And thatвЂ™s true of all 11 songs here: theyвЂ™re songs designed to get a rise out of the audience, designed to get them to have a good time, and Van Halen вЂ“ Van Halen still crackles with energy because of itвЂ¦. ItвЂ™s hard to hear anybody else really, even with the traces of their influences, or the cover of вЂњYou Really Got Me,вЂќ which doesnвЂ™t seem as if it were chosen because of any great love of the Kinks, but rather because that riff got the crowd going. Some of the history behind the record has become rock lore: Eddie may have slowed down Cream records to a crawl to learn how Clapton played вЂњCrossroadsвЂќ - the very stuff legends are made of - but itвЂ™s hard to hear Clapton here. There may have been antecedents to this sound - perhaps you could trace Diamond DaveвЂ™s shuck-n-jive to Black Oak ArkansasвЂ™ Jim Dandy, the slippery blues-less riffs hearken back to Aerosmith - but Van Halen, to this day, sounds utterly unprecedented, as if it was a dispatch from a distant star. total results: 3 Singles Albums Date Title, Artist Peak Pos WoC Wks No 1 Chart Facts 27.05. The band did get better, tighter, over the years - peaking with their sleek masterpiece 1984, where there was no fat, nothing untidy - but everything was in place here, from the robotic pulse of Michael Anthony and Alex Van Halen, to the gonzo shtick of David Lee Roth to the astonishing guitar of Eddie Van Halen. Official albums Chart results matching: van halen. In the best sense, it is an artless record, in the sense that it doesnвЂ™t seem contrived, but itвЂ™s also a great work of art because itвЂ™s an effortless, guileless expression of what the band is all about, and what it would continue to be over the years. But make no mistake, Van Halen вЂ“ Van Halen is as monumental, as seismic as those records, but part of the reason itвЂ™s never given the same due is that thereвЂ™s no pretension, nothing self-conscious about it. Records in 1977, and in the following year released the album Van Halen. The band signed a contract with Warner Bros. Although it altered perceptions of what the guitar could do, it is not spoken of in the same reverential tones as Are You Experienced? and although it set the template for how rock & roll sounded for the next decade or more, it isnвЂ™t seen as an epochal generational shift, like Led Zeppelin, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, or Never Mind the Bollocks HereвЂ™s the Sex Pistols, which was released just the year before. The band's discography consists of 12 studio albums, two live albums, two compilation albums, and 56 singles. Stephen Thomas Erlewine: вЂ Among revolutionary rock albums, Van HalenвЂ™s debut often gets short shrift.

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