WHY CAN'T THIS BE LOVE (ORIGINAL EXTENDED 12" MIX)
Why Can't This Be Love was the initial single from Van Halen's 7th album 5150, released in March of 1986. The album was the band's first with lead singer Sammy Hagar, who had replaced founding member David Lee Roth in late 1985. The song, driven by bouncy lead keyboard work from Eddie Van Halen, rose to #3 on the Billboard singles chart, and helped 5150 reach the #1 slot on the album chart, a first for the band. During the 5150 tours, Eddie Van Halen played the keyboard parts while Hagar played the guitar parts and the solo. Why Can't This Be Love was also the very first Van Halen track to get an official Extended Mix treatment.
In 1985 after the success of the Hall & Oates album and tour of Big Bam Boom they both decided to go on a break. During this time Hall was influenced to go to England and meet with Dave Stewart of the electro-pop duo group Eurythmics which resulted in the release of Hall's second solo album Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine. The album's first single, Dreamtime became a #5 hit.
Despite Stewart's co-production and guest background vocals from Joni Mitchell and Bob Geldof, RCA considered this album a commercial disappointment. It should be noted, however, that RCA did not promote this album at the level of the Hall & Oates' previous albums, which upset Hall for years afterward. This was also the last album in the RCA deal with Hall & Oates.
I had always thought that Dreamtime could have easily been mistaken for an ELO track if you had not known it was Daryl Hall. Yet more remixes by 80's remix legend Arthur Baker.
Recently, I have received an email from the man himself Arthur Baker, thanking me for posting his remixes and also correcting me on a few facts. Check it out! I've been told by Arthur Baker! Pretty cool! Thanks Arthur.
"Hi, thanks for putting up my Springsteen Born In The USA remixes. Unfortunately they don't seem to be commercially available on any of Bruce's compilations. However, you are wrong about him not liking the 3 mixes I did for him. On Dancing In The Dark, he actually came to the studio and hung out with us, going as far as popping out for beer when the studio-Power Station- had a momentary blackout. I did the mix for Cover Me inpart to give Bruce some new ideas for that the band could use for its live arrangement (they ended up using dub effects on the vocals and drums). Lastly, with Born In The USA, again some of the arrangement was used in the E Street Band's live performances. Again, thanks, ab."
Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A., taken from the 1984 album of the same name, it is most definately one of his best-known singles if not one of the best known sinlges of the 80's. Rolling Stone ranked the song 275th on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2001 the RIAA's Songs of the Century placed the song 59th (out of 365). Lyrically, the song deals with the effects of the Vietnam War on Americans, although it has sometimes been misinterpreted as purely patriotic and jingoistic.
On January 10, 1985, Arthur Baker's 12-inch "Freedom Mix" of "Born in the U.S.A." was released. It was a fairly radical remixing, even more so than those Baker had done for the album's previous singles "Dancing in the Dark" and "Cover Me". The mix removed any (possibly misleading) anthemic elements and pushed the song's mournfulness to the front. Synthesizer, glockenspiel, and drums were chopped up and isolated against Springsteen edited vocal fragments.
This remix was the least commercially successful of Baker's efforts, however, as unlike the prior two it failed to appear on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
I am sure that Springsteen himself was not impressed whatsoever with these or any other remixes of his music.
The music video for "Born in the U.S.A." was directed by noted filmmaker John Sayles. It consisted of video concert footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band performing the song, poorly synchronized with audio from the studio recording. Released in mid-December 1984, there supposedly had not been enough time to mix the audio from the concert.
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Why Can't This Be Love was the initial single from Van Halen's 7th album 5150, released in March of 1986. The album was the band's first with lead singer Sammy Hagar, who had replaced founding member David Lee Roth in late 1985. The song, driven by bouncy lead keyboard work from Eddie Van Halen, rose to #3 on the Billboard singles chart, and helped 5150 reach the #1 slot on the album chart, a first for the band. During the 5150 tours, Eddie Van Halen played the keyboard parts while Hagar played the guitar parts and the solo. Why Can't This Be Love was also the very first Van Halen track to get an official Extended Mix treatment.
In 1985 after the success of the Hall & Oates album and tour of Big Bam Boom they both decided to go on a break. During this time Hall was influenced to go to England and meet with Dave Stewart of the electro-pop duo group Eurythmics which resulted in the release of Hall's second solo album Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine. The album's first single, Dreamtime became a #5 hit.
