I agree... You hear in this song the direction Eddie wanted to take the music.... It sounds like Van Hagar BEFORE Van Hagar....

This happens to be my favorite Van Halen song.

@@2869may - Yeah, I always blamed the great Sammy Hagar for the demise of VH... Sorry Sam, Eddie was already selling out. One of the top rock guitarists in history, and he's faking his way through some basic 1980's keyboards. Makes perfect sense to me. 😉

@@_Common_Logic_ Come on man... they just grew up... Van Hagar made some great music, weather you like it or not... Numbers don't lie... I was HARD rocker myself DIO was one of my fav's. Old VH was GREAT "Drop Dead Legs", "Everybody Wants Some", And The Cradle Will Rock"..... But some new VH was good too..

@@2869may - Listen to the arrangements in songs like Everybody Wants Some, The Cradle Will Rock, Mean Street, etc., and then listen to the keys, bass and DRUMMING on the bubblegum, Talylor Swift love songs VH regurgitated when they "grew up". "Is this Love?" WTH?😄 Music went mindless, fun, and "easy" to listen to in the late '80s, never recovering from the MTV effect. Not always bad, but it is what it is. Van Halen and bands like ZZ Top who's "top sellers" were arguably backed by a drum machine followed the trend. I'm Not blaming the 'logical' business decisions, but I'm also not letting the sonic results slide. Even fun songs in "jest" like "Ice Cream Man" back in the day had more flair and technicality then MOST of the later releases. Some of the better songs allowed to sneek through in the later years were actually written by Eddie Pre-1983. As record sales are concerned, you can't use the number with any real accuracy. Sales coincidentally SKYROCKETED across the industry in the the late 80's and continued to rise at unprecedented levels until the mid 90's when CD prices had hit 20 bucks and people had the ability to record them with NO loss of quality... The internet put the nail in the coffin, as most sales figures are figured by DOLLARS and not numbers. Game over. Due to this, the spike in music sales across the board coincidentally mirrored Hagar's years with VH. EVERYONE had a chance at their "best selling album" coming out in those years. 5150 sold 11 million units (by most accounts) Britney Spears slung 20 million copies of "Oops! I Did It Again". VH was following a demographic. The money. FEMALES had also, for the first time ever started buying more music than men. The funny thing is that Oops I did it again was more "edgy" than a number of VH songs of the time. Hahaha. More proof of sales not being a good measure... Johnny Cash enjoyed his HIGHEST (by far) grossing album in 2003. That was AFTER he died with no new material. ;-) As for anything and anyone POST Hagar, no-one cared... Those sales (despite streaming) would never reach the Hagar or DLR days. They could have returned to the roots, but losing Anthony's harmonies and putting up with the unqualified nepotism (being Eddie's son fumbling his way through the catalog) was "jumping the shark". We understood the youth of the band and the trash talking of Eddie vs DLR, as BOTH were insane in their own right... But when they threw M.A. under the bus AND publicly trashed him, most had either given up on the brother's nonsense, or just focused on the VH they had grown up with. They SHOULD have taken a lesson from AC/DC. It can be done. I still love classic rock, but I'm a (weekend) jazz musician. I understand "growing up" (getting old). I'm just looking from a musical standpoint. I would have welcomed a "refined" VH as I matured, but I just was NOT impressed. My laptop is out of ink... I'm done. 🙂

As a true Van Halen fanatic, I totally hear you! It has such a unique feel, and unstoppable energy. The drum sounds are truly a gift from god!

I like it pretty well... Maybe not my "fav" but it's up there.

@@choppingpenguin You hear in this song the direction Eddie wanted to take the music.... It sounds like Van Hagar BEFORE Van Hagar....

Not unpopular, it's my favorite VH song!

Agreed

Yeah he was an excellent frontman. I never got into the Hagar thing. They lost their wildness

They became the best band ever with Sammy. Dave was not a contributor, just a distraction. Van Hagar was relevant for another decade after DLR hit the road. DLR did an album of covers to keep himself on Mtv….

​​​@@GNXXRAY Dave was a major contributor to Van Halen. He was the lyricist plus the front man. Sammy Hagar was good also. The band had two different phases with the same guitarist, bassist and drummer, that's all. Plus DLR came up with the name Van Halen!

Diamond Dave !

Van Hagar sucked.. it was the downfall of a great band.. They would have been better off finding a Filipino clone like Journey did …

To this day, I am still blown away by the drum production on this record. It sounds unfuckingbelievably good!!!

@@choppingpenguin Absolutely! I know Alex used rototoms but that snare is a real killer!

@@choppingpenguin I'm blown away that Jay and Amber don't know Alex is a Van Halen. Amazing.

​@@allenwhitmer8192 Right, I don't believe they've ever made that acknowledgment.

@@magneto7930 Nope, the last one they did before this one, they said they didn't know the drummers name.

Alex was always the decision maker and leader of the band in the background. Kind of scary considering the band was so worried about his drinking they tried to send him to rehab.

Alex used the same transition fill too many times in this particular tune, for my taste, but... Yeah, he is one of the greats. The way he stops and starts a groove whilst KEEPING the groove? It's his signature talent. Supercool and super influential.

It was the last single..I believe it went Jump, Hot For Teacher, Panama, I'll Wait....no video because by the time I'll Wait was released the album pretty much sold all it was going to sell because it was released near the end of the run of singles..I guess they weighed the financial benefits of a 4th video and were like "nah....the additional albums it would sell wouldnt cover the cost of the video" (of course im just guessing of the reason...I wish they would have made a video....black and white, Dave in a smoky room, laying in bed, by himself with magazine pics of the girl on his walls..the pics in color...etc..etc. A really stalker-ish vibe to it.)

Love the Ted Templeman shout out. Hell yea.

I read they didn't originally give Michael McDonald credit for his collaboration into writing this song and they eventually corrected that....as they should have

It was the second single after Jump. Panama was the third. McDonald only assisted Dave with the chorus.

@@padfolio true, yet due credit was held back for him because the band didn't want to be seen as 'sellouts' due to having him assist Dave in the writing. All in all, turned out great.

Have you ever heard Source of Infection from OU812?

Both the intro and the song! Y'all will love it! It shows a deeper side of EVH's musicality and elegant technique.

Tom macdonald

Little Guitars, I like that song, both parts together especially. I recently realized there's no guitar solo on Dance The Night Away. Just the harmonic thing. So I wonder why there would be a VH song without a solo

I play guitar but mostly just Neil Young level. But those old timey VH songs. Could This Be Magic! I would burst with pride if I could play and sing that lol sooo good

@@mattjohn4731 That one was designed for radio release, a safe drive down the middle.

this album came out when i was graduating. it was massive.

And drop dead legs

Nice. I did too. Great knowing there's other people out there who have love for the drums. After a year I finally did learn this song.

I knew a kid when I was in school who loved the keyboard part from this song. He'd play it any time he had access to a piano. :)

Even my late mother, thanks to MTV only in her room, both she and I became VH fans. She liked VLR's acrobatics and showmanship!

The album was slated to be number #1 on the charts by the end of a certain week in 1984.....and that certain week was the weekof the MJ infamous pepsi commerical/hair on fire incident happened and it gave a sudden 11th hour sales surge to his Thriller album and knocked VH's "1984" out of what would have been the #1 album in the country position. (Source: Michael Anthony revealed this while being interviewed by Howard Stern)

His cover of California Girls is also awesome

With Michael McDonald on backing vocals. It went uncredited for decades until they issued their remastered version of the CD and album.

He only had a couple songs that got any radio time so no offense but imo I’d hardly call his solo career successful. They never should have parted. They lost some of the magic when they went their separate ways. It’s a shame many successful bands break up a good thing.

@@onionhead5780 I agree that he shouldn't have left Van Halen, but... Just a gigolo, California girls, Just like living in paradise, and more... I think that qualifies as "pretty successful". Agree to disagree I guess.

@@onionhead5780 Diamond Dave had three platinum albums in a row plus a gold. He was more AOR than a poppy singles artist, though he had success in that area too, even a number 1 hit. Would I have preferred the band not losing him? Absolutely, but they had a great run and Dave's band was a supergroup.

In 1984, Christie Brinkley was the subject for Uptown Girl 👧. Billy Joel dated her then and later married her. No 👎 bad blood between Roth and Joel. Joel did meet the late Eddie years later. RIP 🙏

In the music video for Hot For Teacher Alex is so off with his dancing it’s so funny!! LOL

Jay and Amber:))) 😊😊

Yes, those synths. Michael McDonald sang backing vocals on this. It went uncredited for decades until the VH catalog was remastered and reissued.

You hear in this song the direction Eddie wanted to take the music.... It sounds like Van Hagar BEFORE Van Hagar....

@@2869may And the beginning of the end with Roth.

@@clintonstapleton161 Right, as great as Dave was.... He was something else and still is...! Did you see him on Joe Rogan? he's a trip! Never grew up.