Building the ultimate Van Halen Frankenalbum

[I Coulda Hada VH]

Take your favorite tracks (#1 though #12) from the 12 studio albums and build your ultimate Van Halen Frankenalbum. Track #1 must be the first song on one of the albums, track # 2 must be the second song on one of the albums, etc.

Here is mine:

(1) Mean Street
(2) Everybody Wants Some!!
(3) Somebody Get Me A Doctor
(4) Hear About It Later
(5) I'm The One
(6) Light Up The Sky
(7) Atomic Punk
(8) Girl Gone Bad
(9) In A Simple Rhyme
(10) Beautiful Girls
(11) On Fire
(12) Big River

[jimmy812]

Take your favorite tracks (#1 though #12) from the 12 studio albums and build your ultimate Van Halen Frankenalbum. Track #1 must be the first song on one of the albums, track # 2 must be the second song on one of the albums, etc.

Here is mine:

(1) Mean Street
(2) Everybody Wants Some!!
(3) Somebody Get Me A Doctor
(4) Hear About It Later
(5) I'm The One
(6) Light Up The Sky
(7) Atomic Punk
(8) Girl Gone Bad
(9) In A Simple Rhyme
(10) Beautiful Girls
(11) On Fire
(12) Big River

I would switch Romeo in for HAIL (#4) and Ice Cream Man for Beautiful Girls (#10). I'm fine with the rest of your list.

[I Coulda Hada VH]

I would switch Romeo in for HAIL (#4) and Ice Cream Man for Beautiful Girls (#10). I'm fine with the rest of your list.

Tracks #4 (Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love, Bottoms Up!, Romeo Delight, Hear About It Later, Secrets and Top Jimmy) and #8 (Feel Your Love Tonight, D.O.A., Could This Be Magic?, Sunday Afternoon In The Park, Little Guitars and Girl Gone Bad) are probably the strongest in the VH catalog.

[jimmy812]

Tracks #4 (Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love, Bottoms Up!, Romeo Delight, Hear About It Later, Secrets and Top Jimmy) and #8 (Feel Your Love Tonight, D.O.A., Could This Be Magic?, Sunday Afternoon In The Park, Little Guitars and Girl Gone Bad) are probably the strongest in the VH catalog.

Agree with you about 4's.

9's are pretty good too (LD, WIL, IASR, OFOTD, LG, HOP).

(Little Guitars intro is 8).

[vcooper3]

#1 Unchained
#2 Romeo Delight
#3 Top Jimmy
#4 Somebody Get Me a Doctor
#5 Secrets
#6 Atomic Punk
#7 Dirty Movies
#8 Light Up the Sky
#9 Drop Dead Legs
#10 As Is
#11 AFU Naturally Wired
#12 Hang 'em High

[Number 47]

#4 Cabo Wabo.... press shuffle on the rest of the slots.

[Number 47]

#1 Unchained
#2 Romeo Delight
#3 Top Jimmy
#4 Somebody Get Me a Doctor
#5 Secrets
#6 Atomic Punk
#7 Dirty Movies
#8 Light Up the Sky
#9 Drop Dead Legs
#10 As Is
#11 AFU Naturally Wired
#12 Hang 'em High

Isn't Bottoms Up #4 on II?

[I Coulda Hada VH]

#1 Unchained (Track #5 on FW)
#2 Romeo Delight (Track #4 on WACF)
#3 Top Jimmy (Track #4 on 1984)
#4 Somebody Get Me a Doctor (Track #3 on VH II)
#5 Secrets (Track #4 on DD)
#6 Atomic Punk (Track #7 on VHI)
#7 Dirty Movies (Track #2 on FW)
#8 Light Up the Sky (Track #6 on VH II)
#9 Drop Dead Legs (Track #5 on 1984)
#10 As Is (Track #7 on ADKOT)
#11 AFU Naturally Wired (Track #3 on OU812)
#12 Hang 'em High (Track #2 on DD)

You went 0 for 12, my friend.

[vcooper3]

[QUOTE=I Coulda Hada VH;2435785]

#1 Unchained (Track #5 on FW)
#2 Romeo Delight (Track #4 on WACF)
#3 Top Jimmy (Track #4 on 1984)
#4 Somebody Get Me a Doctor (Track #3 on VH II)
#5 Secrets (Track #4 on DD)
#6 Atomic Punk (Track #7 on VHI)
#7 Dirty Movies (Track #2 on FW)
#8 Light Up the Sky (Track #6 on VH II)
#9 Drop Dead Legs (Track #5 on 1984)
#10 As Is (Track #7 on ADKOT)
#11 AFU Naturally Wired (Track #3 on OU812)
#12 Hang 'em High (Track #2 on DD)

You went 0 for 12, my friend.

I messed up my order (I just went off the cuff). Here we go for take 2:

#1 - Mean Street
#2 - Dirty Movies
#3 - Somebody Get Me A Doctor
#4 - Top Jimmy
#5 Unchained
#6 - Light Up the Sky
#7 - Atomic Punk
#8 - Girl Gone Bad
#9 - Little Guitars
#10 - Outta Space
#11 - On Fire
#12 - Big River

[Jedi McFly]

I thought about doing this for about 45 seconds and gave up. Though I think jimmy's modifications to coulda's original list is pretty spot on.

The only beef I might have with it is track 9 - which would make me choose between In A Simple Rhyme, So This is Love? and Right Now.

[Number 47]

[QUOTE=vcooper3;2435791]

I messed up my order (I just went off the cuff). Here we go for take 2:

#1 - Mean Street
#2 - Dirty Movies
#3 - Somebody Get Me A Doctor
#4 - Top Jimmy
#5 Unchained
#6 - Light Up the Sky
#7 - Atomic Punk
#8 - Girl Gone Bad
#9 - Little Guitars
#10 - Outta Space
#11 - On Fire
#12 - Big River

That all hurt my head and made me not get the rules.

[Number 47]

#2 Judgement Day
#4 Cabo Wabo

[Number 47]

#2 Judgement Day
#4 Cabo Wabo

#1 And the Cradle Will Rock...
#2 Judgement Day
#3 Sinner's Swing
#4 Cabo Wabo
#5 "Blood and Fire
#6 Once
#7 Take Your Whiskey Home
#8 Little Guitars
#9 Inside
#10 Outta Space
#11 Take Me Back fu Deja Vu
#12 Happy Trails

[Number 47]

Thread Killer! Too wide the brush.

[VH1986]

1. Mine All Mine
2. When It's Love
3. SGMAD
4. Romeo Delight
5. Unchained
6. BOBW
7. LWI
8. 5150
9. Right Now
10. Take Me Back
11. Top of the World
12. Crossing Over (I'm counting this as track 12 on Balance.)