapping', but the actual guitarist who influenced his playing and who was the one introducing it into the rock music scene was called Steve Hackett. 🙂 He was in the band Genesis from 1971 to 1977. And there are three songs that showcase his tapping technique: The Musical Box, The Return Of The Giant Hogweed and Dancing With The Moonlit Knight. 😊😊

Of course they were smiling, I heard they were hammered when they made this vid.

Awww, I was weeping right along with you! It's such a beautiful song; it was an instant classic when it came out, as soon as you heard it. I wasn't even a huge Van Halen fan particularly when it came out, but this one was undeniable. Gorgeous melody, gorgeous keyboard riffs, great changes, great playing......a perfect record.

SO HAPPY YOU DID JUMP!!! I gotta put you on Frog Leap aka Leo's cover of Jump and also Wolfgang VH (Eddie's son's band). Both amazing and you would enjoy both of them. Also love how happy you are dancin' around haha. 😊❤

A precious moment in time.

He played guitar in Michael Jackson's "Beat It",and more... Do a little 'diggin' and the rabbit hole goes deep!🎉🥳 Love You!!!🖤🔥🔥🔥🔥

I could watch you vibing and dancing to that song all day !!!

I remember the TV channel Eurosport sometimes played this song but with video clips of race cars flying in the air (always synced to the word "jump") and then crashing, when I was a kid in the 80's. Took a while before I understood that wasnt the actual video for the song lol.

A bunch of awesome personalities that were having fun playing music for their fans.

This is pure feel good energy and Eddie's smile is infectious. So cool to see amazingly talented musicans not taking themselves too seriously and making fun music that everyone can vibe to :D

David Lee Roth was a third degree black belt 🥋 in Karate! That’s why he can do that plus back in the day he ran 5 miles a day to stay trim as well! Hats 🎩 off to Diamond David Lee Roth!

This song and album was so huge in '84, you would not believe. Another amazing artist/innovator/soul gone way too soon. RIP

This brightened my day all I could do is jump another amazing and awesome reaction ❤🔥

I was in 5TH grade and my friend's older brothers made us listen. I fell in love . never the same 40 years later

Got to like this one... I've never seen anyone groove so hard to this song before.

It is precious....all of our great music and past greats are precious, must be preserved.

For the many who still might not know it was Eddie Van Halen that did the blazing guitar solo in Michael Jackson's Beat It.

Your outfit makes this video work. I can see you at the concert, front row, and loving it all.

Hi Aileen, Like your channel. You have very cool reactions. Being a musician, songwriter and vocalist myself, Van Halen was one of my favorite bands. They have so much interesting history too. You were talking about Dave's high kicks, well, not only was Dave into martial arts and martial arts weaponry but he also had a triple joined back. This is why you'll see him in some videos where he can bend backwards extremely far. Also, both Eddie and Alex Van Halen took piano lessons as kids. Eddie was actually the first one to play drums before his brother. He got them as a young teen and had a paper route that he was working to pay on his drums. But when he was working, his brother would play his drums. Eventually he got better on drums then Eddie so then he deiced to start playing guitar. They had some weird demands in their touring contracts such as a big bowl of M&M's but no brown ones. So, somebody had to pick out all the brown ones before taking them to their dressing room. lol Their dad was also a good musician. He played guitar and clarinet. The band actually had him come in the studio and play clarinet on a song titled: "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now). It's on the band's album called "Diver Down". And it was actually David Lee Roth's idea to have Eddie and Alex's dad come and play.

They were great live.

It makes me sad too... I miss the 80's... You'll never understand it completely unless you lived it. It was a magical time to be a kid... RIP Eddie...

What you are feeling is desiderum, a sort of nostalgia or melancholia for something you never experienced. The feeling of seeing something so nice, uplifting and good, thinking about the a time and a place that is long gone now, and that you'll never get to experience other than by seeing the shadows of it like you did here. The only solace is that in 50 year some young woman or man will be having the same feeling that you're having now relating to your era, and all the fantastic things you are experiencing now. The Portuguese actually have a word for this feeling. "Saudade".

Eddie was not just great at soloing, he was an awesome rhythmic player, too.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ this is one of the most beautiful and and thorough reviews of Van Halen I have ever seen. We all cry with you because Van Halen was an important part of our lives through one of the best decades in our history. Also we didn't know it at the time but the 1984 album would be the last hurrah for the original guys because David Lee Roth would part ways with Van Halen for the following year you should do a review of the entire fair warning album it's one of Van Halen's darkest albums the supposed critics of the time didn't think too much of this album but the fair warning album is one of Van Halen's crowning jewels and contains some of their best work that they have ever done

*5:20* *I love when you move your eyebrows.* 🖤🖤

Eddie Van Halen is one of those one of a kind dude. It's been many years since he passed away and we must recognize the sheer talent he was, and his smile whilst playing guitar is groovy af rolling on heroin helped I'm sure. That whole group rocks to this day. Dave is a character no doubt.

This song was so huge in the mid-80's. Loved it as a kid and still so fun to hear - and especially so when also watching their simple and joyous video along with you. So fun seeing you enjoy it too!