Thread 127300045

Van Halen are one of the three most influential artists of the last 40 years. I’d say they’re the most influential rock band of the last 40 years. I’d say they’re the second most influential rock band of all time, after the Beatles. I’d say they deserve to be hailed as among popular music’s greatest pioneers. They are the equals of Kraftwerk, pioneers of a genre all their own that then permeated through music.

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>>127300045 (OP)
Van Halen, regardless of influence just kicks insane amount of ass and besides the leads, Eddie was also one of the best rhythm guitar players. SOMEBODY GIMME A SHOT!!

Be prepared for a bunch of contrarian radiohead hipsters commenting how much VH sucks. Welcome to /mu/.

i like van halen but you are wayyyyy overrating them, bands like sabbath are up there with the beatles and kraftwerk.
Van halen was influential on glam metal, but so where the new york dolls and david bowie

also you dont see that many van halen revivalists, people always rip off led zepplin even though van halen showed a new way to rock in the 80s

>>127300045 (OP)
>Stones, Zeppelin, Sabbath
whether or not you like these bands they are far more influential than Van Halen. EVH might've inspired countless guitarists with the 2 handed trick there are no bands that i can think of that are derivative of VH: the band. (who ripped off Aerosmith for their look, who ripped of the Stones for dual guitar interplay.). There is only one Van Halen.

Everyone who heard the first Velvet Underground album formed a band, did they? Yes, but very few of those bands were heard by anyone else. Dozens of the bands who were formed after the first Van Halen album were heard by millions upon millions of people. It is likely this is the only time you will read this sentence: Van Halen were more influential than the Velvet Underground could ever have been in Lou Reed’s wildest dreams.

second rate Deep Purple where a second rate Ritchie Blackmore moonlights as a third rate Jon Lord.
Purely an American phenomenon, responsible for an entire movement of poodle haired wimpy MTV "metal"
Guns N' Roses left a bigger mark on the music world with a single album

>>127300045 (OP)
Eddie van Halen himself is more well-known than the band

>>127300231
GNR are the Mc Donald's of '80s rock. November Rain fucking sucks too.

>>127300045 (OP)
>I’d say they’re the most influential rock band of the last 40 years.
Top 10 maybe...

>>127300045 (OP)
when you just did "VH ARE FUCKING GARBAGE" threads at least there was some passion to it

>>127300045 (OP)
what in the name of Warner Bros-sponsored boomer circle jerk hell are these Van Halen threads?

The last even passably good van halen album was Balance, which was 30 years ago. Everything since then was not just bad, but often cringe. and then the Different Kind of Truth album was mostly re-heated leftovers from more creative days.

Let it go. nobody really gives a fuck about Van Halen anymore.

>>127300045 (OP)
>Van Halen are one of the three most influential artists of the last 40 years.
40 years ago was 1985. How much did Van Halen do 1985 and later that actually impacted the music industry in a significant way?

>>127301534
>40 years ago was 1985. How much did Van Halen do 1985 and later that actually impacted

You forgot about the metal bands that came out after them like Iron Maiden

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>>127300098
Hair Metal exists because people’s brains were so broken by Van Halen 78 that they spent an entire billions of dollars and an entire decade trying emulate the sound.
Only 2 or 3 bands have done that in history.

But Adrian Smith said listening to Deep Purple got him into playing the guitar so there's that

>>127300045 (OP)
They were carried by Eddie's guitar gimmicks. But their songs weren't that great.
How many today listen to VH's songs from the 80s? Do they sound just as great as back then?

And now the guitar noodlery sounds lame af.
They were the only band that sounded good 'like Van Halen'. Every other band that tried to copy their style ended up sounding like 80s hair metal.

They were responsible for the worst trend in rock, that shit with guys trying to look like bimbos, the lead guitar doing tapping solos and them playing these fake corporate rock upbeat tunes. With videos showing hookers and coke and whatever triumphalistic consumerist bullshit. Like rockers in Rolls Royce, partying with bimbos

If that didn't become a thing, maybe alt-rock didnt have to be so downcast

>>127303031
You still had bands like Aerosmith Ac/Dc among and style from Led Zeppelin, Bowie, New York Dolls I read was an influence on the genre. Its just that Van Halen presented a pop version of Led Zeppelin with an innovative more Virtuoso guitar playing

>>127300045 (OP)
I wouldn't go so far as to compare them to The Beatles or Kraftwerk, or even put them in the same league.
I do like the first three VH albums, though.