{"id":297,"date":"2006-11-07T00:19:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T04:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2006-11-07T00:19:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T04:19:42","slug":"van-halen-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/van-halen-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Halen &#8212; 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1132\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1132\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1132\" title=\"Van Halen -- 1984\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/vanhalen1984.jpg\" alt=\"Van Halen -- 1984\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Halen -- 1984<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Van Halen<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> 1984<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1983<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> Not sure when, bought it used at Plan 9 Records in Richmond, VA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Guess when this record came out. Incorrect! Or maybe, correct! I don&#8217;t know. Everything on the record and sleeve says 1983, but according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicvanhalen.com\/albums_1984.shtml\">some sites<\/a> it was January, 1984. Anyhow, what&#8217;s more important is that this was the last Van Halen record with my hero Diamond Dave. The guy&#8217;s lyrics were excellent, his singing was crazy, and he was, is maybe, a world class entertainer like no other.<\/p>\n<p>The album starts off sounding like Eddie has OD&#8217;d on Human League. The synth stuff is over the top. Maybe that&#8217;s the reason I tend to forget how great this record really is. It&#8217;s chock-a-block with hits and lesser-known gems. At the time I thought the hit &#8220;Jump&#8221; was a bit cheesy, but of course it&#8217;s an excellent song with excellent lyrics which explains why someone like Aztec Camera\/Roddy Frame would make a cover of it.<\/p>\n<p>Another popular winner is &#8220;Panama&#8221; which I always associate with one of my many lessons in humility. Back when <em>1984<\/em> was new I remember being at a guitar store with my friend Tom Bundick when he started playing &#8220;Panama&#8221; and I think I responded with something like &#8220;what the hell are you doing?!&#8221; To which Tom replied &#8220;that song is great!&#8221; Of course, he was right and I was too punk, too cool for my own good. I&#8217;ve mentioned that affliction before, but at least I eventually got hip to these records.<\/p>\n<p><em>1984<\/em> was their best selling album at the time. 10 million! Everyone knows the hits, but I also really like &#8220;Top Jimmy&#8221; and &#8220;Drop Dead Legs.&#8221; Of course the most awesome classic is &#8220;Hot for Teacher&#8221;, even the video is a classic. And awesome. For real.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t <em>feel<\/em> tardy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Van Halen Title: 1984 Year: 1983 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 8 Owner: Tracy Acquired: Not sure when, bought it used at Plan 9 Records in Richmond, VA Keeper: Yes Guess when this record came out. Incorrect! Or maybe, correct! I don&#8217;t know. Everything on the record and sleeve says 1983, but according [&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":[507,724,46,934,1029,1033],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-record-collection","category-v","tag-507","tag-hard-rock","tag-music","tag-rock","tag-van-halen","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}