Artist: VAN HALEN
Album: BEST OF VOL. 1 (CD)

Release date: 2016
EAN/UPS: 0093624633228
Media type: CD

It took over 20 years for Van Halen to release a Best of album, and even then, the band downplayed the effort. Instead sticking to the original plan of releasing a two-disc set--one of material with original frontman David Lee Roth, and the other with his 11-year replacement Sammy Hagar--the band opted for a single CD chronicling their entire career. For the previously uninitiated, it's a golden introduction to a band that changed the face of '80s hard rock. Guitar-blazing old tracks like "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love," and "Dance the Night Away" segue into more commercial numbers like "Jump" and "Panama" from 1984. These in turn, set the stage for Hagar's slicker, more polished vocals on "Right Now" and "How Do I Know When It's Love." But while newcomers will be thrilled with the delights within, old fans will probably find little of use, since the two highly touted new tracks with Roth are pretty disposable.

CD:
        1. Eruption
        2. Ain't Talkin' Bout Love
        3. Running With the Devil
        4. Dance the Night Away
        5. And the Cradle Will Rock
        6. Unchained
        7. Panama
        8. Why Can't This Be Love
        9. Jump Dreams
        10. When It's Love
        11. Poundcake
        12. Right Now
        13. Can't Stop Loving You
        14. Humans Being (New)
        15. Can't Get This Stuff No More (With David Lee Roth)
        16. Me Wise Magic (David Lee Roth)
        17. Jump '96 Remix (Only On the Europa Album)