Originally Posted by SamHouston

1984 was the first album I had that my mother didn't approve of (an angel,...with cigarettes....why do you need that...tsk tsk..lots of dubious looks wondering if her little angel is smoking or on the drugs) And it was the first album I'd ever purchased where I thought every song rocked. I thought that couldn't happen before, you bought an album for the song you liked and much of the rest turned out to be crap. I shortly thereafter bought the older Van Halen albums.

Before VH I listened to whatever the hell my older sister listened to cause I'd not found a sound. VH rescued me from Micheal Jackson, Yes, .38 Special, Duran Duran and similar whatever that she listened to, for that I'll forever be indebted to them.