What do you think of Van Halen’s first album?
What do you think of Van Halen’s first album?
Alexander Campbell
Nathaniel Myers
extremely based
shits all over elvis costello
Cooper Rodriguez
6/10
Charles Peterson
It's a fun, well-played rock record
Eli Howard
VH is easily the most based band that has ever existed
Josiah Murphy
It's my favorite of the Roth era but some days it's got stiff competition from Fair Warning and Women and Children First.
Brody Brooks
It fucking badass. EVH in one chanel and the rest of the band in the other. recorded in a like a week. the tone is still otherworldy to this day. the birth of thrash. The first metal band to smile.
Brandon Clark
One of the best debut albums in rock.
Sebastian Lewis
I like the three that came after it better
Carson Bell
>the birth of thrash
Would disagree
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James James
VHII > Fair Warning > VH > Women & Children First > Diver Down > 1984
Matthew Murphy
>tfw a Queen song is heavier than any Ozzy-era Sabbath song
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Jason Anderson
I'm not a big Queen fan personally but Queen weren't slouches musically, all the hate is just people who don't even know their music hating on the fact that their hits are overplayed
Alexander Gutierrez
5150 > anything DLR ever did with them
Sebastian Cox
Bullshit
DLR era VH >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hagar solo/Montrose >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Van Hagar (except F.U.C.K.)
Nolan Cox
Luke Hernandez
Lincoln Cox
It's rock on steroids, what's not to love? Deserves status as classic
Easton Brooks
NOBODY RULES THESE STREETS AT NIGHT BUT ME
THE ATOMIC PUNK AAAAAAAHHH
Jordan Evans
Excellent for a debut!
None of those songs are "Thrash" although I thought The Sex Pistols should've covered Symptom of The Universe.
Now THIS is THRASH! (TAKE THAT ALL YOU FUCKING QUEEN HATERS!)
Not quite thrash, but close enough. This and I'm on Fire are two of the best songs off the album!
Andrew Turner
See since the first post was directed at you.
As you can see I made a mistake, but I didn't want to delete my post and write the whole thing over again!
Oliver Hughes
good but not as great as Fair Warning
Ayden Carter
Ain't Talkin Bout Love is the best if you ask me
Joseph Perez
I fucking hate like half of it. 1984 is a 10/10 though
Thomas Reyes
This.
Noah Sullivan
other way around ya fuckin wuss
Thomas Gomez
>proto-thrash
You can arguably go even earlier:
Oliver Martin
Their first several albums are gold until they finally peak stylistically with 1984. However my favorite hidden gem of theres is Could This Be Magic off Women and Children first.
Eli Walker
>9/10
Honestly based. EVH is one of the best guitarist of all time. You can't top the brown sound.
Jaxon Jackson
I prefer The Minutemen's version
Not quite fast enough to be "Thrash" but still a good song. Oh, who am I kidding? Pre Burn Deep Purple is GOAT!
Adam Gutierrez
finally a good Yas Forums thread. glad to see there are some people here who can still enjoy VH. although there are some strong contenders from other genres that came up recently, they're my favorite band of all time and probably always will be. I won't give an album ranking because all the DLR albums have, at the very least, 3 songs that make up for any mistakes on the rest of the album because of how dope they are. also 1984 is my favorite but VH1 is a close second.
Austin Robinson
>The first metal band to smile.
Well, they're not a metal band, so that explains that.
Hudson Morgan
Preach
Landon Russell
"THE" guitar tone
great tracks
off this world guitar playing
I don't think that riff in On Fire could ever be cranked loud enough
Jason Rodriguez
>that riff in On Fire at 1:09
Eli Brooks
THAT FUCKING BASSLINE AT THE STA OF RUNNIN WITH THE DEVIL
DUUUUNNN DUNN DUNNN
AWWW SHIETTTT
Josiah Phillips
Greatest debut album of all time.
Daniel Gutierrez
Van Halen [Warner Bros., 1978]
For some reason Warners wants us to know that this is the biggest bar band in the San Fernando Valley. That is an understatement--all new bands are bar bands unless they're Boston. The term "bar band" becomes honorific when the band belongs in a bar. This music belongs on an aircraft carrier. C
Ayden Campbell
What the fuck does this even mean.
Caleb Stewart
Something about blah blah what is Warner doing promoting this Xboxhueg arena metal as being a bar band. I think back in the late 70s the critical establishment was a little unhappy at the success of bands like VH because according to established wisdom, that kind of band shouldn't exist anymore and punk was supposed to kill it off.
Eli Thomas
Van Halen II [Warner Bros., 1979]
Let it never be said that popular styles don't evolve--in the wake of Kiss and Boston, this is heavy metal that's pure, fast, and clean with a minimum of myopthea and bombast, while the guitar features are defined strictly as that. So how come pure formalists don't love the shit out of these guys? Not because they're into dominating women, that's for sure. C+
Angel Lee
>Boston
>heavy metal
Bob, I...
Evan Peterson
*ahem*
FUCK VAN HALEN
Parker Edwards
is this a political compass
Austin Walker
>I think back in the late 70s the critical establishment was a little unhappy at the success of bands like VH because according to established wisdom, that kind of band shouldn't exist anymore and punk was supposed to kill it off.
so basically they were upset that their own narrative they made up about how rock was supposed to work was proven false.
Levi King
>myopthea
>bombast
I fucking hate music critics
Adam Lopez
kek
accurate too, considering their personalities
Jace Hughes
There's still a debate over that.
Head bangers like the early stuff, there's a way the albums are produced, and there's a way that the songs are played, composed and arranged.
Oh, sure, it's not Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, or even Iron Maiden, and it's certainly not Metallica or Slayer, but if it isn't metal, then it's hard rock that borders on heavy metal, much in the same way bands like Motorhead, UFO, Deep Purple, Kiss, and AC/DC borderline on heavy metal.
Joseph Rivera
yes. I agree. Have A DAVE.
Cooper Miller
imagine being this retarded.
Aaron Rogers
>the birth of thrash
>Would disagree
Without EVH there is no Metallica
Chase Cook
shut up bitch
Jace Edwards
One of the top ten most important debuts in rock music.
Camden Cook
Kayden Butler
7/10
The first four songs are great
res is meh
Adam Gutierrez
sounds like shit
Mason Wright
Ain't Talkin Bout Love is the greatest rock song of all time
Jacob Sanchez
cockrock par excellence
Jacob Cruz
Balance > Any other VH album
Isaac Nelson
As much as I like Balance...you cant be this retarded. I do not hate Hagar but there is no way in hell any Van Hagar albums are as good as the Classic VH 6-pack.
Joshua Bell
Great musicians spoiled by DLR's cabaret bullshit. The Barbra Streisand of hard rock. To be fair, he didn't get in the band because of his voice.