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  • the vid is suppossed 2 look stupid.

    grate song!

  • I remeber this song was from the movie Weird Science.

  • Really? Terrifying midgets. REEEAAALLY? What were we thinking in the 80's? BUT VAN HALEN ROCKS!!! NOT VAN HAGAR!

  • The beginning of the song sounds like a track to a horror movie

  • ...sounds like an InaGodaDaVida redesign...(I had a dream that 'that kinda power just Vanquished Everything and ANYTHING!)...Rock n Roll Van Halen!

  • The "Pretty Woman" is a guy!  Ha-ha!

  • jaja david napoleon roth

    tarzan van halen john wayne van halen and yamamoto anthony XD

  • Song is cool, be damned if I know what is going on in the video

  • KEREN BANGET SEEEEH

  • video reminds me of cheap bondage porn (no offense).  but the song's very good.

  • Especially his expression at 1:20

  • The band rules, but this has gotta be one of the dumbest music videos I've seen.

  • eat shit !

  • what are you? wreathing from the assrape your dad gave you last night bombjapan?

  • As I can tell from your comment, you are gay, and you probably listen to the jonas brothers.

  • anyone saying Mtv banned this video is talking shit and dont know what there saying, they played it all the freakin time back in hte day

  • Oh, I see. This was just from what David Lee Roth said, that's why I said "apparently".

  • Yeah, but after awhile - it was banned for awhile first

  • Was it ever banned?  One way to raise interest in something back then was to spread the rumor that somone (whether it was MTV, VH1 or Nancy Reagan) had banned it. It was the "Just say no" era, after all. Could the whole thing have been a publicity stunt? The only possible reason this video might be controversial is that it depicts small people as disgusting. But then, the whole thing is so surreal & creepy, singling out this one aspect of it seems like a stretch.

  • MTV apparently banned it at one point, and according to David Lee Roth, it was because it makes fun of "an almost theological figure", the samurai warrior (samurai are not gods, MTV knows that...a little hard to believe) and the whole dumbass midget part.

  • I bet you it was the "midgets molesting a woman" that was not "appropriate" for MTV. Pretty funny.

  • Awesome vid! Love Eddie and Alex as the midgets and David Lee as the captive woman!

  • Mtv played this video all the time back in the day it came out

  • I am a Van Halen fan from this era and I have never seen this video before. MTV never played it, and they played a lot of crap 1982-1983. This song kicks ass, especially before Pretty Woman kicks in. The problem is the video itself. It is completely incoherent and stupid. Van Halen does Devo? I don't get it at all.

  • That's funny, I don't remember this video either (and I watched my share of MTV back in the day). Eddie as a cowboy? Alex as Tarzan with sun glasses? These guys were hilarious and never very serious.

  • MTV banned this video when it first came out

  • hate the vid but love the eddie!! very cool well done!

  • Isn't tht David Lee Roth playing the Napoleon-type guy? I assume he'd be the singer, too.

  • it is david lee roth. he plays napoleon

  • The indoor scene with DLR is in his house in Pasadena. The checkered b/w tile is in his "Shoo Bop" video.

  • Dude, you shouldn't be posting comments to a Van Halen video if you can't tell the difference between Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth! LOL! (Of course you're free to post what you want, but come on!)

  • "Let he who has never posted a question he could have researched on his own cast the first stone." Gonna ask who throws second? I thought not. Lighten up.

  • Ha! Ha! I just thought it was funny that someone could not tell the difference between Hagar and Roth. I guess I'm getting cranky in my old age. (I can remember very clearly the release of the first Van Halen record).

  • lol wat up with the midgets

  • deffinitly not

  • Is  the "woman" a guy in drag? What a creepy video!!

  • yes.

  • Friggin molesting midgets! Love it

  • this video came out in 1983 maybe 84, so you know whoever thought of this video, was coked out of their minds...

  • ROCKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • Ok let me get this... The sword dude or what ever he is is the bass player, Eddie is tarzan,his brother is the cow boy and david is that dude who is wearing make up?

  • Eddie is the cowboy and Alex is the caveman.

  • there would be midgits attacking a woman lol

  • eddie is in almost every front page guitar mag from 80s to early 90s,My love is Randy Rhoads but eddie is one of the best all time rock guitarest EVER!

  • i like how those little people were like molesting her for the most part of the day...

  • how does eddie do that effect in the first minute of the song? did he scrap the strings on the pickup or something?

  • he is pushing the strings down ,making contact with the pickup,feedback really!

  • I love the guitar part at 1:40 - 1:47

  • a samurai,a cowboy,um napoleon, and tarzan?

    vs the evil midgets

    that would make a nice movie

  • and you my son is why we are so fucked today,you destroy ariganality as if you created music,go cut ur rists or whatever the NEW generation does,........puke

  • Van halen may not be the best guitarist ever, but I cant think of any modern guitarists that play better music!

    Modern shred guitar music has no soul!

  • Well I'm sure if you asked JP, JS or SV who their influences were, Eddie would be in there. He was a guitarist so incredibly ahead of his time and was a pioneer in modern day guitar. Sure he's not as technical as guitarists now but back then, he was the epitome of rock guitar

  • yes he was but the initials make you sound fake. Spell the names out if your trying to make a point please.

  • At least I can spell correctly ;D

  • yeah , but none of those other guys have the popularity of eddie, call it a mistake but I don't. not only that you have to look at the whole band. alex vanhalen is a big reason for the success of the band. hot for teacher anyone"

  • wow seriously do u go on every fucking van halen video and talk shit about it stfu no one cares OOOO JOE SATRIANI LOOK AT ME IM GONNA PLAY A FUCKING SOLO THROUGH THE WHOLE DAMN SONG and thats y steve vai took lessons from joe satriani yea wow hes great dont get me wrong there great guitarists but musically there boring as shit.

  • They may or may not be technically superior, but Eddie Van Halen defintely had a stronger impact on rock music and his guitar solos have such deep soul (in spite of the fact that he's basically in a pop music band!). 30 years from now, few will have heard of Satriani or Vai, but most will know Eddie Van Halen.

  • like the song but the video dosen't make sense

  • Love the intro!!!!

  • Mtv never banned ths vid man, i remember seeing them playing it on there all the time

  • greeat soong =)

  • originally the vid was banned from MTV because of the midgets playing with the womans (or i should say the guys legs) and they shouldve never done that by only 1 reason:

    They banned a Van Halen Vid.

  • bottom line Van Halen kicks ass

  • true that!!!!

  • Damn midgets! lol

  • damn those midgets

  • better than original (  my apologizes to Orbinson's "die hard" fans ) ...

  • i love this song

  • lol DLR directed this.. of course it's fucked.. they had to add the intro because of the long vid

  • OMFG he looks pretty cool lol

  • Umm...

  • True. I guess you have to look at it from the prospective of the culture of the early 80's.

  • wtf are those midgets trying to rape her eh how could blame them

  • WHAT THE FUCK! Simply incredible instrumentals and bad-ass vocals ! song is the absolute bomb but video is totally fucked up! reminds me of Starship's song "No way out". awesome song- weird/jacked up video. doesnt matter though- van halen rules !

  • what the hell was that?

  • i think van halen and the midgets ran a train on the girl after the shoot.

  • How dare they use a video on my farm. I told them not to video me.

  • At 3:56 the acting brought home 13 Oscars,and so many Tony awards ,putting a number to them would be foolish.

  • (I gag at the end of the video) Well, the music is good, and the video is good, but that ending is... Funny?

  • No MTv use to played it all the time back in the day

  • I love this verison better than the orginal. Davids's screeching voice along with Alex's raging drums and Eddie's killer guitar just make perfect sound. I don't really care for Mike on bass guitar. I also love Eddie as a cowboy.

  • bass is the best fool

  • your stupid

  • You guys know this video was banned from MTV, I guess it was because the woman was actually a man

  • ha...my dad played the hunchback in this. When he auditioned, he adjusted the "hump" and one of the band members freaked out because he could move his hump. haha. then they gave my dad a sandwich and put shrooms in it without telling him...but eventually he figured it out...

  • Just like yesterday when this vid came out and David Lee was " In" the clos....

  • the vid is original but i cannot understand it

  • Ait for Shizzle xD

    Like this song !

  • rofl

    rapist midgits

  • awesome song but vid is stupid

  • thats the 80's for ye

  • I like modern music. But i love old good rock music. And im 15

  • Same here, also the same age. lol

  • ic ur some kid who doesnt care about the old stuff and is used to the MODERN shit thats all

  • your completly wrong. sorry to say but i love all old shit. i agree that todays stuff is a pile of shit. im not trying to start an argument but its the opposite.sorry

  • anyone wanna talk van halen? if you do just send me a comment about anything van halen dont worry am always in a van halen talking mood

  • This has to be one of the best "Intros" to a song. (I know AC/DC Hells Bells is good too) But this plane ROCKS!

  • is eddie the the warrior or the cowboy

  • cowboy

  • wait WTF!!! the girl was a GUY?!?!??

  • lol

  • so is it or not?!?!11 O.o

  • Im am hurting from LMAO

    Van Halen (with David Lee Roth)rocks

    and Midgets rule

  • your an ugly song

  • People like you make me want to go on killing rampages.

  • thats what ur mom said when i banged her

  • ooooohhhhhhhhh siiiiiii muy bueno!!!!!!!!

  • EVH kicks ass

  • haha i love it when alex comes in at 2:11....haha if only that loincloth were a little shorter......WHOO talk about a hot night! lol and when dave gets out of the limo the rest look at him like "man you are WEIRD".

  • BAD-ASS

  • oh my goth!! i heard this song when i was like six ..

  • ooohhhh yeaahhhhh

  • MUSIC TRIVIA!:What album is this from?

  • diver down?

  • Who knew dwarves were such bad asses?

  • what ever van halen was on while making this video ill take 2.

  • I love this song, but I really love this intro, I think the intro is called Intruder?

  • PRetty Woman, yeah yeah yeah! One of my favorite covers.

  • so ironic xD

  • that is some nasty midgets! :O

  • puta la wea chistosa...parece de esos videos baratos ke pasaban en maldita cea...

  • music trivia, what other van halen songs were cover tunes?

  • you really got me, ice cream man, dancing in the street, here have all the good times gone

  • happy trails

    you really got me

    thats all i know of...

  • Where do you want to start?...Where have all the goodtimes gone! You really got me! Dancing in the street! Happy Trails! Tabacco Road (Really Most of Diver Down) the album

  • LMAO

  • it's offensive to hunchbacks too, and to people who want to see Van Halen rock, not act out dumb skits

  • OOF

    haha they mustve been PISSED at the surprise ending!

  • pretty woman!

  • This is very offensive to dwarves.

  • sooo

  • ass cunt

  • intruder is the best part of this song

  • If I wasn't for intruder this would be a lame cover! Eddie ROCKS!

  • Eddie Van Halen as a cowboy, doesn't get any much better than that. Awesome video. Love this song!

  • Ha that's an awesome video!

  • que buena rola..!!!hasta la fecha es el mejor cover que se ha hecho de esta clasica cancion segun la revista "rolling stones"

    de 1981 van halen en las vocales david lee roth

  • so which one is tarzan?

  • Alex Van Halen duh dude!.

  • classic

  • i didnt understand the video at the end what happened??

  • i think D. Lee Roth reveals himself as a woman (gay) Look at the girl without long hair looks like a boy.

    Best singer anyway.

  • keep this in mind,hes fucked more chicks than you've seen

  • but I enjoyed more for sure:)

    The guy is a genius man, i've never ment to be ofensive. Van halen was my first approach to rock' roll and it will bemy band of choice forever. With Roth of course.

  • lol random video

  • Still a good song, but they left a complete line out of the original Roy Orbison version.

    I guess they just put their own twist to it.

  • wow... the intro is damn heavy for Van halen, but then gets right into there lil van halen riff sounds.

  • I believe the intro is not really the song's intro, but the song that preceeds it on the album. The intro is actually a seperate track called "Intruder." Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

  • hrere's an interview of EVH himself explaining how he made the noises and stuff; he used beer cans too!

    /watch?v=MrZYGPnBOBE

  • It takes guts to take on this classic-then hold your own. Salute, Van Halen!

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  • WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!This videos messed,Mike as a samurai....BADASSS

  • although this is nice, I have to side with Roy Orbisons version.

  • This version of the old 1964 Roy Orbison classic by Van Halen sounds very cool. They should have picked this version for that 1990Julia Roberts movie of the song title because it's sounds so rockin'

  • Hilarious! This is what we need on a Sunday morning. Mindless, never award-winning type fun. Good job VH, way ahead of its time.

  • Michael Anthony > Wolfie !

  • considering michael's more than twice wolfie's age, i'd say it's pretty even

  • Lightening on the strings and thunder in the drums, the perfect storm -- Van Halen.

  • this video is amazing, go fuck yourself bitch

  • Heey! The video is awsome! Can't you see it's just a joke? they aren't serious, if that's what you think!

  • David designed this video. the shots in Napolean's house were in David's house. I think it was before it's time...

  • alternative cover to pretty woman :o

  • STRANGE..

  • What a genius the creator of this video was....Have the greatest gutarist of all time dress up as a cowboy and not play guitar. Just stupid. I dont care if it was 1982 or whatever, whoever made the decisions back then made the wrong one in this case. I wonder how quickly Van Halen would have gotten popular if the guy would have shot them live in LA at the Whiskey a go-go? Hummm......Still interesting though.