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Van Halen - Best Of Van Halen, Volume 1 (1996) RE-UPPED

Posted By: Shar'EmAll

Date: 3 Jul 2012 09:12:00

Van Halen - Best Of Van Halen, Volume 1 (1996) RE-UPPED

Best of Volume I is the first compilation of studio tracks by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1996. Featuring 17 thundering tracks from both the David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar years, with two new songs featuring Dave on vocals! Includes Jump; Why Can't This Be Love; When It's Love; Running with the Devil; Dance the Night Away; Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love; Panama; And the Cradle Will Rock; Dreams, and more.

In theory, a Van Halen greatest-hits collection should be easy to assemble, but Best Of, Vol. 1 proves that isn't the case. By trying to give the David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar eras equal space, they wind up not representing either particularly well. The first eight songs run through several of Diamond Dave's biggest songs – "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love," "Runnin' With the Devil," "And the Cradle Will Rock," "Jump," and "Panama." It's hard to argue with any of the choices, yet significant songs like "You Really Got Me," "Beautiful Girls," "(Oh) Pretty Woman," "I'll Wait," and "Hot for Teacher" are missing. Similarly, the Sammy era has many big hits – "Why Can't This Be Love," "Dreams," "When It's Love," and "Right Now" – but skips over hits like "Love Walks In," "Black and Blue," and "Finish What Ya Started." Clearly, the collection would have been better served if it had been assembled as a double-disc set, with Dave and Sammy getting a disc apiece. Furthermore, the much-hyped reunion tracks with Roth, "Can't Get This Stuff No More" and "Me Wise Magic," are a slight disappointment; the band sounds good, but neither track contains a memorable hook. Also, the presence of "Humans Being," one of Van Halen's worst tracks, is an insult, considering how many great songs are missing. Nevertheless, Best Of, Vol. 1 remains a good single-disc encapsulation of Van Halen's career, even if it isn't a definitive retrospective.

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

Tracklist:

01. Eruption
02. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
03. Runnin' With The Devil
04. Dance The Night Away
05. And The Cradle Will Rock…
06. Unchained
07. Jump
08. Panama
09. Why Can't This Be Love
10. Dreams
11. When It's Love
12. Poundcake
13. Right Now
14. Can't Stop Lovin' You
15. Humans Being
16. Can't Get This Stuff No More
17. Me Wise Magic

All songs digitally Remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Studios, L.A.

All thanks goes to Ginger Devil!

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