Van Halen (Van Halen)

over played but still very powerful.fave:atomic punk

The onlty Van Halen album worth owning.

greatest band eva'

You don't get any better than this. One of the most skilled bands in the world at their best. There are so many classics on this album... the guitar mastery of 'Eruption', the crunching anger of 'Ain't Talkin' Bout Love', and let's not forget their annihilation of the Kinks' original with 'You Really Got Me'...

The album that revolutionized the 70's and changed guitar playing forever. This album has everything; hit songs, the greatest guitar playing (up to that point in time), and no "filler" tracks on the entire album. It also features the greatest cover song of all-time "You Really Got Me". I was too young when the album came out, but I have seen interviews with muscians at the time and all they could say about hearing Van Halen for the first time was "What the hell is he playing and how is he getting that sound?". This album is one of the best selling albums of all-time and it definitely set the tone for guitar players that came after Eddie.

They are so bad, they are the boy band of there time, horrible.

van halen is garbage they have had or have now singers who squeal like girls and they suck

Great band, great good time rock and roll shit from the 80s. Every kid on the block wants to be like Eddie. Influenced millions.

blast the shit out of your speakers , the sound is so good you can taste it. Just remember to take the CD out when your mom is using the car. 'Eruption' can be very confusing to her ears, and she might have a seizures.

This album did it for me as far as learning guitar (Me along with millions of other kids my age!). One of the best rock guitar sounds ever. "Ain't Talking 'Bout Love" is a very cool riff, and of course "Eruption" pretty much says it all about this band - balls to the wall good rock & roll. Even bands like Sabbath and Ted Nugent regretted these guys opening up for them. But like all bands over the years, they lost that edge that they had on this first album. I still keep going back to listen to it. Great album throughout.

Great debut album that also happen to be the nail in the disco coffin. Van Halen's first four albums are legendary. From the opening of Running with the Devil and its dying Volvo car horn to the album ending On Fire this album packs a punch. Nothng fancy here, no overdubs and only minimal guitar(Stereo chorus) effects. While Van Halen I paved the way for 80's metal this is without a doubt a 70's classic! After Fair Warning Van Halen stopped being innovative and EVH style has not grown. Van Halen has become Rock and Rolls 2nd biggest soap opera next to Fleetwood Mac. Eddies Boozing has obviously been the main factor behind it all!

IMO, this is Van Halen's best album and one of the greatest debuts of any group ever. Highlights include: 'Runnin'With The Devil', 'Eruption', 'You Really Got Me', 'Ain't Talkin''Bout Love' and 'Jamie's Cryin'.

2.5 stars, I was never a big fan of them though of course Eddie Van Halen could play. Their early stuff always struck me as a poppier blend of Mountain, Sabbath, and in so far as the screams went, Uriah Heep.

Juvenile, noisy, excessive, one-dimensional comic book tripe. Suited only for like, you know, 15 year old boys. Who are tonedeaf. Listen to one Van Halen track and you've heard them all. When you consider what compelling, interesting and mature music the punk rockers and new wavers of the same period were producing, this album seems antiquated and puerile from the first groove. Listen to this piece of childish nonsense today and it sounds like time capsule music, or maybe more like time crapsule music.

Van halen's Best and one of the best albums of the late 70's

i love this albumm still listen to it

This was their very best album- afterwards it went downhill each time.I saw them right after this was released-they opened for Black Sabbath,and I was probably one of the few in the audience who had the album and knew who the hell they were. I had great hopes for this band-they put on a great show.The second album was ALMOST as good,but the third was watered down even more and then they got all poppy and sappy.By the time they had Sammy Hagar it was all over. A band ruined by Egos, over-production and crass commercialism.

Generally rated as their best and deservedly so. Good fun party rock n roll as it all should be. None of the pompous sermonising or self-pitying introspection you get from so many other big rock names.

A solid hard rock album. The David Lee Roth era was much better.

Rock should be fun and not up its own a*se with all that crap about 'my life being a pile of s**t' to whit the execrable Radiohead, Kurt Cobain, Smiths etc. Wallow in your own misery in private you self-centred nerds. VH along with Aerosmith, Motley Crue have never taken themselves seriously. VH 1 is a classic party rock album with seminal guitar pyrotechnics that paved the way for a whole new generation of axewielders. 'Eruption' 'Running with the devil' and 'Aint talking about love' are the highlights in a solid album wiht no fillers.

Released in 1978, Van Halen peaked early with the group's self-titled, full-length debut. The band wasn't so pop oriented as they increasingly became with each subsequent release. Van Halen contains some of the band's signature tracks, including Runnin' With The Devil, Ain't Talking 'Bout Love, Jamie's Cryin', and their immortal cover of the Kink's You Really Got Me. There is not a weak song on this release, and it remains enjoyable long after the end of my headbanging days.

If you want to know what Van Halen is all about, just listen to "Eruption". It kicks butt. You will probably have to listen to it 3-4 times to really appreciate it, and for tose of you new to Van Halen, it's one guitar, one track, no overlays.

A classic, breakthrough album from a classic band. This album is similar in some ways to Guns and Roses' Appetite due to the fact that both albums are raw, energetic, freshmen efforts. However, I admit that 1984 is a better album than this one.

Eddie Van Halen pretty much burned every other guitarist at the time. "Eruption" is the end of all guitar shoot-outs. Van Halen may be one of the cheesiest bands of all time, but cheese is sometimes necessary.

I hate Van Halen more than any band in existence, though Styxx is right up there, or down there, whatever the case may be. I'm not saying that Eddie Van Halen (is that his name?) isn't talented, I just hate his band! Their music is atrocious, whenever I hear it, I think I'm going to have seizures. They need to be stopped! David Lee Roth, that other guy with the big hair are terrible, good thing they left, but the band still stinks.

A fun cd to rock with.

What can I say? I like the old 80's metal, and this album was one of the best.

A real classic. This must be the album that re-defined the way guitars are played. Not since Jimi Hendrix has somebody created such a unique way of playing than Eddie Van Halen.

best debut of all time! Put rock back on the map!

Excellent talent

Man. 20+ years later and Van Halen still hasn't recorded a better album. This album is so deep. Everyone knows "Runnin' with the Devil" and "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" (which rule) but if you don't know it, get it. Check out "I'm the One" and "Little Dreamer" to get the full effect of most influential player in rock guitar (chronologically) after Hendrix until deconstruntionist grunge set in paired with the greatest American showman since P. T. Barnum.