Van Halen [Remaster] by Van Halen (CD, Sep-2000, Warner Bros. Records Record Label)

Track listing
1. Runnin' With The Devil
2. Eruption
3. You Really Got Me
4. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
5. I'm The One
6. Jamie's Cryin'
7. Atomic Punk
8. Feel Your Love Tonight
9. Little Dreamer
10. Ice Cream Man
11. On Fire


Details
Playing time: 33 min.
Producer: Ted Templeman
Distributor: WEA
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: AAD


Album notes
Van Halen: David Lee Roth (vocals); Eddie Van Halen (guitar, background vocals); Michael Anthony (bass, background vocals); Alex Van Halen (drums, background vocals).
Recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California in 1978.
Quite simply put, no-one had seen or heard anything like it. Roth's flamboyant showmanship, with the microphone dangling provocatively between his legs on the cover, and Eddie Van Halen's monstrously inventive guitar playing became a textbook for air guitarists the world over. From the instrumental blow-out of "Eruption," the gritty teen pop of "Feel Your Love Tonight," to the strutting riff around which "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love" was built and the grandiose reworking of The Kinks' "You Really Got Me," Van Halen set their own absurd standards. One of the truly great rock and roll/metal debut albums.

Any review for this album has to be A+, unless your an Oingo Boingo fan giving one of those "long haired bands" a try.

Roth's voice is spot on. Eddie hit us with riffs and fill in's that every guiarist wants to play but will never nail the same "feel" Eddie translates into his playing.Mike and Alex fill out the band, Alex being a better musician. Alex plays clean and they mix his crash symbols and bass pretty good, so you can hear the punch.

The entire album kicks ass,any fan will tell you there isn't a song on here you would skip over.Each one has it's own style and energy that you get into and no song sounds alike. "Eruption" than "You Really Got Me" builds a steady energy level then switch gears with "Ain't Talkin Bout Love", be it, keeping a great presence of who they are and the sound they were hitting us with.

This is also, in my opinion,one of the best B sides albums."Atomic Punk" and "On Fire", totally kick ass. Best songs they ever wrote. Very hard and songs that just blaze with guitar magnificence "Feel Your Love Tonight" doesn't rip it like the latter, but it has it's own style that you really have to listen to. Little nuances make the song, like Eddie using harmonics in his bridges, the harmonies and the gritty sound.

I really like how they mixed the album, especially the echo and the discrete processing.The stereo mix is really split with Eddie being isolated to the right, I believe, and the echo from effects on the other side.You really get great spacing to hear the guitar work, it's feels more personal, you can picture standing in front of him watching him play. If you turn the balance to one side,you will hear a faint mix of Eddie with the vocals and such, and to the other, a great opportunity to discretely appreciate how good he is.

i have not herd van halen in a long time i love it.i guss it"s old time rock and roll? it still rockes. its a good cd butt i wood like more songs. guss i will have to order a nuther cd to make up the defrence. that will be good fore you and me.so i will be looking for more"if you have eney outhers please let me know"i like all good rock and roll.yes i will be ordeing a lott more of the stuff i like.oldes but goodes.for all my cd needs thank you.

This album is a classic! And, I'd even venture to say that if you didn't own it back in the late 70's or early 80's, claiming that you rocked was suspect at best. Van Halen's first offering in my opinion is just one of those albums that's as relevent today as it was when it came out in '78. I'll almost guarantee that you'll air guitar and drum from start to finish. Hell I've been doin' it since I was 10 and I'm now 43. 8) LONG LIVE ROCK & ROLL!

Van Halen is the best . thanks got it today wow that was quick.........................​..............................​..............................​..............................​..............................​..............................​..............................​..............................​..............................​..............................​.........................