Albums that Changed Music: Van Halen I

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For musicians and fans, the Van Halen’s signature sound revolutionized what it meant to play hard rock in the late seventies (and the band would continue to pave the way throughout the eighties). However, as is often the case for music and musicians that go on to change history, the critics who reviewed Van Halen at its debut in 1978 didn’t quite know what to do with it or how to place it. All they knew was that it was big and it was loud. Robert Christgau wrote in the Village Voice, “For some reason Warners wants us to know that this is the biggest bar band in the San Fernando Valley … The term becomes honorific when the music belongs in a bar. This music belongs on an aircraft carrier.” Richard Reegel of Cream even called the band dinosaurs and predicted they would find their “evolutionary fulfillment in a quick extinction.” Van Halen’s massive presence – in sound, in energy and in volume – may have been too big for the critics of 1978, but it would be one of the most influential and defining albums of its time.

The album opens with what sounds like a warped car-horn followed by a thumping bass, announcing the commencement of the band’s hedonistic anthem, “Running with the Devil.” The song packs a hard hitting punch that showcases all of the bands talent, energy and personality. The second track, “Eruption” fully unveils the band’s dazzling guitar virtuoso. Following this unrestrained and supernatural display, the band returns to an aggressive and gutsy rendition of the Kink’s “You Really Got Me.” Eddie described the track as “Van Halenized like a jet plane.” Throughout the album, the band balances hard hitting rock and roll with colorful vocal harmonies. Roth’s whoops, screams and cheeky innuendos add another layer of personality to the tracks. From the kinetic shuffle of “I’m the one” to the old-timey opening of “Ice Cream Man” (before breaking into an explosion of heavy blues), the tracks of Van Halen blend past and present, a quality that has resulted in a seemingly timeless sonic quality to the band maintained throughout their career. It is forever, unmistakingly modern and thoroughly classic rock and roll.

Van Halen has proven to be one of the most influential debuts in rock music history, and also one of the most commercially successful rock albums of all time. It has sold over 10 million copies and been certified as a Diamond record by the RIAA. The band went on to be one of the biggest selling groups of all time, with several multi-platinum hits and even another Diamond record with the album 1984. VH1 named the band number 7 on their list of the top 100 rock artists of all time, and in 2007, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Van Halen’s first album kicked off this remarkable career with an explosion of sound, dazzling energy and spectacular musicianship, announcing to the world that Van Halen had arrived and rock and roll would never be the same.

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