VAN HALEN: LP 1978 original first press UK, s.t, 1st, debut. Check audio and videos and video analysis (why “Runnin’ With The Devil”) is such a great song.

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Label: Warner Bros. Records ‎– K56470, Warner Bros. Records ‎– K 56470
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Burbank Labels
: UK
Date: 1978
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Tracklisting:
A1 Runnin’ With The Devil 3:32
A2 Eruption 1:42
A3 You Really Got Me [Written-By – Ray Davies] 2:37
A4 Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love 3:47
A5 I’m The One 3:44
B1 Jamie’s Cryin’ 3:30
B2 Atomic Punk 3:00
B3 Feel Your Love Tonight 3:40
B4 Little Dreamer 3:22
B5 Ice Cream Man [Written-By – John Brim] 3:18
B6 On Fire 3:01

Record Company – Warner Communications
Distributed By – WEA Records Ltd.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.

Bass – Michael Anthony
Drums – Alex Van Halen
Guitar – Edward Van Halen*
Vocals – David Lee Roth
Written-By – Alex Van Halen (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B4, B6), David Lee Roth (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B4, B6), Edward Van Halen* (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B4, B6), Michael Anthony (3) (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B4, B6)
Notes
Different label layout to Van Halen – Van Halen, different label completely to Van Halen – Van Halen
A1, A2, A4 to B4, B6 Published by Van Halen Music
A3 Published by Kassner Music Ltd
B5 Published by Tristan Music Ltd

℗ & © 1978 Warner Bros. Records Inc.

Made in UK
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched): K 56470-A-I Allen Λ
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched): K 56470-B-I Allen Λ
Other (US catalog reference): BSK 3075


Only the mighty Van Halen could unite the world’s most popular religions!

Only the mighty Van Halen could unite the world’s most popular religions!


Check audio. ALL (11) SONGS!

Check audio. ALL (11) SONGS!


Van Halen is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in February 1978. Recorded in 1977, Van Halen sold over 10 million copies in the US alone, becoming one of the most successful debuts by a hard rock band. Along with 1984, it gives Van Halen two original albums with Diamond status in sales.
Eddie Van Halen set a new standard for guitar playing and spawned a generation of players utilizing his unique style and approach. The instrumental, “”Eruption””, showcased his mastery of tapping, the use of the right hand to activate and fret notes along with the left. The sheer blazing delivery and solid composition shocked the guitar world and instantly set him apart as one of rock premier guitar virtuosos.
The album cover was shot at the Whisky a Go Go. The guitar pictured on the cover of the album is Edward Van Halen famous Frankenstrat Guitar, made from a neck purchased from Boogie Bodies and a Stratocaster style body custom made by Wayne Charvel in California and assembled in Edward parents’ garage.

SAMPLES:  https://www.allmusic.com/album/van-halen-mw0000196169

David Lee Roth – lead vocals
Eddie Van Halen – guitar and backing vocals.
Michael Anthony – bass guitar and backing vocals.
Alex Van Halen – drums

Van Halen: a track-by-track guide to the album that saved rock’n’roll. A record that took just 35 minutes to change the way rock’n’roll was played… and may have saved it in the process.

Back in 1978, Eddie Van Halen was asked what his band wanted to achieve with their newly-minted debut album. “All we’re tryin’ to do is put some excitement back into rock’n’roll,” he replied, modestly.

Modestly but accurately – and then some. Forty years after it was released, Van Halen stands as one of rock’s great landmarks. This was more than just a stellar debut album – it was an adrenalin shot to the heart of a music scene that was slumped in a corner, turning a nasty shade of blue. In just 35 minutes, Van Halen single-handedly saved rock’n’roll, ushering in the 1980s two years ahead of schedule. This is how they did it…

Runnin’ With The Devil

Like most of the songs on Van Halen, the opening track dated from the days when the band cut their teeth on the Southern California club circuit. Opening with a blare of cars horns – reputedly the idea of Gene Simmons, who produced one of the band’s early demos in an attempt to help get them a record deal – it quickly locked into a pulsing groove that provides a foundation for Eddie Van Halen’s restless guitar and Dave Lee Roth’s weaponised charisma. The sound of the blue touch paper being lit.

What makes this “Runnin’ With The Devil” song great?

Eruption

The song that reinvented the guitar god for the new era: one minute and 42 seconds of mercury-fingered genius that was as revolutionary as Hendrix had been a decade earlier. It introduced the world to Eddie’s radical two-handed tapping technique, though it was a happy accident that it ended up on the record at all. “We were warming up for a weekend gig,” said the guitarist. “I was just rehearsing and [engineer] Donn Landee happened to record it. The take on the record was a freak thing.” Freak or not, it remains the Rosetta Stone for every would be guitar hero that followed.

You Really Got Me

If The Kinks really did invent heavy metal with You Got Me, then this was Van Halen paying them back. One of dozens of covers they’d throw in their sets back in the days when they were called Mammoth, it took the original’s Jurassic riff and Van Halenized it to glorious effect. Producer Ted Templeman certainly thought so – this was the song that persuaded him to work with the band.

Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love

Eddie Van Halen once claimed he wrote his band’s early signature song as a pastiche of punk: “A stupid thing to us, just two chords.” The result was far from dumb. Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love was everything that was fantastic about Van Halen wrapped up in three and a half minutes: the jagged guitar that sounds like it would knife you in a heartbeat, the vocal squeals and showboating from Roth, the weird shit like the sitar that doubles up the guitar solo.

I’m The One

The oldest song on the record dated back to 1974, when it was called Show Your Love, but it didn’t show its age. Like most of the tracks on Van Halen, it was cut live, without overdubs – Ted Templeman rightly clocked that would be the only way to bottle the band’s relentless energy. The doo-wop breakdown that crashed the party near the end was the roadmap to Dave Lee Roth’s entire career.

Jamie’s Cryin’

Van Halen sounded like they were strutting, even when they weren’t. And no song on Van Halen strutted like Jamie’s Cryin’, a song about the aftermath of a one-night stand that’s surprisingly sympathetic. Killer harmonies too – something VH have never got their due credit for.

Atomic Punk

Van Halen’s secret weapon: Ain’t Talkin’ About Love and Eruption might be the album’s marquee tracks, but Atomic Punk is its best. As Eddie alternates between sawing through sheet metal and firing off laser beams with his guitar, Diamond Dave stalks the dark streets, king of all he surveys, oozing cartoon menace and attitude. That final, stretched squeal of “The Atomic Punk!” shows off Roth’s vocal shortcomings. But never has anyone done so much with the so little.

Feel Your Love Tonight

Van Halen did ‘heavy’ effortless, as a wheezing Black Sabbath found out when they brought them out as support in 1979. But they could do ‘pop’ too, as this proves. If nothing else, it’s a showcase for Michael Anthony’s instantly recognisable backing harmonies – Roth called the bassist “one of the greatest high tenor voices ever.”

Little Dreamer

Van Halen were too amped to bother with ballads, but they did occasionally dial things down a little. Little Dreamer is the sultriest moment on the record, a hazy mid-paced shuffle that sizzled like the Pasadena sidewalks in a California heatwave.

Ice Cream Man

Van Halen were never ones to shy away from covers, but their choices were always immaculate and their reimaginings frequently brilliant. Their take on forgotten Chicago bluesman John Brim’s 1954 song is a case in point – what starts out as a smoky front porch strum suddenly erupts into full-blown lip-smacking lasciviousness. There’s even a nod Elvis-style curl of the lip at the end, a cute nod to the recently deceased King of Rock’N’Roll.

On Fire

Perverse bastards that they are, Van Halen saved the worst for last. On Fire is the debut album’s weakest song – putting forward motion over anything approaching a tune (and let’s not get started on what passes as the chorus). But it didn’t matter. The genie was out of the bottle, never to go back in. In just 35 minutes, Van Halen hadn’t just put some excitement back into rock’n’roll, they’d changed things forever.


https://youtu.be/tbc4gkzwUH4?t=22

5.0 out of 5 stars Best debut ever
Best debut ever? Quite possibly. When this hit, jaws dropped. Literally. It tore up the old order, chewed it up and spat it out. It completely redefined how to to hard rock. The best front man and guitarist ever, combine with a brilliant rhythm section (and secret weapon backing vocals) to blow the pants off every once before and after. Guitar colleges divide the syllabus between before and after Eddie. Listen to Eruption to find out why. the ultimate guitar bomb.


5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the greatest debut album
I read a brilliant line recently that said who would you want to represent Earth in a massive inter-galactic war? The answer was of course 1970s Van Halen with David Lee Roth! I`ve loved VH since I discovered them in the 80s as a twelve year old boy. If I was off to the proverbial desert island tomorrow and had to pick something by Van Halen…well, it would be between this and “”Fair Warning””. I suppose this might be the better choice for a life of isolation though – it is brilliant in all the right musical ways but will make you smile too (something “”Fair Warning”” is less likely to do due to it`s darker mood).
This album really does feel like it was made by a bunch of young guys who have too much energy and talent to be anything other than superstars. Because that`s what it is. The guitar-capability-shattering “”Eruption”” explodes from the speakers with the tone Eddie has spent his life chasing, “”Ice Cream Man”” seems funnier and Roth even more sleazy, “”I`m The One”” showcases each band member at their best and their harmonies in the middle are bookended by Roth brilliance and Eddie creating fretboard-singeing speed…I haven`t even mentioned “”You Really Got Me”” – which now sounds utterly wrong by The Kinks! – and “”On Fire””, “”Little Dreamer”” etc. This is solely because I`m trying to keep this review brief, and once I start thinking about how much this album means to me still, and how different my life would be without having heard VH…I`ll never stop writing. They are still my favourite band. If you`re reading this and haven`t heard it yet, then don`t panic – buy this to experience the full-on power of early Van Halen!”

Diamond Head’s Brian Tatler: a record that changed my life

Van Halen – Van Halen LP

“An unbelievable debut album, setting the bar for lead guitarists like me very high. I immediately tried to figure out what Eddie was doing and how he was getting that sound. Eruption was just out-of-this-world. The tapping! I’ve never heard anything like that. He moved rock guitar forward a few notches on from Hendrix, Blackmore and Page.

“It’s mainly one guitar, panned, with a reverb send or delay send on the opposite side, but I couldn’t believe the confidence of the band, and the way Eddie would play a rhythm track but also have licks all over it. That’s really hard to do. When I recorded I would put down a double-tracked rhythm guitar and then I would overdub the lead solo, but it felt like Eddie was just doing it in one take, having fun in the process, and that was just unbelievable to me.

“I saw Van Halen give two extraordinary performances. One at the Birmingham Odeon hoping for Black Sabbath in 1978, and then at Donington Monsters of Rock in 1984. They were a great band. They gave rock a kick in the arse!”

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