Liked it a lot, but I never really bought into the David Lee Roth thing, even though I own every Van Halen album up to and including 3 (Which I think is great by the way.)
I've also said this before but a key element of this is that Van Halen was just so much... FUN. Good, clean, FUN. Maiden was dead serious; this was before the internet so Rush wasn't the fun-loving BFFs that we know today; Kiss was fun but it was... there was that element of secrecy then, so they weren't on the same level as the rest of us; Ozzy was "fun" in a "wow, that guy is a maniac; I'm glad that's not MY friend" kind of way...
I don't know. I think that's partly why I never really got ass deep in the grunge movement and really don't like the whole Cobain thing. It wasn't FUN. It's no surprise that the only band I erally like from Seattle is the Mother Love Bone, who were a fucking goof in a lot of ways. "Dirt" is probably my least favorite AiC album, because it's just so BLEAK. Soundgarden was okay, but they only really clicked with me once I got the humor that was sort of an undercurrent in their music ("do you hear a cow? A rooster says.... here is a pig... the devil says.... RROOOOOOOAAAAARRRRRR" on "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" is epic). To this day, if you look at my top albums - Yes, Genesis, Dream Theater, Rush... only Sabbath is a really dark band. I just kind of gravitate to that positivity and that's Roth VH.