Talk:1984 (Van Halen album)

message: The synthesizer that Eddie Van Halen plays is an Oberheim OB-X, not OB-Xa. 
And due to the different circuitry the sound is very different! 
As you can see in the linked page (https://web.archive.org/web/20180410072509/http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/flashback-eddie-van-halen-on.aspx) in the photo Eddie plays the grey one (OB-X) not the blue one (OB-Xa)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180614172235im_/http://images.gibson.com/Lifestyle/English/aaFeaturesImages/Eddie%20Van%20Halen%20keyboards.jpg
While in the videoclip he pretends plays an OB-Xa, the sound he actually recorded in the song - as we know - come from the OB-X.
Thanks.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.15.34.95 (talk) 09:18, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong instrument

message: Was this album first released on Vinyl or CD? because the track listing should reflect whatever the newest format used on the day of first release. Hence if it was released on CD later, there should be a "Side One, Side Two" in the track listing. Axcess (talk) 19:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Format

message: As I was surfing the various Van Halen pages here, I began to notice that most occurrences of "1984" had been replaced with "MCMLXXXIV". Most of these changes appear to have been made by User:Wiendietry. Although this is how the name of the album is printed on its front cover, a google search for MCMLXXXIV yields only 4410 results whereas a google search for 1984 yields 535000. In addition, almost all of the Van Halen discographies turned up by this google search refer to this album as 1984. What are everybody else's thoughts on this?
Linkminer 22:01, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you look at the edit history for this talk page, you will see that the article was moved to MCMLXXXIV recently, and then moved back by me for the reason you mention. When doing this I took into account the fact that 1984 is the more common name, and that the back cover of the album refers to it by that name. --PEJL 22:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I did see that, but I'm referring to something else (and if I recall correctly, that move was performed by someone else). I'm referring to changes that are being made to various Van Halen pages that refer to this album. These pages include Hot for Teacher, Jump (Van Halen song), House of Pain (disambiguation), Panama (song), The Best of Both Worlds (Van Halen album), Women in Love (Van Halen song), 5150 (album), 5150 Studios, Van Halen Discography, and many others (search for MCMLXXXIV for a complete list). I figured it makes sense to put this discussion here because it concerns the topic of this article. Linkminer 22:46, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I realize you were technically referring to something else, but these should all use the same title, so it's really the same issue. In general, I think the name of the article should be the primary source of the title, and other articles should adapt to the title used there. --PEJL 00:45, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replacing "1984" with "MCMLXXXIV"? 

message: This article says that the album has been released on the 9th of January of 1984. In the past I read that the album was released on the 31st of December of 1983. I wonder if any of you has read the same information somewhere.
ICE77 -- 84.223.76.36 12:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1983 or 1984? 

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thread_title:  Dead link 

message: I removed this: " Little did the band know that Jeffries had a metal plate in his head, and shouldn't have been consuming alcohol. When Jeffries got back to his hotel room he began vomiting and breaking dishes, he had been taking anti-seizure medication. " as it is potentially problematic for many reasons.  It was tagged for references some time ago.  98.67.186.108 (talk) 03:15, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
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message: States "It was the last Van Halen album until A Different Kind of Truth (2012) to feature lead singer David Lee Roth". False. "Best of Volume 1" 1996 featured DLR with two original songs. Granted, DLR wasn't the whole album, but it invalidates the original, as written portion IMHO, considering that Sammy didn't get any new songs on BOV1. Hagar was out of the band by the time BOV1 was produced & released...therefore, BOV1 "featured" DLR.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by FiggazWithAttitude (talk • contribs) 18:25, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, having had a year + to think about this, it's OK as written since it now specifies "Full length original studio album" or some such statement which defines the difference between a compilation and an original album. Thanks for indulging me. Peace out! FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 16:39, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roth 

message: There is no mention in the article of who the baby in the cover art for the album is. Is it Roth himself when he was young?--Fandelasketchup (talk) 23:05, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of the baby in the cover art