“Everybody Wants Some” by Van Halen

"Everybody Wants Some!!" rolls in second on Women and Children First, Van Halen's 1980 album, and it opens like a B-movie safari, all jungle drums and Tarzan-style hollering up front. Eddie Van Halen used it to show off a batch of new guitar techniques, and the whole four-piece shares the writing credit, with Ted Templeman producing and Donn Landee engineering.

The middle is where David Lee Roth takes over: the drums and vocals drop into a loose breakdown and he ad-libs a leering, conversational patter, getting cut off by an Eddie chord along the way. It became a fixture on every tour with Roth, and the band would often stop dead mid-song so he could chat up the crowd for several minutes before bringing it home.

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