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"Humans Being" was included on both the Twister soundtrack – along with an instrumental by Eddie and Alex, "Respect the Wind" – and the band's Best Of – Volume I compilation, although the version used in the video for the soundtrack release is an edit with 3:28 of the 5:10 length of the album version, removing several solo sections, a bridge, and shortening the ending.
After Warner Bros. Records notified David Lee Roth that a Van Halen greatest hits album was coming, Roth contacted Eddie Van Halen asking for more details. The singer and the guitarist got in touch again, and two weeks later Eddie, realizing "Humans Being" was the only relatively new track on the compilation, asked Roth if he would record two new songs.
"Poundcake" is a Van Halen song and the opening track on their 1991 album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. "Poundcake" was the first song to be released as a single from the album, reaching number one on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and number 74 on the UK Singles Chart.
Video Hits Volume I is a video album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1996. The video compiles a selection of the band's music videos from 1984 to 1996. The DVD version, released in November 1999, includes the music video for the 1998 single "Without You".
A 2011 Rolling Stone reader's poll placed the song at number one on a list of the 10 best Van Halen songs. [4]Chuck Klosterman of Vulture.com named it the second-best Van Halen song, writing that it "merely feels like insatiable straight-ahead rock, but the lick is freaky, obliquely hovering above the foundation while the drums oscillate between two unrelated performance philosophies."
Gene Simmons played a formative role in the early career of Van Halen. He recently spoke to Yahoo Entertainment about when he first heard the band in the late 70s at a place called the Starwood.
The piece was a stylistic departure for Van Halen, [10] with a quite prowess that has been compared to Focus. [11] The lyrics to "Secrets" were inspired by greeting cards which Roth bought in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the preceding tour. [8] Eddie Van Halen used a Gibson doubleneck 12-string for the song, played with a flatpick.
Eddie Van Halen used a Steinberger guitar with a TransTrem on several songs, including "Get Up" and "Summer Nights" (from 5150), "Pleasure Dome" (from For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge), "Fire in the Hole" (from Van Halen III), and "Me Wise Magic" (from Best Of – Volume I).