Van Halen - Fair Warning
Warner Bros.  (1981)
Hardrock

In Collection
#518

0*
LP  30:58
9 tracks
   01   Mean Street             04:55
   02   Dirty Movies             04:06
   03   Sinner's Swing!             03:08
   04   Hear About It Later             04:33
   05   Unchained             03:27
   06   Push Come To Shove             03:48
   07   So This Love?             03:05
   08   Sunday Afternoon In The Park             02:00
   09   One Foot Out The Door             01:56
Personal Details
Details
Country USA
UPC (Barcode) 075992354028
Recording Date 1981
Spars DDD
Sound Stereo
Musicians
Drums and Percussion Alex Van Halen
Bass Guitar Michael Anthony
Guitar-Electric Eddie Van Halen
Vocals Dave Lee Roth
Credits
Engineer Donn Landee
Notes
Although Van Halen were enjoying an enormous amount of commercial success by 1981, not all was happy in the VH camp. While the public believed that the euphoric, party-hearty antics of their live show spilled into their personal lives, this proved not to be case. Edward Van Halen was feeling frustrated due to the group's unwillingness to branch out musically as much as he desired, resulting in the group's darkest album, Fair Warning. Unlike Van Halen's other Roth-era albums, not a single party anthem was included - in its place was an unmistakable feeling of strife and friction, both lyrically and musically. The album opener, "Mean Street," contains a furious guitar intro by>Eddie, before leading into one of VH's funkiest grooves. While the mood is eased from time to time throughout ("Dirty Movies," "Hear About It Later," "Push Comes to Shove"), the album is simply an unapologetic ass-kicker - "Sinner's Swing!," "Unchained," "So This Is Love?," and "One Foot Out the Door" capture the band at their red-hot fiercest. Along with their self-titled debut and 1984, Fair Warning is an undisputed Van Halen masterpiece.