OU812

I'm Josh.

And in this week, we are continuing our Van Halen series as we progress to their 1988 album, their second one with Sammy Hagar, OU812.

Josh, what is that title in response to? Do you buy the story that it's related to Roth's albedo?

Well, that's the rumor, right? They insist that they saw it on a truck.

But it's weird that it took them... until the album the next album two years later to have a response to that

isn't it because they were rocked so hard to their course they didn't know what to do

well and the thing too is roth had already recorded roth was in the studio around the same time that they were in fact a little bit earlier recording his follow-up skyscraper and that dropped in january of 88 and And OU812 didn't drop until May.

So that just seems even weirder to me.

I think it's aged actually

better than 84 or OU812.

I would almost disagree with you on that one.

Would you?

Top Jimmy, Hopper Teacher, and Girl Gone Bad.

Alright.

band's pick and he chose the Hagar I think just to kind of offset everything with the OU812 and the album was released on May 24th 1988 hey this album's older than I am Woot.

Recorded at 5150 Studios, Studio City, California.

Um, But but yeah, piece by piece is just a great, you know, well put together pop thing.

Van Halen, Mine All Mine from OU812.

Now, this album has more famous songs, but I don't think they ever got any better on this album.

This is the most technical, cool, interesting song.

Uh, but they're kinda doing the same thing again.

Um, OU812, uh, is, is more or less 5150, uh, over again.

They haven't really made too many changes.

It's, it's lyrically and aesthetically kind of the same thing.

Van Halen released, how do you say it? Is it O-U-8-12?

O-U-8-1-2.

O-U-8-1-2.

Oh, okay.

Think about it.

Um, we move, uh, into 1988.

Uh, Van Halgar still with OU812.

Yeah.

So the album with Sammy.

I gotta be honest, like I wonder if the monkey was supposed to be the album cover 'cause, uh-

Yeah

... as much as that wouldn't have been great either, uh, but I think it would've made sense to have Van Halen OU812, and there's this monkey like thinking.

Thinking.

I think it's also interesting, even though every album went to number one, it took until right now for them to have a song, like a single that was at the level of Jump.

Even at the level of Panama, I would argue there's nothing on 5150 or OU812 that is anywhere near the magnitude

of

how

...

Van Halen covered it on OU812.

Yeah.

Oh, that's how I know it, yeah.

And I didn't know that it was a cover that whole time, and I heard it, and then I went and put my OU812, OU812 album on.

I was just, wow, this is...

It's a departure, but it sounds so close-