1984 | ||||
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Released | January 9, 1984[1] | |||
Recorded | 1983 | |||
Studio | 5150 Studios in Studio City, California | |||
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Length | 33:22 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. | |||
Producer | Ted Templeman | |||
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1984 (stylized as MCMLXXXIV) is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released on January 9, 1984.[3] It was the last Van Halen album until A Different Kind of Truth (2012) to feature lead singer David Lee Roth, who left in 1985 following creative differences, and the final full-length album with all four original members.[3]1984 and Van Halen's debut are Van Halen's bestselling albums, each having sold more than 10 million copies.[4]
1984 was well received by music critics. Rolling Stone ranked the album number 81 on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s. It reached number two on the Billboard 200 album chart and remained there for five weeks, behind Michael Jackson's Thriller (on which guitarist Eddie Van Halen made a guest performance). 1984 produced four singles, including 'Jump', Van Halen's only number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100; the top-20 hits 'Panama' and 'I'll Wait'; and the MTV favorite 'Hot for Teacher'. The album was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1999, signifying ten million shipped copies.
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Recording[edit]
Following the group's 1982 album, Diver Down, guitarist Eddie Van Halen was dissatisfied by the concessions he had made to Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth and producer Ted Templeman. Both discouraged Eddie from making keyboards a prominent instrument in the band's music. In 1983, Eddie built his own studio in his backyard, naming it 5150 after the Los Angeles police code for 'escaped mental patient'. There, he composed Van Halen's follow-up to Diver Down—without as much perceived 'interference' from Roth or Templeman. The result was a compromise between the two creative factions in the band: a mixture of keyboard-heavy songs, and the intense rock for which the band was known.[5]
In Rolling Stone's retrospective review of 1984 in its 100 Best Albums of the Eighties list, producer Ted Templeman said, 'It's real obvious to me [why 1984 won Van Halen a broader and larger audience]. Eddie Van Halen discovered the synthesizer.'[5]
At the time, Eddie was in the process of building his own studio with Donn Landee, the band's longtime engineer (and later producer on 5150 and OU812). While boards and tape machines were being installed, Eddie began working on synthesizers to pass the time. 'There were no presets,' said Templeman. 'He would just twist off until it sounded right.'[5]
Songwriting credits[edit]
The album's original release credits all songs to Edward Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth. The UK single release for 'I'll Wait'[6] credited Michael McDonald as a co-writer, but he was not credited on the US version.[7]
The ASCAP entry for 'I'll Wait' lists Michael McDonald as co-writer with Roth and the Van Halens. Like many bands starting out on their career, Van Halen shared songwriting credit equally between all members (including guitar instrumentals, which were clearly composed only by Eddie), but subsequent claims would lend credibility to the view that all songs were entirely or predominantly written by Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth, with little input from Van Halen's rhythm section.[citation needed]
After the release of Best Of – Volume I (1996), Van Halen renegotiated their royalties with their label Warner Bros. In 2004, Roth discovered that the rest of the band had renegotiated a royalty rate five times greater than his for releases made during his time as lead singer.[8][9] This was later rectified.[citation needed]
Songs from 1984 that appear on compilations after the royalty renegotiation and Roth's lawsuit were credited to Edward Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and David Lee Roth, with Michael Anthony's name removed from the credits, as evident in the end song credits of the 2007 film Superbad.[10]
Artwork[edit]
The cover art was created by graphic artist Margo Nahas.[11] It was not specifically commissioned; Nahas had been asked to create a cover that featured four chrome women dancing, but declined due to the creative difficulties.[12] Her husband brought her portfolio to the band anyway, and from that material they chose the painting of a putto stealing cigarettes that was used.[13] The model was Carter Helm, who was the child of one of Nahas' best friends, whom she photographed holding a candy cigarette.[13] The front cover was censored in the UK at the time of the album's release. It featured a sticker that obscured the cigarette in the putto's hand and the pack of cigarettes.[14] The back cover features all four band members individually with 1984 in a green futuristic font.[15]
Singles[edit]
The album's first two singles, 'Jump' and 'I'll Wait', feature prominent synthesizers, as well as the album's intro track, '1984', a one-minute instrumental. Eddie Van Halen played an Oberheim OB-Xa synthesizer on the album.[16]
1984 saw the release of the album's third single 'Panama', which features a heavy guitar riff reminiscent of Van Halen's earlier work. The engine noise was from Eddie revving up his Lamborghini, with microphones used near the tailpipes. Later, a video of 'Hot for Teacher' was released and played regularly on MTV, giving the band a fourth hit which sustained sales of the album. Other songs on 1984 included 'Girl Gone Bad', parts of which previously had been played during the 1982 Tour amidst performances of 'Somebody Get Me a Doctor' (most famously at the US Festival show), the hard rock 'Drop Dead Legs' and 'Top Jimmy', a tribute to James Paul Koncek of the band Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs. The album concludes with 'House of Pain', a fiery, heavy metal song that dates back to the band's early club days of the mid-1970s.[17]
Eddie told an interviewer that 'Girl Gone Bad' was written in a hotel room that he and then-wife Valerie Bertinelli had rented. Valerie was asleep, and Eddie woke up during the night with an idea he had to put on tape. Not wanting to wake Valerie, Eddie grabbed a cassette recorder and recorded himself playing guitar in the closet.[18]
Eddie Van Halen stated he wrote the arrangement for 'Jump' several years before 1984 was recorded. In a 1995 cover story in Rolling Stone, the guitarist said Roth had rejected the synth riff for 'Jump' for at least two years before agreeing to write lyrics to it.[19] In his memoir Crazy From The Heat, Roth confirms Eddie's account, admitting a preference for Van Halen's guitar work; however, he says he now enjoys the song. Additionally in his memoir, Roth writes that he wrote the lyrics to 'Jump' after watching a man waffle as to whether to commit suicide by jumping off of a skyscraper.[20]
Release[edit]
1984 peaked at number 2 on the Billboard album charts, (behind Michael Jackson's Thriller, which featured an Eddie Van Halen guitar solo on 'Beat It',) and remained there for 5 straight weeks.[21] As previously noted, it contained the anthems 'Jump', 'Panama', 'I'll Wait' and 'Hot for Teacher'. 'Jump' reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. 1984 is the second of two Van Halen albums to have achieved RIAA Diamond status, selling over ten million copies in the United States. Their debut Van Halen was the first.[22] 'Jump' went on to be certified Gold in April 1984, only months after the album's release.[23]
The album's follow-up singles – the synth-driven 'I'll Wait', and 'Panama', each peaked at Billboard number 13 on the Pop charts, respectively, in March and June. 'Hot for Teacher', was a moderate Billboard Hot 100 success, reaching number 56; the MTV video for 'Hot for Teacher' became even more popular.[24] The 'Hot for Teacher' video, which was directed by Roth,[3] stars preteen lookalikes of the four Van Halen band members; a stereotypical nerd named 'Waldo'; David Lee Roth as Waldo's bus driver; and numerous teachers stripping.[25]
To promote the album, the band ran a contest on MTV.[26] The contest was called, 'Lost Weekend' with Van Halen. Fans mailed over 1 million postcards to MTV in hopes of winning the contest. In the promo for MTV, David Lee Roth said, 'You won't know where you are, you won't know what's going to happen, and when you come back, you're not gonna have any memory of it.'[27][28] Kurt Jeffries won the contest and was flown to Detroit to join the band.[29] Jeffries was allowed to bring along his best friend. He was given a Lost Weekend T-shirt and a hat. He was also brought on stage and had a large sheet cake smashed in his face which was followed by about a dozen people pouring champagne on him.[29]
In the band's licensed game, Guitar Hero: Van Halen, three of the singles from 1984 were included; 'Jump', 'Panama', and 'Hot for Teacher'.[30]
Critical reception[edit]
Professional ratings | |
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [31] |
Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s | B+[32] |
Rolling Stone | [33] |
Classic Rock Revisited | A[34] |
Reviews for 1984 were generally favorable. Robert Christgau rated the album a B+. He explained that 'Side one is pure up, and not only that, it sticks to the ears' and that 'Van Halen's pop move avoids fluff because they're heavy and schlock because they're built for speed, finally creating an all-purpose mise-en-scene for Brother Eddie's hair-raising, stomach-churning chops.' He also called side two 'consolation for their loyal fans—a little sexism, a lot of pyrotechnics, and a standard HM bass attack on something called 'House of Pain'.'[32]J.D. Considine, a reviewer for Rolling Stone, rated 1984 four out of five stars. He called it 'the album that brings all of Van Halen's talent into focus.' He stated that 'Jump' is not exactly the kind of song you'd expect from Van Halen', but that 'once Alex Van Halen's drums kick in and singer David Lee Roth starts to unravel a typically convoluted story line, things start sounding a little more familiar'. Although he mentioned 'Jump' as having 'suspended chords and a pedalpoint bass in a manner more suited to Asia', he went on to state that 'Eddie Van Halen manages to expand his repertoire of hot licks, growls, screams and seemingly impossible runs to wilder frontiers than you could have imagined.' He concluded that 'what really makes this record work is the fact that Van Halen uses all this flash as a means to an end—driving the melody home—rather than as an end in itself' and that 'despite all the bluster, Van Halen is one of the smartest, toughest bands in rock & roll. Believe me, that's no newspeak.'[33]
In a 1984 review, Billboard states the album is 'funnier and more versatile than most of their metal brethren', calling the production 'typically strong'.[35] A retrospective review by AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine was extremely positive. He noted that the album caused 'a hoopla that was a bit of a red herring since the band had been layering in synths since their third album, Women and Children First'. He further stated that 'Jump's 'synths played a circular riff that wouldn't have sounded as overpowering on guitar', but that 'the band didn't dispense with their signature monolithic, pulsating rock.' He also stated that 'where [previous] albums placed an emphasis on the band's attack, this places an emphasis on the songs, and they're uniformly terrific, the best set of original tunes Van Halen ever had.' He concluded that 'it's the best showcase of Van Halen's instrumental prowess as a band, the best showcase for Diamond Dave's glorious shtick, the best showcase for their songwriting, just their flat-out best album overall. [...] [T]here's no way Van Halen could have bettered this album with Dave around (and they didn't better it once Sammy [Hagar] joined, either).'[31]
Guitar Player magazine writer Matt Blackett praises the 'deeper cuts' of the album, 'Drop Dead Legs', 'House of Pain', and 'Girl Gone Bad', calling the guitar work 'fresh and vital', noting Eddie's 'dark, complex sense of harmony and melody'.[36] Len Comaratta from Consequence of Sound felt Van Halen reached the pinnacle of its commercial and critical success.[2] At the end of the 1980s, Rolling Stone, which had previously been critical of Van Halen,[37] ranked 1984 at number 81 on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s.[5] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[38]
Track listing[edit]
All tracks written by Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth, except where noted.
Side one | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
1. | '1984' | 1:07 |
2. | 'Jump' | 4:01 |
3. | 'Panama' | 3:31 |
4. | 'Top Jimmy' | 2:59 |
5. | 'Drop Dead Legs' | 4:14 |
Side two | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
6. | 'Hot for Teacher' | 4:42 |
7. | 'I'll Wait' (writers: E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony, Roth, Michael McDonald) | 4:40 |
8. | 'Girl Gone Bad' | 4:35 |
9. | 'House of Pain' | 3:19 |
Personnel[edit]
Van Halen[edit]
- Michael Anthony – bass guitar, synth bass on 'I'll Wait', background vocals
- David Lee Roth – vocals
- Eddie Van Halen – guitars, keyboards, background vocals
- Alex Van Halen – drums, background vocals
Production[edit]
- Pete Angelus – art direction
- Chris Bellman – mastering
- Ken Deane – engineering
- Gregg Geller – mastering
- Donn Landee – engineering
- Jo Motta – project coordination
- Margo Nahas – cover art
- Joan Parker – production coordination
- Richard Seireeni – art direction
- Ted Templeman – production
Charts[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1984) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[39] | 11 |
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[40] | 12 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[41] | 8 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[42] | 11 |
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[43] | 15 |
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[44] | 12 |
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[45] | 4 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[46] | 7 |
UK Albums (OCC)[47] | 15 |
US Billboard 200[48] | 2 |
Chart (2016) | Position |
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Canadian Albums (Billboard)[49] | 71 |
Singles[edit]
Single | Chart (1984) | Position |
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'Jump' | Billboard Hot 100[50] | 1 |
UK Single Chart[51] | 7 | |
Mainstream Rock Tracks[52] | 1 | |
Hot Dance Music/Club Play[53] | 17 | |
'I'll Wait' | Billboard Hot 100[50] | 13 |
UK Single Chart[51] | 85 | |
Mainstream Rock Tracks[54] | 2 | |
'Panama' | Billboard Hot 100[50] | 13 |
UK Single Chart[51] | 61 | |
Mainstream Rock Tracks[54] | 2 | |
'Hot for Teacher' | The Billboard Hot 100[50] | 56 |
UK Single Chart[51] | 87 | |
Mainstream Rock Tracks[54] | 24 |
Certifications[edit]
Region | Certification | Certified units/Sales |
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Canada (Music Canada)[55] | 5× Platinum | 500,000^ |
France (SNEP)[57] | Gold | 381,300[56] |
Germany (BVMI)[58] | Platinum | 500,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[59] | Gold | 100,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[60] | Diamond | 10,000,000^ |
*sales figures based on certification alone ^shipments figures based on certification alone |
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Promotional tour by Van Halen | |
Location | North America |
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Associated album | 1984 |
Start date | January 18, 1984 |
End date | September 2, 1984 |
Legs | 4 |
No. of shows | 101 |
Van Halen concert chronology | |
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The 1984 Tour was a North American concert tour by hard rock band Van Halen in support of their album 1984. The tour was very successful but tension between the Van Halen brothers and Roth was high. After the tour, the band continued to promote the album on their Monsters of Rock Tour 1984 (a short European festival tour to compensate for the main 1984 Tour being North American only), and then David Lee Roth left Van Halen. He would not perform live with them until the 2007 reunion tour. The tour was one of the band's longer ones, but was divided into four separate legs. American glam metal band Autograph was an opening act for the tour.
Personnel[edit]
- Eddie Van Halen – guitar, background vocals and lead keyboards ['I'll Wait', '1984' and 'Jump']
- David Lee Roth – lead vocals and acoustic guitar ['Ice Cream Man' (John Brim cover)]
- Michael Anthony – bass, background vocals and bass keyboards ['I'll Wait', '1984' and 'Jump']
- Alex Van Halen – drums and percussion
Production[edit]
Set list[edit]
Songs played overall
| Typical set list
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Tour dates[edit]
Date[1] | City | Country | Venue |
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North America | |||
January 18, 1984 | Jacksonville | United States | Jacksonville Coliseum |
January 20, 1984 | Pembroke Pines | Hollywood Sportatorium | |
January 21, 1984 | |||
January 22, 1984 | Lakeland | Lakeland Civic Center | |
January 24, 1984 | Little Rock | Barton Coliseum | |
January 25, 1984 | Memphis | Mid-South Coliseum | |
January 26, 1984 | Jackson | Mississippi Coliseum | |
January 28, 1984 | Biloxi | Mississippi Coast Coliseum | |
January 29, 1984 | Birmingham | Jefferson Civic Coliseum | |
January 31, 1984 | Savannah | Savannah Civic Center | |
February 3, 1984 | Greensboro | Greensboro Coliseum | |
February 4, 1984 | Roanoke | Roanoke Civic Center | |
February 5, 1984 | Charleston | Charleston Civic Coliseum | |
February 7, 1984 | Trotwood | Hara Arena | |
February 9, 1984 | Louisville | Freedom Hall | |
February 10, 1984 | Knoxville | Knoxville Civic Coliseum | |
February 11, 1984 | Nashville | Nashville Municipal Auditorium | |
February 12, 1984 | Richmond | Richmond Coliseum | |
February 14, 1984 | Charlotte | Charlotte Coliseum | |
February 15, 1984 | Hampton | Hampton Coliseum | |
February 17, 1984 | Columbia | Carolina Coliseum | |
February 18, 1984 | Raleigh | Reynolds Coliseum | |
February 19, 1984 | Augusta | Augusta Civic Center | |
February 22, 1984 | Atlanta | Omni Coliseum | |
February 23, 1984 | |||
March 7, 1984 | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh Civic Arena | |
March 8, 1984 | Cincinnati | Cincinnati Gardens | |
March 9, 1984 | |||
March 11, 1984 | Saint Paul | St. Paul Civic Center | |
March 13, 1984 | Rosemont | Rosemont Horizon | |
March 14, 1984 | Richfield | Richfield Coliseum | |
March 16, 1984 | Worcester | The Centrum | |
March 17, 1984 | Providence | Providence Civic Center | |
March 18, 1984 | |||
March 20, 1984 | Philadelphia | Spectrum | |
March 21, 1984 | |||
March 22, 1984 | Buffalo | Buffalo Memorial Auditorium | |
March 24, 1984 | New Haven | New Haven Coliseum | |
March 25, 1984 | Landover | Capital Centre | |
March 26, 1984 | |||
March 29, 1984 | Hartford | Hartford Civic Center | |
March 30, 1984 | New York City | Madison Square Garden | |
March 31, 1984 | |||
April 2, 1984 | East Rutherford | Brendan Byrne Arena | |
April 3, 1984 | |||
April 5, 1984 | Detroit | Cobo Arena | |
April 6, 1984 | |||
April 14, 1984 | Uniondale | Nassau Coliseum | |
April 17, 1984 | Toronto | Canada | Maple Leaf Gardens |
April 19, 1984 | Montreal | Montreal Forum | |
April 21, 1984 | Quebec City | Quebec Coliseum | |
April 25, 1984 | Winnipeg | Winnipeg Arena | |
April 27, 1984 | Calgary | Saddledome | |
April 28, 1984 | Edmonton | Northlands Coliseum | |
April 30, 1984 | Seattle | United States | Seattle Center Coliseum |
May 1, 1984 | Vancouver | Canada | Pacific Coliseum |
May 2, 1984 | Portland | United States | Portland Memorial Coliseum |
May 4, 1984 | Boise | BSU Pavilion | |
May 5, 1984 | Pocatello | Minidome | |
May 7, 1984 | Reno | Lawlor Events Center | |
May 9, 1984 | Daly City | Cow Palace | |
May 10, 1984 | |||
May 11, 1984 | |||
May 13, 1984 | Inglewood | The Forum | |
May 14, 1984 | |||
May 15, 1984 | Las Vegas | Thomas & Mack Center | |
May 17, 1984 | Phoenix | Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum | |
May 19, 1984 | |||
May 20, 1984 | San Diego | San Diego Sports Arena | |
May 21, 1984 | |||
June 2, 1984 | Denver | McNichols Sports Arena | |
June 3, 1984 | |||
June 5, 1984 | Salt Lake City | Salt Palace | |
June 7, 1984 | Albuquerque | Tingley Coliseum | |
June 8, 1984 | |||
June 10, 1984 | Austin | Frank Erwin Center | |
June 11, 1984 | San Antonio | San Antonio Convention Center | |
June 13, 1984 | Baton Rouge | LSU Assembly Center | |
June 15, 1984 | Oklahoma City | Myriad Convention Center | |
June 16, 1984 | |||
June 17, 1984 | Valley Center | Britt Brown Arena | |
June 20, 1984 | Kansas City | Kemper Arena | |
June 21, 1984 | |||
June 23, 1984 | Omaha | Omaha Civic Auditorium | |
June 24, 1984 | |||
June 26, 1984 | St. Louis | St. Louis Arena | |
June 27, 1984 | |||
June 29, 1984 | Peoria | Peoria Civic Center | |
June 30, 1984 | Fort Wayne | Allen County War Memorial Coliseum | |
July 1, 1984 | Rockford | Rockford MetroCenter | |
July 3, 1984 | Madison | Dane County Veterans Memorial Coliseum | |
July 5, 1984 | Indianapolis | Market Square Arena | |
July 6, 1984 | |||
July 7, 1984 | Evansville | Roberts Municipal Stadium | |
July 10, 1984 | Houston | The Summit | |
July 11, 1984 | |||
July 12, 1984 | |||
July 14, 1984 | Dallas | Reunion Arena | |
July 15, 1984 | |||
July 16, 1984 |
References[edit]
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2007-08-24. Retrieved 2007-09-01.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) Accessed on 1 September 2007
External links[edit]
- Van-Halen.com – The official Van Halen website
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