Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
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"Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" is a song by Van Halen
Van Halen
Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. The band has enjoyed success since the release of its debut album, Van Halen, . As of 2007 Van Halen has sold 80 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart...

, from their 1978 eponymous debut album
Van Halen (album)
Van Halen is the debut studio album by American rock band Van Halen, released in February 1978.- History :Recorded in 1977, Van Halen sold over 10 million copies in the US alone, becoming one of the most successful debuts by a rock band. Along with 1984, it gives Van Halen two original albums with...

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When Eddie Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen
Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and producer, best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

 originally wrote the song a year before the album was released, he did not consider it good enough to show his bandmates.

This song is also one of the few David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. Roth was ranked nineteenth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Singers of All Time....

-era songs that onetime replacement Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar
Sam Roy "Sammy" Hagar , also known as The Red Rocker, is an American rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Also sings Country Music....

 was willing to sing in concert when he joined the band in the mid-80's.

In popular culture

This song was the infamous "total dumpout" song for WNEW (Broadcast the metropolitan New York area) when the station used too much vulgarity or anything deemed obscene by the company. After too many "dumps" by a show, this song would start in order to give the master computer time to rebuild dump time on the radio station. The song would kick in when any show dumped out too much. Many times the theory to how much dump time were in the computer were challenged many a nights by the "Opie and Anthony" or "Ron and Fez" show between June 1998 and January 2003.

The song has also been played for many years at Gillette Stadium whenever the New England Patriots are able to force an interception or recover a fumble.

Notable cover versions

  • On Tim Hecker's album, "My Love Is Rotten to the Core" the first track, "Introducing Carl Cocks" is a digitally splayed manipulation mainly based on the main guitar riff.
  • This song has also been covered by other artists such as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
    The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
    The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American ska punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1983. Since the band's inception, lead vocalist Dicky Barrett, bassist Joe Gittleman, tenor saxophonist Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton and dancer Ben Carr have remained constant members...

     and Minutemen
    Minutemen (band)
    Minutemen were an American hardcore punk band formed in San Pedro, California in 1980. Composed of guitarist D. Boon, bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley, Minutemen recorded four albums and eight EPs before Boon's death in an automobile accident in December 1985...

     (who play a chorus-free version of the song).
  • Rappers Tone Loc
    Tone Loc
    Anthony Terrell Smith , better known by his stage name Tone Lōc, is an American rapper and actor.-Early life and career:...

     and 2 Live Crew
    2 Live Crew
    2 Live Crew was a hip hop group from Miami, Florida. They caused considerable controversy with the sexual themes in their work, particularly on their 1989 album As Nasty As They Wanna Be.- Early career :...

     also sampled the main riff
    RIFF
    The Resource Interchange File Format is a generic file container format for storing data in tagged chunks. It is primarily used to store multimedia such as sound and video, though it may also be used to store any arbitrary data....

    .
  • British dance act Apollo 440
    Apollo 440
    Apollo 440 are an English band formed in Liverpool in 1990. Apollo 440 have written, recorded and produced four albums, collaborated with and produced other artists, remixed as Apollo 440 and as ambient cinematic alter-ego Stealth Sonic Orchestra, and created music for film, television,...

     sampled it as well, with their 1997 single "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub
    Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub
    Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub is a song by Apollo 440 from the album Electro Glide in Blue released in 1997. It samples Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love by Van Halen and reached #7 in the UK Singles Chart and #4 on the Norwegian chart, VG-lista....

    ."
  • Velvet Revolver
    Velvet Revolver
    Velvet Revolver is an American hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth. Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland was Velvet Revolver's lead singer from their formation until...

     played the song when inducting Van Halen
    Van Halen
    Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. The band has enjoyed success since the release of its debut album, Van Halen, . As of 2007 Van Halen has sold 80 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart...

     in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
    The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is dedicated to archiving the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers and others who have, in some major way,...

     in 2007.
  • Die Hunns covered the song on their album Live Fast'.
  • Paul Di'Anno
    Paul Di'Anno
    Paul Andrews , better known as Paul Di'Anno, is an English singer best known as the first vocalist to record with the iconic heavy metal band Iron Maiden, from 1978 to 1981....

     covered the song on the album "'80s Metal Tribute to Van Halen"
  • The Moog Cookbook
    The Moog Cookbook
    The Moog Cookbook is the name of an electronica band made up of Brian Kehew and Roger Joseph Manning Jr. as a parody/tribute to the novelty "Moog records" of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The duo performs exclusively on analog synthesizers, especially Moog synthesizers...

     covered the song on their album Ye Olde Space Bande.
  • The German band Jazzkantine
    Jazzkantine
    Inspired by Guru's Jazzmatazz project, the German formation Jazzkantine was founded in 1993 in Braunschweig. Their first album Jazzkantine won them the "Echo Award" in 1995, the most important German music prize....

     recorded a jazz version of the song for their 2008 album Hell's Kitchen.
  • The Drive-By Truckers
    Drive-By Truckers
    Drive-By Truckers are an alternative country/Southern rock band based in Athens, Georgia, though three out of six members are originally from The Shoals region of Northern Alabama, and the band strongly identifies with Alabama. Their music uses three guitars as well as bass, drums, and now...

     often cover the song in concert.
  • Billie Joe Armstrong
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    Billie Joe Armstrong is an American rock musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, main songwriter and lead guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day...

     of the punk rock band Green Day
    Green Day
    Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool...

     plays the opening lick at some of their shows.
  • Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...

     covered the song for the first time at their May 15, 2010 show at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut
    Hartford, Connecticut
    Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...

    .
  • Polish female singer Doda uploaded her cover on YouTube
    YouTube
    YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

     and performed it live on the New Year's Eve 2010/11 concert in Warsaw. In May 2011 she realesed her second studio album, 7 pokus głównych (The 7 Temptations), where dance-pop
    Dance-pop
    Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...

     cover of "Ain' Talkin' 'bout Love" written and produced by 5th Element was included as a bonus song.

External links

  • [ All Music entry]
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