Thread 127640411

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Anonymous 9/5/2025, 6:43:05 AM No.127640411 >>127640462 >>127640611 >>127640614 >>127640820 >>127645376 >>127645624 >>127647184 >>127652343

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>Balance is the tenth LP by American rock band Van Halen, released on Warner Bros. Records January 24, 1995. It is the fourth and last Van Halen album to feature Sammy Hagar as lead vocalist.

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 6:47:51 AM No.127640462 >>127645351

>>127640411 (OP)
it was the last passably decent VH record. VH III was objectively terrible, and ADKoT was mostly reheated leftovers from the 70s.

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:00:21 AM No.127640582 >>127645706

Eddie was a washed up alcoholic by this point.

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:04:13 AM No.127640611

>>127640411 (OP)
>reuses audio of eddie drunkingly fucking around with a piano from 11 years earlier as a track
lol

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:04:44 AM No.127640614 >>127640673 >>127645654 >>127645835

>>127640411 (OP)
The album cover screams "80s band who want the 90s look".

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:10:16 AM No.127640673 >>127640765 >>127641012 >>127645635 >>127645654

>>127640614
With the exception of King's X (who were sort of their own thing anyway), virtually none of the '80s hard rock bands who did these mid-'90s "darker" albums did it well. They all ranged from mediocre (Van Halen, Mr Big, Extreme) to awful (Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Warrant, Skid Row)

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:20:12 AM No.127640765

>>127640673
Slang > Balance though

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:26:01 AM No.127640820 >>127641012

>>127640411 (OP)
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge had some bangers but the rot was setting in. This was just forgettable.

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:44:04 AM No.127640991 >>127647429

Nobody likes Van Halen, literally fucking nobody
but a sizeable portion of this website does like pictures of naked children it seems

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:46:25 AM No.127641012 >>127653666 >>127656608

>>127640673
>>127640820
for unlawful carnal knowledge occupies that weird space between the 80s/90s, it's neat. although knowing hagar picked alice in chains to open for them already signaled they were on their way out

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 4:13:08 PM No.127644374

>contrary to popular belief, the boy on the cover of Balance was not Wolfgang Van Halen

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 6:32:28 PM No.127645351 >>127645391 >>127645514

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>>127640462
>ADKoT was mostly reheated leftovers from the 70s.
>noooo...they cant use songs from their past era
half the album was brand new songs.

ADKOT>>>>>>>Balance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgiBZmbn5nc

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 6:35:45 PM No.127645376 >>127645423

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>>127640411 (OP)
Why do boomers love putting naked kids on album covers?

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 6:37:32 PM No.127645391

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>>127645351
>their past era
their best era I meant

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 6:41:02 PM No.127645423

>>127645376
Cherublike figures have been common in art for centuries, at least

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 6:51:20 PM No.127645514 >>127645742

>>127645351
damn thats a banger. wtf I love VH now!

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:05:06 PM No.127645624 >>127645645 >>127645754

>>127640411 (OP)
The Eddie Van Halen Method:

>get lead singer
>lead singer "lead singers" too hard
>get butthurt
>"IT'S MY NAME ON THE BAND, NOT YOURS MIIIIIINE!!"
>act like a cunt until lead singer quits
>repeat

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:06:40 PM No.127645635

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>>127640673
A-HET-HEMM

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:07:33 PM No.127645645 >>127645754

>>127645624
>IT'S MY NAME ON THE BAND
Did he forget that Dave was the guy who decided to call them "Van Halen" because he thought it sounded awesome when the original name of the band was Mammoth?

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:09:11 PM No.127645654

>>127640614
>>127640673
they were lucky that they still had Warner's huge promotional muscle behind them because lots of 80s bands got dropped during that era and ended up on budget labels like Sanctuary/CMC

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:18:18 PM No.127645706 >>127646974

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>>127640582
Nothing a little meth couldn't fix

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:23:20 PM No.127645742

>>127645514
that album has DLRs best lyrics...and it has the best bass playing of any VH album. (backing vocals not so much)

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:24:22 PM No.127645748 >>127645819

>"Eddie was a sad sight by 1995," Hagar said in his memoir. "He would shamble around in an old trench coat drinking cheap shiraz straight from the bottle. It turned all his teeth black. I said 'Don't you want a glass for that?' He tapped the side of the bottle and said 'It's in a glass.'"

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:24:47 PM No.127645754 >>127649752

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>>127645624
>>127645645
Imagine not thinking turbo-autist DLR had nothing to do with the band imploding lol.

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:31:31 PM No.127645819

>>127645748
>'It's in a glass.
he had a point

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:33:35 PM No.127645835

>>127640614
it's like they were really trying hard to look like Korn but nobody was buying a bunch of washed 40 year old dads doing this schtick.

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:37:07 PM No.127645870

best song on the album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOrDqlLkfhg

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 9:27:36 PM No.127646974

>>127645706
i don't think eddie ever did meth. he did A LOT of coke of in the 70s/80s, but he eventually switched over to alcohol later on. while chainsmoking the entire way of course

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 9:42:41 PM No.127647184

>>127640411 (OP)
This album cover makes me hard

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 9:58:53 PM No.127647429

>>127640991
You're kidding right?

Anonymous 9/6/2025, 1:41:23 AM No.127649752 >>127657395

>>127645754
Eddie did the same thing to Sammy though. Sammy (in his view) was outshining him, the same way DLR did. For fuck sake if you wanna to be the front man of your band, BE THE FRONT MAN, faggot ass Eddie Van Halen

Anonymous 9/6/2025, 6:22:58 AM No.127652343

>>127640411 (OP)
Pedo artwork

Anonymous 9/6/2025, 9:08:13 AM No.127653666

>>127641012
god tier era for thrash and death metal though

Anonymous 9/6/2025, 4:20:47 PM No.127656608

>>127641012
hagar picking AIC to open for them in 91 was a boss move; that was a great show.

having Baby Animals open in 92 was like "LOL WTF who did you ow a favor to?"

src: me. I was there at both shows

Anonymous 9/6/2025, 6:06:09 PM No.127657395

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>>127649752
>Sammy (in his view) was outshining him
in whose view? Ed claimed it was cuz Hagar wanted to take a break after balance and didnt want to work. They also changed managers and the new one was like wormtongue. Being a raging alcoholic didnt help either. EVH was pretty messed up for awhile. its sucks. oh well. at least we have the music.