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Van Halen II

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Customer Reviews

wicked

25 years later and still blows them away.

A hard rockin' effort

It packs slightly less punch than the first, and the tunes aren't as memorable, but it is still an excellent record. The sheer, raw power shows Van Halen was a serious force to be reckoned with as they could deliver the goods live. "Dance the Night Away," "Beautiful Girls," "Somebody Get Me A Doctor!" and "Women in Love..." are standout tracks while "Spanish Fly" demonstrates that if it has six strings, Eddie can be the master of it.

I remember when

Hate to sound nostaglic, but man these tunes hold up to the over processed sounds of today! Raw recordings rule!!!!, I gotta dig up my old 4 track recordings from the distant past and remaster them someday soon too!

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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