OU812
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May 24, 1988 |
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September 1987 - April 1988 |
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| Label (s) | Warner Music Group | |||
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CD, LP, MC |
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running time |
50:09 |
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Van Halen, Donn Landee |
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Studio (s) |
5150, Hollywood , California |
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OU812 (pronounced "Oh You Ate One Too", English for: "Oh, you also eat") the title of the published in 1988, the eighth studio album is the US hard rock - band Van Halen and the second of four albums of the band, which one by one reached the top spot on the US album charts .
background
Founding member and singer David Lee Roth had left Van Halen in 1985 to begin a solo career. Van Halen hired Sammy Hagar , who was already a successful solo artist and a star in the USA . The album 5150 , which was released in March 1986, was recorded with this line-up . “5150” is a radio code commonly used in California for an escaped mental patient. The album reached number one on the US album charts on April 25, 1986 as the first of all Van Halen albums , number 16 in Great Britain and number 11 in Germany . It has been six times in the US with a platinum record for more than six Millions of albums sold have been awarded and received a gold record in Germany .
Hagar made several negative comments about Roth in contemporary interviews, although neither of them had ever met personally.
“I have no idea what these guys went through with Dave as a singer in the band - but with me, I tell you, being a former guitarist, I can see a guitar riff that Edward has in a song or something, and maybe appreciate it a bit more than a guy who doesn't play guitar. So like maybe someone else would overlook a really great lick just because they weren't a guitarist (...). "
"I don't know what these guys went through with Dave as their vocalist - but I, I'll tell you that as a previous guitarist, I can see a guitar riff that Edward has in a song and maybe appreciate it a little more than someone who doesn't play guitar. Maybe someone else would overlook a really great lick just because they're not a guitarist (...). "
He also refused to sing songs from his time with Roth during performances, especially the hit Jump . At concerts he usually had this song sung by randomly selected spectators or celebrities from the respective venue.
On September 5, 1986, David Lee Roth, who had secured the services of guitarist Steve Vai for his band, released his first solo album entitled Eat 'Em and Smile (German: " Eat' Em and Smile "), the only four Days later was awarded a gold and a platinum record. In the US charts reached the album Place 4. Originally, he had planned the album Can This Be Love to name what an allusion to the first 5150 -Single and then current Van Halen hit Why Can not This Be Love understood could be.
During the marketing for his album, Roth was of course asked about Van Halen and their new singer and said in an interview:
“Whenever you have a big ugly divorce, there's hurt feelings. On the other hand, Sammy's only angry because he knows I'm better than he is ”
“In every big ugly divorce there are hurt feelings. On the other hand, Sammy is annoyed because he knows that I'm better than him. "
Van Halen began recording the follow-up album to 5150 in September 1987. A date was simply set when the band would get together and start working. Eddie van Halen brought his song ideas with him, Sammy Hagar had written down a few lyrics that he wanted to bring in, and the songs together emerged in jam sessions . The first completed song was When It's Love , which was later released as a single . It was written immediately after Hagar's arrival in Hollywood, when the van Halen brothers picked him up at the airport. In the car they played him an instrumental that they had written the night before. When they got to the studio the song was finished.
The second single, Finish What Ya Started , was created at the very end of the recording, when all work was actually finished. As a bonus track for the CD edition of the album, the group recorded a cover version of the Little Feat song A Apolitical Blues .
Assumptions that the title was an answer to Roth's album title, because Van Halen took it as a provocation , were later declared wrong by Sammy Hagar. The album was supposed to be called Bone , the title was already fixed. Then he saw a truck on the street with the number OU812 , which Hagar found hilarious and reported to the other band members, whereupon the decision was made to name the album that.
Track list
| OU 812 | |||
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| No. | title | Songwriter | length |
| 1. | Mine all mine | Sammy Hagar , Eddie Van Halen , Alex Van Halen , Michael Anthony | 5:11 |
| 2. | When it's love | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 5:36 |
| 3. | AFU (Naturally Wired) | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 4:28 |
| 4th | Cabo Wabo | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 7:02 |
| 5. | Source of Infection | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 3:58 |
| 6th | Feels so good | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 4:27 |
| 7th | Finish What Ya Started | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 4:20 |
| 8th. | Black and Blue | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 5:24 |
| 9. | Sucker In A 3 Piece | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 5:52 |
| 10. | A Apolitical Blues (CD bonus track , cover version ) | Lowell George | 5:02 |
| Overall length: | 50:09 | ||
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Holger Stratmann wrote in Rock Hard that OU812 would bring Van Halen "again millions of sales". The new Albun is also “no comparison to the old albums with David Lee Roth”, but the name Van Halen “still stands for first-class rock music and superb guitar work”. Tracks like Mine All Mine , AFU (Naturally Wired) or the opener Source Of Infection are “just great” and “don't need any further comment”. It gets "sometimes a bit greasy" ( Feels So Good , Finish What Ya Started ), but the majority of the songs are "impeccable rockers who by and large know how to please". OU812 is "the logical continuation of the predecessor", whoever found 5150 good can "get this album without hesitation". Stratmann awarded 7.5 out of ten possible points.
“Nothing, nothing at all” has changed, wrote Oliver Klemm in Metal Hammer : Eddie van Halen “still plays one of the most original and best guitars far and wide”, Sammy Hagar “is still one of the most expressive rock singers ever”, the Rhythm Section Alex van Halen and Michael Anthony can "still be measured against each other". All of this was "to be expected" as was the continuation of the 5150 songwriting. In fact, you have everything that 5150 also had: “Potential top ten singles, the usual VH pounders and gifted bangers, as only Van Halen could write”. The "gods" had "played it safe" and would thus "earn at least five times platinum". The “uniformity guarantee of success” is once again “booming”. Since the listeners prefer the “tried and tested” to “a failed experiment”, the “ 5150 II ” is definitely worth its six points.
The album reached number 1 on the US album charts. On July 26, 1988, OU812 was awarded double platinum in the US and triple platinum a year later. The album received its last award from the RIAA on May 12, 2004 when it received its fourth platinum record.
Web links
- OU812 at Discogs
- When It's Love on YouTube , accessed July 1, 2020.
- Finish What You Started on YouTube , accessed July 1, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists , page 166
- ↑ Entry in the RIAA's award database , accessed on June 15, 2020
- ↑ a b c Van Halen Without David Lee Roth: Can This Be Love? (English), rollingstone.com, accessed July 3, 2020
- ↑ Interview by Dave DiMartino , accessed on July 3, 2020
- ↑ Entry in the RIAA's award database , accessed on July 3, 2020
- ^ Billboard 200 entry for David Lee Roth , accessed July 3, 2020
- ↑ Greg Renoff: Revisiting David Lee Roth's' Eat 'Em and Smile' 30 Years Later , accessed July 3, 2020
- ↑ a b c d e 30th Anniversaray of OU812 , VHND.com (English), accessed on July 3, 2020
- ↑ Zeitsprung: On 24/05/1988 appears "OU812" by Van Halen , udiscovermusic.de, accessed on July 3, 2020
- ↑ Chart sources: UK US DE
- ↑ Review on rockhard.de , accessed on July 1, 2020
- ↑ Metal Hammer, issue 7.1988, page 54
- ↑ RIAA awards database , accessed on July 3, 2020