@VanHalenNews: TODAY is the 35th Anniversary of Van Halen’s ‘Women & Children First!’ See our killer tribute to the classic album: http://t.co/o10SfhvvJ6

guitard: They have DLR’s original handwritten lyrics for each song also.

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Great find! I finally can tell what Dave says about the Moonbeam.

I bought the vinyl right after it was released.

The front & back covers were as bad ass as the music.

Bought the cassette the day it came out, I remember a big cardboard cut out in the record store, camelot music at the mall with the band doing the pose on the front cover .At 14 years old this was the heaviest stuff Id ever heard. I loved how you could still hear the guitar on one side of the speaker only like in the solo before the beginning of fools, and loved the ending of the tape the Growth tune

I listened to this one constantly when I first bought it. I don’t think I got it until a year or two later, though….?? Can’t remember, but I know it wasn’t new. I do remember that I listened to it all the time while shooting baskets in the driveway and shooting pool downstairs. Wore that sucker out!

I liked on the last tour when Dave sang, “Yeah seen a lotta people take a ride on a moonbeam.” Then he walked over to Wolfie and sang, “I wrote the words but I don’t know what they mean.”

Something like that… It was classic.

Um, it was 34 years ago today.

mrmojohalen: Um, it was 34 years ago today.

Sorry..Noticed that.
VHND Twitter has it at 35.
VHND.COM has it at 34.

If someone can please change the headline Topic to 34 that would be great..

From vhnd.com
Some great photos there.

Women and Children First

Release Date: March 26, 1980
Recorded: December 1979 – February 1980
Length: 33:13
Producer: Ted Templeman
Preceded By: Van Halen II
Succeeded By: Fair Warning
Track listing:
1. And The Cradle Will Rock…
2. Everybody Wants Some!!
3. Fools
4. Romeo Delight
5. Tora! Tora!
6. Loss Of Control
7. Take Your Whiskey Home
8. Could This Be Magic?
9. In A Simple Rhyme
(Hidden) Growth
34 Years ago today (March 26, 1980) Van Halen released Women and Children First!

Read more: http://www.vhnd.com/women-and-children-first/#ixzz2x8wqcMwC

A great album that still sounds relevant in 2014… rocks harder than anyone in the ‘modern’ rock era, that’s for sure… Romeo Delight is probably my favorite VH song of all time.. just a monster tune with so much going on in there!

When I first heard WACF … within a couple months of its release … I didn’t care for it. It just didn’t connect with me right away. It took a couple of years but after some time went by I listened back to the album again and couldn’t figure out why I didn’t like it the first time. Today it is one of my all time favorite albums. Now-a-days if I don’t like something on the initial listen … I’ll give it some time and come back to it later. Great album, just a great album.

VAiN: A great album that still sounds relevant in 2014… rocks harder than anyone in the ‘modern’ rock era, that’s for sure… Romeo Delight is probably my favorite VH song of all time.. just a monster tune with so much going on in there!

True. True. And true. Romeo is a monster.