{"id":169,"date":"2006-05-09T23:27:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T04:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2006-05-09T23:27:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T04:27:36","slug":"van-halen-van-halen-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/van-halen-van-halen-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Halen &#8212; Van Halen II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1144\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1144\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1144\" title=\"Van Halen -- Van Halen II\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/vanhalenii.jpg\" alt=\"Van Halen -- Van Halen II\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Halen -- Van Halen II<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Van Halen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Van Halen II<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1979<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 9<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> ? Bought it used&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh man, the unpacking continues. But tonight I got my priorities straight and finally set up the stereo. And what was the first record to rock the house? That&#8217;s right, &#8220;Van Halen II.&#8221; Considering that we bought this house from a woman in her 80s who lived here since the 1960s I think it&#8217;s safe to say tonight is the first time Van Halen shook these walls. My daughter Paris came downstairs and said: &#8220;Mom, stop dancing. And can you guys turn it down some?&#8221; We couldn&#8217;t help rockin&#8217; out.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned before, Van Halen is one of a very few popular rock groups to have the guts to perform covers on their proper albums. This time they open the record with one, &#8220;(Baby) You&#8217;re No Good&#8221; by Clint Ballard, Jr. This song was popularized by Linda Ronstadt a few years earlier. My mother likes to tell a story about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumenlab.com\/about.php?ref=\">my brother<\/a> as a child heard Linda&#8217;s version in the car one day and started crying because that lady was saying mean things to a &#8220;baby.&#8221; Sorry G, had to tell that.<\/p>\n<p>Other hits include &#8220;Dance the Night Away&#8221; and the most awesome &#8220;Beautiful Girls.&#8221; My favorites include &#8220;Somebody Get Me a Doctor&#8221; and acoustic solo &#8220;Spanish Fly.&#8221; Tonight when &#8220;D.O.A.&#8221; started with Eddie&#8217;s chunk-chunk-chunk guitar riff Mary said &#8220;that&#8217;s <em>sooo<\/em> rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll.&#8221; Yes it is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicvanhalen.com\/albums_vh2.shtml\">This site about Van Halen<\/a> has the scoop about every song on this record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Van Halen Title: Van Halen II Year: 1979 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 9 Owner: Tracy Acquired: ? Bought it used&#8230; Keeper: Yes Oh man, the unpacking continues. But tonight I got my priorities straight and finally set up the stereo. And what was the first record to rock the house? That&#8217;s right, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,453,457],"tags":[502,724,46,1029,1033],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-record-collection","category-v","tag-502","tag-hard-rock","tag-music","tag-van-halen","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}