VAN HALEN
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VAN HALEN
Van Halen is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. Released on February 10, 1978, the album peaked at #19 on the Billboard 200. The album became widely recognized as the band's popularity grew, selling more than 10 million copies in the United States by August 7, 1996 and being certified Diamond. -wikipedia
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Van Halen News Desk
Van Halen's magnificent 1978 self-titled debut album simultaneously rewrote the rules of rock guitar and hard rock in general.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
2016 - Van Halen ushered in a new wave of hard rock. ... From Eddie Van Halen’s mind-warping guitar skills to David Lee Roth’s dirty-old-uncle act, rock music needed Van Halen. It just didn’t know how much at the time.
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All Music
They still sound vital, surprising, and ultimately fun -- and really revolutionary, because no other band rocked like this before Van Halen, and it's still a giddy thrill to hear them discover a new way to rock on this stellar, seminal debut.
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Starling
The second song, "Eruption," must have blown guitarists' minds back in the day
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Louder Sound
2018 - Van Halen's debut album changed the face of rock music when it was released in 1978, and, for better or worse, ushered in the era of the shredder
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The Quietus
2018 - They recorded it because the music was bursting out of them and because they could. That’s why, 40 years later, it still sounds perfect. Because, like the greatest rock music, it sounds unfiltered.
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Classic Rock Review
With this innovative record which sounds every bit as fresh 35 years after its release, Van Halen has risen to become Classic Rock Review’s album of the year for 1978.
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Mark's Record Reviews
THIS is ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!!
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Best Classic bands
the band sported two unique appeals, a combination of musical proficiency and party-animal joie de vivre not easily duplicated. ... On its debut, those qualities were in place
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Consequence of Sound
2019 - In 1978, the album Van Halen sounded just like the Sunset Strip: like vibrant billboards, flashing neon lights, bougie boutiques, hip nightclubs, drugs, prostitutes, and rock and roll.
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Irish Times
2018 - The sheer precision delivery of Eddie Van Halen’s guitar seemed inhuman.
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Robert Christgau
This music belongs on an aircraft carrier.
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The Top tens
There's seriously not one bad song on this album, not even one average song. They're all great in their own right. This is one of history's best debut albums, and I will continue to love it until the day that I die.
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A Pop Life
2018 - It is a completely unique and highly original piece of work by a band that was only at the beginning of its (very long and successful) career. It all sounds loose and free, spontaneous even. But what ultimately stands out is the vast energy
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Sleaze Roxx
2018 - Van Halen may be as close to a masterpiece as I have heard. Forty years later ..., Van Halen still stands as one of the best hard rock / heavy metal albums of all-time.
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