One of the most under appreciated aspects of Van Halen was their sense of humor and desire to have fun!!!

“I think the Clock Is Slooooow”; how many times I felt like that in certain classes! I was in High School in Bklyn from 1981-1985; we dressed pretty darn cool; always planned the outfit the night before 😂.

"I don't feel tardy." 🤣🤣 This was just a fun video made back in the day before people got butt-hurt over a woman in a bikini. It was a much more fun and all-around better time. IMHO Hmmm...I had this Spanish teacher in the 8th grade who was a sweet bundle of love and who had a chest you could play volleyball on. I still get a warm feeling (at 73) when I think of her.

@rothed16

4 ай бұрын

😂😂❤😂😂

Eddie is one of the most innovative guitarists ever

Back in the day Van Halen was the bar setting group with David Lee Roth as the front man. Next should be jump that's a BANGER you would digg.

All part of 70’s-80’s dressing… no one ever complained! It’s a shame Eddie Van Halen passed away🙏🏻 they were the band to see in concert amongst many other great rock n roll bands! Js imo Thanks for sharing Mugnify… check out Sammy Hagar in I can’t drive 55 😉

Looks just like my junior high class in 1984. I was in 8th grade when this came out and this was the style. I live in a rural farm community area in Pennsylvania and girls still had neon tanks, teased hair, ripped stretch pants, and lots of plastic hoops and bands,

They kind of were dressing somewhat like that back then. They were given no filter back in those days to a point, of course it depended on what area you lived in and if it was a progressive school or not

@rhondabeaulieu4633

8 ай бұрын

Your absolutely right, many dresses like this and no one ever thought anything about it! It was the 70’s-80’s that had the most fun in funky dressing! ❤ Especially growing up in Miami Florida 😝

@rothed16

4 ай бұрын

I grew up in the 80s. When this album came out I was in 8th grade going into 9th

Waldo turned into a pimp lolol..if you look where it says what happened after they graduated..it shows Waldo with all the ladies 😂👍😎🔥

Waldo became a pimp at the end

All of us were creeped out by Waldo's Mom when this video came out!

Love that 3:40 and 6:19 guitar sound! Alex the drummer needs more love esp from this song. He is just tearing it up the whole time

back when MTV played only music videos.

My French teacher as a senior in 1972 looked like her. She always wore miniskirts.

Spaz nerd or Geeks was a Waldo

Parents did NOT like this video, see P.M.R.C. filthy fifteen 🤣

Most guys wanted a teacher that looked so WOW! Lol

fantastic question/observation about Waldo!!!

That was late-70's to early 80's fun! That was how it was. Every kid in school that I ever knew always wondered what their teachers will look like and be like when they start their school year. Didn't you? lol

I'm not really a VH fan but I love this song. It's funny, has a killer main riff, a kickass solo, and most of all that chorus. The chorus freakin rules. Plus it's funny. Their best work and it's not close.

@cardiac19

8 ай бұрын

Those drums to start the show!

@rothed16

4 ай бұрын

The drums are just banging the whole entire time!❤

We definitely dressed all sorts of messed up, but that was like teenager's gear on 10 year olds - I think Waldo was basically a prop so they could have a video lmao - David Lee Roth era of Van Halen is the grimier, when Sammy Hagar came on as singer the topics got a bit deeper. Dave was more about sex, drugs, and cock and balls (his own.) Then in Sam's VH catalog there's even a lyric about aliens showing up in a love song, I mean look at this verse: "And then you sense a change Nothing feels the same All your dreams are strange Love comes walkin' in Some kind of alien Waits for the opening Then simply pulls a string"

I was rocking 6 inch hair and full eye make up, usually blue, in 7th grade…yes, we dressed like that! 😂

Ha ha!! We were just having fun in the 80s.

Yup we dressed just like that, hair and all

Back when life was fun for kids and adults. And no...we weren't going to let something like this get cancelled regardless of what any authority could possibly have said. They try to cancel them it would only make them stronger and more popular.

Phil Hartman played the voice of Waldo.

Hay man the kids are suppose to be Van Halen as kids in school

LOL You are tooo sweet!!

I dressed just like that in the 80's

Please dont overthink van halen lol

Yes we did dress like that lol

Hell yeah 👍

Where's Waldo is a long time running joke, and apparently he's a Pimp 😆

Yes, in the mid 1980s, kids were beginning to dress like this!!!

Mtv. One of the great music vids of all time .

I think the kid represents kids back then who may have been scared of van halen music. At that time they were considered a bad influence LOL

Did you ever have a crush on your JR. HIGH TEACHER?!? I DID!!! MRS. NOWAK!!! A PRE TEEN/ EARLY TEEN CRUSH!!! A normal stage for boys!

☮️💙💙💙🔥🔥🎸Your 💙 is good!

😂🤟

Videos in the 80's were fun. There was lots of female sexploitation. I was in the nave back then. The enlisted club at Norfolk had a huge screen video juke box and a big dance floor. There was no shortage of great videos and spilled beer.

They were dressing like that believe me. I remember.

Sometimes you need a video...Sledgehammer...but in this case....did you notice an actual song

Hey brother

It’s hilarious because the teacher didn’t actually dress like this or act like this. It’s all in the minds of the kids. 😆🤦‍♂️🙄😂

As a kid who was 13 when this album came out, yes that’s how kids dressed in 1984.

What folks your age don't understand is the 80's was a different time altogether, there wasn't all this cancel culture crap going on back then, it was a more laid back period of time. Kids maybe didn't dress like this in grade school, but high school.., yes. There was a gal when I was in high school used to occasionally wear a t-shirt that said "If You like My Mountains You'll Love My Busch". Yes is was a different time.

I think it's stupid they would get canceled today. Its life when kids want their teachers to be " hot," especially the boys.

The music video pretty much ruins the song by playing over the first 10 seconds of the drum intro. Oh well.

I’d suggest not watching the music video. It distracts from the actual music. I suggest you put on a headset, listen to the music only and get your reaction to the actual song rather than the video. Do this with any song which gives the music its actual justice.

@MugnifyRTS

3 ай бұрын

I have headphones on

Lol. "Cancelled". What a ridiculous concept to a Gen Xer. We were smart enough to know it was a goof. We didn't need to lose our minds over cry babies, but for you they became "cry bullies". Wish you knew the pleasure of just laughing without guilt.

……you were too invested in the video…. Not the audio 🥲 didn’t bop your head once Your breaking down a useless video than the actual song. (Fail)

Tgis was played in Congress how this is degrading to eomen. Tipper GorAl Gores wife, former Vice President , The Senators we're cheering at the nd of the song, what a sham for doing that.

This album was the beginning of the end for the great VH...Dave was leaving, they added KEYBOARDS ..it was a real mess after this album (although they have some good songs with Sammy the new singer, they were never as good again)

@davidbird461

8 ай бұрын

Every album with Sammy sold more and #1 albums

@NotBenCoultry

8 ай бұрын

I grew up with Sammy as the singer - I can appreciate Dave for the sheer fun-ness and the era for how sick the music is, but man for me the songwriting got way better with 5150 and OU812. The keyboard hate is so strange to me. I mean, the fuck is a piano but a keyboard that basically plays one extremely versatile sample? You never hear an ounce of piano hatred from anybody. None for rhodes, hammond, moog or lowry either.

@NotBenCoultry

8 ай бұрын

Ok maybe Lowry gets some hate lol

@chrisw3421

8 ай бұрын

@davidbird461 thanks to the early success with Dave

@chrisw3421

8 ай бұрын

@NotBenCoultry the keyboards or a piano doesn't make them sound harder or more rockin, just the opposite...