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You're No Good | Van Halen | 3:18 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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2 |
Dance the Night Away | Van Halen | 3:09 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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3 |
Somebody Get Me a Doctor | Van Halen | 2:54 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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4 |
Bottoms Up! | Van Halen | 3:06 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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5 |
Outta Love Again | Van Halen | 2:53 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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6 |
Light Up the Sky | Van Halen | 3:13 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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7 |
Spanish Fly | Van Halen | 1:02 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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8 |
D.O.A. | Van Halen | 4:11 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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9 |
Women In Love... | Van Halen | 4:09 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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10 |
Beautiful Girls | Van Halen | 3:56 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Songs |
iTunes Review
This concise follow-up to the L.A.-based band's self-titled debut appeared less than a year after these shredders' first album. Van Halen had already injected chop-intensive heavy metal with a pop sensibility, campy humor, and the energy of punk rock (they once opened for the Germs at the Whiskey) on their debut. That record was years in the making and it shows. By comparison, Van Halen II sounds a little bit thrown-together, but not in a bad way. The music here is fun, loud and rad. Sometimes you think the band totally is aware of how stupid they can be, ("Dance the Night Away," "Beautiful Girls") while other times you think they must be idiot savants ("Bottoms Up," "Somebody Get Me a Doctor"). In either case, it's always so entertaining that it doesn't really matter.
Customer Reviews
DO NOT LISTEN TO THAT ONE STAR RATER
if anything this is a complete improvement on the first album. im not saying the first album isnt a revolutionary classic but all i mean is on this album the guitar work is a lot better (check Spanish Fly for starters!), the band is so much tigher as a unit - they even get faster and go into improvisational breaks towards the end of the songs and all seem to know what they are doing its incredible! the song writing is so much better with pop friendly songs such as Dance the Night Away and Women in Love. Most importantly this album is a classic in itself a band at the height of their career churning out album after album of sheer quality and whoever can honestly say this is no good then You're No Good! Edward Van Halen and David Lee Roth are a song writing force not to be reckoned with this truly is a must for all 70s/80s ROCK N ROLL FANS!
Best Moment on this Album - Roth doing Dino
Some good songs and some real dumb ones. Beautiful Girls is one of the latter. DOA ia a great crossover punky/metal tune. Only thing is that David Lee Roth sounds like Dino barking at Fred Flintstone at the end of the song. An OK follow up and cannot compare with Women and Children First.
Not a classic, but a worthy follow up
Van Halen had a hard task to follow their groundbreaking first album, but do a reasonable job on VH2. I've never classed them as a metal band, the only really "heavy" tune they did, was Eruption and they should are more of the AOR or pop roc catagory . It also has to be said the DLR, can't sing for toffee, so that is probably why his vocals are interlaced with Michael Jacksonesque whoops and oohs. VH kicks off with a cover of The Swinging Blue Jeans song of Your No Good and follows it up to one of thier best known AOR songs, Dance The Night Away. Other worthy songs include, Somebody Get Me A Doctor and DOA. Mr VH plays some beautiful Spanish guitar on Spanish Fly. Beautiful Girls is a tongue in cheek song about the woman of DLR's desire, preferring other women to him (understandable really). Beautiful Girls, Bottoms Up and Outta Love Again, are good, but not special. This album is by no means a classic, but is still worth purchasing.
Biography
Formed: 1974 in Pasadena, CA
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By Van Halen
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
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1 |
Jump | Best of Van Halen, Vol. 1 | 4:02 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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2 |
Why Can't This Be Love | Best of Van Halen, Vol. 1 | 3:47 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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3 |
Jump | The Very Best of Van Halen (Remastered) | 4:04 | £0.59 | View In iTunes |
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4 |
Hot for Teacher | The Best of Both Worlds | 4:43 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
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5 |
Jump | 1984 | 4:03 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
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6 |
Jump | The Best of Both Worlds | 4:04 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
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7 |
Why Can't This Be Love | The Very Best of Van Halen (Remastered) | 3:48 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
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8 |
Panama | The Very Best of Van Halen (Remastered) | 3:32 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
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9 |
Eruption | The Very Best of Van Halen (Remastered) | 1:43 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
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10 |
Hot for Teacher | The Very Best of Van Halen (Remastered) | 4:43 | £0.99 | View In iTunes |
- £7.90
- Genres: Rock, Music, Hard Rock, Pop, Pop/Rock, Metal, Arena Rock, Hair Metal
- Released: 23 March 1979
- ℗ 2004 Warner Bros. Manufactured and Marketed by Warner Strategic Marketing
