Van Halen II

**Wolfie3** · 01.17.02, 03:38 AM

Definitely the most underrated of the first six albums (IMO anyway). It's hard for me to pick an absolute favorite song off this one, but if I had to, I guess I'd go with Somebody Get Me A Doctor. How 'bout you?

**Raldo** · 01.17.02, 06:32 AM

I gotta go with 'Dance the Night Away'. It's always been one of my top favs from this band. [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

P1 · 01.17.02, 07:07 AM

LIGHT UP THE SKY!!!!!!!! [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]

**WARHEAD** · 01.17.02, 11:02 AM

Lots of great tunes and when you consider they did this album in a matter of days, there probably isn't another album done as quickly that stands up to it, by VH or anyone else. I have many favorites on this album, but always wind up picking "Somebody Get Me a Doctor". I'm pretty sure this song existed when they were doing the first album, and wonder how it got passed over.
Possibly, they hadn't worked it down to it's VHII
form, I think the original live solo was much longer, as well as the different intro, part of which I think Ed used on "One I Want" on VHIII.
This is a great fucking album, right behind Fair Warning as far as my favorite VH.

**Rikk** · 01.17.02, 11:32 AM

I've gotta go with LIGHT UP THE SKY. I think the whole band is brilliant on this one. Alex's drum part is brilliant in the middle, Ed's chords are awesome and really different in the verse, and the vocals are awesome.

**79th and Sunset** · 01.17.02, 12:38 PM

I guess I am going with DOA.

So many great songs to choose from.

Man, Somebody give me a shot !!

**Dan Halen** · 01.17.02, 04:49 PM

Light Up The Sky followed by SGMAD and Bottoms Up.

**Mean_Street** · 01.17.02, 05:06 PM

GREAT album but it could of been longer, you know with Down In Flames, and their other awesome boots... they need to sell them in stores imo

**FORD** · 01.17.02, 06:00 PM

Of course the first four albums are completely flawless, so narrowing it down to one song was difficult.

But it was D.O.A. that made me haul my 12 year old ass to the mall on my bike and buy this album the day it was released, and that's still one of my all time Van HALEN favorites. It definitely had better be in the set list when the "inevitable" tour happens.

**Mean_Street** · 01.17.02, 06:21 PM

Of course the first four albums are completely flawless, so narrowing it down to one song was difficult.

But it was D.O.A. that made me haul my 12 year old ass to the mall on my bike and buy this album the day it was released, and that's still one of my all time Van HALEN favorites. It definitely had better be in the set list when the "inevitable" tour happens.

Cool, i wish i was around in 1979, i want to be around in the whole dave era. maybe theres another part of the dave era coming our way. At the dlr army, they are talking about how vh has no future... they do in a way. lets just wait. they talk about how "Crappy" this message board, but this is home!! i love this place.

**TheBald Baron** · 01.17.02, 07:27 PM

What a great rock album! Every song has a killer groove.

LIGHT UP THE SKY

**Betty Boop** · 01.18.02, 12:02 PM

Something about the groove to Somebody Get Me a Doctor just blows me away. 22, 23 years ago whhen I head that song for the first time, I had never heard a song begun that way in my life--it just seemed so perfect. I love how Dokken rips it off note for note on "Into the Fire"...
Actually, this entire record blows me away. After W&C in 1980 I backtracked and VHII was the second VH record I got into.
Whatever didn't end up on the debut fell into VHII; and it's incredibly short--what, under 35 min.? Oh YEAH...

**TheMightyCopenHalenII** · 01.18.02, 04:45 PM

I'm not gonna vote on a Van Halen album I hold very dearly in my heart.

When I was a reborn Van Halen fan, due to 5150, I went searching for my long lost love, 1984. My cousin, who was a huge Van Halen fan, always mentioned Spanish Fly. It'd been about two years since I heard 1984, so I bought Van Halen II cause I saw "Spanish Fly" and thinking fuck, maybe this has Jump on it. This was about 9 to 10 years ago.

I popped VH II in my Walkman, and I could not fucking believe, these sounds, were made by human beings. From the Album cover, to the songs, everything about this is cool, and I've always summed up Van Halen to be the EPITOME OF COOL, and still do.

If someone held a gun to my head, just for the fuck of it, I guess I'd have to say "Dance the Night Away or Light Up the Sky, Who's up for Russian Roulette"?

**Guitar Shark** · 01.18.02, 04:49 PM

I think it is extremely cool that Light Up The Sky has received so many votes... I thought I was in the minority with that being my favorite song from II!

Even so, this was a very tough choice. By choosing Light Up The Sky, I feel like I am dissing D.O.A., SGMAD, and Bottoms Up!... all of which are incredible! [img]tongue.gif[/img]