The reunited Van Halen's recent New York gig showed that the guys could share a stage without mauling each other, and rock out like it was 1984. On their new single, all the components are in the right place, too: those aerodynamic harmonies, Eddie Van Halen’s whining-dragon guitar solo, his brother Alex's pole-dancing grooves and David Lee Roth's neon-peacock strut. Sadly, this slow-boiling ode to body ink never really hits liftoff. Roth savors lines like "Show me your dragon magic/So auto-bio-graphic," and brags that he has the number of his uncle's union chapter emblazoned on his shoulder. (Diamond Dave is a lefty! Who knew?) But if Van Halen had dropped "Tattoo" into one of their Eighties shows, you might've headed to the concession stand for a Coke, or wondered if theirs was wearing off a bit. (In fact, the song's main riff sounds like it was borrowed from "Down in Flames," a late-1970s live cut.) Still, it's great to have you back and windmill-kickin', fellas.

Listen To "Tattoo":

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“Tonight's the Night”

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."