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@Angela-fp6ch

Ty so very much !!

@melmel3982

Thanks

@TjHershon-fz7uh

I had a friend win concert tickets on ksjo for van Halens second tour at center of performing arts they never held a rock concert after that again

@uppercut70

You are the real MVP!

@jimmyjameson8705

Saw them in 1984 in las vegas...was the only concert I was at where the AUDIENCE STOOD THE ENTIRE CONCERT....everyone.

@paulhabat7746

Totally changed Rock and Roll as we knew it in 1978 !! And still is !

@user-ws7qh5zg8f

Truth

@patrickgibbons8353

Best debut album in HISTORY!!!

@ericstewart9499

One of the best debut albums ever

@dariiofernando

Facts

@MikeMichaels1987

The unreleased debut album is my head is the best ever but I'll give you this one.

@johnfangio1237

Amen brotha!

@deanwilliams9621

I met Eddie 1986 and I have to tell you he was just the nicest guy! Perpetual smile on his face.... Philadelphia Spectrum 1986

@ollieahokas9179

The album that changed music history and the electric guitar forever....

@astraluna6is9

For fucking ever

@markpayne2549

Did a number on it didn’t it.

@wendywinters4734

It’s really Show Your 💗 Love that you hear a lot of Eddie playing-the intro to You Really Got Me is very short— a small part of Eruption. I’ve been looking into it lately—what do I know? Except that both Eddie and David were both incredibly talented-and incredibly sexy!! 💋👠⚡️

@soulvaccination8679

lol...Hendrix did that.

@chrisbond6406

@Soul Vaccination Yea and then came a guy named Edward Van Halen and became better than Hendrix!

@jg2716

This is still one of the greatest rock albums ever made, it will always be a monster

@adspur

It really is one of the best hard rock debuts ever.

@michaelthorpe1869

the best debut album ever.. and possibly the greatest rock guitar playing

@royaljules421

My mom used to play this album on repeat when i was a kid & now were going to see Mr. David Lee Roth in Vegas! Great music 🎶 Nice memories, Good times.

@amerocker

If the mighty Van Halen had only recorded this Van Halen album and nothing else, it would have been enough. It's timeless, sublime.

@stephenfegely

Truth

@thomascusik6109

You can't get much better than this for a debit album. Eddie's playing changed everything for guitar players around the world. Thank you Eddie for everything. Miss you man.🎸🎸🎸

@lancewright21

Van Halen’s music is so timeless, it will be rocking on in the heavens when and after the world ends. Every song was a hit! Little Dreamer is my favorite on this album.

@aptitudal2094

Ice cream man is perfect

@JuanCruz-io2sd

I never need another guitarist by his side to do wonders. I'm Mexican and I don't know any English but that guitar bleated all the languages ​​of the world. Thank you Eddi for your songs and enormous talent. You were number one at 12 years old, I listened to your music and I I will stay with her always, I am 50 years old and who does not remember to return the CASSETS to listen to you RIP again

@geerterri

I like a variety of guitarists and musicians. IMO, that are all unique. But Eddie Van was truly head turning.

@rusosure7

In retrospect, their debut album should have been #1 on the charts.
But...we were like: "What the hell just happened?"
We weren't ready for it. A true masterpiece on the first shot. Incredible.

@MikeMichaels1987

My friends uncle said almost the same thing back in the day, these bunch of musical aliens landed in LA hahaha

@aidenrogatz8071

Kinda like what happened with LZ

@sole__doubt

@Aiden Rogatz Morbid Angel for my generation.

@ledsith

@Aiden Rogatz Hell Yeah !

@ALD56

@@aidenrogatz8071 Nah. Page was already a seasoned session musician and had been with the Yardbirds, a group with hits of their own. Jones was also a regular session musician when LZ was formed. The guys in VH were newbies compared to the guys in LZ for their debut albums. Awesome debut by VH for sure, but they were nothing like LZ in how they came on the scene.

@ToneGuitar1

So I'm driving my 16-year-old daughter to work. I don't know why I've never played this album for her. But today we made our 30-minute ride to work for her blasting this. She said, this is the best music I've ever heard. 🙌🏼🤘🏼

@robert111clift

thats when you know its good music, it effects every generation.

@shannobailey2917

You did the best!

@nymike06

That's awesome!

@japan906

Way to go Pops Alex! That was a close one. Junior high and high school are our music/film foundations time.

@brandonjackson5865

You sir have succeeded. You won parenting . My kids don’t want to hear anything with a guitar on it . I heard my 19 year old daughter listening to some song with a distorted guitar in it and had to check myself, I couldn’t make out what or who it was probably MGK but I was just happy to hear guitar up front in the mix . I’m afraid we’re halfway living in the South Park episode where the “cool kids “ kids were playing guitar hero and the dad busted out a real guitar and everyone thought it was the lamest thing ever.

@elguy2116

My dad gave me this album one Saturday morning in 2004 and said “go sit in the car and listen to this.” Never gone more than a month without listening to it since then

@Dana-wq5tp

Everyone always fixates on Eddie's technical prowess in solos but man, he's a killer rhythm player too.

@deannamoreno8242

Oh yesss

@landoe8383

Exactly

@ivoshandor6859

Yes! Hardly anyone ever mentions that!

@StewTheTrue

oh yeah dude, first level of Eddie awe is like "holy crap listen to those intervals! (like the tapping and whammy antics.)
But next level is understanding his 3 note per string solo capacity and solo phrasing (im the one, on fire solo breaks)
However the thing that truly solidifies him as one of the best, (IMHO) is his rhythm and SWING. Dude his rhythmic sensibilities are so AMERICAN. So patriotic.
He's obviously a lead guitar genius, never will be replicated, but his rhythm playing is perfect.

@matteovrizzi

@@StewTheTrue not sure where you get the patriotism from, that made me laugh. but yes EVH was 100% complete guitarist. One of the best, maybe even the best

@jaywalker9985

Very few bands ever make a debut album where every single song is awesome
This happens to be one of them!

@toddadams7442

It's Van Halen...

@toddadams7442

The musical magicians...ROCK IN PARADISE EVH.

@damiancasanova4570

Got that right!

@chance836

Tom petty did it tooo

@anthonyguerrero3415

Wrong!!!!...back then lots of bands did!!!!...come on now

@asosa924

I was in 8th grade when I bought this album(cassette). I listened to it repeatedly over and over until I had every lyric to every song memorized. I just listened to the whole album and I still know the lyrics. What a great album. RIP Eddie Van Halen, legendary guitarist and rock star.

@geerterri

At 19, so did I.

@ronaldelfleet3123

I bought this album upon its release in the UK in 1978. The album cover says it all - the music says even more. 44 years later I still blast it out on my car stereo and it gives me an immediate high - Eddie - you were a genius !! - RIP

@noelfisher1829

❤all of them are musically geniuses. Listen to the way they listen to each other ? Perfection live and set the bar for recording. I'm fortunate in that my cousins knew them and one song on this album I wrote, I was 8.i wrote music starting at age 4. ( my family wrote music and sewed costumes and got gigs for the partridge family, and sooooo many other silent writers bands ...but when I think about this band and how FAST they soaked my direction up, and how genuinely loving as people... this supergroup are one of the BEST experiences of my entire life, which obviously has been most enriching. Hope the world continues to share this album...

@jeffreyleistyna5505

Thank God Mr Van Halen brought his family to America! Cried my eyes out when I heard EVH died. When I lost my brother who loved Ed , I played 1984 over and over which brought my brother back to me, if only for those glorious tracks!!! Rock steady!!!

@KeyofDavid5778

Saw them live in 1979 at Simplot stadium and it was my favorite concert of all time. I was only 16 years old and about 7th row. Right in front of Eddie !!! God-bless your soul !

@dscott130

This is one of THE BEST rock albums EVER!

@toddharms4673

I'll never forget the first time I heard this album. Blew me and my friends away!!! Couldn't stop listening

@leonchueco

0:00 Runnin' with the Devil
3:35 Eruption
5:18 You Really Got Me
7:56 Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
11:46 I'm the One
15:33 Jamie's Cryin'
19:03 Atomic Punk
22:06 Feel Your Love Tonight
25:48 Little Dreamer
29:11 Ice Cream Man
32:31 On Fire

@ginopirone7319

Why the time stamps? Who'd skip a song? Lol not me. Rip eddie

@timelapselajolla4158

@Gino Pirone Play it again?

@Frankincensedjb123

@Gino Pirone to hear a certain song that's running around in your head or to hear a song more than once, dozens of reasosn. The world doesn't revolve around you, ya selfish prick

@YuTuboTuTubas

I remember listening to VH I and II in a tdk metal cassette in a sony walkman ...AWESOME. IT BLOWED MY BRAINS AWAY!!!!!!!!

@montydaniels1054

Thanks for the set list.... I document my downloads....

@iddddaduncan

When the needle hit the vinyl on this record I still remember staring at the speakers not being able to comprehend what I was hearing, I was in disbelief because my ears said that's a guitar, my brain said that just isn't humanly possible, thanks Eddie!

@gregmeeks2753

same !!!

@IVORY123100

Same here . I was a little nerd that always snuck through my sister's albums when she wasn't home . I saw this one . Oh this looks cool and dropped the needle .WTF!!!!.. Is that a guitar ? . How can hands do that . How????? How does this sound so badass ? or course like many .. This is when I started playing guitar . Had too .. This music sounded so fun

@ZekeMan62

Totally unprecedented. Nothing on Earth ever sounded like that.

@reneewooley1240

I said that the first time I heard Dime play lol

@toddadams7442

Tell ya the truth the way you described your first experience is still what I go through every time I hear this album...

@alexhawes6057

For my money, one of the best rock and roll albums. Just love this band!!!
RIP Eddie 🙏 among the greatest ever

@jodibishop3302

I can’t imagine hearing this album for the first when it came out. An absolute out of nowhere groundbreaking sound. Incredible

@matthewdelap5404

I was there at the debut. Blew my mind. Still does. Led me to playing the guitar for over 30 years now !

@z50com

So. Cal. Party Band

@noelfisher1829

❤it was. It made you hear other records as flat

@dadlearnsguitar4897

Yes it was. Glad I was there at the beginning. My friend Rob brought it over and we were amazed. We were all Hendrix and Black Sabbath fans before this.

@garyevans8957

I grew up in the 1970s. One of the three albums I distinctly remember hearing for the first time. First was Joe Walsh and Funk #49 - I was about 12 or 13 - second was this one as a sophomore in high school. The last was Freefall from the Dixie Dregs. All three of those left me speechless.

@johnroberts5285

Does it get any better than this? Perfection that never grows old. I’m glad that I was 18 when this record came out. A Desert Island record for sure that I have owned on 8-track, Vinyl, Cassette and CD.

@jillhoward6351

Lmao me too

@JoeMengele

RIP Eddie...Thanks for all the heart and soul that you poured into an awesome band. Will see you in heaven someday brother.

@toddadams7442

I hope so ...

@dunerider7777

Thats for sure man

@BunyanaRed1958

Imagine being in a band and this is your debut album.. Best Hard Rock Guitarist of them all. And the one they all tried to copy too. God bless your soul Eddie. Thank you for all the great music. And thank you for all the times you made our jaws hit the floor..x

@geerterri

Don't forget The Doors debut album. That was killer, too. Just in a different way.

@BunyanaRed1958

@Terri Geer Aye Terri. It was.

@ronnimm6456

And who is a better front man than Diamond Dave?

@leandrodasilvaborges1768

@@geerterri Jimi Hendrix's debut. Great album too.

@HiFiman4u

I was 16-17 years old when this album was released. I'm 60 now and I still play it at concert levels.

@marciopainhas5828

So do I...

@davidwillard4230

Coolest concert ever, Dave put on a great show and the band was outstanding!

@simpleman283

I'm 55, but my brother is 60 & introduced this to me right after I heard KISS HOTTER THAN HELL, VAN HALEN became my band. I saw the 1984 concert in Biloxi. To me they are still the best R&R band ever. This album & Fair Warning are the top 2 of 6. I never bought another lp ( or cassette by that time ) of VH after 84

@danielmalesinski5364

Excellent

@MentalInstru345

nstrumental version:
https://youtu.be/97g21o-gyA0
🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎸🎸🎶🎵❤️🔥🔥

@rogergriffith2176

This album changed the course of the entire music industry.

@davidlandeck9566

Everyone remembers where they were the first time they heard this album!!! I was 12 and was amazed!!! Thank you Eddie

@elguy2116

I was 12 sitting in my dads car in the driveway

@brianh1321

13 at the beach and this was Screaming out the back of a PanelVan (A Sandman of course:)

@GabrielLelisMagick

Costumo dizer que quem posta full album pra gente ouvir, quando morrer, vai direto pro vale do Rock n Roll. Van Halen rules!!

@eric60605lmt

This album is one of those perfect storms. Eddie's writing and of course his unparalleled guitar attack. Alex and Michael filling it out. Roth delivering the front man testosterone, because nothing less would've done. Production from behind the glass. All perfect. Young people need to realize that this album came out in 1978. For all practical purposes, all there was in rock/pop was disco and blues-based rock...white guys with mustaches and beards wearing flannel shirts and blue jeans. Holdovers from Woodstock. Yes punk had started, and there was some musical theater acts (Bowie, Alice Cooper, etc) and some darker acts (Black Sabbath), but this album and act wrote the blueprint for rock music for the next 12 years and more.

@joninogueira6472

Fantástico 👏👏👏👏👏

@teleguy5699

Although I pretty much hate all the California Hair Bands except for VH. I'm not calling VH a hair band, but all the imitators became one.

@elguy2116

Even as a child I could tell that every band in the 80s was basically a wannabe Van Halen

@krill3333

I agree about everything but Roth. Couldn't stand that guy. His voice annoyed me more than pleased. And his replacement sucked also.

@skinheadyouth66

Exactly

@alisade127

This album is Van Halen Perfection. The band is so tight. Every instrument and the production. OMG.! The opening of the album. Beautiful beautiful album.

@geerterri

Yet, it's still raw.

@pamelafrey2861

Huh piano

@lf5836

Only 5 years old and remember going to elementary school and listening to Van Halen. I literally can remember walking the halls of school and remember my friends and classmates names. Crazy how music takes you down memory lane. Great artists are hard to find and many who will never be discovered for their raw talent. David L Roth had that defined voice, Eddie playing the guitar, and his brother on drums. Love the sound of the drums and bass!!! Hell of a band!

@Rob-bo7yn

Two years have passed as I listen to this and Eddie and his music remain awesome and timeless. Rest in peace. Oct. 6, 2022.

@Frankincensedjb123

Went to MSG to see Sabbath and the opener was some band named Van Halen. All i knew about them at the time was You Really Got Me. After the concert I was an instant VH fan. Saw them two more times, once from the 5th row in Hartford. Great band

@ericunderwood9674

Around 78? Saw Sabbath Boston Van Halen and Hagar at Anaheim Stadium in 78... Eddie opened up with Running with the Devil playing the opening rips .vump...vump.. vump...with his teeth!
Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California... Sammy opened then Van Halen... Boston headlined....I'm from the San Gabriel Valley ... Pasadena right up the road. Did Eddie and Alex hand prints in Terrazzo in front of the Guitar Center in Hollywood... around 92 or so... peace

@joejohnston2035

Saw the same show in St.Louis ,Checkerdome 1978 VH blew the roof off'a the joint ...and I know Sabbath were having a "brown" moment

@srrings

yea my brother seen VH open up for somebody in Seattle he could not remember who... I caught the fair warning tour man what a Guitar show from Hell

@thewurm9177

@Joe Johnston LOL! Though Van Halen was getting the upper hand during other gigs on their tour together, that blazing hot day Sabbath destroyed Anaheim Stadium and had the crowd stomping their feet to their classics...the stadium was shaking! Boston was the headliner but by the time Sabbath finished 75% of the crowd left. RIP EVH

@cartersullivan9474

This masterpiece debuted during my junior year in high school; still rocks!
Class of '79

@ozzieray

I graduated in 1979, they burned down the school when I graduated.

@scottdavies844

"If you believe in forever, then life is just a one night stand. If there's a rock and roll heaven, well you know they have a hell of a band"

@gossipgirl1969

When its my time to go Im going to be front row center!!!

@Johnny-lr5jt

Man, I wish I'd said that..

@BobWilliamsProject

That band gets better all the time! We are the ones who suffer not getting to hear them yet!

Prince, Davi Bowie, Neil Peart, Black MJ, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jam Master Jay, Jimi Hendrix, EVH! They ALL couldn't WAIT!

@jessegalvan6344

I'm 62 yrs old this album came out when i was 20yrs old ,only once in a lifetime moment, hope you have yours . Thanks for the music, I love it!!

@bradplumb64

I was 14 when I first heard it. That was my moment! I recall saying who is that! The rest is rock n roll history!

@djmadmax9486

This is one of the best debut albums of any rock band that ever existed, no question bout it!

@fivedoors4631

I was sixteen and rocking

@bradplumb64

@fivedoors As were we all. It was a great time be alive!

Not much of a life then dude

@johngonzalez6460

Never Get Tired of Listening to this,,,,Diamond dave , Mike, Alex, And King Edward , Love it.

@joanneelmore1596

One of the best albums ever ever written and produced!

@wicked427cobra5

Easily the greatest debut of all time and maybe the best album of all time.

@michelepagano912

Agree!!!!

@johnmallios551

I think there are only a small handful of debut albums that can compare. Led Zeppelin 1 and Appetite For Destruction are those albums. But yes, this album is better than those two.

@ericbatton2817

No way! VH 2 greatest

@affordableplumber4206

@Eric Batton preach!

@50plus22

Hard to argue with that

@jeffboothe4295

When this album came out....I was 13 me and and my friends were washing cars pulling tobacco and doing what we could to get high....and yall rocked our world

@davidwillis1617

One of the rare times where I can remember exactly where I was the first time I heard an album. It changed me forever.

@elguy2116

Same here

@elsamoon6930

I had two copies of this on vinyl. I came home drunk one day and dropped my entire record player, breaking one copy. I immediately picked up my mess, and played my other copy... smoked a joint, puked and passed out before Jamie's Cryin'.

This album is a part of me and it must be played from beginning to end. RIP, legend.

@sabbracadabra8367

You married? 😂

@leezee2894

Perhaps one of the greatest rock albums of all time with the legend who made it all happen R.I.P. EVH 😡🙏😪

@citadel9611

Greatest debut rock album of all time.

@timothyhenry5454

I would say this one, & Boston debut also Foreigner debut

@matthewdelap5404

You aren't lying !

@thehunter3387

what about Jimi Hendrix?

@booklover3959

I remember the kid down the block got this and was like ...."You gotta hear this." We sat there going "Whooooa!"

@Victory1507ci

My favorite album cover- hearing this for the first time in 1979 (for me) just blew everybody away!

@montydaniels1054

Thanks for posting VHOne. Turned into a Van Halen Classic Rock Weekend in my living room... God, take care of EVH till the rest of us get there.....

@baltazar45

My neighbors love this song so much they just threw a brick through my window so they can hear it better.
11:46 I'm the One

@jaroffdesign9168

Too funny

@kellywales4059

😂😂😂😂 outstanding!!!

@toddvanwinkle7777

I'm The One is my favorite from this " batch of tunes" as Eddie would say..blistering solos!!

@sabbracadabra8367

Mine too! They are banging on the wall like a drum kit, it is so cute.

@MarcosVinicius-ef7xc

Very nice lol

@kaiulrich6185

I was sixteen when this album came out and it changed my life. R.I.P. Eddie and thank you so much.

@almobz66

Fantastic debut. A concentrate of music at the highest levels.

@tomjohnson8412

My 16 year old was doing a study for school on cover songs. She asked me what my favorite was. Said there are so many great covers. I couldn't come up with a clear cut "favorite". I told her You Really Got Me was up there. She wanted to know why. I said VH's version is so amped up on rock-n-roll it's just so cool. So we listened to the Kinks original. Before VH's, I said she had to listen to Eruption first because it sets the tone for You Really Got Me. After listening to both she said she understands what I was saying. Two weeks later I asked how she did on the paper? She said very good.

Your story bored the shit out of everybody but you

@billhouser8544

ok

@bigdog9785

Nice story

@jacsig

Her teacher must have been a Van Halen fan. Dave was probably hot for her.

@elguy2116

My dad always told me you have to listen to the album when it comes to VH

@epiegomez7741

I first heard this album 35 yrs ago but still never fade and i'll love it and it feel me younger more

@jnutt383838

The opening lick of Ain't Talkin Bout Love, probably the best guitar intro rift in history

@aSome1

today, not only Jamie's cryin, but a whole generation...RIP, master Van Halen!

@Laura-fc8nc

Still know all the words to this album by HEART!! Damn Eddie was a God….💔💔💔

@hmackie6823

yeah,I was 18 and this blew our minds and we heard Zeppelin...we ALL knew there was a new Guitarist in town and his name was Edward Van Halen!

@rebeccadeane4679

One FABULOUS debut album and sounding like nothing else in 1978.

@OttoEwen

It's been awhile since I've listened to this. I forgot how frickin' good it is. Eddie was a master for sure. RIP

@justinclark8867

Probably the Greatest debut album for a Rock 'N Roll band in history.

@LaGnole09

In 1978 I was 15 years old. Hearing this record I bought a guitar, an amp ... and I got angry with all the neighbors 100 meters around!
RIP eddie le magicien

@michaelulbricht9438

This was my generations Sgt. Pepper. I had the first copy in town, played it for a few friends at lunch. Next day over 500 kids at my car waiting to hear it. Eruption alone blew our young minds. R.I.P. Eddie; thanks for the great music!

@martinkdoorstoperception.1913

One of the greatest debut albums of all time.

@Dzilla64

There will never be such an innovator as good as Eddie. I was there when they first hit (14). It was music we never heard before, kinda like Hendrix. And it was Loud and Metal. Eddie was really the inspiration for a million metal heads out there. He was and is one of the greatest musician of my time. C'mon Wolfie... open up some of the library... Please.

@0num4

Wolfgang is doing well with his father's and the band's legacy. They just released Van Halen Collection 2, which is the Hagar years.

@leezee2894

This music will.never get old and this album will be in the Smithsonian marked as priceless .

@osalas818

I’m so grateful to my older cousin that took me to the US Festival when I was just 13 years old. I witnessed one of the greatest Van Halen performances ever.

@zorro4407

So very sad. The world has lost a legend. R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen

@jamesleyba9643

There was reason for the KISS casket at Dimebags funeral. Gene introduced Van Halen to Corporate America and the "Black & Gold Van Halen II Guitar Eddie placed in with him was his Hero... And there's always reason for EVH!!✌

@cariwilliams6876

Thank you Eddie for my beautiful Wolfgang!!!! I am so blessed too have one. RIP Now 😪🙏😇🎸🎶♥️🎹🎤

@felipecobos4460

I was lucky to have seen Van Halen more than once in the 80’s. It was amazing. I will never forget it. RIP Eddie.

you throw that word "legend" around pretty easily don't you

@johnnyenglish9622

@Felipe Cobos Eddie forever!

@MichelBiesot

First time I listen to this album since a long long time... and it's still the best! ❤💯😎🤘🏼

@tsant6591

I was 20 when this came out. This album, among many others was literally theme music to a time in my life that was so amazing! Im thankful I was part of a generation that rocked out every chance we had! I never in a million years imagined EVH would be gone , RIP Ed, and thank you.

@BigboyRoy100

#1 🏆 American Hard Rock Album EVER.

@user-qw3zt9vl4n

the playing and vocals on this album is amazing. the guys where so far along in there musicianship for as young as they where. they just nailed it. !!!!!

@mattywaldman1965

A hero has passed into legend. Don't be sad he's gone, be happy that he brought so much to this world.

@MotoMetricBuild

This was the first thing my dad popped in on a road trip, so everytime I hear this album, I remember those trips and I'll forever cherish those memories

@nortondudeac

I wish I had memories like that the only memory I have of my father is beating my ass when I was 6 and that was the last time I seen him and now I'm 50 years old I have no idea if he's alive or dead

@VaxxedStories

I remember, at 19 when I had just bought this album and was playing it in my bedroom, and my Dad came in to hang out with me and listen to it. I remember he laid down on my twin bed and listened to the entire album, while I was doing something else, probably working on my full-sized custom pinball machine that I was building,

@alexanderg1297

Nobody asked.

@SuperPapa44

My mother is in the hospital right now and may not make it but I've been playing the guitar for 43 years now and part of the reason is that she bought this 8 track and for AT LEAST a year that's all she played in her old 73 Lincoln Mark 5 when I rode with her and I'll probably listen to this over and over today because it's one of my best memories of her.

@donnabrooks1026

SEEN THEM IN CONCERT!! MY FAVORITE BAND!!! 🙂💞💞

@alvalankerofficial

The perfect rock and roll album from start to finish.

@mattiapramotton4412

One of the greatest American hard rock album ever, pure and simple.

Favourite song: Ain't Talkin' About Love, that opening riff by late Eddie is pure TNT.

@Partsunknown426

Best Rock Band in the 70's and more.

@christistratton

I heard 'Running with the devil' first in a red hot car, air conditioned, but desperately trying to keep up with the heat of an Arizona June. She pushed 'play", and the reverb sending you down on a slide from the top of the highest roller coaster hill, into a slow throb of a heartbeat, a red light blinking, a sullen, infected wound-- then the bright grace note of a piano key, followed by the opening licks of guitar. I listen to the song and am slammed back into my seventeen year old self, caught in the revelatory sound that pins me there.

@michaelgriego6548

Here is to Edward Van Halen/ Van Halen to their debut album that innovated, and changed the hard rock scene forever. RIP Mr. Edward Van Halen, also I want give my deepest sympathy to the Van Halen family.

@jerrymarbury9365

Have u heard of micheal schenker or uli jon Roth?

@pennym.8884

Dear Eddie, YOU BLEW ME AWAY!!!!!!!! When I put this record on, my mom was hitting the ceiling with her broom and screaming "Turn that down!!!!" I remember that clearly. I did not turn it down, I made it louder. Because this was the best damn thing I ever heard. My old record player couldn't handle it. I got an 8 track to play in the car. I remember my friends and I driving around, blasting this album thinking we were so cool. The garage parties where the bands all tried to play your solos was so much fun. A lot of the girls were after David. Not me. It was you because of your innovative guitar playing. Thank you for the best damn music EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your memory will be a blessing to me and Rock and Roll music forever. My thoughts and prayers go out to Wolf and his family. The rock band in the sky is jamming.

@sabbracadabra8367

Your childhood sounds like maybe one of the best that has ever been!

@HiFiman4u

One time the cops came banging on my door with their sticks and I turned it up so the banging wouldn't disturb me. The next morning I got a eviction notice and a $300 bill for the damaged door.

@brandonquillic3456

ROCK N FUCKING ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!

@natebalcerak1659

Full salute to you, penny M.

@sandrasheppard1508

Yes....it was Eddie! What a genius!

@janicekernen7427

Eddie and the rest will live on forever in my heart! You guys made so many hours of my life memorable.

@frankburdodrums8984

Even though I am a drummer and I don't play guitar, the guitar riffs on this album are sublime.

@eldiablolucifer6876

Just imagine 100years from now the world will still be listening to Eddy Van Halen.Rock In Peace Eddy!!!

@ivoshandor6859

*Eddie

@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568

this album is by far the album that had the biggest impact upon me right from, esp right from, first listen upon release in 1978.
i was then lucky enough to see them live in that same year.

@Glidescube

The chemistry in this band was perfect down to the last molecule.

@robertmetzger1753

Got That Right ! I'm Your Ice Cream Man oh wait Jamie's Crying !! Lolol

@micahjared8082

Well said. Cheers to it ! Damn

@sandrasheppard1508

It was all the Van Halen brothers. Dave wasn't a vocal genius. Yea, his front man antics made for a good show, but I'm all about the music.

@Glidescube

@Sandra Sheppard the only replaceable guy was Anthony.

@sandrasheppard1508

Why wasn't Dave a success when he left?🙉

@catfailla5881

Thanks to much older siblings, I grew up listening to Van Halen. Even at a very young age, I realized something was "different" with these guys, and here I am at 45 making my ears bleed by blasting VH in my buds!

Eddie, your contribution will never be forgotten. Thank you for blessing us with your amazing talent!!!

@MrMasterman6969

this album blew my mind day in day out I listened to it many a Friday night party steady never got old never never.

@toddadams7442

Still won't always Van Halen adinfinatim...peace Eddie...

@vanhenry98

I remember getting this album and l took it out of the sleeve and l saw those four individual photos of DAVE, ED ,AL,AND MIKE , and l was blown away by the pictures on the record jacket ,back then most sleeves had advertisement or just plain white sleeve ,..and l thought where are these superhumans from, how can four guys look so badass ,and play music like this ,to this day that innersleeve photo is very special . V.H. FOREVER

@shelleymyers7922

Can't believe the world will never hear another song created by this genius!!!

@oranges400

His " beat it" solo is pure lava eating the grounds . Such a cool story too. And the song is energy that makes everyone Cooler immediately.

@rticle15

This album blew me away. The first listen through was a blast. Each time after has been better. This is a rock masterpiece in every category. It's the end of a legend and through VH1, you can take the ride all over. Rip EVH.

@40PlusReactors

Saw him live from Women and Children First thru 5150. No one had more influence in my life. RIP legend

@raoulfmoreno4601

One of the greatest albums ever made what real rock is ,. And it stands the test of time rip my friend

@squidman556

One of the few Iconic Albums of all time. RIP Eddie

@rodrigoponce2612

Legends never die, rest in peace guitar hero