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Van Halen - 1978
Van Halen is the self-titled debut studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. Released on February 10, 1978, the album peaked at #19 on the Billboard 200 and sold more than 10 million copies in the United States, receiving Diamond certification.
Running with the Devil
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Production
"We didn't have a ton of material", recalled bassist Michael Anthony, "so we basically just took our live show and all the songs we knew and went for it. The whole album only took a couple of weeks. Ted Templeman wanted to make a big, powerful guitar record, and he had all he needed in what Eddie was doing." | |
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Eddie Van Halen on stage in 1978.
KOH HASEBE/SHINKO MUSIC
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I just listened to this record night before last. I don't know that I ever listened to it all the way through. Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. |
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Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil (1978) (Remastered) HQhttps://www.youtube.com/w...S5lFaTm-ZY
Runnin' With the DevilYeah, yeah, ah
I live my life like there's no tomorrow And all I've got, I had to steal Least I don't need to beg or borrow Yes I'm livin' at a pace that kills Ooh, yeah
Ahh (Runnin' with the Devil) Ahh-hah, yeah Woo-hoo-oo (Runnin' with the Devil) Yes I'm, yeah, hoo Ooh, you know I
I found the simple life ain't so simple When I jumped out, on that road I got no love, no love you'd call real Ain't got nobody, waitin' at home Ahh, yeah
(Runnin' with the Devil) Hold on, hold on I'm runnin' ah yeah (Runnin' with the Devil) Ooh ooh, one more time Ha-yeah
(Runnin' with the Devil) Oh, yeah, ya-yeah (Runnin' with the Devil) (Woo, woo) (Runnin' with the Devil) I'll tell you about it I found the simple life, it's so simple
When I jumped out, on that road I got no love, no love you'd call real Ain't got nobody, waitin' at home Ha-yeah
(Runnin' with the Devil) Oh, yeah (Runnin' with the Devil) Ah-ha, yeah, ah-ha, yeah, ah-hah, yeah (Runnin' with the Devil)
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Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. |
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Amazing game changing album - it must have sounded out of this world when it dropped in the '70s. | |
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A friend of mine played me this album (when I was a kid getting into the guitar) and made me listen to "Eruption". My reaction was | |
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!!....I couldn't believe that was a guitar. A landmark debut album.
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I went for a road trip drive Sunday and put this album on ERUPTION is amazing. Hearing it again on the open road made me feel young again lol
https://www.youtube.com/w...4Czx8EWXb0 Eruption (2015 Remaster)
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Mark my words: in three years, Van Halen is going to be fat and self-indulgent and disgusting, and they’ll follow Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin right into the toilet. In the meantime, they are likely to be a big deal. Their cover of the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” does everything right, and they have three or four other cuts capable of jumping out of the radio the same way “Feels like the First Time” and “More than a Feeling” did amid all the candyass singer/songwriters and Shaun Cassidy-ass twits. Van Halen’s secret is not doing anything that’s original while having the hormones to do it better than all those bands who have become fat and self-indulgent and disgusting. Edward Van Halen has mastered the art of lead/rhythm guitar in the tradition of Jimmy Page and Joe Walsh; several riffs on this record beat anything Aerosmith has come up with in years. Vocalist Dave Lee Roth manages the rare hard-rock feat of infusing the largely forgettable lyrics with energy and not sounding like a castrato at the same time. Drummer Alex Van Halen and bassist Michael Anthony are competent and properly unobtrusive.
These guys also have the good sense not to cut their hair or sing about destroying a hopelessly corrupt society on their first album. That way, hopelessly corrupt radio programmers will play their music. Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band with the Rootettes, on the other hand, are already fat and self-indulgent and disgusting. This is a good thing because, in bypassing artistic maturity for immediate decadence, they have the distinction of being the first rock band in history to complain that their trusses are slipping (“My Wig Fell Off”). Oddly enough, they are also a good rock band. You would expect they’d be just clowns with a repertoire like “Heartbreak of Psoriasis” and “Too Sick to Reggae,” but this outfit can play blues-based rock with anybody. Gary Katz, of Steely Dan fame, has produced a clean and eminently listenable instrumental sound while retaining the uniqueness of the Root’s voice, which resonates like an emphysema victim vomiting inside the Goodyear blimp (check out “Boogie ’til You Puke”).
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Girl, you really got me now Girl, you really got me now oh Please, don't ever let me be Girl, you really got me now ah, ah Ah, ow, ah-ah, ah, ow, ah-ah, ah, ow, unh, Girl, you... Girl, you really got me now Girl, you really got me now oh
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