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Summary: What you think is nothin might be somethin after all...
Comment: Probably my favorite VH album. The first 6 albums of theirs are really must haves. But this one is different. From the cover art to the lyrics.
A lot of other reviewers have summed it up pretty well. Highly recommend this record.
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Summary: A Must Have For Van Halen Fans
Comment: This was the first album that I ever bought from Van Halen as a kid and it helped to really get me interested in the band. The material on the album is darker than on the previous Van Halen releases. Check out the instrumental "Sunday Afternoon in The Park". That is one really creepy and trippy song! The most accessible songs are "Unchained", "Mean Streets", and "So This is Love?". All were but hits on the radio back in the early 1980's. I also really love the sleazy "Dirty Movies", the breakneck "One Foot Out The Door" and the laid back "When Push Comes to Shove". "Fair Warning" may not be the most popular album of the David Lee Roth era but it is essential.
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Summary: Short with a powerful punch! Van Halen's best!
Comment: Dark, dreery, seedy, gritty. Van Halen, the Beach Boys of metal, put aside their crotch rock tendencies to make an album about the underbelly of society (if you'll pardon the cliche.) Eddie Van Halen's guitar work is nothing short of mindblowing and fits the feel of stories David Lee Roth spins (of porn actresses, adulterous paramours, sinners in general.)
Legend has it that Eddie was miserable and considering quitting the group when Fair Warning was recorded. In true blues master fashion, he channeled all his angst into the music and it sounds the way one would imagine he probably felt.
Fair Warning is great. Even at just a shade over half an hour, it's loaded with a lot of guts and feel. No incarnation of Van Halen ever recorded a better album. It's a hard rock mammoth, one of the best albums in its genre ever released.
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Summary: van halen at its peak.
Comment: after three great albums, van halen separated themselves from all other bands with this, their best album ever. eddie's usual genius guitar playing is all over this album, but he shows his keyboard skills with the instrumental "sunday afternoon in the park", and the band shows they are just as comfortable with low-down funk (push comes to shove, so this is love?) as they are with high octane rock and roll (mean street, sinner's swing!) the only downer here is that roth uses profanity on the aforementioned "sinner's swing", which comes off as a poor attempt at shock value. otherwise, this is a band at the peak of its powers.
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Summary: VH's most underrated but possibly best album
Comment: Love this album! I had it on 8 track when it came out. It is probably my favorite VH album. I loved them with both Dave and Sammy, but this album was just solid. Good variety, some heavy songs. Just a classic rock album.
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