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• VAN HALEN 1984 - REMASTERED
| | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| September 19, 2000 | | Studio:
| WEA/Reprise | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Format:
| Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 209 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | 1984 (Album Version) | | 2. | Jump (Album Version) | | 3. | Panama (Album Version) | | 4. | Top Jimmy (Album Version) | | 5. | Drop Dead Legs (Album Version) | | 6. | Hot For Teacher (Album Version) | | 7. | I'll Wait (Album Version) | | 8. | Girl Gone Bad (Album Version) | | 9. | House Of Pain (Album Version) | |
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19 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 A triumphant exit for Diamond Dave.Aug 10, 2000
By Guybert
This album was the last one that David Lee Roth recorded with Van Halen and he definitely left on a high note. This is a very fun album, with the classic feel-good song "Jump." This song seems to have set the tone for a lot of bands in the years following. "Panama" is one of Van Halen's most beloved songs and can still be heard often on the radio. "Top Jimmy" is one of my favorite songs ever by Van Halen. It's a great country/blues number that is one of their best foot-stompers. "Hot For Teacher" is another highlight, with it's great intro and fast, furious playing. You can tell they probably had a lot of fun doing this one, including the video for the song. Every song is cool on this one and if you've never heard this before, this is essential 80's hard rock that you should definitely check out. If you're already a Van Halen fan, make sure that this is in your collection!
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 One of the few albums that you can listen to front to back.Sep 02, 1999
Van Halen's last, and one of the best albums done with Diamond Dave. While the hit 'Jump', and MTV staples 'Hot for Teacher' and 'Panama' may have sold this album already, check out the over-looked rockers 'House of Pain' and 'Girl Gone Ban'. The solos on 'Drop Dead Legs' and 'I'll Wait' are Eddie at his best. No need for the skip button on this album.
16 of 18 found the following review helpful:
The other great Van Halen albumOct 13, 2004
By rocker81
"rock n blues fan"
1984 marks the last of Van Halen's 5 star albums .. Also the last studio album with David Lee Roth.
1.1984-A keyboard instrumental. Not one of the bands best IMO. 3/5
2.Jump-The bands biggest chart hit. Not really one of my favorites other than the solo of course, but it's hard to deny the impact it had for years. 4/5
3.Panama-Another one of the bands most popular songs. This one of the more hard pop rock songs the band did. 5/5
4.Top Jimmy-One of the most underrated Van Halen songs IMO. It's a hard rock song with some hints at pop rock with it's hooks. This one is probably my favorite.5/5
5.Just a tad below Top Jimmy. A underrated cut here. Really long solo at the end. 4/5
6.Hot For Teacher-Probably the band at it's best right here. This one flirts into metal.5/5
7.I'll Wait-This is the band at it's most pop. Atleast in the DLR era. It's a ballad filled with keyboards and a restrained but good solo. This shows the band can do what alot of bands can't.. Make a good keyboard filled song. 5/5
8.Girl Gone Bad-This is the band returning to more of it's hard rock roots. Very little pop here. Good solo's as the comes and goes in the song. 5/5
9.House of Pain-Not one of my favorites, but it's probably the hardest rocking song on the album. 3/5
You might ask how this album can get 5 stars with 4 of the 9 songs getting below 5 stars. The fact is that even the lower rating stuff is good, and all the great songs are just that good.
This is IMO the band finally getting to where it wanted to go. They spent albums going back and forth below hard rock and more pop rock type of albums... But the band puts together it's album with both hard rocking tunes and big pop hits. This is where Dave and Ed finally meet in the middle.
It's actually my 3rd favorite album behind Van Halen and Fair Warning.
10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
It's 1984 all over again ...Oct 02, 2004
By Brian Woodahl
I was nineteen years old and sophomore in college when this album came out. It blew me away then, and still does today. Twenty years have gone by, but they absolutely do not cut them like this anymore -- there is no comparison! You take this trash off the shelves today that they shove down your throats and compare it to this album and it blows you away. Panama, Jump, I'll Wait, Hot For Teacher, Girl Gone Bad, these guys were absolutely genius. I remember seeing (Rothized) Van Halen in concert in Pullman, Washington during their "final" tour, -- I was absolutely floored, blown-away, you name it, it was amazing! Twenty years have gone by, I listen to all types of music today: jazz, classical, country, but after a few stiff ones, I come back to these fellas and this album. The genius of Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth, they wrote the book on "American" hard rock and no one since has even come close. I think back to those years gone by and thank the lucky stars above -- I was at the perfect age when this album came out. Do yourself one helluva favor and listen to it (you'll wonder what planet you've been on). Now Noah, where to put that hammerhead shark?!
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
The end of an era, the last hurrah...Aug 22, 2004
By Ben Kizer
"BKDJ"
"1984" was the commercial breakthough Van Halen had been looking for. Eddie Van Halen wanted to incorporate syntheziers into the mix. "Diamond Dave" Roth was strictly against commercialization, and wanted to keep up with the straight ahead guitar metal rock. Eddie, though, wanted to try new things with the band, and thought syntheziers could add a new element to the music, and also reach many mainstream and new listeners. Roth reluctantly agreed, and "1984" went on to be released. It also went on to end one of the greatest eras of heavy metal and hard rock...
Van Halens infamous debut went on to sell 10 million copies and for a while was the number one album in 1978. Many rock lovers will quote it as one of the top party and rock albums in history. Also the album was famous for the new guitar style that Eddie Van Halen introduced. His finger tapping technique, which could make the sound of animals and machines, was imitated (unsuccessfully) by many teenagers. Van Halen released other albums, but Eddie was noticing the band wasn't making any advances on gaining more fans. After helping in the production of Michael Jacksons blockbuster smash "Thriller", Eddie knew the band needed to commercialize, add a "pop" sound to the mix. He knew that keyboards and syntheziers needed to be used. Lead singer Roth, who is known for his showmanship and sarcastic lyrics, was very against pop sounding metal. However, when Eddie gave him the privledge of writing the lyrics, he agreed, and "1984" was conceived, sometime in 1983...
"Jump" was the popular song that Roth wrote the lyrics to, while Eddie Van Halen played the guitar, syntheziers, AND keyboards. It went to number one, giving Van Halen tons of radio space. Some other pop sounding songs were added to the collection, but Roth made sure straight-ahead good time rockers were still pervelent. "I'll Wait", "Hot for the Teacher", and "Panama" were classic heavy metal/hard rock Van Halen, with guitars taking control, and Roths singing and showmanship making for wickedly humorous MTV videos. Because of the videos and of the songs making radio playlists all over the country, the album sold over 10 million copies, made the top three best selling albums of the year, was nominated for awards, and also released many hit songs.
The success of the album, though, lead to the downfall of classic Van Halen. Roth left the band after they decided to move to commercialization, launching an unsuccessful solo career happered more by drug abuse than anything else. Sammy Hager became the new lead singer, and though he is a fine lead singer, he didn't have the bravado or attraction that Roth had on the stage or the muscle he brought into the songs. Van Halen also said goodbye to the metal lead hard guitar rock in favor of " hair pop-metal", a new genre that would take the late 80's by storm and flood the radio stations and MTV with so many clones they wouldn't know what to do with them.
Van Halen was at their best when they were about having good times and rocking out like hell. Their debut album paints this picture. "1984" is the turning point, holding on to the past, while letting go to the future. It's also one of the top rock albums of all time. If they could have found a good balance between the pop and the rock, they probably still would have been releasing hit albums today, instead of sporatic stabs at trying to reclaim popularity. Check out when they had the perfect balance with "1984", the last great hurrah from the ORIGINAL Van Halen.
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