Name: Best Of Volume 1
Brand: Van Halen

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Catalogue number

0093624647423

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U.K. Import

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-08-10

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Lasgo

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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9999

Artist

Van Halen

Genre US

60s & 70s

Label US

Warner Bros.

<p>American rock band Van Halen was formed in Pasadena, California in 1974 by Dutch brothers Eddie and Alex Van Halen. The original lineup included vocalist David Lee Roth and bassist/vocalist Michael Anthony. After Roth's departure in 1985, former Montrose lead vocalist Sammy Hagar joined the band for 11 years. Gary Cherone briefly replaced Hagar before the band went on hiatus. They reunited with Hagar in 2003 for a worldwide tour but he left again in 2005. In 2006, Roth returned and Eddie's son Wolfgang joined on bass guitar. Their final studio album was released in 2012.</p>
<p>Tragically, [a211671] passed away on October 6th, 2020 after battling throat cancer at St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California.</p>

EU pressing features a different track listing to the US edition. Almost evenly split between tracks that feature glammy showman David Lee Roth and those that feature earthy screecher Sammy Hagar, BEST OF VOLUME I seems designed to let this pioneering hard-rock band's fans compare and contrast between its two frontmen. As if to drive the exercise home, BEST OF features three tunes cut in '96-two of them with Roth, who had been estranged from the band since 1985, and one with Hagar ("Humans Being", originally released on the soundtrack to TWISTER). Otherwise, BEST OF presents the hits in chronological order, beginning with the unadorned, aggressive sound of the early Roth material. Powered by guitarist Eddie Van Halen's hammer-on notes and orchestral pyrotechnics, and lightened up by Roth's used-car-salesman-on-a-bender persona, "Ain't Talkin 'Bout Love" and "Runnin' with the Devil" are as close to pure, perfect hard rock as anyone is ever likely to come. The early '80s found the band incorporating synthesizers (played by Eddie) and a pop sensibility, resulting in mega hits like "Jump". Things changed again when Hagar replaced Roth and took the band further from it's roots, toward an expansive new sound with broader new arrangements, heard here in such pop hits as "Dreams" and "Right Now". Refusing to tip the balance toward either David Lee diehards or Sammy-come-latelys, BEST OF contains enough Van Halen milestones to keep anyone satisfied.

Best Of Volume 1

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