The last two decades have been a strange time for Van Halen. The band's last three tours have featured three different singers, and there hasn't been an actual studio album since The band also made the highly controversial move to oust original bass player Michael Anthony in favor of Eddie's teenage son, Wolfgang Van Halen. According to Anthony, they didn't even tell him he was out — he had to read about it on the Internet. Despite all that, the band has an intensely loyal fan base. It's impossible to argue with the quality of their early work, and it's beyond debate that their self-titled LP is one of the greatest debuts in rock history. The group appears to be on the verge of announcing a new album, so we figured it was a good time to poll our readers to learn their ten favorite Van Halen songs.
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"Eruption"
Like fucking Hiawatha, right? What could have kept this band, formed in Pasadena in by Eddie and his brother, drummer Alex Van Halen, together so long? An instrumental available only on the soundtrack of the Cameron Crowe—penned movie The Wild Life , "Donut City" is as long forgotten as the teens-bongs-and-nunchakus romp for which it was penned. But while the film, which starred Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson and Rick Moranis, might deserve to remain buried in the rubble of pop culture, "Donut City" — named for the shop that Thompson's character Anita works at — is a propulsive and memorable rocker featuring a beat lifted straight from Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," baritone guitar riffing and Eddie Van Halen indulging in a Hendrix-inspired backwards guitar solo. Buried deep on disc two of 's Van Halen Live: Right Here, Right Now this electrifying rendition of the Who classic reminds us that Van Halen aren't just a killer band, they're a killer cover band to boot. Eddie Van Halen's patented finger-style popping proves perfectly suited to reinterpreting the keyboard part that opens the song, and when Sammy Hagar lets loose the throat-shredding " Yeahhhhhh " that serves as the song's climax, it has all the power and passion of Roger Daltrey's original. Although credited to Brian May and Friends and therefore not strictly a "Van Halen song," this epic minute tribute to Eric Clapton, the two guitarists' shared idol, features Queen's May and Eddie Van Halen gleefully trading licks over a standard blues progression. May, a hard-rock guitarist with a style and sound no less innovative than Van Halen's, must have felt like he held his own in this face-off as he chose to release the historic jam on his Star Fleet Project EP. It's a good thing he did, as this an exceedingly rare example of Eddie mixing it up with another guitarist.
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Credited with "restoring hard rock to the forefront of the music scene", [7] Van Halen is known for its energetic live shows [8] and for the work of its acclaimed lead guitarist, Eddie Van Halen. By the early s, Van Halen was one of the most successful rock acts of the time. In , Roth left the band to embark on a solo career and was replaced by former Montrose lead vocalist Sammy Hagar. With Hagar, the group released four U. Hagar left the band in shortly before the release of the band's first greatest hits collection, Best Of — Volume I. Van Halen then went on hiatus until reuniting with Hagar in for a worldwide tour in and the double-disc greatest hits collection The Best of Both Worlds.
Van Halen fans, get ready for a highly entertaining read! I love Van Halen. Their debut album was the first rock music I ever loved, before I knew who they were or what they were doing. Van Halen is, in many ways, the high-profile exception to otherwise inflexible rules: classically trained virtuosos who make music for getting hammered in parking lots. A metal band that rarely plays metal. A legendary live act consistently criticized for their terrible live performances. A caricature of leering masculinity that proved unusually inclusive to female audiences. An embodiment of American exceptionalism, spearheaded by two Dutch Indo immigrants who could barely speak English when they arrived in Pasadena. There are simply no other bands like this.
