Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (track)
by Van Halen
Year: 1978
From the album Van Halen (track #4)
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Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love appears on the following album(s) by Van Halen:
- Van Halen (track #4) (this album) (1978)
- Best Of Volume 1 (track #2) (compilation) (1996)
- The Best Of Both Worlds (track #5) (compilation) (2004)
- Live: Right Here, Right Now (track #5) (1993)
- Tokyo Dome Live In Concert (track #24) (2015)
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| ! | 06/20/2025 21:38 |  seb7 | 4,516 | 91/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2025 16:37 | machiaj | 8,778 | 74/100 |
| ! | 05/07/2025 07:54 | steve397 | 4,959 | 73/100 |
| ! | 03/26/2025 12:15 | timosbuecherei | 3,138 | 60/100 |
| ! | 02/03/2025 03:33 | AbsurdCheesecake | 1,342 | 89/100 |
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Possibly VH's best song
Sammy Hegar is a GOD. Period.
Very powerful riff.
AAL2014 07/04/2016 01:19 | #170463
All around great Van Halen track. Very well put together hard-pop-rock.
One of their best songs
Who would've thought that Van Halen - the same California bar band that went on to hire Sammy Hagar to screech over a synth-pop power ballad called "Why Can't This Be Love?" in '86 - would (or could) write one of the most charged and - at the same time - listenable punk songs ever waxed..? No easy feat.
Naturally, this occurred in '78, several years before they started thinking' 'bout, never mind talkin' 'bout 'love.
Romanelli 04/16/2013 18:43 | #73446
Okay. That riff got me. And it's one of Roth's least annoying vocals.
Jasonconfused 12/07/2012 10:48 | #57014
Another of my favorite Van Halen songs. The riff is one of Eddie's best and I love that it has side of wide range of high and low notes and everything in the middle.
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