Van Halen - 1984
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Music CD Cover Artist: Van Halen Edition: Music CD Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2000-09-19 Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for 1984 Album
Free Music Review: More than just rock & roll
Hit: 4 Stars
To the uninitiated, 1984 is simply yet another party rock album, albeit a good one. For some of us, though, it has a more profound significance. Those in their early 30s might understand what I'm talking about. For a period in the early-to-mid 80s, Van Halen was not simply a great rock band. Among us adolescents in high school and college, they were the unchallenged GODS of rock & roll. Genuflecting to these gods was a prerequisite to coolness. Even if you were an unpopular nerd, you were young and still had time to take over the world. The first step was to pop a Van Halen tape into your dash and crank up the volume. Van Halen slowly worked their way toward this pinnacle with their early career efforts. VH I and VH II established their bonafide rock credentials, then Women & Children First and Fair Warning solidified their base support with the hard rock/album rock crowd. With their 5th album, Diver Down, they smashed their way into superstardom. The function of 1984 was not really to push VH to a higher level of fame and success, because that was not possible. 1984 was more of a celebration of the already-coronated kings named Eddie, Alex, Michael, and (especially) David Lee. Their concert was the place to be for everybody who was anybody in high school. The ubiquitous concert T-shirt with the image of Father Time on the back could be seen in the hallways for months after the tour was over. What about the songs? Well, once we heard Jump for about the fifth time, we thought we had reached a completely new zenith of rock & roll mastery. VH pays homage to their traditional themes of hormones and partying with Hot For Teacher, Panama, and Drop Dead Legs; none particularly dazzling, but then again, we weren't about to question our Gods. Then there was some straightforward hard rock: Top Jimmy, I'll Wait, Girl Gone Bad, and House of Pain. From a purely musical perspective, calmly looking back from the 1990s, this is a good but not great album. Nothing groundbreaking, and only a few truly memorable songs (Jump is one, pick your favorites from the rest). But then again, this is more than just a 33 minute rock & roll CD for some of us. It's a window into the past. This was the last real hurrah for the Van Halen we knew. David Lee left and briefly staked out the ground of rock & roll godhood on his own before slowly fading into oblivion. VH took Sammy Hagar on board, made a few good tunes, but never recaptured the magic in any real sense. Meanwhile, the rest of us have grown up, gotten jobs, and slowly come to realize that we will never take over the world. And, once in while, we hear a song from Van Halen's 1984. Instead of giving us the urge to party and raise hell, we may feel a touch of sadness, thinking about days gone by and the hard-rocking kid inside of us that we left behind so many years ago.