![]() There, the synths played a circular riff that wouldnt have sounded as overpowering on guitar, but the band didnt dispense with their signature monolithic, pulsating rock.Īlex Van Halen and Michael Anthony grounded the song, keeping it from floating to pop, and David Lee Roth simply exploded with boundless energy, making this seem rock roll no matter how close it got to pop.Īnd Jump was about as close as 1984 got to pop, as the other seven songs - with the exception of Ill Wait, which rides along on a synth riff as chilly as Jump is warm - are heavy rock, capturing the same fiery band thats been performing with a brutal intensity since Women and Children First.īut where those albums placed an emphasis on the bands attack, this places an emphasis on the songs, and theyre uniformly terrific, the best set of original tunes Van Halen ever had.
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