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Title: Ludwig von Halen or Eddie van Beethoven?
Review: Am I the only one who even noticed when this album first came out that the chorus of "When It's Love" is a fairly straight rip-off of the chord progression and to a lesser degree the tune to which Beethoven set Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" in the finale of his 9th Symphony? Don't believe me? Hum the well known "Ode to Joy" tune during the chorus of "When It's Love" and hold the last three notes of the melody twice as long as Beethoven gave them. See what I mean? As Willie Nelson once told Johnny Cash, "Good songwriters borrow, great songwriters steal." Overall this was probably Van Halen's best post-DLR album.
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