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КОМЕНТАРІ • 156

  • @tjmasson1013
    @tjmasson1013 Рік тому +17

    Dude that’s one of the grimiest hardest riffs ever my fav Halen song ever. Must be cranked!

    • @ronaldelliott4373
      @ronaldelliott4373 Рік тому

      Facts! Add two more that also bring Eddie’s raw energy, cranked. Judgement Day and Poundcake. These three belong in a box together. Definitely special. 🤘😎

  • @faceplantor5647
    @faceplantor5647 Рік тому +96

    This was not a popular song of theirs but to me this is among their best. 👊🏽⚡️

    • @MikeOstrowski-iq8wf
      @MikeOstrowski-iq8wf Рік тому +10

      …..yes it was

    • @clintwood9472
      @clintwood9472 Рік тому +9

      When Eddie hits that nasty chord and holds it when he first lays into the main riff after the intro, at 1:03, is my favorite moment in all of rock and roll.

    • @souflikar6702
      @souflikar6702 Рік тому +4

      The best are never popular, to me anyway.

    • @dariiofernando
      @dariiofernando Рік тому +4

      Dirty Movies

    • @clintwood9472
      @clintwood9472 Рік тому +2

      @dariio4882 that's such a nasty riff. I played that song over and over again.

  • @LaKodiakthewolf
    @LaKodiakthewolf 2 місяці тому +4

    Ed's rhythm chops were unmatched. Nobody could swing like him.

  • @itchyandred4131
    @itchyandred4131 Рік тому +25

    Van Halen was fire 🔥 back in the day, I would love to see you react to their debut album cover to cover the whole thing is slappin✌️

    • @JEM133
      @JEM133 Рік тому +1

      Same as i was gonna say,that album, time,and place was epic.
      Hi,my name is Eddie Van Halen,,,,I play guitar.

  • @yves78
    @yves78 Рік тому +6

    I already knew that song was gonna be up your alley. Good shit man

  • @John_Locke_108
    @John_Locke_108 Рік тому +5

    This just might be their best song. Tight, tight, tight.

  • @waynewood4791
    @waynewood4791 6 місяців тому +1

    It is my all time favorite song of theirs

  • @bradydeangelo284
    @bradydeangelo284 9 місяців тому +2

    This is the best Van Halen song to play LOUD on a great stereo system.

  • @eddievantrollen3459
    @eddievantrollen3459 8 місяців тому +1

    Each member of the band on top of their game on this album!!!

  • @steelmill
    @steelmill 8 місяців тому +1

    I wish I could be transported back to that live show in 79 and start over.

  • @Veggamattic
    @Veggamattic Рік тому +4

    Ed being a savage.

  • @YunieDeen13
    @YunieDeen13 Рік тому +3

    a kick ass rock song, by all definition , says me

  • @goldenruletv7301
    @goldenruletv7301 10 місяців тому

    My first Van Halen show was this tour Biz. They freaking killed it & blew the roof. I was like 12 years old. Eddie was on our side of the stage most of the night, but he moved around a lot, and you could tell that he just loved performing. R.I.P. Eddie, miss that dude.

  • @themadcow71
    @themadcow71 Рік тому +3

    Girl Gone Bad is an underrated dirty Van Halen song.

  • @VIDSTORAGE
    @VIDSTORAGE Рік тому +2

    Everybody Wants Some and Dead or Alive are radical tracks by Van Halen ...

  • @johnmcmahonBXLA
    @johnmcmahonBXLA Рік тому +2

    The next track, “Dirty Movies” and “Push comes to shove” are pretty gangster. This album might be there most gangster album as a matter of fact

  • @gregjones861
    @gregjones861 Рік тому +1

    Biz: I love this song. It kicks ass like the Rockettes on speed. The only song by Van Halen that hits harder is House Of Pain. Their masterpiece.

  • @zevongrie1402
    @zevongrie1402 Місяць тому

    Another song off of this album I love is Sinner’s Swing. But my two favorites I don’t think you’ve covered yet are Somebody Get Me a Doctor and On Fire. Two killer tracks.

  • @Gwade1944
    @Gwade1944 11 місяців тому

    Awesome....I got 3 cds of VH from 1977 This song was originally called Voodoo Queen. Different lyrics but same Riff/music

  • @larrymenconi5287
    @larrymenconi5287 Рік тому

    Couldn’t agree more , and look at when they were doin it, they’re star faded , but they had a star

  • @rdr61
    @rdr61 Рік тому +3

    Take your Whiskey Home !!!👍

    • @snakeinthegrass7443
      @snakeinthegrass7443 Рік тому

      OH YEAH!!

    • @maryannturton9830
      @maryannturton9830 Рік тому

      Wow,I gotta get my albums out! I forgot how much I loved You Can Take Your Whiskey Home!

    • @maryannturton9830
      @maryannturton9830 Рік тому

      This is a mad gritty VH song! Give a listen to You Can Take Your Whuskey Home!🥃Also,switch it up and Listen to Big Bad Bill,a real fun,jazzy,40's sounding big band styled tune.Eddie and Alex's dad does a jaunty clarinet solo, and David Lee Roth is in prime form! 😚🎙🎶

  • @krispykremekiller
    @krispykremekiller 11 місяців тому

    Rap song in a rock song - you nailed it! Gangsta rap that would come later in the decade definitely had a bit of that. Also how locked into the groove everything is including the vocal. This is one of Eddies meanest and coolest riffs. Totally locked in to his brother's drumming. My fave VH song

  • @supertal244
    @supertal244 11 місяців тому

    Great job on picking this one. I know you love AC/DC - they are incredible, but I think the Mighty Van Halen is the greatest. You need to do some off the 2nd album. Try Your no Good and Beautiful Girls - that’s a cool and fun song. Dave is at his Best. There will never another band like them again! Your reactions are the best!

  • @megA_t.6532
    @megA_t.6532 11 місяців тому

    Back to the beginning...with 'running with the devil'

  • @tilemonkee5510
    @tilemonkee5510 Рік тому

    Ooh yum yum VH!!😂❤❤

  • @victorwaddell6530
    @victorwaddell6530 Рік тому

    Van Halen was on the edge of being a Punk Rock band on this album . Mean Streets is a n underrated VH album .

  • @mikeanderson163
    @mikeanderson163 Рік тому

    Great review. How about Atomic Punk. That song is fire

  • @danallshaw1131
    @danallshaw1131 11 місяців тому

    The first four albums should be in the Smithsonian museum.😎🎸 You might dig D.O.A. I think it's on VH2.

  • @joehartmann9353
    @joehartmann9353 Рік тому

    The late great Eddie Van Halen with some of his best guitar work.

  • @arktos298
    @arktos298 Рік тому

    Welcome to Los Angeles...

  • @jasonmccluskey3623
    @jasonmccluskey3623 Рік тому

    One of VH BEST!

  • @MichaelNorris-i9f
    @MichaelNorris-i9f 9 місяців тому

    no better music from the boys of van halen

  • @theislandtrust
    @theislandtrust 10 місяців тому

    damn

  • @litonyayo1666
    @litonyayo1666 10 місяців тому

    wow.go back to school

  • @scottwilson9767
    @scottwilson9767 6 місяців тому

    I dig watcha doin
    Listening....
    Fuck yea

  • @chrisgarcia9629
    @chrisgarcia9629 7 місяців тому +12

    Sir Biz, and now you know why we hardcore VH fans love the Roth era. He brought some real deal lyrics and laid them down perfectly. Brilliant music all the way around!

  • @eriktracy8578
    @eriktracy8578 Рік тому +28

    Nice choice! Crunchy, heavy, and real - one my favorite VH songs 👍

  • @leddygee1896
    @leddygee1896 Рік тому +38

    Eddie's Guitar tone slayed everyone at the time. No one else came close... He was the mad scientist!

    • @_BLACKSTAR_
      @_BLACKSTAR_ Рік тому +2

      Randy Rhoads had a sweet tone too I thought.

    • @tinachavez8712
      @tinachavez8712 11 місяців тому

      True..He did get Eddy's attention.@@_BLACKSTAR_

    • @marklong2060
      @marklong2060 6 місяців тому

      Yeah - that is what I was going to say. Died too young. @@_BLACKSTAR_

  • @a10fanatic26
    @a10fanatic26 Рік тому +13

    Fair Warning is their greatest album. Critique Sinners Swing and Unchained. I knew you were feeling that. They are the greatest rock band ever.

  • @Ednerd
    @Ednerd Рік тому +19

    that intro was the greatest guitar work ever!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @8569jimboslice
      @8569jimboslice 10 місяців тому +1

      Of all his "tapping" licks, this is my favorite.

  • @wilfredfreytes9384
    @wilfredfreytes9384 7 місяців тому +7

    The intro, the guitar riff, the bass line , the drums fills, the lyrics, the background vocals, harmonies, the guitar solo and the jamming outro make this song for me the greatest hardrock song ever recorded

  • @robycip9715
    @robycip9715 Рік тому +13

    Dope /Dope /Dope Guitar/bass /drums and vocals Van Halen was on top of their game just ass kicking jam

  • @snakeinthegrass7443
    @snakeinthegrass7443 Рік тому +10

    Every song on this album kicks ass. I think you would really enjoy Dirty Movies, Biz!!

  • @karenmikalofsky5287
    @karenmikalofsky5287 Рік тому +8

    Exactly how we all felt the first time hearing this song. Bam!

  • @leefertwayne8163
    @leefertwayne8163 Рік тому +5

    Biz, Unchained from the same album is sick!

  • @showtime4243
    @showtime4243 Рік тому +10

    That outro is epic !! rip to the ultimate guitar hero, EVH ..

  • @Krust_Acean
    @Krust_Acean Рік тому +8

    You should keep going and do the whole album - Fair Warning
    If just one song, react to Push Comes To Shove. Really good bass line.

  • @rogerdaly6326
    @rogerdaly6326 Рік тому +9

    Once again Eddie lays down a nasty groove on this song. So much focus was on his stellar lead playing but he put down some killer grooves with a tone that was just as bad ass.

  • @roberthaines1227
    @roberthaines1227 Рік тому +7

    Love this song and the album it’s from. 🔥

  • @kengunter6903
    @kengunter6903 Рік тому +7

    BAD ASS SONG!!!!

  • @lathedauphinot6820
    @lathedauphinot6820 Рік тому +7

    The Van Halen family were Dutch/Indonesian immigrants. Alex and Eddie were kids when they got to Los Angeles, and they grew up in a rough part of town. This is their hardest, best album, and it’s all like this.

  • @richardcranium5048
    @richardcranium5048 Рік тому +21

    I'd call One Foot Out The Door a must listen from this album

  • @tinypurplefishesrunlaughin8052

    Way back when we thought we were little bad asses cruising the strip. Hahahaha ha ha

  • @mikecaetano
    @mikecaetano Рік тому +8

    Crank it up! "Mean Street" is from their fourth album, Fair Warning, released in 1981. "Unchained" and "So This Is Love?" were the other two singles from it that got a lot of radio play back then. I was a freshman in high school. I bought the album on cassette tape and used to play it on my boom box until I upgraded to a stereo. The lines about getting a gun and raising your status came across back then less as a solution and more as a gesture towards rock star edginess wrapped around a warning about mean streets. (Also the title of a great Martin Scorsese film from 1973). There were fewer guns on the streets back then and gun violence was only beginning to become the problem that it is today. But street gangs were on the rise in the early to middle eighties and there was a lot of gang related gun violence in Los Angeles as the eighties wore on. Van Halen had their finger on the pulse of Los Angeles. For more on that see the film Boyz in the Hood from 1991 or pay close attention to the choice of colors worn in the cemetery in the video to Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day" from 1993. And for more Van Halen you haven't reacted to yet, check out "I'll Wait", "Dance the Night Away", "Everybody Wants Some!!", "Unchained", "So This Is Love?", "Fools", "Beautiful Girls", "Where Have All the Good Times Gone!", "(Oh) Pretty Woman", "And the Cradle Will Rock..." ...

    • @d4mdcykey
      @d4mdcykey Рік тому

      The crack wars were freakin' insane, people not around at that time don't understand how crazy it got back then, I personally saw 4 different people gunned down in the span of 1 month and we just shrugged and kept walking. Pray and spray was a near nightly thing.

    • @kurtsaxton823
      @kurtsaxton823 11 місяців тому

      My favorite out the album is Sinners swing.

  • @rhinno1969
    @rhinno1969 Рік тому +5

    Unchained at Oakland Coliseum is a great live version 🤘

  • @joededominici681
    @joededominici681 Рік тому +3

    Gangster? You have to go with "Atomic Punk!"

  • @robertcook792
    @robertcook792 4 місяці тому +2

    If I were going to pick one song from Van Halen that would complement them to their entirety, this would be the the showcase. It’s got everything in it. Magnificent selection and thank you for reacting to this.

  • @aldonova4082
    @aldonova4082 10 місяців тому +2

    This is probably my favorite Van Halen song.

  • @CynsingsStudios
    @CynsingsStudios 4 місяці тому +2

    This is one of their best records. Very kinetic and raw

  • @gilbertorodriguez5344
    @gilbertorodriguez5344 Рік тому +2

    Hell YEA ,CHECK OUT VAN HALEN,🎼DROP DEAD LEGS🎼🤌🎩🎸🎶🎶🎶☮️✌️

  • @terryconnelly484
    @terryconnelly484 Рік тому +3

    I'm glad you're 1 of the reactors that let's fade out play all the way Some people are Novices

  • @donaldwhitt689
    @donaldwhitt689 Рік тому +2

    I put this song in the "Atomic Punk" category. Just what I consider VH's original sound was.

  • @Veggamattic
    @Veggamattic Рік тому +2

    This some reminds me a little of "I'm the One" from the 1st album. It's got that frantic pace.

  • @dunnd1
    @dunnd1 10 місяців тому +2

    one of the best fadeouts ever.

  • @jfender8023
    @jfender8023 8 місяців тому +1

    so much funk and RNB anglo kids where shocked by this side of metal meets a actual rhythm guitarist

  • @ronaldelliott4373
    @ronaldelliott4373 Рік тому +2

    Biz, gotta do “Judgement Day” and “Poundcake.” These are both with Sammy on vocals. Both songs feature Eddie’s raw energy perfectly. Time to turn the volume up my friend. 🤘😎

  • @kristinnorgaard6238
    @kristinnorgaard6238 11 місяців тому +2

    DLR is a lyrical genius - Ted Templeman

  • @kurtsaxton823
    @kurtsaxton823 11 місяців тому +1

    This came off by far the best Van Halen album, try Sinners swing off the same album.

  • @robertmarcotte276
    @robertmarcotte276 9 місяців тому +1

    Ask Sammy to sing this song and tell me u get the same results and response. I don't frigging think so.

  • @robertwalker1803
    @robertwalker1803 Рік тому +1

    When they could control David Lee Roth,they were fire….

  • @eddievantrollen3459
    @eddievantrollen3459 8 місяців тому +1

    This song has such an amazing groove!!!

  • @MrThumbs63
    @MrThumbs63 Рік тому +1

    Take Your Whiskey Home

  • @sorryfortheinconvenience
    @sorryfortheinconvenience 8 місяців тому +1

    My fav VH album.

  • @alrivers2297
    @alrivers2297 Рік тому +2

    Love this awesome song! Try House of Pain or Girl Gone Bad next for more kick ass songs

  • @jamesmorrison959
    @jamesmorrison959 Рік тому +2

    Great one

  • @MikeOstrowski-iq8wf
    @MikeOstrowski-iq8wf Рік тому

    Please Biz🙏🏻 do some album reviews song by song off any of their first 5 albums 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
    Alex Van Halen - Drummer
    Edward Van Halen - Guitar
    Michael Anthony - Bass
    David Lee Roth - Singer
    🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️

  • @thrillcity
    @thrillcity Рік тому

    Biz, what you just listened to is Van Halen fans "secret weapon". Through the years, the VH FANS kept Mean St. and Fair Warning( the album that opens with Mean St.) a secret, so that the radio DJ's wouldn't overplay it like they did other VH songs. So we're trusting you to keep it on the down low LOL. Their 1st album was VH "rookie of the year" album. But this album Fair Warning.... is VH in their prime( their "MVP" album, which announced to ALL the other bands...."To get out of the way")!! This album is known to some as the "EDDIE" album, because they took him off his leash and let him rip through the whole album.

  • @WorldWide-q8v
    @WorldWide-q8v 5 місяців тому

    The ending could and should have gone on for 30 minutes of jam. One of the tightest, fiercest grooves in rock history. I've thought that since 1980. Rock on!

  • @loudog2326
    @loudog2326 11 місяців тому

    You have to Listened to there Debut Album, ( Van Halen, released in 1978 ) It's what opened The Flood Gates of a different Era of Guitar Playing and Music in General !!

  • @denisem6790
    @denisem6790 9 місяців тому

    Summer '81 great times - love Mean Street! only track with the name of this album. somebody said Fair Warning !!!!

  • @jonvanhouten4426
    @jonvanhouten4426 9 місяців тому

    You nailed it right on the head about the alley referance. When my wife and I saw that tour, the backdrop behond the band was an alley.
    It looked like the band was standing in an alley pounding out this song. Very cool. Nice review.

  • @jimmyc2895
    @jimmyc2895 8 місяців тому

    I was luck enough to see them in Birmingham Alabama in 83 and they rocked the place.
    This is their masterpiece song in my opinion.

  • @RVWeekendsRC1
    @RVWeekendsRC1 Рік тому

    The greatest VH song ever!

  • @mikebozik
    @mikebozik 11 місяців тому

    Right on with the Hip Hop analogy! I felt like the vocals / lryics had that type of flow. 😊

  • @MRCATL3
    @MRCATL3 10 місяців тому

    Th😂😂is the Ohio Players mixed with Bkack Sabbath

  • @darktoadone5068
    @darktoadone5068 10 місяців тому

    How about those cymbals almost at the end of the song? He put the pang pang of them thangs!!!

  • @SunnyDaizeTakeonit
    @SunnyDaizeTakeonit 9 місяців тому

    Dave lee Roth was the voice of Summer. The Greatest Frosty .

  • @joebarrera9741
    @joebarrera9741 10 місяців тому

    Easily their Best Song Ever...EVH

  • @richlawson8252
    @richlawson8252 7 місяців тому

    Biz check out Hear about it later, another jam on that album

  • @fidgetyram9222
    @fidgetyram9222 11 місяців тому

    and then i noticed van halen was on the radio ,,,i turned that mother up

  • @keithcring8011
    @keithcring8011 5 місяців тому

    Ohh. Thought it was Mean Tweets for a minute.

  • @6Bevilacqua
    @6Bevilacqua 11 місяців тому

    The musicianship is what's thru the ROOF!

  • @billyshead1339
    @billyshead1339 10 місяців тому

    Great album. Like all of their stuff 🔥👍🏻🎸

  • @joewilson4151
    @joewilson4151 10 місяців тому

    best van halen song. when they were young and hungry.

  • @purplebeard1526
    @purplebeard1526 Рік тому

    Loved the riff on this. And yeah, it had that dirt on it.

  • @buddystewart2020
    @buddystewart2020 Рік тому

    Always one of my fav tracks from VH.

  • @mattharvey968
    @mattharvey968 Рік тому +1

    This whole album is worthy of a review!!🔥🔥🔥

  • @ememnicholas565
    @ememnicholas565 10 місяців тому

    THIS is VanHalen's best song.

  • @dyrkeschaefer
    @dyrkeschaefer 11 місяців тому

    My favorite Van Halen track

  • @JAMESMOORE-gq4vv
    @JAMESMOORE-gq4vv Рік тому

    TAKE YOUR WHISKEY HOME.