VH Singles

[DFVH5150]

This is a list of songs Wikipedia has listed as singles (or at least received airplay) on the Van Halen page and I was wondering if any of you heard these on the radio consistently when they actually came out or even if they regularly got played on your local stations since then. I know Wiki can certainly be wrong, but these have been on their page for years now and have always wondered:

1 On Fire (Japan)
2 Somebody Get Me a Doctor (Japan)
3 Mean Street (Europe)
4 Hear About It Later (Netherlands)
5 Push Comes to Shove
6 So This Is Love?
7 Where Have All the Good Times Gone!
8 Secrets
9 Little Guitars
10 The Full Bug
11 Summer Nights
12 Mine All Mine
13 Cabo Wabo
14 Man on a Mission
15 The Dream Is Over
16 The Seventh Seal
17 Amsterdam
18 Stay Frosty

I know, technically, "Secrets" was released because of the keyboard remix and, STIL, SN, and MOAM have U.S. single records. But were they actually played? After I became a fan in late '91 I remember hearing MOAM once and TDIO a couple times on the radio in '92 but that's it.

Never heard TSS despite it being nominated for a Grammy and apparently was released before DTMWLCD I read one time. Never heard "Amsterdam" as I assumed it was not aired because of the same reasons MTV wouldn't.

I do hear WHATGTG semi-regularly in Pittsburgh and have heard MS a few times, but that's usually during "Electric Lunch" on our rock station which is their deep-cut time slot. I've heard SGMAD and LG maybe once or twice ever.

SF was on their ADKOT page at one point but it was since removed. I assumed it was slated for release but they didn't end up doing it (which is insane!), like "Once" which they refrained from releasing even after making a video. I heard that on some rare station right outside of Pittsburgh (and "Secrets" and "Bottoms Up!" for that matter), but it doesn't count because of the type of station it is.

I've heard "You're No Good" and "Take Your Whiskey" home a decent amount of times throughout the years. Oh, and "Intruder" because of "(Oh) Pretty Woman."

Then there was "Loss of Control" which had an actual concept video and I've definitely never heard that. What about "You're No Good," "Bottoms Up!" and "Hear About It Later" which had live videos?

So again, have any of you heard any of the above consistently when their corresponding albums came or since then up to now? Were some of them released and just didn't get any traction? Or weren't pushed?

Anyways, this list below is what I consider their official/proper Van Halen singles and songs that became popular radio songs in the U.S. There's a purpose to this, by the way:

1. Runnin' with the Devil
2. Eruption
3. You Really Got Me
4. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
5. Jamie's Cryin'
6. Ice Cream Man
7. Dance the Night Away
8. Beautiful Girls
9. And the Cradle Will Rock...
10. Everybody Wants Some!!
11. Unchained
12. (Oh) Pretty Woman
13. Dancing in the Street
14. Jump
15. Panama
16. Hot for Teacher
17. I'll Wait
18. Why Can't This Be Love
19. Dreams
20. Best of Both Worlds
21. Love Walks In
22. When It's Love
23. Feels So Good
24. Finish What Ya Started
25. Black and Blue
26. Poundcake
27. Runaround
28. Right Now
29. Top of the World
30. Won't Get Fooled Again (Live)
31. Can't Stop Lovin' You
32. Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)
33. Not Enough
34. Humans Being
35. Can't Get This Stuff No More
36. Me Wise Magic
37. Without You
38. One I Want
39. Fire in the Hole
40. It's About Time
41. Up for Breakfast
42. Tattoo
43. She's the Woman

Plus there live dupes like BOBW live from '86, "Jump" and "Dreams" from LRHRN, and "Panama" from TDLIC--hey, technically "It's the Right Time" was released to iTunes "feat. Van Halen" as well.

And these are songs that should've been released and pushed as major singles!:

Feel Your Love Tonight
Somebody Get Me a Doctor
In a Simple Rhyme
Summer Nights
Stay Frosty

Honorable mentions:

Mean Street
Little Guitars
Once
You and Your Blues
Blood and Fire

Sorry if that was a pedantic-ass post!

[BlindtotheWorld]

I (think I) remember the Dream is Over getting air play on WMMR in Philadelphia in 1992.

[Railrunner130]

I used to listen to WMMR beginning in the late 80s. We moved to the area at the beginning of the OU812 era. Having moved from the midwest where the local radio station played a much larger variety of music, I was never happy with their selection. Out there, they played the daylights out of Melissa Ethridge, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and Ziggy Marley.

In Philly, they played (and still don't) nothing experimental. Nothing low on the charts. Nothing really new and untried. I think the first VH that I recall hearing on WMMR was from Balance.

John DeBella was the first DJ I heard in Philly. IIRC he occasionally tells a story about Billy Joel showing up at the radio station he was working at on the day John Lennon was killed to commiserate. Then, there was Pierre Robert (met him a few years ago), Ed Sciaky (who had countless Springsteen and Billy Joel stories), Debbi Calton and Earle Bailey (now of XM Deep Tracks). I just can't believe with the musical history in Philly that it's so closed minded.

Off my soap box...

[DFVH5150]

I used to listen to WMMR beginning in the late 80s. We moved to the area at the beginning of the OU812 era. Having moved from the midwest where the local radio station played a much larger variety of music, I was never happy with their selection. Out there, they played the daylights out of Melissa Ethridge, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and Ziggy Marley.

In Philly, they played (and still don't) nothing experimental. Nothing low on the charts. Nothing really new and untried. I think the first VH that I recall hearing on WMMR was from Balance.

John DeBella was the first DJ I heard in Philly. IIRC he occasionally tells a story about Billy Joel showing up at the radio station he was working at on the day John Lennon was killed to commiserate. Then, there was Pierre Robert (met him a few years ago), Ed Sciaky (who had countless Springsteen and Billy Joel stories), Debbi Calton and Earle Bailey (now of XM Deep Tracks). I just can't believe with the musical history in Philly that it's so closed minded.

Off my soap box...

And this was before Clear Channel? Jeez.

[BlindtotheWorld]

Off my soap box...

WMMR was playing Black and Blue several times a day before the release of OU812 - I give them credit for that because that song dragged me into the Van Halen vortex where I still reside to this day.


WMMR still annoys me. Today, I occasional hear them play older metal like Iron Maiden, Dio, Pre-Black Album Metallica, etc. They wouldn't touch that stuff back when the music was new and even not in the 90's into the 2000's. Where were you guys back in the day when we teenagers really wanted to hear that music?

[Dave's Dreidel]

I've never heard any VH on the radio that wasn't the hits.

[KS 5150]

I do recall that "Amsterdam" got regular play here in 1995.

[Railrunner130]

WMMR was playing Black and Blue several times a day before the release of OU812 - I give them credit for that because that song dragged me into the Van Halen vortex where I still reside to this day.


WMMR still annoys me. Today, I occasional hear them play older metal like Iron Maiden, Dio, Pre-Black Album Metallica, etc. They wouldn't touch that stuff back when the music was new and even not in the 90's into the 2000's. Where were you guys back in the day when we teenagers really wanted to hear that music?

I switched to 94.1 and eventually WMGK because I hate grunge. Now MGK plays it. Maddening....