Best Van Halen Song

Exactly. I don't think Anthony wants anything to do with it.

 

Okay... I'm dogging it at work for 15 minutes to craft the list.

My top 36 Van Halen songs:

1. I'll Wait
Dreams
Eruption/You Really Got Me
Panama
Cabo Wabo
5150
Drop Dead Legs
Black and Blue
Right Now
Summer Nights
11. Best of Both Worlds
Little Guitars
Why Can't This Be Love
Hot For Teacher
Ice Cream Man
Poundcake
Women In Love
Runnin' With The Devil
When It's Love
Intruder/Pretty Woman
21. Atomic Punk
Jump
Love Walks In
Dancing In The Street
Jamie's Cryin'
Top of the World
Dance The Night Away
Everybody Wants Some
Feel Your Love Tonight
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
31. Feels So Good
Beautiful Girls
Can't Stop Loving You
Unchained
Somebody Get Me a Doctor
And The Cradle Will Rock

As for the DLR solo, I really, REALLY liked both Eat 'Em and Smile and, especially, Skyscraper's B-side. Still keep songs from both on my playlists.

 

I feel like the only way Michael Anthony comes back is if Eddie publicly grovels to make up for the long history of past slights and insults, especially the 2015 Billboard interview when EVH claimed he had to show Anthony how to play every note and then slammed Anthony’s singing voice as well.

 

All because Anthony had the nerve to cut a deal with a booze company to market his own brand of something. First Rule of Van Halen is only Van Halen gets to cash checks.

 

EVH is an asshole who gave his kid an asshole's kid's name.

 

Yes, I posted this on the Books thread:

BOOKS THREAD

 

My top five:

1. Dance The Night Away
2. Finish What Ya Started
3. Everybody Wants Some
4. Right Now
5. Beautiful Girls

Just missing the cut: Jamie's Cryin

Favorite deep track: In a Simple Rhyme

 

He probably doesn't, but it could be a nice fat check.

In 1978-80, when i was working at the immortal Happy Jack's Amoco, one of my co-workers was Steve, the bass player in one of the area's leading bar bands.
This was when VH was first starting to
get really really big.
For whatever reason, Steve absolutely hated the fuck out of Michael Anthony. We spent many a drunken night over at the Knights' Table shithole bar, as Steve ranted on and on into the night what an absolutely dog shit bass player Michael Anthony was.

 

I saw Van Hagar at Kemper Arena during their 1986 tour. Good show, but Sammy wasn't Dave, and I don't think I ever bought one cassette of the new lineup. Like @ex, I'll Wait is my favorite song, just because of the drums. After that, songs off VH, VHII and Diver Down.

 

Epilogue: As life tends to happen, Steve and I went separate ways and lived our own lives for 35 years or so, until a couple years ago somehow or other i happened to see him in a Facebook alumni group of our common high school (he was a year behind me).

Anyway I messaged him and we traded a couple how-ya-doing messages. Then I reminded him of his drunken diatribes against Michael Anthony and pointed out after 30 years or so Eddie Van Halen had finally swung over to his viewpoint, shitcanned Anthony and replaced him with his own kid.

He LOLed and said he hadn't thought much about Michael Anthony in years. "But he still sucks," he added.