THE KINGS OF MAKING MUSIC FUN! First Time Hearing Van Halen - Jamie's Crying Reaction!

[@robertfindley921]

That first Van Halen album was fire! 🔥🔥🔥 When this album dropped, everyone was like "Wait, what? Who is THAT!??!?!" Eddie was special.

[@John_Locke_108]

Gene Simmons had an ear for talent.

[@andrewclelland9713]

The second album was just as good.

[@matteoedwardes2876]

Right?? IMO, the best VH is the DLR Van Halen. Obviously there is no VH without Eddie or Alex.

[@johnr1348]

@@matteoedwardes2876 Agreed....Micheal Anthony as well IMO.....never the same without him....

[@taylortyler1867]

Agree 💯%. I don't usually like every song on an album on the first listen. It usually takes a few listens for some of the songs to grow on me. _THIS_ one blew me away on first listen. _EVERY_ song is _FIRE!!_

[@stevedahlberg8680]

This debut album is what put them on the map, kind of like boston. I mean, it just sounded so new and so cool and it was everywhere, at least in my circle of friends. We all had the albums or the 8-track sets, it got played at parties, at the park, at the lake, at the swimming pool, everywhere. And every song on it is just killer. This song however was a huge hit. Ain't talkin bout love, which I think you've done, is also from this album. Check out any or all of the others, you will not be disappointed.

[@bradwarren5380]

Blizzard of Oz is in there as well I hope. lol

[@halcyonpoet]

Can't go wrong with Van Halen

[@JohnnyC60]

Song brings back great memories! I was standing next to my car with friends in our high school parking lot one sunny afternoon when another student pulled up next to us with an unfamiliar tune blasting from his 8-track stereo speakers. The tune was Jamie's Crying and the band was Van Halen! Instantly blown away and hypnotized! Eddie's unique style and guitar riffs and DLR's lead vocal are fantastic, but Michael Anthony's prominent backup vocal on this tune (and many others) is the perfect complement and absolutely superb! What an era for outstanding debut albums! Boston (Aug 76), Foreigner (Mar 77), VH (Feb 78), The Cars (June 78) to name a few.

[@kevinminne1460]

The production value of this Album is off the charts! When this came out nobody heard this style of polished hard rocking "Rock" Great Album!

[@anitamiller4351]

I think Sam would love David Lee Roth’s Ice cream Man. It’s a must for all the ladies..❤❤❤

[@zappa1952]

Following a garage band I knew, they got a chance to play the Whiskey a go-go. They were opening for another pretty much unknown band called Van Halen. It was 1975. Three years b4 this album was released. 😮

[@jonfazzone5125]

Not only is Eddie Van Halen a top 3 Guitarist of all time, Eddie’s rhythm guitar parts are part of what made VH special and EVH always played within the structure of the Song. EVH never overpowered the Song

[@taylortyler1867]

Couldn't agree more. His rhythms are fire, and for the most part, better than his leads, which are great, but it seems like he's more interested in flying up & down the neck, than he is about making it fit the song.

[@thomashasty2936]

I seen them in 77(I believe) in Atlanta Ga. Open up for Black Sabbath. One very fun night and they was a bunch of us that night. Party!

[@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman]

Im from that era of Hotlanta & seen many many great bands, I was raised in Covington just east of ATL

[@johnphillipsjr7238]

The Mighty Van Halen

[@fhdz505]

My fav song from Van Halen! One of their first songs that goes unnoticed. Thank you for the Reaction❤

[@CollinFeatherston]

My personal favorite is " Dance the Night Away!"

[@farmdog93]

The david lee roth days of the band were my favorite, there's just nobody like him lol need to check out his song "Yankee rose", great reaction as always

[@clifhaley5150]

"....and it sounds like Jamie's having some regrets." Hilariously on point.

[@Bill-c8k]

Dirty LA rock and roll and the introduction to the guitar god EDDIE VAN HALEN!!!!

[@robertlavorna2968]

THERES AB0UT 50 GUYS BEF0RE HIM THATS BETTER, D0 A IiTTIE RESEARCH!!!!

[@craigoxford5611]

This is my favorite Van Halen Song.

[@WorldWide-q8v]

Two words: Mean Street! DO it!

[@vicprovost2561]

Their best album for me and a game changer in Rock Music history. Another from it you should try is the Atomic Punk. Saw them open for Black Sabbath in 1978, I was blown into the next dimension by both bands but Van Halen had a new vibrancy and white Hendrix vibe with Eddie. Then Iommi started War Pigs... Great show! Enjoy. 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎶🔥

[@kenharness1417]

Fun fact: Tone Loc sampled Eddie's guitar in the chorus on his song "Wild Thing".

[@aronp7097]

.....and the opening drum fill.

[@kenharness1417]

@aronp7097 yes I forgot

[@chazcp]

David Lee Roth sings 'Ice Cream Man', check it out....

[@christopherglock7239]

Hang em high was a guitar masterpiece because no other guitarist could play it. It was unique to him. The drums and Dave Swag

[@mjtribby6328]

Their best album by far. I remember when it first came out. "Who are these guys". There sound was so unique at the time. Great reaction.

[@EdA1]

One of my faves!.... Saw Halen for their first album tour in '78 opening for Sabbath... killer!

[@jamesnorthup7717]

Anything off the debut album is great!

[@whey4u]

From beginning to end this album is SICK! I remember hearing this when it came out and I played this all day! I always wanted Edward’s hair (I have dark hair) and Dave’s vocal! This was sampled for Tone-Loc’s “Wild Thing”!

[@jrpage12]

Listen to Feel Your Love!! One of there best songs ever!!

[@rmacdougallaliasdogviticus]

'Little Dreamer' is a must hear. Cheers.

[@kidpoker007]

I still remember driving in my Firebird Formula in 1978 hearing this on the radio for the first time and immediately fell in the love with the guitar riff!!!

[@kimzwolinski9919]

One of my favorites from the DLR era 🤘🔥

[@stevedouglas1654]

You guys got a new set 👍😎

[@Daehawk]

This is my all time favorite Van Halen song by FAR. I didn't hear it when new and first heard it when I was at a party when i was 17 in 1986 and it was on play from the record. Ive loved it since. And this came out 9 years earlier in 78. David was great dont get me wrong.. I LOVED his Van Halen times and songs but I find I prefer Sammy to Dave later on. Both were great and both fit Van Helen and both had their own Van Halen sound and times...and place in my opinion. I still blast this full max volume in my Mustang today. Strange as I think this a very party sounding song. Thats where I first heard it anways

[@joycemullins3233]

Check out the guitars in "And The Cradle Will Rock". My all time favorite of Van Halen!

[@bretttodd6470]

I dated a girl named Jamie for awhile and my kids didn't like her. I then dated a lady named Trish and when this song played on the radio, she sang along but didn't know my ex's name. My kids both smiled and Trish thought they were laughing at her bad singing. It was hilarious.

[@jonfazzone5125]

Great Song From an Absolutely Amazing Game Changing Album. Lucky enough to have see Van Halen Live in 1979 with the Frontman’s Frontman David Lee Roth

[@correctlyrics]

Phil, I was totally expecting you to recognize the opening drum fill and main guitar riff from Tone Loc's "Wild Thing".

[@robertclymer6948]

Wow Phil, what a great Radio voice you have or narrations too. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from Michigan usa

[@rowenatulley852]

Closing in on 200k subscribers . . . way to go!

[@bayareathrasher666]

Michaels bass and back up vocals were VH's secret weapon

[@Michael-es4mj]

"Saw" These guy's in '78 ... Open'd 4 "ChEaP tRiCk" ..."Hager" was next, so needless to say I got a VH t-shirt next day !!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Vee1music-lover]

Them 70’s were something else! Disco and heavy metal ruled the air waves! We were living it up back then!✌🏻😎

[@aura81295]

I had totally forgotten about this song. Had a lot of radio play. I think you are onto something about the difference in David Lee Roth's vocals. He was a front man performer where he really could shine when music videos became more popular. He could sing, but his stage performance and acrobatics may have been more at the forefront later.

[@maggedo-x1s]

Aerosmith's "Janie's got a g*n" was '94's throw-back to Van Halen's '84's 'Jamie's Cryin' & L.A. Gun's '88 "Ballad of Jayne": 3 power ballads of sim' tragic ladies!💔

[@stevedahlberg8680]

For more of an actual rock ballad, kind of, lol, from this incredible first album, check out Little Dreamer. And yeah Michael Anthony's bass guitar playing on this is just fierce. Perfect really hard rocking dance Groove but then check out some of the finesse stuff he is doing mid to late in the song.

[@tedalfred9516]

Great song...well done!!!

[@RichjojoCehura]

Back in the day.. we didn't need cable. Internet..cell phones.. we had badass music.

[@jeffwooten5205]

I saw them in concert back in the day. (I'm old... mid 60's)

[@matteoedwardes2876]

Have you reacted to Runnin with the devil? I don’t feel that party thing in DLR. It’s pretty gritty.

[@tedalfred9516]

Definitely more VH. Qi suggest Run Around I'll Wait Dancin in the Streets Right Now

[@tristanrl1940]

Album chock full of memorable songs. Even the track called by many as a throwaway song - The Little Dreamer - isn’t half bad, really. The 2 covers are classics too

[@ericclarke6107]

From PASADENA, CALIFORNIA!

[@melk.6024]

First Albumn is 🔥....Next is... Running With The Devil❤

[@John_Locke_108]

This whole record is amazing and for me the best song is Atomic Punk. But you could pick any other song and I wouldn't be able to argue.

[@rundbaum]

melancholic! . . .

[@padfolio]

This was a song they wrote in the studio. It wasn't part of their previous repertoire.

[@vinniedixon1140]

If you truly want to hear something special by Van Halen then I strongly recommend I'm The One, it will blow your minds

[@StanCostello-q3o]

My ultimate favorite band you guys did a great reaction. Could you please do? I’m the one off this album thanks. Have a good one guys.

[@alejandrobojorquez6181]

VAN HALEN - "" Intruder/Pretty Woman " Also/ SAMMY HAGAR - "" Heavy Metal "" from 1981 he was part of a ROCK METAL Band in 1973 called MONTROSE - "" Rock Candy "" (Babe) 1973 AUDIO VERSION and also "":Space Station #5... 1973 AUDIO VERSION SAMMY'S VOCALS are Amazing & the music is Rockin' and Heavy like early Metal Music 🎸

[@whey4u]

From the Third album “Women and Children Fisrt” do “Could This Be Magic?”. Acoustic tune that is just the fun side of Van Halen!

[@JimmyHoward-x3t]

Saw Van Halen album fair warning in 82 just turned 16 it was awesome went in my 74 nova then I seen them later on with Sammy I like Van Halen with diamond Dave and the red rocker Sammy Hagar you should check out Sammy he has a massive catalog by himself and with other bands he was in a band called Montrose sing rock candy my favorite album by Sammy his his album standing Hampton Sammy is a damn rocker can shred the guitar as well

[@thejudge3715]

Like Boston's debut, you just need to hit every song on this album.

[@robertmillar8246]

A very different but great tune from this album is "Ice Cream Man" You will get the drift of what kind of ice cream Dave sells.

[@kirbybailey607]

Your next song should be (Ice-cream Man),you'll love it!!!

[@jamesdamiano8894]

My favorite album by them because it’s such a killer debut. Please do Ice Cream Man from it. Classic Dave. You need to check them out live with Dave from back in the day and then check out Jim Dandy by Black Oak Arkansas and you would see his stage presence inspiration.

[@RandomCogitations]

What's your biceps routine? I gotta know.

[@txrojas]

Most reactors mention the Tone Loc song when reacting to this song.

[@aronp7097]

Wild Thang (Tone Loc)

[@DavidTrippi-fp9yg]

Love the doomsday Bunker effect 🔥

[@scottlaughlin9897]

Tone Loc sampled this in his song Wild Thing.

[@CollinFeatherston]

Part of this great song was sampled for Tone Loc's "Wild Thing"!!! Compare the two!!!

[@nickshelley3118]

Check out Junna, Through the Fire and Flame, Dragon Force, drum cover if you want a blast of pure happiness

[@neal5068]

Mean Street...another song you should do.

[@timwhitnell7145]

Please, please, finally react to the cheeky/suggestive Ice Cream Man from the debut album. It is bluesy and rock in one.

[@johnphillipsjr7238]

Harmony master Michael Anthony

[@richardkint6531]

😭😭😭

[@bokefpus5150]

Yall should check out feel your love tonighr!

[@johndonovan758]

As a kid, I think I sang every incorrect version of this title, but mostly "Jay Meets Brian." 😅

[@barbronilsson6132]

Listen to Darin zaniar what if. 😊

[@JoeCruz-hs2yt]

the rapper tone loc sample this tune check it out it's pretty good !

[@jameswilson7790]

The song is titled "Wild Thing."

[@davidhill7234]

Get your asses back on the right side of the table! 😊

[@johntrickey7182]

Today's kids be like, " what's a letter'? She wants to send him an email....a yea a yea.

[@kelleychilton2524]

Or a text. I don't know if young people nowadays could even write a letter. 😂🤣

[@joenagy4347]

YOu guys swapped seat positions. I was distracted by that the whole time. Any chance you could swap back

[@No_Dice200]

Van Halen's first album. The best. Sammy Hagar go away.

[@kelleychilton2524]

💯👍

[@marilynk30]

Thank Goodness back to the original! I never really liked Sammy Hagar! ❤

[@OrangeMonkey2112]

This whole album is great. Back when David Lee Roth could perform, mostly. He would get so drunk he would stop songs, forget lyrics. He was everything wrong with Rock-n-Roll

[@buddinganarchist]

Poor Jamie. The opening drum roll is pretty classic. The riff sounds like a woman crying. Whining at first, cry9ing next.

[@mikeb36240]

Always liked Van Halen more than Van Hagar, but here is one I do like with Sammy. Van Halen -"Humans Being" kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKOap2N3q5ulpc0si=MzaT_FhOu7jcVAyq 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@joeykopack]

Great reaction, good choice of going away from that video, some of those videos from the 70s and 80s sound quality is terrible

[@williamreiser3118]

The DLR era I hated the Van Halen ERA with Sammy Hagar far as I called it van Hagar because think of it this album has the song called ain't talkin bout love then when Eddie Van Halen got married and then Sammy Hagar came aboard they switch to why can't this be Love I hate love songs think of it man all these bands for decades and decades keep singing about girls in love like can you guys sing about something besides just females and being in love hence that's why the David Lee Roth era was testosterone driven rip your face off van Hagar was more pop-oriented

[@kelleychilton2524]

Absolutely 💯👍

[@joebarrera9741]

THANK YOU FOR REACTION TO VAN HALEN NOT SO MUCH VAN HAGAR

[@stevedahlberg8680]

For more of an actual rock ballad, kind of, lol, from this incredible first album, check out Little Dreamer. And yeah Michael Anthony's bass guitar playing on this is just fierce. Perfect really hard rocking dance Groove but then check out some of the finesse stuff he is doing mid to late in the song.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

For more of an actual rock ballad, kind of, lol, from this incredible first album, check out Little Dreamer. And yeah Michael Anthony's bass guitar playing on this is just fierce. Perfect really hard rocking dance Groove but then check out some of the finesse stuff he is doing mid to late in the song.