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One of the few albums that you can listen to front to back.   Review Date: September 2, 1999 Reviewer: , Van Halen's last, and one of the best albums done with Diamond Dave. While the hit 'Jump', and MTV staples 'Hot for Teacher' and 'Panama' may have sold this album already, check out the over-looked rockers 'House of Pain' and 'Girl Gone Ban'. The solos on 'Drop Dead Legs' and 'I'll Wait' are Eddie at his best. No need for the skip button on this album. The other great Van Halen album   Review Date: October 13, 2004 Reviewer: rocker81, Dallas GA 1984 marks the last of Van Halen's 5 star albums .. Also the last studio album with David Lee Roth. 1.1984-A keyboard instrumental. Not one of the bands best IMO. 3/5 2.Jump-The bands biggest chart hit. Not really one of my favorites other than the solo of course, but it's hard to deny the impact it had for years. 4/5 3.Panama-Another one of the bands most popular songs. This one of the more hard pop rock songs the band did. 5/5 4.Top Jimmy-One of the most underrated Van Halen songs IMO. It's a hard rock song with some hints at pop rock with it's hooks. This one is probably my favorite.5/5 5.Just a tad below Top Jimmy. A underrated cut here. Really long solo at the end. 4/5 6.Hot For Teacher-Probably the band at it's best right here. This one flirts into metal.5/5 7.I'll Wait-This is the band at it's most pop. Atleast in the DLR era. It's a ballad filled with keyboards and a restrained but good solo. This shows the band can do what alot of bands can't.. Make a good keyboard filled song. 5/5 8.Girl Gone Bad-This is the band returning to more of it's hard rock roots. Very little pop here. Good solo's as the comes and goes in the song. 5/5 9.House of Pain-Not one of my favorites, but it's probably the hardest rocking song on the album. 3/5 You might ask how this album can get 5 stars with 4 of the 9 songs getting below 5 stars. The fact is that even the lower rating stuff is good, and all the great songs are just that good. This is IMO the band finally getting to where it wanted to go. They spent albums going back and forth below hard rock and more pop rock type of albums... But the band puts together it's album with both hard rocking tunes and big pop hits. This is where Dave and Ed finally meet in the middle. It's actually my 3rd favorite album behind Van Halen and Fair Warning. It's 1984 all over again ...   Review Date: October 2, 2004 Reviewer: Brian Woodahl, Noblesville, Indiana United States I was nineteen years old and sophomore in college when this album came out. It blew me away then, and still does today. Twenty years have gone by, but they absolutely do not cut them like this anymore -- there is no comparison! You take this trash off the shelves today that they shove down your throats and compare it to this album and it blows you away. Panama, Jump, I'll Wait, Hot For Teacher, Girl Gone Bad, these guys were absolutely genius. I remember seeing (Rothized) Van Halen in concert in Pullman, Washington during their "final" tour, -- I was absolutely floored, blown-away, you name it, it was amazing! Twenty years have gone by, I listen to all types of music today: jazz, classical, country, but after a few stiff ones, I come back to these fellas and this album. The genius of Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth, they wrote the book on "American" hard rock and no one since has even come close. I think back to those years gone by and thank the lucky stars above -- I was at the perfect age when this album came out. Do yourself one helluva favor and listen to it (you'll wonder what planet you've been on). Now Noah, where to put that hammerhead shark?! Rock Icon Album   Review Date: March 5, 2000 Reviewer: Michael E. Brunjes, Columbus, GA, USA What can I say, I'm a huge Van Halen fan. This record got me started. When I listened to it, I had to have all the others previously made. This one is still my personal favorite. "1984/Jump" and "Panama" still enjoy heavy play on the radio, which is not only a sign of popularity, but of accomplishment as well. My personal favorite from this record is still "I'll Wait". It still sounds new to me after all these years. This whole collection is extremely progressive in rock evolution. The incorporation of electronics into their music proved that not only was technology successful in hard rock, but ultimately transcended the boundaries that hard rock had created for itself. Quite a few bands have Van Halen to thank for their success. That is why the 1984 record holds a permanent position in my personal rock "Hall of Fame". Timeless Classic   Review Date: August 20, 2000 Reviewer: Douglas Coronel, Santa Clarita, CA United States This is the album where VH got it all together and reached their maximum potential. Eddie's guitar work is phenomenal, David howls at all the right notes, and the new keyboard sound added an element of melody that some of their earlier releases lacked. Most importantly there are no egomaniacal songs by David Lee Roth doing his stupid Al Jolsen type of singing. The [bad] song Just a Gigolo from his solo album after this gem just reinforced the myth about his ego. Earlier releases like Women and Children First are ruined by David doing his Al Jolsen schtick.

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