Title: A Lost Time
Review: 1984, the last album by the original Van Halen lineup, went over big. The song 1984/Jump was a landmark in rock history. This was some great keyboards, Van Halen wasn't a stranger to them. "Panama" was next. The slowdown near the end should go on longer as you "ease the seat back". "Top Jimmy" is a straight forward, at The Hop kind of Van Halen's version of "Johnny Be Goode". I haven't poured over the rest much. "Hot for Teacher" and "I'll Wait" were popular. It was on the pop rock/hard rock border of an album. These "monsters" of rock were getting more polished, it seems to always happen. Van Halen I and II seemed like a phase they were going through now. But 1984 left a lot to the imagination of what they would sound like now if they'd stayed together. They surely would have done somewhere around 10 more albums by now. But sometimes even the love of rock doesn't keep a band together. This group kept a pace going like no other set of musicians may ever equal.
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