One break, comin' uuuuuup... ILM Artist Poll #75 - VAN HALEN (Voting thread)

OH GOD THE PRESSURE

the real pressure is on JF to choose an appropriate POLL reference

POLLing With The Devil

I'm probably not going to get a ballot in in time, sadly, but I'm hoping to see my Fair Warning favourites fare well on this.

It might even make me enthusiastic about some Van Hagar stuff, but we'll see!

xp no

Get, get, get, get, get out and POLL!

ban turrican

oh shit this is gonna be easier than i thought... I can fill 6 or 7 ballot slots just off VH1 and no court in the land would convict me

NOW GIMME SOMETHING TO WRITE ON!

not a category in the poll, but hmm which track is the very brownest?

will vote tomorrow, since you're offering the extension

VERY early cutoff, just keep that in mind.

which track is the very brownest?

I'm thinking Mean Street or Runnin'.

Dirty Movies

ain't talkin' 'bout love is the brownest

honorable mention: i'm the one, unchained

oh hmm panama is pretty brown too

My impression of the brown sound was always their more shadowy, sinister side. Have I been wrong?

Not gonna make it. Tried v hard to get into this but the lack of involving deep cuts scuttled my enthusiasm. Only the hits have wiggled my ass at all in the few hours of running w/the devil through their back catalogue. I have a huge embedded nostalgia for VH and could probably write a reasonably convincing article on their impact & enduring importance or something, but what once seemed fun about them now feels super-tryhard ("Beautiful Girls" OMG kill me now) and the non-fun stuff just hits me like a wet dishcloth. Probably my state of mind more than anything; maybe a new era will dawn (or the meds will kick in) where their brand of whatevs can rock me again, but that time ain't now. Still, "You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real" is one of the best lyrics ever, and I can't bear how great it is when DLR trades vocal squeaks with EVH's false harmonics.

My impression of the brown sound was always their more shadowy, sinister side. Have I been wrong?

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, May 20, 2016

"brown sound" refers to EVH's trademark squishy humbucker/marshall crunch tone.

google will take you down a rathole of guitar nerd discussions of pickups, amps, pedals, settings etc etc but f all that you can hear it immediately.

VH1 remains the gold standard for the brown sound but this guy working "unchained" does it pretty good

http://youtu.be/7-g7xaVa4qI

okay, but what aspect of that very distinctive sound is the word "squishy" referring to?

i mean, yeah, the squishy one, but but but...

lol i knew that was coming. it gets into guitar nerd synesthetic vocabulary really quickly. dancing about architecture maaaan. unchained has some dope stuff going with a flanger too...

oh... ballot in JUST LIKE I POLLED YOU BEFORE BEFORE BEFORE

^^^ seconding that title

voted!

Voting's closed! Thanks everybody.

how many ballots in all?

26!

That's plenty for a 40 song rollout I think.

i better wear a cup

side poll: best beat it solo on youtube

Since I didn't get it in on time, I'll just follow along the results and then post what my top 5 were gonna be.

Results-Have you seen Junior's grades?! ILM Artist Poll #75 - VAN HALEN (Results thread)

Was at a fancy dinner party hosted at an air bnb that had a nice turntable and a dumb selection of vinyl that ranged from George Benson to Taylor Swift to Sublime. Most were clearly there for show (or maybe as a weak effort to offer something for everybody), and some were even still wrapped. But not a copy of "1984," which I put on and which made everyone as happy as could be.