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Points: 4659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2006 at 10:19
Originally posted by chimera chimera wrote:

well, it seems interesting to label an album with a producers code number. i think that it may also be a part of the marketing strategies (if ever existed for that time)
... by the way, any other xamples of PRoG-RoCK bands havind done this except the one mentioned above (Van Halen album "5150" is WB catalogue number "925 394-1 W5150) ?


Dave Davies of the Kinks put out AFL1-3063 just a couple years before 90125. This title references not only the catalog number, but the barcode itself. Barcodes were just becoming commonly used in consumer products about that time and were considered very controversial (at least in North America) because a lot of religious people believed that UPC codes were the 'mark of the beast'.

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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2006 at 10:24
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

Originally posted by E-Dub E-Dub wrote:

<<IMO OU812 was their last good album. To try to keep to the topic: any idea what that name means? Also a policecode or catalog number?>>


I don't know for sure, but I would think it's the numerical equivalent of "Oh, you ate one, too". They could've done better.

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That's what it actually means, or so I have read in a book. It was the band's answer to Dave Lee Roth's title of "Eat 'em and Smile".

There must be some strange coincidence here, since this morning at my local supermarket they were playing "Jump"...Wink



ouch... for some reason I figured when I do get to visit Italy.. that I would be hearing PFM coming through the windows as I strolled through the streets hahha....  I guess it is true that American culture is a corrupting influenc hahaWink

anyway... 90125.... taken on it's own merits ... a fabulous album.  Sure it wasn't Close to the Edge.. but what is...  oh and far from being the last good album...


PFM coming through the windows... That's a good one!LOL Actually, the thing in question was one of those horrid Eighties music compilations that includes anything from Van Halen to Spandau Ballet to Kajagoogoo. It seems to be a fixture at my local supermarket... Well, I suppose I could always open a shop and have all sorts of prog and classic rock blasting out of the speakers!LOL

BTW, I'm in complete agreement with you about 90125. I've also got the live DVD, and the band smoke on that one. And Trevor Rabin...hmmm.... don't get me started, please!Wink
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Points: 4309 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2006 at 10:26

Ermm Good question. Maybe it has to be with the catalog number, as the other ones said before.

 
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Points: 20248 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2006 at 10:32
Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

Originally posted by E-Dub E-Dub wrote:

<<IMO OU812 was their last good album. To try to keep to the topic: any idea what that name means? Also a policecode or catalog number?>>


I don't know for sure, but I would think it's the numerical equivalent of "Oh, you ate one, too". They could've done better.

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That's what it actually means, or so I have read in a book. It was the band's answer to Dave Lee Roth's title of "Eat 'em and Smile".

There must be some strange coincidence here, since this morning at my local supermarket they were playing "Jump"...Wink
 
 
 
I think that VH's last good album is Women And Children First. The debut is in my top 20 , but I have not much liking for VH II

I hate 1984 especially Jump (the worst KB solo everDead)
 
and I do not even want to think about what they did after Diamond Dave leftThumbs Down.
 
These guys are much worse than Floyd ever was about how "I love you one day and hate you the next"Dead. Sounds like GNR
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Points: 7910 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2006 at 10:45
<<I think that VH's last good album is Women And Children First.>>

Great album! The song that never gets mentioned, however, is "In A Simple Rhyme". How this song isn't on the tip of every VH fan's tongues is beyond me. Absolutely smokes.

I saw VH on the 1984 tour and the subsequent 5150 and OU812 (Monsters Of Rock with Kingdom Come, Metallica, Dokken and Scorpions) and I like the Sammy shows better. It became a lot less buffoonish without Roth.

And yes I know we've ventured off the prog path; however, Van Halen is one of those bands that transports me back to my childhood.

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Points: 7910 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2006 at 10:48
<<That's what it actually means, or so I have read in a book. It was the band's answer to Dave Lee Roth's title of "Eat 'em and Smile".

There must be some strange coincidence here, since this morning at my local supermarket they were playing "Jump"...>>

And yesterday as I ventured into a CD Warehouse to pick up the debut album by Kansas (finally), the guy had on their live Right Here...Right Now disc. Let's face it, Van Halen is one of 80's quintessential bands.

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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2006 at 10:51
I must admit I've never liked them, probably because I couldn't stand Dave Lee Roth - either as a vocalist or as a man. Although I carry on about attractive musicians in almost every thread, he was one of these guys whom I almost found repulsive... And I hated his vocals with a passion.
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Points: 21206 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 04 2006 at 11:08
Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

I must admit I've never liked them, probably because I couldn't stand Dave Lee Roth - either as a vocalist or as a man. Although I carry on about attractive musicians in almost every thread, he was one of these guys whom I almost found repulsive... And I hated his vocals with a passion.


From 5150 on Sammy Hagar was their vocalist, he has a completely different voice. Smile
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