You're No Good

The band used to play a completely different version of this song, from the Van Halen II album, during their club days.

On the cassette version of the album, this song was incorrectly credited to Holland-Dozier-Holland (the trio responsible for writing many of the Supremes hits).

You're No Good was originally recorded by Betty Everett for Vee Jay in 1963 and was covered shortly thereafter by the Swingin' Blue Jeans. In 1974 Andrew Gold added strings to the arrangement and Linda Ronstadt had her first #1 single with the song in 1975.

The bass intro for this song was originally meant to be a complete bass solo. Later it was determined that it would be better as an intro. Eddie's intro was originally a part of an unreleased original song, Down in Flames.

It was Ted Templeman's idea to record this tune. Eddie came up with his version after Templeman hummed him the main riff.