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1984-30th Anniversary
Regular price $29.00 Save $-29.00Limited 180 gram vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this 1984 album. Six years and five albums after their debut, Van Halen had become one of the biggest bands in world around the release of 1984, which includes a number of the band’s most legendary songs such as the #1 hit, "Jump", "Panama" and "Hot For Teacher". Mastering engineer Chris Bellman, who remastered the original albums at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios, was enlisted for this new version. In order to produce the original sound the band intended, Bellman cut straight from the quarter-inch tapes.
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Diver Down
Regular price $29.00 Save $-29.00Fair Warning
Regular price $29.00 Save $-29.00In 1981, Van Halen released the one album amongst their classic David Lee Roth era output which can reasonably described as "underrated," inasmuch as you can use the word to describe an album that hit No. 5 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart and went double-platinum. Fair Warning may be just as big a deal amongst the diehard VH fans as everything else in their discography, but if you look back at the band's success on the singles charts over the course of their career, it's the only studio album – from their self-titled debut in 1978 all the way through 1995's Balance, their last effort with Sammy Hagar – that didn't have any songs hit the Billboard Hot 100.
However, four of the album's tracks did relatively well on the Mainstream Rock charts at the time ("Mean Street," "Unchained," "So This Is Love?" and "Push Comes to Shove"). History has revealed it to be a transitional album for Van Halen, beginning the incorporation of synths into the band's sound even as Eddie Van Halen attempted to bring his guitar skill to the forefront even more than it already had been. Obviously, the synths would prove to be far more prominent in the future, as would the pop flamboyance of Roth, but here it's darker, harder material, none of which exactly screamed "hit single." Nevertheless, since it hasn't gotten as much airplay over the years, Fair Warning arguably feels fresher than anything else in the early Van Halen catalog.
1. Mean Street
2. Dirty Movies
3. Sinner's Swing!
4. Hear About It Later
5. Unchained
6. Push Comes To Shove
7. So This Is Love?
8. Sunday Afternoon In the Park
9. One Foot Out the Door
Live: Right Here, Right Now (Boxed Set)
Regular price $100.00 Save $-100.00Van Halen's first live album - 1993's double-platinum Live: Right Here, Right Now - now available on 180-gram black vinyl.
Recorded in May 1992 as the band was wrapping up their massive world tour in the support of their classic, triple-platinum album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, the collection finds singer Sammy Hagar, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen, and bassist Michael Anthony firing on all cylinders and delivering over two hours of Van Halen's signature hits.
The collection has all 24 songs from the original CD release, plus three additional live recordings, including "The Dream Is Over" and "Eagles Fly" and "Mine All Mine." All tracks from the original live album were recently remastered from the 5150 studio master tapes by Bernie Grundman, who also cut the lacquers, with audio overseen by the band's longtime engineer Donn Landee.
Van Halen II
Regular price $29.00 Save $-29.00Van Halen set quite a precedent with its self-titled 1978 debut, one of the most landscape-shifting albums ever released. How does a band follow something like that? By making a record that's even better. And hard rock tour de force Van Halen II surely fits the bill. Granted, by the time this sophomore set appeared in late 1979, the world had already been introduced to Eddie Van Halen's pyrotechnic guitar skills and trick bag of jaw-dropping solos. And everyone knew about David Lee Roth's flamboyant singing, oversexed machismo, and vaudeville antics.
But the quartet ups the quotient level throughout the mighty Van Halen II, which swaggers to a flawless batch of songs and phenomenal playing. There's not a weak moment or note here. Moreover, as Eddie consistently delivers searing fills, acrobatic leads, and gravity-defying phrasings, Roth steps it up a notch, inserting himself in the role of the come-hither vocalist whose self-aware humor balances his glammed-up, spandex-clad, riser-leaping persona.
Once again proving themselves deft with their choice of covers (the lead-off "You're No Good"), Van Halen turns up the heat throughout, celebrating cheap and carefree sleaze, booze-soaked good times, and yes, the band's perennial favorite subject, women. Highlights include "Beautiful Girls," "Spanish Fly" and the Top 20 single "Dance the Night Away."
1. You're No Good
2. Dance the Night Away
3. Somebody Get Me a Doctor
4. Bottoms Up!
5. Outta Love Again
6. Light Up the Sky
7. Spanish Fly
8. D.O.A.
9. Women in Love
10. Beautiful Girls
Women and Children First
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