My Greatest Hits

[gov5150]

Working on a VH "Greatest Hits" for a friend of mine, and it's getting a little out of hand -- I'm up to 45 songs on 3 cd's. Here's the playlist for Disc #1 - what do you think ?

Human Beings
House of Pain
Ain’t Talkin About Love
Best of Both Worlds
Little Guitars Intro
Little Guitars
Where Have All the Good Times Gone
You Really Got Me Now
Poundcake
Eruption
Me Wise Magic
New World
Without You
Hot for Teacher
Cabo Wabo

[Betty Boop]

House of Pain is key. Do you have "5150" in your mix? I heard it on the radio the other day and that song is ballsy--
one of my chief complaints with any of the Sammy stuff is that I think his voice and phrasing competes with Eddie, but if you listen to "5150" with headphones, it's pretty obvious that it's a guitar-driven song. It's my favorite from that album.
I also dig your inclusion of "Finish What Ya Started"--also a good song. Maybe end one of the CDs with "Black and Blue"--which is a stompfest if there ever was one. love, betty

[houseofpain]

I got two of my own that I burned for me to listen to while I work out/run.

On Van Halen's Greatest! we have...
1) Unchained
2) Romeo Delight
3) On Fire
4) House Of Pain
5) Fools
6) DOA
7) Bottom's Up
8) Take Your Whiskey Home
9) Somebody Get Me A Doctor
10) Runnin' With The Devil
11) Panama
12) Hear About It Later
13) Drop Dead Legs
14) Beautiful Girls
15) Dirty Movies
16) Feel Your Love Tonight
17) Mean Street
18) Show Your Love
19) Little Dreamer

and then on Van Halen Mix I we have...
1) Eruption
2) You Really Got Me
3) Hot For Teacher
4) Mean Street
5) Jump
6) Dance The Night Away
7) Beautiful Girls
8) So This Is Love?
9) House Of Pain
10) Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
11) Romeo Delight
12) Dirty Movies
13) Hear About It Later
14) Drop Dead Legs
15) Push Comes To Shove
16) Women In Love
17) Unchained
18) Panama
19) Ice Cream Man

the key to my version of Van Halen's greatest hits is that I consider them three seperate and not equal bands. If you want a greatest hits from Van Hagar, mine would be like...
5150, Black And Blue, Summer Nights, Cabo Wabo, Crossing Over, Humans Being, Aftershock, Don't Tell Me ( What Love Can Do ), Pouncake, Judgement Day, The Dream Is Over, Best Of Both Worlds, Finish What You Started, and Get Up, and I might even give a nod to the live version of Sammy's song One Way To Rock. I think on Van Hagar's B.O. vol. h.o.p. the key is heavier stuff, with the exception of Summer Nights and Finish What You Stareted. I might throw Big Fat Money on it, but usually get annoyed listening to Sammy.

The VH3 Compilation......geez.......
Once, Year To The Day, VH3 live Humans Being, live Mean Street, live Somebody Get Me A Dcotor ( with Mikey's vox ), Without You, Fire In The Hole. That would seriously be about it. Beliecve it or not, I don't despise the Gary era as much as I do the Sammy era. See the Sammy era could have been decent, I mean they did have some good songs, they just caved in and bowed down to the 1980s cheese ballad garbage, and got the MTV generation brainwashed.

[houseofpain]

and yes as Betty said, HOUSE OF PAIN IS KEY!