BALANCE
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BALANCE
Balance is the tenth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released on January 24, 1995 by Warner Bros. Records. The album is the last of the band's four studio releases to feature Sammy Hagar as the lead singer. Balance reached number 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 in February 1995 and reached Triple Platinum status on May 12, 2004 by selling more than three million copies in the U.S."The Seventh Seal" was nominated for a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. -wikipedia
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
If your enjoyment of Van Halen is primarily based on fun, and well it should be, then there's no reason not to own this and enjoy it.
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OO Cities
Balance isn’t a bad album
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Mark's Record Reviews
A really annoying shout. And by this album, his voice had deteriorated to a scratchy ghost of its former "glory," so even if most of the melodies weren't by-the-numbers garbage, it would still be unlistenable cuzza that ugly fourth instrument.
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Rolling Stone
1995 - Balance is pro forma pomp rock
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Metal Reviews
Hagar’s singing is a definite high note once again and some of the tunes are killer, but anyone really interested about Van Halen is better served going for almost the rest of their entire discography before picking up Balance.
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Mike Ladano
On the whole, I think the majority of Sammy’s final Van Halen album is not to be ashamed of.
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Ear of Newt
1995 - it’s on the songwriting front that the majority of Balance teeters off the mark
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Daily Vault
1999 - it seems as if it is stuck between choosing musical growth or remaining "The Mighty Van Halen." Either option would have been fine, but sitting in the middle is not achieving balance. It's called stagnation.
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All Music
Eddie Van Halen sincerely attempts to improve the group musically, by adding more subtle and assured ballads and more fearless rockers. No matter how hard he tries, he's weighed down by the most predictable rhythm section in all of rock & roll, which gives each number the same unvarying deadlocked pulse, completely obliterating Eddie's increased musical sensitivity.
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