New poll! "Jump" vs. "Here I Go Again"
Added 2024-07-11 15:19:45 +0000 UTCHard rock! Now with synthesizers! Help us pick the best chart-topping hair-metal (or at least hair-metal adjacent) smash of the '80s, "Jump" by Van Halen vs. "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake!
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Look I know you don't read these after the episode airs - but if you want to do Right Now you have to put it up against Yankee Rose.
Vince Whitacre
2024-07-26 21:10:47 +0000 UTCI'd argue for Running with the Devil because it's such a BAND song. Yeah, Eddie and Dave show off, but Michael's bass and backing vox are the real MVP.
Vince Whitacre
2024-07-26 20:32:36 +0000 UTCTo answer the question posed in the episode, Right Now by VH would be paired with Right Here, Right Now by Jesus Jones. I'm so sorry.
Simple Kinda Mang
2024-07-25 20:02:30 +0000 UTCLmao just listened to the episode and Todd made the same comparison to Creep
Jenna
2024-07-24 17:55:16 +0000 UTCThat also likely doesn't answer all your questions.
Nicholas
2024-07-23 21:17:25 +0000 UTCI had to do eye therapy as a child and the therapist would put on a lot of 80's rock and Whitesnake was one of them.
Nicholas
2024-07-23 21:16:59 +0000 UTCHere I Go is the memory of me as a child staring down a metal tube at a light with goofy multi-colored prism glasses on.
Nicholas
2024-07-23 21:16:16 +0000 UTCEdited: bc my dumb ass wrote ‘Eddie Van Halen’ at first instead of the insufferable ‘David Lee Roth’
Violet Esposito
2024-07-22 21:48:49 +0000 UTCPlease do time in a bottle by Jim Croce vs hallelujah by Jeff Buckley next episode!!
Jay
2024-07-22 18:49:38 +0000 UTCAll keyboardists everywhere are contactually obligated to vote Jump here. That riff is just too meteoric!
Jack Darnell
2024-07-22 13:00:44 +0000 UTCJump is a perfect song for a slow mo entrance of a band of animatronic animals
Lazurit
2024-07-22 06:09:35 +0000 UTCI chose Jump since it is one of the most Iconic '80s songs. In soup to nuts, I rather see the making of the "Here I go again on my own" video than VH drama.
Eric
2024-07-21 20:49:21 +0000 UTCThe keyboard solo in "Jump" ultimately puts it over for me.
KaiserBeamz
2024-07-21 17:59:22 +0000 UTCOnly kind of related to the matter at hand, but anyone in need of some great comedy should check out the video of David Lee Roth’s vocals for “Runnin’ with the Devil” without the rest of the band.
David Yurch
2024-07-21 04:27:55 +0000 UTCThis just isn't my genre of music. I need my hair metal less slick and more sleazy.
Laura Robinson
2024-07-21 03:47:33 +0000 UTCI asked the boys on a call last night and they told me to vote for van halen
Sam
2024-07-21 03:37:22 +0000 UTCIn sophomore year of college I entered a dad bod contest with Here I Go Again as my walk in music, really got the crowd goin.
Ian Stolmeier
2024-07-21 03:14:58 +0000 UTCWow. Did not expect this one to get that many likes lol. My other option would've been Cruel Summer(Bananarama) vs The Boys of Summer, for the bummer summer song head to head lol
Angela
2024-07-20 20:13:01 +0000 UTCAs a teenager, I was briefly going to be part of a variety show in a group dance number to ‘Jump.’ Then I learned they wanted us in gold Lycra jumpsuits and I couldn’t do. And I haven’t been able to listen to ‘Jump’ with a straight face since. I can still rock out to some car dancing though.
Theodora
2024-07-19 02:37:19 +0000 UTCThe only reason me or any of my hormonally-addled friends could remember anything about Here I Go Again when it came out was Tawny Kitaen doing calisthenics on sports cars. Advantage Van Halen.
Gene Younkin
2024-07-18 18:29:13 +0000 UTCEruption or Hot For Teacher is their signature track, Jump is like, idk, their Creep in that it’s a towering song in terms of notability but it’s not representative of why their fans like them
Jenna
2024-07-18 16:04:05 +0000 UTCI preemptively imagined this comment in Todd's voice as I read it.
Alina
2024-07-18 00:22:05 +0000 UTCHere I go Again I feel is one of those songs that conveys an essential emotion, sorta like what Todd has talked about with "Don't worry be happy" or "Let's get it on." It's more corny but also more sincere than Jump, and frankly, it rocks harder. I'd also like to highlight the windup on keys and the guitar solo.
Octo
2024-07-17 04:39:19 +0000 UTCKendrick Lamar voice: You LIED about your brown m&ms
Richard Angle
2024-07-16 22:56:49 +0000 UTCHere I go again is constantly playing in my head at random times so i have to vote for it.
Kitty ( The cursed existence of financial instability ) fo
2024-07-16 19:53:47 +0000 UTCThe first time I heard Van Halen's Jump was from a flash video by someone called "Grand Master Pete" on New Grounds. To this day I can't think of the song without picturing Donkey Kong singing it. 2003 man
Kidd Campbell
2024-07-16 17:43:21 +0000 UTCI think I'd be more interested with a match up between "why can't this be love" and "is this love" from the two bands in question, they're both thematically the same and are (in my opinion) criminally underrated
Foxylover92
2024-07-16 14:44:48 +0000 UTCWait, what? Next are you going to tell me Rush and Bachman-Turner Overdrive are Canadian too?
Griffin
2024-07-16 14:16:13 +0000 UTCOr, maybe in response to all the God-awful country that was 2023 (not to mention the whole decade prior), what about Breathe by Faith Hill vs. Breathe (3 am) by Anna Nalick?
Michael Murphy
2024-07-16 12:04:07 +0000 UTCHey Todd, when are we getting the Cruel Summer (Taylor Swift) vs. Cruel Summer(Bananarama) song title matchup? 😆
Angela
2024-07-15 04:08:28 +0000 UTCNah man, Danger Zone.
Angela
2024-07-15 04:06:00 +0000 UTCIf shaking your ass on the hood of Whitesnake's car isn't a winning strategy, then this is a strange game and the only winning move is not to play.
Robert Mischief
2024-07-14 18:19:07 +0000 UTCIs this the first Song vs. Song matchup where both contenders are referenced in Bowling for Soup’s “1985”? Yes, this is actually of importance to me.
Christian Reiswig
2024-07-14 18:11:27 +0000 UTCAnd Bryan Adams is Canadian
Clay Peterson
2024-07-14 17:18:22 +0000 UTCits really funny how van halen's signature song is a synth heavy track
Tristan
2024-07-14 14:09:49 +0000 UTCit's okay I got it
giascle
2024-07-14 01:28:30 +0000 UTCI can never hear the keyboard riff to Jump anymore without SOULJA BOY TELL 'EM And you know what? It's better that way.
giascle
2024-07-14 01:28:09 +0000 UTCOne band has Eddie Van Halen on guitar. Stop! I’ve heard enough The answer is Jump. Keyboards, but you still get it.
Tracy Davis
2024-07-14 01:12:12 +0000 UTCThey played Whitesnake to torture people at Guantanamo Bay. Not, like, Norwegian Black Metal, fucking Whitesnake. Who could possibly care? Who could possibly form any reaction, positive or negative, strong enough towards "Here I Go Again" to confess to so much as littering? Well, we have an answer. One of the people falsely detained there would sing this song back at his torturers as he had come to empathize with the lyrics. Not really sure how this is supposed to influence the results, but isn't that fucking crazy?
Daniel Shaltes
2024-07-13 22:49:28 +0000 UTCWasn't there some famous clip of Billie Eillish not knowing who Van Halen were? I swear, this is not satire.
Michael Murphy
2024-07-13 17:15:06 +0000 UTCI’m happy to agree that Tawny is hot and the video is iconic because of her. My argument is that, because she’s not in the band, and David Lee Roth is in the band, Jump > HIGA.
Zero
2024-07-13 12:41:54 +0000 UTCIt's not Band vs. Band tho
Russet Burbank
2024-07-13 10:33:09 +0000 UTCI swear this is satire
Lee Breezy
2024-07-13 06:45:21 +0000 UTCWhat with these obscure nobody bands that old people like? Like, “Van Halen”??? No one will ever say that name again after this episode
Lee Breezy
2024-07-13 06:45:11 +0000 UTCI’m sorry, but you are categorically wrong. Whitesnake perfected the video vixen. Literally there is no video vixen more iconic than Tawny Kitaen in those videos. The definition of hair metal. Whitesnake is and has always been HOT GIRL SHIT, Van Halen is for the bros.
Cory Putnam
2024-07-13 06:04:04 +0000 UTCJoe Elliott from Def Leppard famously talked about a vocal session where he was unable to get the take. He was blowing is voice out and panicking. He was given a pep talk by David Coverdale who was recording next door, and described the whole thing in a really starstruck way. It’s amazing how much respect Coverdale commanded as a frontman, especially since Whitesnake hasn’t quite stood the test of time the same way as Leppard, Van Halen and the like. Still of the Night and Here I Go Again are such iconic music videos. I immediately think of images from those videos- of David Coverdale’s sillouhette outline with the mic stand in the white circle, the girl on the car, etc. when I think of hair metal. before I think of Motley Crue, before I think of Poison or Ratt or Dokken or any of the true legacy bands.
Cory Putnam
2024-07-13 05:59:35 +0000 UTCI'm voting for Whitesnake because he used a gun to try and shoot down Savage Garden to get back Jotaro Kujo's Stand Disc. And that's pretty powerful.
Mr Spaghett
2024-07-13 04:08:16 +0000 UTCBack in high school marching band my power was being able to predict which bands were going to play Jump. It was the poor kid who had to run all over the field carting around an amp in a wheelbarrow, that was a dead giveaway.
Zero
2024-07-13 01:16:26 +0000 UTCBy all the powers of Heaven Jump simply MUST be deemed Hot Girl Shit. Diamond David Lee Roth and Meg drink from the same cup.
Zero
2024-07-13 01:09:09 +0000 UTCI know this is not a safe space for gleeks, but I cannot allow Jump by Van Halen to be mentioned without shouting out Amber Riley, who mixed a C6 live on that song every damn night of the Glee Live tour and sounded like an angel every time. An absolute legend.
Sara
2024-07-12 22:29:42 +0000 UTCI use your Jump Vs Jump Around as the episode I recommend to people who don't know your podcast. So no pressure, both!
Fly, Winged Monkey!
2024-07-12 19:18:38 +0000 UTCI love the synthesizer as an instrument, but Jump’s synthesizer is just…so fuckin much. It chokes out literally everything around it. Plus, who among us has not wanted to Tawny Kitan all over their car? Iconic
Katie Gunn
2024-07-12 19:17:02 +0000 UTCI found the Family Guy joke I was thinking of on Youtube and I'm pretty sure the episode it's from is per-cancellation/renewal. Jokes about Whitesnake's irrelevancy are older than Whitesnake's Youtube channel. Punchlines about Whitesnakes can legally vote and are attending college. If it's makes things better, they had a pretty good Stand in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Pt. 6.
Nawf4
2024-07-12 18:08:46 +0000 UTCLook, I don’t know how the four questions are going to go, but please keep in mind - VH had a slew of hits by the time Jump came out, and the album it was from also yielded Panama and Hot for Teacher. Meanwhile, 3 of Whitesnake’s top 5 most streamed tracks on Spotify are versions of Here I Go Again
EvilImposterGeorge
2024-07-12 15:07:54 +0000 UTCAt some point, we need to do a matchup between '80s anthems that are not hair metal, but just getting pumped to achieve your greatest dream. Maybe something like You're The Best vs. Man In Motion (St. Elmo's Fire). Any other suggestions?
Michael Murphy
2024-07-12 14:40:07 +0000 UTCIt's OK, same here. 'Cause I know what it MEANS... To walk along the lonely STREET OF DREAMS!....
Michael Murphy
2024-07-12 14:34:32 +0000 UTCThere's also an inordinate amount of 80s songs about jumping. A trend that continued into the 90s. Jump, Jump for My Love, Jump Around, Jump! Jump!
Vince Whitacre
2024-07-12 13:32:52 +0000 UTCOf all the bands deep purple created in its wake. White snake is the second best after rainbow.
Robert_boy_genius
2024-07-12 11:37:39 +0000 UTCJump sounds like the 80s personified in a song, which now makes me realize that there is an alarming number of 80s songs that that could be said about, way more than any other decade.
Hillel fraenkel
2024-07-12 09:10:22 +0000 UTCLiterally every power chord during the synth solo in Jump gives me chills. It's the most epic sounding cheese.
EmperorTigerstar
2024-07-12 07:27:01 +0000 UTCI knew Jump was going to be ahead before I cast my vote, which went to Here I Go Again. Not because I consider either of these songs to be particularly good, they're both silly cheese. But I had a short Whitesnake phase as a teen, overlapping with a time I had to stay in a hospital for potential health issues, so the song gives soothing nostalgic feels. And I've never had a Van Halen phase, because honestly, so boring.
Märten 'tshiif' Rattasepp
2024-07-12 06:42:43 +0000 UTCI like both these songs, but I'm going with Whitesnake just because it is relatable to to me as a lonely introvert. Oh no, the majority is voting for Jump, so here I go again on my own. How fitting. Lol.
Preston Meeker
2024-07-12 05:00:40 +0000 UTCSimply reading the words, "Jump by Van Halen" starts that iconic intro playing in my head. What more can you say of a song?
The Omega Geek
2024-07-12 04:25:30 +0000 UTCThey’ve both been drilled into the ground by movie trailers, but I’ll probably think about seeing the one with jump in it while dismissing the one that has here I go again cause nine times out of ten it’s insanely dumb
Hope Keeley
2024-07-12 02:09:34 +0000 UTCALSO- Every time I hear “Jump” I think about how David Lee Roth wrote that song after he was watching tv and a “breaking news” segment showed a man threatening to jump off of a building or a bridge. That is what ‘Jump’ was actually about 🥲
Violet Esposito
2024-07-12 01:28:30 +0000 UTCEvery single time “Here I Go Again” plays, I think about how Chuck Finley got upset when the organ player at the ball park the Angels were visiting played the song as he walked out onto the field. This was around the time that she was arrested for DV after beating him with her shoe. He got the organist fired.
Violet Esposito
2024-07-12 01:23:46 +0000 UTCWhitesnake are English.
Griffin
2024-07-12 01:23:23 +0000 UTCHow about a three way battle of lesser Van Halen hits? Dave returning to Roth Halen with “Me Wise Magic”, Van Hagar with “Poundcake” or “Humans Being”, and Van Halen featuring Gary Cherone’s “Without You”?
A Good Brent - BlueSky Bitch for Let’s Talk About Snacks Podcast
2024-07-12 01:11:40 +0000 UTCWouldn’t that be “Roth Halen” vs “Van Hagar”?
A Good Brent - BlueSky Bitch for Let’s Talk About Snacks Podcast
2024-07-12 01:01:16 +0000 UTC“Jump” has never been my favorite Roth-led Van Halen song. I may even say it’s their weakest greatest hit. My vote goes for the remake of “Here I Go Again”, especially because David Coverdale was smart enough to change the lyric from “hobo”, because I was definitely one of those people who heard it wrong when I listened to the original.
A Good Brent - BlueSky Bitch for Let’s Talk About Snacks Podcast
2024-07-12 00:57:29 +0000 UTCI don’t know about either of these songs, but Tawny Kitaen is seriously scratching the paint on the roof of my car.
Merda d'artista
2024-07-12 00:48:02 +0000 UTCAll the zoomers that whined about “Stacy’s Mom” being problematic would do the same for “Hot for Teacher”.
Richard Angle
2024-07-11 22:56:12 +0000 UTCI can't choose. I love them both
KBucky
2024-07-11 22:44:14 +0000 UTCWhoosh
Kevin James
2024-07-11 22:25:43 +0000 UTCGoing through the comments undecided, this was the one that convinced me to vote for Here I Go Again.
Kyle B
2024-07-11 22:19:18 +0000 UTCI remember Glee doing "Jump" for a fake mattress store commercial and it made the song look just so, so utterly lame. I have not been able to take the song seriously ever since. I'd rather rock out to "Jump" by the Pointer Sisters.
TimeBombMan
2024-07-11 22:00:08 +0000 UTCJump was on the running playlist for my 6th grade gym class so I'd be happy to never hear it again
FunFawn21
2024-07-11 21:26:23 +0000 UTCThird party vote for Tawney Kitaen's exposed nipple
Dork Mode
2024-07-11 21:03:20 +0000 UTCTwo songs that might get my head nodding along if I heard them on the radio, but which I'm not overly fussed about. Going with 'Here I go again', mostly because I've not heard it as recently, 'Jump' is just done to death.
Steve Harper
2024-07-11 20:39:01 +0000 UTCI always put Van Halen and Whitesnake into the same category as Bryan Adams and Bon Jovi. American Standard Rock. So ultimately I don't really care who wins.
undeednu
2024-07-11 20:23:08 +0000 UTCWhitesnake will lose and this is a mistake. That chorus is powerful
Charlie L
2024-07-11 20:07:19 +0000 UTCi love van halen but jump doesnt have shit on hot for teacher or running with the devil
Kite
2024-07-11 19:58:01 +0000 UTCThat was "Jump/er/".
Jon Heiman
2024-07-11 19:50:09 +0000 UTCFamily Guy's jokes about Van Halen's "1984" (jumping the gorge to "Panama" and whatnot) aren't much better.
Jon Heiman
2024-07-11 19:49:23 +0000 UTC"Here I Go Again" bores me with its repetition ("Is This Love," "Slide It In," and even "Fool for your Loving" are better). And its chorus is just "Pour Some Sugar on Me" redux. "Jump" isn't perfection, but those guitar & keyboard solos are.
Jon Heiman
2024-07-11 19:44:36 +0000 UTCHere I Go Again appealed to my overwrought teenage emotions so I'd consider it a success. Jump was an unnecessary side trip into Van Halen doing sanitized unthreatening mall music.
Paul Anderson
2024-07-11 19:32:21 +0000 UTCJump was ruined for me by Glee, and my local rock station, who likes to play it 20 times a day. I wince and change the channel every time now. Here I Go Again has a chorus I can rock with.
Deanna Banana
2024-07-11 19:05:15 +0000 UTCIt is physically impossible to take Here I Go Again seriously. It's like the musical equivalent of Paul Rudd's character in Wet, Hot American Summer.
Asylia Kneckt
2024-07-11 18:52:25 +0000 UTCWe need a Van Halen vs Van Hagar matchup. I never remember the names of the Van Hagar songs, though, they are just "the Air Force song" and the "the Crystal Pepsi song" and so forth. I guess the Air Force song might have been anthemic enough to put up against Jump.
Bruxistentialist
2024-07-11 18:41:11 +0000 UTCSo I was not much for listening to music growing up in the 80s but van Halen's Jump penetrated and I remember it. I have no memory of Whitesnake's Here I go Again, although I probably heard it and the album art looks familiar (and is very distinctive). Anyway Jump does kind of disappear in confusion in that middle bit, but I can't get it out of my head. I had to listen to Here I Go Again 3 times to remember what is sounded like. It's good enough I suppose, but going to have to go with Jump.
Allan Olley
2024-07-11 18:22:14 +0000 UTCNot only would it be another title match-up it would be the 2nd Jump versus Jump since they did Kris Kross "Jump" v. House of Pain "Jump Around". So that was a missed opportunity.☹️
Allan Olley
2024-07-11 18:09:26 +0000 UTCI remember there being a joke on Drag Race about one of the girls not knowing who Whitesnake is, either (altho that was kinda at her expense). I always forget that Here I Go isn't by Bon Jovi, myself, tbh.
Shiny Skunk
2024-07-11 17:51:24 +0000 UTCThe late, great Musician magazine had an interview with Robert Plant in which David Coverdale was mentioned, and Plant responded that they all called him "David Coverversion." They also had side-by-side pics of Plant and Coverdale with the captions "I come from the land of the ice and snow" and "I do too." Anyway -- "I ain't the worst that you've seen" is one of the greatest song lyrics ever, and every keyboardist learns this intro at some point, so this should be an 80-20 blowout. I *might* give Whitesnake the Hot Girl Shit question, and that's all.
Beau Dure
2024-07-11 17:42:50 +0000 UTCThis feels unfair, putting what is considered rock royalty, Van Halen, against the band comedies always picked as the band parents' kids didn't know. Pretty sure 15 years ago Family Guy did a joke where the punchline was "Who's Whitesnake.
Nawf4
2024-07-11 17:37:40 +0000 UTCI know it's not their fault, but hearing David Coverdale sing in Whitesnake just reminds me how underappreciated Deep Purple's Mark III lineup was. And "Still of the Night" is a better Whitesnake song anyway. Meanwhile, "Jump" represents Van Halen really getting out of their comfort zone because Eddie wanted to do something different. And I always respect artists who want to do something different. Especially when that "doing something different" pisses off David Lee Roth.
Blinky
2024-07-11 17:28:40 +0000 UTCThird party vote for Sweet Child of Mine (I think it might have been a more even split against Jump).
Shiny Skunk
2024-07-11 17:25:05 +0000 UTCPlus, redheads need all the representation they can get as '80s hair metal video vixens.
Michael Murphy
2024-07-11 17:24:06 +0000 UTCI'm going with Whitesnake because I was hoping that we might just get another title vs. title matchup with Jump by Van Halen vs. Jump by The Pointer Sisters, and now that will never happen.
Michael Murphy
2024-07-11 17:15:45 +0000 UTCi feel the same about Jump. it's like that Everything is Awesome Lego song but with no irony and aimed at grown adults instead of 10yr olds
Yurple
2024-07-11 17:13:17 +0000 UTCI'm voting for The Pointer Sisters
apocalypsethen
2024-07-11 17:12:20 +0000 UTCI want to try and trick some folks by claiming this is a battle between that one Third Eye Blind song that doesn’t go “do do do do do do do do” and the song with the viral video about treadmill dancing
Kevin James
2024-07-11 17:06:08 +0000 UTCpretty close for me, but i just hate how detuned the synth oscillators are on Jump. they are just too wide and it overwhelms the entire track. like i feel ppl can really only process the synth and everything else is there out of obligation. i mean the David Lee Roth acapella meme is a great example of this. the dude just yelped around cause everything gets washed out by the lead synth. compare it to Hey QT which has a more typical supersaw, and you can hear how much more room there is for other instruments i'm a hater, but that Whitesnake chorus SLAPS!! it's got that stadium punk feel like 'I love Rock n Roll' by Joan Jett
Yurple
2024-07-11 17:02:42 +0000 UTC"Jump" is cheesy and is self-aware about it, but it still shows Van Halen knows how to have fun. It's the ultimate 80s montage song for a decade full of cheesy montage songs. "Here I Go Again" just reminds me of 90s Time Life cd commercials at 2 am -- I don't need any more reminders of my mortality.
Mia Dallas
2024-07-11 17:02:31 +0000 UTCDoes that mean you'll end up the subject of an SR-71 song/Bowling for Soup cover?
Angela
2024-07-11 16:58:25 +0000 UTCListening to the Acapella version of "jump" and hearing David Lee Roth sound confused in the booth going "whoah! Hey you! Who said that?" Is the primary reason I prefer it.
Sally Graves
2024-07-11 16:38:09 +0000 UTCLooking back at early Van Halen. It's amazing how messy their verses + chorus structure got. Something I attribute entirely to Mister Roth. Eddie is the backbone guitar of the whole thing (he's who we're here for). But Roth won't just do the words and slide to the chorus. He has to put his own spin on everything. Most hair bands are in it for the money and the girls, David Lee wanted to be in "showbiz" and you could taste it, every bit is ornamented, no crowd goes unaddressed. The great never done early 80s cover? DLR Van Halen covering the Tubes "She's a beauty" or maybe ELP, if anyone could sell "Bennie the Bouncer", it's Diamond Dave. Mid/Late VH isn't objectively "worse" but it is defiantly much less "interesting".
Andrew Dederer
2024-07-11 16:34:40 +0000 UTCWhitesnake were always rubbish so it didn't matter that they had to sell out to produce this tuneless, heavy-handed, clodhomping piece of drivel. Van Halen, obviously!
njwaite
2024-07-11 16:29:42 +0000 UTCAh yes, the eternal war between the "county fair opening act" dad band and the "dive bar at 7:30 pm on a Thursday" dad band.
Maxine - RaccoonRevolution
2024-07-11 16:24:03 +0000 UTC“Here I Go Again” has bully from an 80s movie energy
JazzySpF
2024-07-11 16:14:23 +0000 UTCBoth songs are lyrically shallow, but at least ‘Jump’ knows it. ‘Here I Go Again’ takes itself WAY too seriously. Gotta go with ‘Jump’.
Dr. Pound
2024-07-11 16:13:30 +0000 UTCHere I Go Again is a song that exists for its chorus, but by the end of the song the profound lack of substance to its lyrics starts to grate against your cognitive capabilities… a true C- of a song…. At least Jump is ambitious enough to be weird. Van Halen all the way
Nat
2024-07-11 16:12:41 +0000 UTCThird party vote for The Final Countdown. What can I say, I'm a sucker for combining cheesy euroschlock and epic keyboard hooks.
Angela
2024-07-11 16:11:29 +0000 UTCThird party vote for a smash cut to "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
Joel Thomas
2024-07-11 15:59:04 +0000 UTC"Here I Go Again" might be the song of 1987, but "Jump" is on a short list to be "the" song of the entire 1980s. "Jump" all the way...
Rex Crum
2024-07-11 15:58:49 +0000 UTCI know. I just don’t like jump cause it’s a van halen song without any van halen guitar amazingness
Robert_boy_genius
2024-07-11 15:57:30 +0000 UTCJump is grating to listen to, here I go again is enjoyable if not especially exciting.
Beige Angel
2024-07-11 15:56:10 +0000 UTCVan Halen and Def Leppard both (maybe incorrectly) occupy the same spot in my mind, and that spot is the toilet
Michael Gibler
2024-07-11 15:54:26 +0000 UTCI was big into hair metal in high school (in the early 2010s… yes I was very cool) so I’ve heard both of these songs more times than I can count, and if I could vote for neither, I would. Since I have to vote, I chose ‘Jump’ because while it’s the more annoying song, ‘Here I Go Again’ just feels listless and like it doesn’t go anywhere.
Andrew Behm
2024-07-11 15:52:50 +0000 UTC"What's wrong Pucci? Why do you want to reset the world?" *looks at poll results*
A Bucket of Water
2024-07-11 15:51:30 +0000 UTC…jeez i don’t think they’re that bad.
Connor Rankin
2024-07-11 15:46:50 +0000 UTCHere I Go Again is one of those songs I always hear at the gym whenever I’m running on the treadmill. I’ll admit, it does give me a small amount of motivation to keep running. I’m not quite sure I’d want to listen to Jump when I’m on the treadmill, as I might get the incentive to literally jump off and hurt myself.
Connor Rankin
2024-07-11 15:45:43 +0000 UTCJump is not only the worst Van Halen song ever… it may just be my least favorite song period. Easy choice
David Bedard
2024-07-11 15:41:10 +0000 UTCIf "Jump" doesn't win in a blowout, I'm not sure I'm gonna rooo-woah-oll with the punches.
Dan Hogg
2024-07-11 15:40:37 +0000 UTCSo allow me to make an argument for Whitesnake over Van Halen. As a sapphic bisexual~~, the lyrics resonate with me. There are a lot less queer/gay/bi/pan/lesbian/trans/sapphic people out there -- whichever word or words one uses to describe themselves -- than straight people. So part of me does not want to "go again on my own" to an ex's wedding so I can smile and be happy for the new couple without feeling a little sad. The LBGTQ+ community is wonderful and I would never, ever trade it for something I can't be (baby, i was born this way, I GUESS), but it sometimes is a lonely road. Let me manifest a girlfriend, theyfriend, or boifriend for 2025, please. (in the unlikely even you choose to read this comment, i use any and all pronouns so call me by my name~~ or use any pronouns you think might be respectful.
Lars von Trash
2024-07-11 15:40:36 +0000 UTCOne of these songs is by Whitesnake, and the other is by Van f’n Halen. “Jump” by a mile.
Clay Peterson
2024-07-11 15:37:15 +0000 UTCMight as well jump 🤷
Syl W
2024-07-11 15:37:14 +0000 UTCI don’t think it would’ve made much difference. The drums to “Hot For Teacher” alone make that one unstoppable. It’d be the sound equivalent of Omni Man beating the snot out of Invincible.
AnalogSkullerosis
2024-07-11 15:37:02 +0000 UTCAs a millennial who loves hair metal (I don't even know anymore if it's ironic), not only is jump way better but it might be the best jump song out there. Sorry, Kris Kross.
GimpyBee
2024-07-11 15:36:08 +0000 UTCDon't really care for either, but Jump is iconic. And it was used for Chicago Cubs promos back in the day, but, as Todd is on-record as anti-Cubs, I expect he will choose the other.
Bruxistentialist
2024-07-11 15:36:06 +0000 UTCEvery time I hear Here I go Again and it gets to the line "and I've made up my mind" I continue it with "you were always on my mind" and I'm disappointed that I'm not listening to the Pet Shop Boys version of that song instead
Nir revel
2024-07-11 15:35:13 +0000 UTCMy other van halen choice but I’ve always preferred whitesnake’s heavier tunes to their ballads .
Robert_boy_genius
2024-07-11 15:35:11 +0000 UTCNot a huge fan of either of these songs, but I’ll be damned if I vote for a spin-off of Mk III Deep Purple over Van Halen at their peak
Jacob Witmer
2024-07-11 15:33:36 +0000 UTCwhat about Hot for Teacher and Is This Love?
Roughhousin By Proxy
2024-07-11 15:32:54 +0000 UTCHere I Go Again is a slow and mellow song about forward momentum. It's got "Lina's pick" written all over it. Meanwhile, voting for Jump was the easiest pick for me in a S vs. S match-up in a long time.
Alina
2024-07-11 15:29:53 +0000 UTCAlso, I became a Van Halen fan at 6 after hearing them on the Power Rangers soundtrack and my dad took me to see them for the first time in Pasadena at the Hollywood Bowl. It wasn't until Eddie died that I learned it was the last show they ever played as a band. Great first and last concert, they brought down the house.
Gator McKinley
2024-07-11 15:28:51 +0000 UTCJump is fine. But for some reason I can't stand the other one. I guess it just sounds really boring and the words make me roll my eyes. Idk it's just mid and I don't wanna listen to it.
Tippy
2024-07-11 15:28:23 +0000 UTCDon't care for either but the reason I voted for the song I did... Two words. Tawney. Kitaen.
Thomas Deja
2024-07-11 15:27:51 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite clips was David Lee Roth talking on the Joe Rogan Experience (I know, but bear with me) saying that other bands on the Sunset Strip were around to jam out and have a good time but because Van Halen all grew up in orchestra they were competing for first chair and they wanted to win and be better than everyone else. They did. Van Halen by a country mile.
Gator McKinley
2024-07-11 15:27:29 +0000 UTCEddie wrote the greatest synth riff of the entire arena rock era and “Jump” is Diamond Dave Van Halen at their best. Meanwhile, “Here I Go Again” is one of the worst songs of the 80s. It’s a slimy, overwrought mess. If Tawny Kitaen hadn’t been as incredible as she was in the video, more people would recognize how much of the song is garbage. David Coverdale only gets to keep performing that song because of her.
AnalogSkullerosis
2024-07-11 15:26:52 +0000 UTCI was once in a student theatre thing where I played a Scottish character whose whole thing was that he liked to jump over things for some fucking reason. Naturally, Jump was my theme song, so I guess it gets my vote. I dare you to find a dumber reason to vote for one song over another.
Jakob Eyjólfsson
2024-07-11 15:25:20 +0000 UTCVan Halen is one of those bands I never got. They are incredibly obnoxious and grating to listen to. This is an easy one. Whitesnake by a mile
Michael Gibler
2024-07-11 15:25:18 +0000 UTCFor Zeus’s sake you could’ve used the ACTUAL good songs from these albums and given us still of the night vs Panama . Todd has bad taste in eighties rock
Robert_boy_genius
2024-07-11 15:24:39 +0000 UTCIt took me a bit to remember what Here I Go Again even sounded like, so that gives me my vote.
Lanth
2024-07-11 15:24:34 +0000 UTC"Here I Go Again" helped define Whitesnake. But in a way "Jump" helped define a whole decade.
Cheeseburger_666
2024-07-11 15:24:24 +0000 UTCNever heard 'Here I Go Again' in my entire life. It's more that I'm voting against 'Jump', because it's the song my (former) friends would always skip to halfway through any song I would play when I was with them, implying that I had too weird tastes to be their friend. Nothing screams "musically incurious normie" as much as 'Jump' by Van Halen
Subspace Jet Witch
2024-07-11 15:23:57 +0000 UTCI'm siding with Debbie here and shaking my ass on the hood of Whitesnake's car.
Rookie XP
2024-07-11 15:23:53 +0000 UTCThe intro to Jump is amongst the greatest and most iconic intros of all time, and the Here I Go Again intro section is so obnoxious I was considering turning it off before it got to the good part.
lukas
2024-07-11 15:23:19 +0000 UTCNope, the only Whitesnake song that can compare with Diamond Dave era VH is INTHESTILLATHANITEAHHEERTHAWOLFHAWLHUNNAH
Vince Whitacre
2024-07-11 15:22:59 +0000 UTCTawny Kitan in skimpy clothing will always beat David Lee Roth in skimpy clothing.
Sladen377
2024-07-11 15:21:54 +0000 UTCBoth have a similar vibe. Both can be sung drunk at 2am. But, one has a famous synth line. The other, does not. So, we might as well...
Joseph Adams
2024-07-11 15:21:51 +0000 UTCHey Strong Bad, you just jumped over some of my busses. That's probably going to be the most obscure comment on this vote.
Evan Z.
2024-07-11 15:21:35 +0000 UTCWho the Hell would vote Whitesnake over peak Diamond Dave Van Halen?
Roughhousin By Proxy
2024-07-11 15:21:24 +0000 UTC
