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dr frasier crane
01-27-2004, 03:39 PM
Which Van Halen album is the best, (in your own opinion).

Dean Winchester
01-27-2004, 04:29 PM
you cannot go wrong with their debut album. I also like Van Halen II and 1984. Not a Hagar fan tho 5150 was a good album too.

Kay Scarpetta
01-27-2004, 06:44 PM
Van Halen and 1984

dlemond
01-28-2004, 12:07 AM
Van Halen and Fair Warning

dr frasier crane
01-28-2004, 09:23 PM
Originally posted by Kaffeine Kay
Van Halen and 1984

I would have to go with those two. Just about all of their albums are good, but those two are my favorites. I prefer the David Lee Roth years more than the Sammy Hagar. I like Sammy, but Diamond Dave rocks!

dandelion wine
01-30-2004, 02:06 AM
Van Halen and 1984, as well. :rock:

pna42
01-30-2004, 06:23 AM
I'd have to say the first album and Diver Down. Sammy was good but David Lee was an original.:cool:

Brian
01-31-2004, 09:27 PM
1984. But that's the only album from theirs I have listened to it.

Rhiannon
01-31-2004, 11:27 PM
1984

catlover79
01-03-2009, 06:50 PM
The debut album from 1978 - two of my all time fave VH tracks are there. Those would be You Really Got Me and Ice Cream Man. :rock:

Nighthawk76
01-04-2009, 12:03 AM
5150 (1986)

imo
01-04-2009, 02:56 AM
If you don't select VHII, you are a communist.

MickeyMac
01-04-2009, 04:54 PM
If you don't select VHII, you are a communist.


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I gotta go with their debut.

catlover79
01-04-2009, 07:53 PM
Wanna help me pack to move to Moscow lol :)


I gotta go with their debut.
Woohoo!! :rock: I forgot that Jamie's Cryin' is on the debut album as well. That's another one of my favorites.

steevo
01-06-2009, 08:57 PM
My pick goes to Fair Warning- as one review put it, "an unapologetic ass-kicker". :D I used to rock to this entire album for hours when it first came out.

Zebra 3
01-11-2009, 08:09 PM
What my comrade said...

Wanna help me pack to move to Moscow lol :)


I gotta go with their debut.

littlebelle
01-15-2009, 03:26 PM
1984 definitely. It has all my favorites.

Dude111
04-29-2023, 02:42 AM
I picked 1984 .. No other comes close........

ABlairican Pie
05-08-2023, 09:43 PM
You could just not go wrong with the debut Van Halen album. It changed the face of rock and roll and of guitar playing not seen since Hendrix. Who did not want to learn "Eruption"? The only time I saw them was when they opened for Black Sabbath in 1978, and they were amazing!

Still, there were some great moments on '1984'. "Hot For Teacher", "Jump", "Panama", perfect rock for the mid-80's. But what really grabbed me about that album was a small guitar break during "Drop Dead Legs". EVH was so loose and free with that. It just demonstrated what kind of fluid player he was.