Name	Artist	Time	Price
1.	Mean Street	Van Halen	5:00	$1.29
2.	"Dirty Movies"	Van Halen	4:08	$0.99
3.	Sinner's Swing!	Van Halen	3:09	$0.99
4.	Hear About It Later	Van Halen	4:35	$0.99
5.	Unchained	Van Halen	3:28	$1.29
6.	Push Comes to Shove	Van Halen	3:49	$0.99
7.	So This Is Love?	Van Halen	3:06	$0.99
8.	Sunday Afternoon In the Park	Van Halen	1:59	$0.99
9.	One Foot Out the Door	Van Halen	1:57	$0.99

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Our Review

Arguably their finest album (some give the nod to the debut), Fair Warning, the band’s fourth, presents every lovable facet of Van Halen in one quick package. From the opening blitzkrieg riff of “Mean Street” to the manic panic rumble of “One Foot Out the Door,” it’s all here: David Lee Roth’s hilarious, incoherent ramblings and gratuitous screeches, Eddie Van Halen’s gold standard avant-garde-heavy metal fretwork, and the rhythm section’s loose and tight groove that meshes behind-the-beat funk with hard rock’s cataclysmic wallop. The songs are particularly strong. The arrogant swagger of ‘Sinner’s Swing!,” the heart-dropping melodicism of Eddie’s guitarwork throughout “Hear About it Later,” the tongue-in-cheek taunting at the heart of “Unchained,” and the simple, haunting synthesizer churn of “Sunday Afternoon in the Park,” this is rock n’ roll as one breathless rollercoaster ride. With the absence of a hit single, it is sometimes overlooked, but rest assured Fair Warning is one of the most original and exciting releases of the 1980s.

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Customer Reviews

C'mon Dave, gimme a break... (4 stars)
Certainly one of the darker Van Halen efforts, this Roth-era album is a true litmus test as to whether you're a true fan or not. Commercially not so successful, fans and players of VH tout this album as the most guitar savvy effort since their debut. The ferocious, percussive intro to Mean Street helped remind listeners why they call him "Sir" Edward Van Halen. The sweeping grooves of "Dirty Movies" and "Hear Abou

Best Van Halen album hands down (5 stars)
This album is VH at their best. Dark, gritty, hard and groovy all at the same time. My understanding is that there was a lot of angst within the band during the making of this album -- it certainly made for great music. This is, hands down, the single best VH album in their entire discography. While they certainly had some good tunes later on, none of the future albums will quite have the same edge, emotion or drive that this one so beaut

Lord, strike that poor boy down! (4 stars)
This is hands down my fave VH album. I've heard that Ed was at his most depressed during the making of this... and it shows. Having already proven his status as a guitar god, there seems to be a dark tension in the music on this CD. If you play guitar, this is a must-have... just try to master the opening tapping sequence to "Mean Street." "Sinner's Swing!" also features the only use of the f-word that I know of in VH stu

Biography

Formed: 1974 in Pasadena, CA
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

With their 1978 eponymous debut, Van Halen simultaneously rewrote the rules of rock guitar and hard rock in general. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen redefined what electric guitar could do, developing a blindingly fast technique with a variety of self-taught two-handed tapping, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and effects that mimicked the sounds of machines and animals. It was wildly inventive and over the top, equaled only by vocalist David Lee Roth, who brought the role of a metal singer to near-performance art...

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Top Songs By Van Halen
	Name	Album	Time	Price
1.	Jump	The Best of Both Worlds	4:04	$1.29
2.	Hot for Teacher	The Best of Both Worlds	4:43	$1.29
3.	Panama	The Best of Both Worlds	3:32	$1.29
4.	Right Now	The Best of Both Worlds	5:22	$1.29
5.	You Really Got Me	The Best of Both Worlds	2:38	$1.29
6.	Everybody Wants Some!!	Women and Children First	5:08	$1.29
7.	Runnin' with the Devil	Van Halen	3:36	$1.29
8.	Unchained	Fair Warning	3:28	$1.29
9.	Beautiful Girls	Van Halen II	3:56	$1.29
10.	You Really Got Me	Van Halen	2:37	$1.29

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