Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love

Eddie felt this song was the "lamest" song he had ever written. It took him six months to work up the nerve to show it to the rest of the band. It appears on the albums Van Halen, Best of Volume 1 and Live: Right Here, Right Now.

This song was originally written, as was Loss of Control, to poke fun at the emerging punk scene.

The song was written in one day in the basement of David Lee Roth's parents' home in 1977 (along with the unreleased tune Bullethead). Dave's house was often used as a rehearsal space.

A Coral electric sitar was used to double Eddie's solo.

In 1985 Minutemen released a cover of this song on Tour-Spiel (Reflex) and Just a Minute Men (Virgin). In 1989 the song was again released on the album Post-Mersh, Vol. 3 (SST 165) and again on a 1990 compilation album Duck & Cover (SST 263).

2 Live Crew sampled a riff from this song without permission for their 1990 song The Fuck Shop and was subsequently sued by Van Halen, who sought $300,000 for copyright infringement. The suite was filed on 12/17/90.

Scatterbrain covered the main riff in this song for Down with the Ship (Slight Return) on their 1990 album Here Comes Trouble. The song had moderate success on MTV's Headbanger's Ball. They rerecorded the song on their 1994 EP Mundus Intellectualos without the Van Halen riff.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones released their version of this song on their 1992 album Where'd You Go? (Taang! 48).

In 1997 the U.K. band Apollo 440 released a song using a sampled riff from this track entitled Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub. The song was used to advertise the women's basketball league, the WNBA. The Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub CD single (UK Sony SSXCOX6, 1997) features several different remixes of the song. Tracks: • @440 Instrumental Version • Armand Van Helden Moonraker Edit • Escape from New York Edit • Technology Park Remix • Joey the Butcher Remix • Booby Trap Remix

The band Skin released a live version of this song on their CD single Take Me Down to the River.

The Moog Cookbook's second album, Ye Olde Space Bande (Restless 1997), features a remake of this song with Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh on synthesizer and a computerized voice programmed by Michael Penn.

A recording of Third Eye Blind performing this song is in circulation.