POLL: Everybody Wants Some!!! or Romeo Delight?

**Wild Ranger** · 01.20.21, 10:45 AM

Two tracks from WACF. What's your pick here?
And which guitar solo do you prefer?

**japeape** · 01.20.21, 10:50 AM

Romeo , for both.

Even Steve Forbert wrote a song about how much he loved a
particular track on WACF.

**japeape** · 01.20.21, 10:52 AM

And i do love EWS!

But the solo is more a clever musical interlude, melodic enhancement.
Not really a solo-solo.

But what he plays is memorable & fits.

**VH1986** · 01.20.21, 10:54 AM

Romeo Delight running away, and I like EWS.

**Jedi McFly** · 01.20.21, 11:21 AM

Romeo Delight, for both, by far.

**dart93** · 01.20.21, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by Jedi McFly

Romeo Delight, for both, by far.

Agreed.

**BlindtotheWorld** · 01.20.21, 12:03 PM

Romeo....I feel that song is pretty unique in their catalog. EWS is ATBL part II.

**ScottyBHarris** · 01.20.21, 12:11 PM

Romeo for both.

I dig the EWS solo, but RD wins by a slight margin IMHO.

**MD 5150** · 01.20.21, 12:15 PM

Romeo Delight for the win, not even close.

**I Coulda Hada VH** · 01.20.21, 12:23 PM

As Eve said to Adam when he removed his fig leaf, "Now THAT's a hard one!"

**JUNGLE DRUMMER** · 01.20.21, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by BlindtotheWorld

Romeo....I feel that song is pretty unique in their catalog. EWS is ATBL part II.

ATBL part II? Huh?

Anyhow, my two all time favorite tunes. Solo for sure goes to Romeo Delight, although the solo in EWS is great, too.

**I Coulda Hada VH** · 01.20.21, 12:36 PM

I go back and forth between Everybody Wants Some!! and Romeo Delight. Those 2 songs and In A Simple Rhyme are probably all in my top 10 Van Halen tunes.

**BlindtotheWorld** · 01.20.21, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by JUNGLE DRUMMER

ATBL part II? Huh?

Everything is relative. We parse these songs given it's our favorite band and we've heard the songs a million times. To Joe-Schmo, the gang vocal that is the chorus and the name of the tune with about the same number of syllables on top of a very similar riff makes them at least superficially, very similar. songs Don't get me wrong, I love EWS with the opening section and the tribal drums, the screaming guitar during the verses, etc. but compared to Romeo, I find EWS to be more of the typical VH formula.

**I Coulda Hada VH** · 01.20.21, 12:43 PM

Everybody Wants Some!! and Hot For Teacher are a couple of songs that just exude everything that made the original version of Van Halen so awesome.

**dislocatedday** · 01.20.21, 01:01 PM

I always felt like "Romeo Delight" was a precursor to the Fair Warning album. The production and tone is different between WACF and FW (..FW was the first album IMO where Ed's guitar had a little more low-end grunt to it..at least compared to the first 3 albums), but as a song Romeo Delight has that darker aggression to it that would have fit on Fair Warning quite easily.