DIVER DOWN
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DIVER DOWN
Diver Down is the fifth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released on April 14, 1982. It spent 65 weeks on the album chart in the United States and had, by 1998, sold four million copies in the United States. -wikipedia
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OO Cities
Considering that this was a highly talented band that appeared to be in their prime, this was a lazy and disappointing effort.
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Mark's Record Reviews
The covers are fun and the few originals that there are are incredible!
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Robert Christgau
Attractive sexist original, unatttractive (hence unimpressive) sexist original, guitar as cathedral organ. And so it goes
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Starling
covers aren't why I listen to bands unless I'm paying a cover charge at the local beer mill
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Rolling Stone
1982 - Strip away the four cover versions, the three brief instrumentals and the minute-long goof on “Happy Trails” and Van Halen’s fifth album, Diver Down, suddenly seems like a cogent case for consumer fraud.
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All Music
y most measures, this should be the kind of slop that's difficult to muddle through, but it's not: it's one of Van Halen's best records, one that's just pure joy to hear.
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Classic Rock Reviews
But there is an undeniable charm which makes this somehow all gel into one of the more interesting Van Halen albums.
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Sleaze Roxx
This is the mixed bag of Van Halen albums. Half covers/half originals!
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Mike Ladano
Diver Down, a collection of covers, instrumentals and joke tunes with only a couple of serious rockers. Yet every time I listen to it, don’t I absolutely enjoy Diver Down?
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World Metal Domination
2017 - ‘Diver Down’ is actually quite a lot of fun, it will never fail to bring a smile to your face as Van Halen smash out a song as a barbershop quartet, but it is also the sound of a band going through motions, treading water and keeping afloat under pressure from the record company to deliver the next hit.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
if you're gonna have a backyard summer cookout, it's hard to imagine that a better soundtrack album exists for the occasion
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Metal Reviews
very good record, but doesn’t quite hold up to the other material the band made in the DLR-era
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Spectrum Culture
2017 - nothing that came after Diver Down ever matched the album’s haphazard genius
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Metal Odyssey
a good times Hard Rockin’ album for me back in 1982 and it still holds that same vibe for me in 2011
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Creem Magazine
Not only is this album an insult to the average consumer who will have to pay upwards of ten dollars for it, it is an exceptionally vicious kick in the teeth to Van Halen fans everywhere
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Slide Share
double thumbs up
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Eagle 102.3 FM
2015 - Even more impressively, the album features two of Van Halen's most textured and mature tracks: the lilting, Spanish-influenced "Secrets" and the exotic pop-rock guitar symphony "Little Guitars."
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
An album that manages to be an entertaining wonder even though it's often dismissed as "messy?" GOOD GOD THAT'S JOHN MCFERRIN'S MUSIC!!!
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