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Black and Blue (Van Halen song) Blast Off (song) C. Can't Get This Stuff No More; Can't Stop Lovin' You; D. Dance the Night Away (Van Halen song) Don't Tell Me (What ...
Roth wrote the song after being accused by a reporter of "singing about only women, partying, and fast cars". He realized he had never written a song about fast cars and decided to write one. [8] [5] In an interview with guitarist Eddie Van Halen, he said the song was musically inspired by AC/DC's straightforward three chord rock style.
Van Halen was an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California in 1972 by the Dutch-born American brothers Eddie Van Halen (guitar) and Alex Van Halen (drums), plus singer David Lee Roth and bassist Michael Anthony. The band's discography consists of 12 studio albums, two live albums, four compilation albums, and 56 singles.
The album contained only four David Lee Roth-era songs (including Van Halen's arrangement of "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks), one song from Sammy Hagar's pre-Van Halen solo career and 1 song from his 1987 album I Never Said Goodbye which was released while he was in the band.
The song begins with what sounds like a guitar, but is, in fact, a flanger-effected Wurlitzer electric piano played through Eddie Van Halen's 1960s model 100-watt Marshall Plexi amplifier. [ 2 ] During live performances on the 1980 tour, Michael Anthony would play the keyboards.
The song has it all, but Alex Van Halen’s memorable and innovative drumming deserves a special shout-out (Anthony also gets points for his hilarious attempt to grab the hot teacher in the music ...
A 2011 Rolling Stone reader's poll placed the song at number one on a list of the 10 best Van Halen songs. [3]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."
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.