Van Halen rips The Commodores

Started on 01/31/12
  • jupit on Jan 31, 2012
    New VH cover:



    Old Commodores album:



    Or is it a "tribute"?
  • Geoff May on Jan 31, 2012
     
    I don't see it.
  • iamdb on Jan 31, 2012
     
    Geoff May said: I don't see it.



    haha
  • Skull With Hair on Jan 31, 2012
     
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  • dustypeterson on Jan 31, 2012
     
    Apparently they are also ripping off of themselves as far as the music goes. The news is that it's a bunch of re-worked songs from the 70s and not actually new music. While I don't have a problem with hearing new versions of old B-sides, it's a little annoying when people were expecting a proper "new album".
  • Geoff May on Jan 31, 2012
     
    dustypeterson said: Apparently they are also ripping off of themselves as far as the music goes. The news is that it's a bunch of re-worked songs from the 70s and not actually new music. While I don't have a problem with hearing new versions of old B-sides, it's a little annoying when people were expecting a proper "new album".


    They're uncompleted songs from their first incarnation with David Lee Roth, not B-sides.
  • dustypeterson on Jan 31, 2012
     
    I didn't mean B-sides...dunno why I typed that. I just meant unreleased music.

    Either way...it's pretty cheesy, imo.
  • Geoff May on Feb 01, 2012
     
    dustypeterson said: I didn't mean B-sides...dunno why I typed that. I just meant unreleased music.

    Either way...it's pretty cheesy, imo.


    On one hand it's their music, so whether they originally fleshed it out in the '70s or now shouldn't matter. At the same time I agree, it is kinda cheezy and lazy.

    I think it's pretty obvious that Eddie Van Halen has lost his creativity at this point in his life. Even his playing sounds like a bad impersonation of his younger years.
  • iamdb on Feb 01, 2012
     
    Geoff May said:
    dustypeterson said: I didn't mean B-sides...dunno why I typed that. I just meant unreleased music.

    Either way...it's pretty cheesy, imo.


    On one hand it's their music, so whether they originally fleshed it out in the '70s or now shouldn't matter. At the same time I agree, it is kinda cheezy and lazy.

    I think it's pretty obvious that Eddie Van Halen has lost his creativity at this point in his life. Even his playing sounds like a bad impersonation of his younger years.


    re-releasing old music to make a $ ---> lame
    not having original art on your cd ---> lame
    VanHalen in 2012 ---> lame

  • Geoff May on Feb 01, 2012
     
    They're not re-releasing anything. They're taking songs that the demo'd back in the day and turning them into full songs. I think it's lazy for sure, but it isn't re-releasing, since it was never released to begin with.
  • Kevin on Feb 01, 2012
     
    I would think think Van Halen fans would be into that. They're new to you. I don't see why it matters when they wrote the songs.
  • Geoff May on Feb 01, 2012
     
    Kevin said: I would think think Van Halen fans would be into that. They're new to you. I don't see why it matters when they wrote the songs.


    I'm a pretty big Van Halen fan, especially David Lee Roth era stuff. That said, I think almost all the songs I've heard so far suck. Take away the fact that they're rehashed jams that didn't make it onto previous albums, they're just kinda blah. I don't expect them to reinvent the wheel, I think they did that already when they first started, but it would be nice to hear something solid.
  • dustypeterson on Feb 01, 2012
     
    Geoff May said:
    dustypeterson said: I didn't mean B-sides...dunno why I typed that. I just meant unreleased music.

    Either way...it's pretty cheesy, imo.


    On one hand it's their music, so whether they originally fleshed it out in the '70s or now shouldn't matter. At the same time I agree, it is kinda cheezy and lazy.

    I think it's pretty obvious that Eddie Van Halen has lost his creativity at this point in his life. Even his playing sounds like a bad impersonation of his younger years.


    This is my biggest complaint. If I took art that I made back in the mid-90's and redid it, it might be kind of fun in a nostalgic way (self-therapy, basically), but I wouldn't try to sell it to anyone. Why? Because I am creative and I have a lot of NEW ideas I'd like people to see.

    So whether or not I have heard it is sort of irrelevant. It just seems like they have an opportunity to do something really mind blowing and instead they go back to the beginning. It lacks creativity and it just seems so "safe". As if to say "We can't make new music that sounds like real Van Halen...so lets just release Old Van Halen that no one has heard".

    I Admit I am not the biggest VH fan. I like the hits, you know...Aint Talkin Bout Love, Unchained, Panama, etc. That's the kind of energy I want to see in NEW music. Not music they didn't deem good enough to release back then.

    That...and yeah...like you said. The stuff I have heard so far sucks. If it all ruled, i wouldn't be saying shit.
  • Geoff May on Feb 02, 2012
     
    That's the problem, there is no creativity left in Eddie Van Halen. VH should just stick to being a nostalgia act.
  • solamstutz on Feb 06, 2012
     
    I recently did a batch of designs for VH and the art direction was all over the place. Everything they wanted to do was in the style of something else. Not very much creativity in the concepts.
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