Eruption was my first introduction to van halen. I was getting into classic rock and talking about good guitar while driving home and he said "here, listen to this" and played Eruption and it was one of the coolest things I've ever heard.
Speaking of the track Eruption, when it's played on a CD, with good headphones, you can hear a low bass note just before Really got me starts. You hear it as the solo fades as two low rumbles.
Same here. I grew up very sheltered. My humanities teacher in high school (1991) played us Eruption and I quit band and bought an electric guitar. 33 years later I’m still playing guitar and have a home recording studio.
Everybody Wants Some
And then...
Eruption. All the guitar dudes at school were talking about it, and wham! my face melted when I heard it like getting hit by a lava flow.
I had read an article in 'Circus', (I think), that said VH was the 'next led Zeppelin'. Big fuckin' talk, I thought, so I bought the debut ASAP. We all sat down and after 'Eruption', I honestly said, 'if the rest of the album is like this, it'll change rock music forever.'
Took us about a week to get past 'Ain't Talking 'Bout Love' because we kept picking the needle up and starting over.
While Eruption was my first face melting moment and still does it to me. DOA may be the most dirty rocking rock song to ever rock! My all time favorite.
I was 11 years old in 1978, and my grandmother had a membership with the Columbia Music Club. She asked if there was anything I wanted. I looked through the offerings and saw the cover for Van Halen. "This looks cool," I said.
Several weeks later, when I dropped the needle on "Running With The Devil" I was hooked.
But it was track 2, "Eruption" that melted my face and made me a Halen fan forever.
I’m The One. Listened to it on my sisters stereo back in 78. Vinyl. I was 11 and wanting to play guitar. I couldn’t understand what I was hearing but I kept listening over and over. For years I thought the song was called Show Your Love. Bop Boday shoe bee do waa
DOA
Unchained
Eruption
Everybody Wants Some
But really, it has to be Eruption. Nothing like that had ever been heard before. In one minute and 42 seconds in 1978 EVH invented the sound of 80s rock.
It had to be similar to the way people felt when they heard Hendrix for the first time. You’d heard guitar before, but never imagined it could make those sounds.
On KLOS in LosAngeles going camping in a VW Van. Eruption/ You Really Got Me. Life was never the same! My best friend sister turned up the radio and turned to us and said “check this out, this will blow you away…and it did!
Eruption all the way.
I am a “youngest” and my older brothers played electric guitar so they were def a musical influence on me. Their music was Alice Cooper, UFO, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, BOC.
VH was MY music. When the first album came out I was in 8th grade, my brothers were adults. I remember playing Eruption on my hand-me-down stereo and my brother walked in like, “who IS that?” Proud moment.
**Intruder**
Back in the 80s
Driving to a college bar on a Friday night with high school friends. I remember saying "What the F\*\*\* is this? Its amazing"
One of the earliest VanHalen tunes I had heard(thanks to my cousin Todd) was Aint talking bout love. The opening riff man. I had never heard shit played like that before. The tone,the conviction behind the playing. Gotdamn it was total bad ass. It knocked my 12 year old ass to the ground in those days. It still grabs me and takes me back to the time my cousin played it around me. I just remember there were 4 cassettes laying on the inside of Silverado truck. Heart's Dog and a butterfly,Back in black,Diver Down,and VanHalen's first record. While waxing his truck Aint talking bout love kicked in his loud system,I remember that like yesterday. Pure Gold🙏
On Fire. Eddie fucken rips on the whole album but between Eddie’s guitar parts, DLRs scorching vocals, and AVH on heavy artillery, that’s a fucking song.
Never been particularly face melted but I have to say for a debut song on a debut album, Runnin' With The Devil was as big of a welcome to the party as any.
Oddly, it was the intro to Summer Nights. I was late to the party.
But what I find more interesting, is that there's a nazi who gets his face melted, and a nazi who gets run off of the bridge in The Blues Brothers. I think they're the same person. I don't know that I ever saw them in anything else. I wonder if it's a stagehand, or a real nazi, somebody who got typecast as an extra.
Light up the sky. When I first got into Van Halen I only had the “best of both worlds” albums which were great, but I never progressed past that. Then one day I was driving to the store and I finally tried out a streaming service (I had a old iPod classic until that point) and so I put it on van halen, and that was the first “deep track” I’d heard from them. From that instant I went and listened through their entire discography because I realized what I had been missing.
Hang ‘Em High. Sounds like a simple ish intro. The groove that Eddie and Alex have in that intro is one of the craziest things you will ever hear once you try to play it and realize it is near impossible to do so.
I remember my parents were listening to the first Van Halen album when I was a kid. As I started learning guitar around 13 I stumbled on the Eruption solo and I was floored. I don’t know how I never heard it before when my parents were listening to it on the radio.
After already being a Van Halen fan, I only liked Roth era music. Eventually I became more accepting of music and listened to the Hagar years. Now there are plenty of songs that are face melting like 5150, but I heard One Way to Rock live on Right Here Right Now. Ed just shreds the whole fuckin time and there something about the guitar tone. I feel like it’s an odd choice, but I just remember being younger and thinking that is what a rock guitar sounds like. Then I found out they re recorded most of the album lmao.
Running With The Devil, then Eruption/You Really Got Me. I was 11yrs old. My cousin bought VH1 when it dropped. He came over and put it on my Dad stereo. My life changed that day.
Eruption/Really Got me. Was just mind blowing.
It sounds like it really got you.
You really got me
Girl
Eruption was my first introduction to van halen. I was getting into classic rock and talking about good guitar while driving home and he said "here, listen to this" and played Eruption and it was one of the coolest things I've ever heard.
Yuppers! Eruption!
Same. It was years later when I discovered The Kinks version. I love it now, but was disappointed during my metal phase
Same. Absolutely.
Speaking of the track Eruption, when it's played on a CD, with good headphones, you can hear a low bass note just before Really got me starts. You hear it as the solo fades as two low rumbles.
Same here. I grew up very sheltered. My humanities teacher in high school (1991) played us Eruption and I quit band and bought an electric guitar. 33 years later I’m still playing guitar and have a home recording studio.
I’m the One
This. This is the answer.
Indeed..I’m the one. The guitar isolated track on YouTube is over the top
Mean Street
fuck yeah brother
Running With the Devil
High as hell in my Ford Expedition with my buddy in highschool flying down the 85 south in Charlotte. God damn that song is something serious
Unchained
👆🏻this⛓️
Everybody Wants Some And then... Eruption. All the guitar dudes at school were talking about it, and wham! my face melted when I heard it like getting hit by a lava flow.
[удалено]
Hot for Teacher
The entire fair warning record
fair warning > every other album ever recorded
Atomic Punk
I had read an article in 'Circus', (I think), that said VH was the 'next led Zeppelin'. Big fuckin' talk, I thought, so I bought the debut ASAP. We all sat down and after 'Eruption', I honestly said, 'if the rest of the album is like this, it'll change rock music forever.' Took us about a week to get past 'Ain't Talking 'Bout Love' because we kept picking the needle up and starting over.
Panama
F yeah it did
Came here to say this!
DOA from VHII. Truly Eddie's best tone and a face melting song if I ever heard one.
While Eruption was my first face melting moment and still does it to me. DOA may be the most dirty rocking rock song to ever rock! My all time favorite.
I was 11 years old in 1978, and my grandmother had a membership with the Columbia Music Club. She asked if there was anything I wanted. I looked through the offerings and saw the cover for Van Halen. "This looks cool," I said. Several weeks later, when I dropped the needle on "Running With The Devil" I was hooked. But it was track 2, "Eruption" that melted my face and made me a Halen fan forever.
Thanks Cool Gramma for turning your loved one onto the love of music. My Gram did the same.
*”Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan, and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain."*
Its called "Out the Window". Im sure you probably know bit there may be someone reading this that didnt
Lifetime VH head and BTTF fan and you taught me this fact today. Many thanks.
I did not know what that guitar solo from BTTF was called and I appreciate your insights!
Yeah, wasn't that an unreleased demo from Eddie?
D.O.A. the ending 🥵
The first two chords of Runnin With the Devil. It hit that fast. It had just come out and no one was prepared.
Ain't Talkin Bout Love
Mean street
Mean Street
All of them
Drum intro to hot for teacher and guitar intro to mean street
Girl Gone Bad
Drop Dead Legs
Mean Street - that solo was mind-blowing the first time around.
DOA
Dance then night away
The Cradle Will Rock
I’m The One. Listened to it on my sisters stereo back in 78. Vinyl. I was 11 and wanting to play guitar. I couldn’t understand what I was hearing but I kept listening over and over. For years I thought the song was called Show Your Love. Bop Boday shoe bee do waa
Eruption (of course…), Mean Street intro.
DOA Unchained Eruption Everybody Wants Some But really, it has to be Eruption. Nothing like that had ever been heard before. In one minute and 42 seconds in 1978 EVH invented the sound of 80s rock. It had to be similar to the way people felt when they heard Hendrix for the first time. You’d heard guitar before, but never imagined it could make those sounds.
On KLOS in LosAngeles going camping in a VW Van. Eruption/ You Really Got Me. Life was never the same! My best friend sister turned up the radio and turned to us and said “check this out, this will blow you away…and it did!
Any answer other than Hot For Teacher will probably be someone lying. That was just a different level of energy.
On Fire!!! Every time!!
Ain’t Talkin Bout Love- Not because it’s that good or anything, just because it was really hot that day
Get up! Make it work!!
*You Really Got Me* comes to mind for some reason.
Eruption.
Eruption
Hot for Teacher
Running with the devil
Eruption all the way. I am a “youngest” and my older brothers played electric guitar so they were def a musical influence on me. Their music was Alice Cooper, UFO, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, BOC. VH was MY music. When the first album came out I was in 8th grade, my brothers were adults. I remember playing Eruption on my hand-me-down stereo and my brother walked in like, “who IS that?” Proud moment.
Beautiful Girls…the last 40 seconds or so BLEW my mind. Goosebumps even to this day. That was/is a truly epic riff.
Eruption for one, then it was Mean Street.
You really got me when it was in the Nissan commercial.
Probably the feeling solo. Didn’t really expect it
You really got me when it was in the Nissan commercial.
Source of Infection. Took me years to learn the intro
Eruption obviously. I was eight and had listened to the Beatles and Monkees pretty much exclusively to that point.
“How Many Say I”
Aint Talkin ‘Bout Love and Pleasure Dome
**Intruder** Back in the 80s Driving to a college bar on a Friday night with high school friends. I remember saying "What the F\*\*\* is this? Its amazing"
D.O.A.
Mean street
Somebody get me a doctor
I'm the One
Eruption
Being on acid, alone, and hearing You Really Got Me on a very good stereo.
Romeo delight
Panama Mean Streets
Ice cream man solo
DOA
That guitar opening to Unchained
One of the earliest VanHalen tunes I had heard(thanks to my cousin Todd) was Aint talking bout love. The opening riff man. I had never heard shit played like that before. The tone,the conviction behind the playing. Gotdamn it was total bad ass. It knocked my 12 year old ass to the ground in those days. It still grabs me and takes me back to the time my cousin played it around me. I just remember there were 4 cassettes laying on the inside of Silverado truck. Heart's Dog and a butterfly,Back in black,Diver Down,and VanHalen's first record. While waxing his truck Aint talking bout love kicked in his loud system,I remember that like yesterday. Pure Gold🙏
Outta Love Again - that was when I realized just how much of a badass Alex Van Halen really was
Top Of The World!
Michael Jackson - Beat it solo.
Cabo wabo and poundcake
Cabo wabo and poundcake
Mine all mine
GET UP!!!! first time I heard it - even though I was a huge fan already - I was blown TF away. Hot stuff! Still holds up.
Poundcake
It's too simple music to melt my face but sure the tapping in eruption was cool first time I heard it.
I’ll wait
Hot for teacher, still melts my face
I'm the one
Mean Street
Show Me love
How Many Say I I lit myself on fire but ended up surviving.
Eruption and Hot for Teacher
Any song could make this list 😂 probably eruption for me, but the solo for Ice Cream Man melts my face every time I hear it still haha
Unchained
Unchained ✌️
"Atomic Punk" - Feb. 1978
Amsterdam
House of Pain. Amazing from start to finish
Running with the Devil 👿
Panama
MEAN STREET SOLO and SOMEBODY GET ME DOCTOR
Unchained.
Eruption
Ain’t Talking About Love. That intro riff!!
On Fire. Eddie fucken rips on the whole album but between Eddie’s guitar parts, DLRs scorching vocals, and AVH on heavy artillery, that’s a fucking song.
Hot for teacher. Both Eddie and Alex at their best
Atomic Punk! 14 year old me was blown away
And The Cradle Will Rock!
I'm the one
On Fire
BURN
I’m the One or Drop Dead Legs
Never been particularly face melted but I have to say for a debut song on a debut album, Runnin' With The Devil was as big of a welcome to the party as any.
Mean street
drop dead legs‼️
Mean Street
Jamie’s Cryin, Unchained, Mean Streets, Everybody Wants…
Unchained
Loss of Control
Drum intro. Hot for Teacher. The best.
Atomic Punk
Poundcake by Van Hagar. Dave had nothing on Sammy.
"I'm The One"
Eruption…if you didn’t your a freak
Drop Dead Legs
"Mean Street"
Eruption, And on some really good hash.
Oddly, it was the intro to Summer Nights. I was late to the party. But what I find more interesting, is that there's a nazi who gets his face melted, and a nazi who gets run off of the bridge in The Blues Brothers. I think they're the same person. I don't know that I ever saw them in anything else. I wonder if it's a stagehand, or a real nazi, somebody who got typecast as an extra.
All of them. I feel like this today if someone plays vanalen. They suck.
Romeo Delight
The Cradle Will Rock
Eruption 🌋
Honestly, Sunday Afternoon in the Park floored me. Not the fanciest, but heavy and atmospheric
Judgement Day
Poundcake
atomic punk
Girl Gone Bad/ House of Pain
'I'm On Fire' (ZERO, 1976 Demo)
poundcake
Hot For Teacher!
DOA
On fire
Light up the sky. When I first got into Van Halen I only had the “best of both worlds” albums which were great, but I never progressed past that. Then one day I was driving to the store and I finally tried out a streaming service (I had a old iPod classic until that point) and so I put it on van halen, and that was the first “deep track” I’d heard from them. From that instant I went and listened through their entire discography because I realized what I had been missing.
I'm the one.
For me it was Panama and that guitar intro, jhc
Honeybabysweetiedoll, Dirty Movies, Girl Gone Bad, & Full Bug
That one where eddie played the guitar... good stuff
Running with the devil
Hang ‘Em High. Sounds like a simple ish intro. The groove that Eddie and Alex have in that intro is one of the craziest things you will ever hear once you try to play it and realize it is near impossible to do so.
On Fire
Little dreamer
I'll wait.
Mean atreet
mean street
Atomic Punk
Romeo Delight, Jamie’s Cryin…..Unchained. Too many too name could just write their whole discography.
As someone who is a big fan of harmonies, Little Guitars really got me going.
I remember my parents were listening to the first Van Halen album when I was a kid. As I started learning guitar around 13 I stumbled on the Eruption solo and I was floored. I don’t know how I never heard it before when my parents were listening to it on the radio.
After already being a Van Halen fan, I only liked Roth era music. Eventually I became more accepting of music and listened to the Hagar years. Now there are plenty of songs that are face melting like 5150, but I heard One Way to Rock live on Right Here Right Now. Ed just shreds the whole fuckin time and there something about the guitar tone. I feel like it’s an odd choice, but I just remember being younger and thinking that is what a rock guitar sounds like. Then I found out they re recorded most of the album lmao.
Hot for teacher.
Back to the future had a minute or so of Eddie ripping it. That is what got me wondering about this band we all love. Van “Fuckin” Halen man!
On fire!!!
Mean Street.
Ice cream man
First time ever hearing them! Running With The Devil. That amazes nasty guitar slide
Eruption. Opened the whole world of rock to me.
Running With The Devil, then Eruption/You Really Got Me. I was 11yrs old. My cousin bought VH1 when it dropped. He came over and put it on my Dad stereo. My life changed that day.
Eruption….technically not a song…but just try not using your air guitar. 😁 (Turn. It. Up!)
on fire
Obvious
Cathedral
Gawd when I caught a first glance at this pic and the words VanHalen I thought this was Eddie’s jaw cancer shit and about hurled.
Ain’t talkin’ bout love. Love that jam!
Intruder
Cathedral and Dirty Movies
Unchained for me. It’s a nice exfoliator.
Romeo’s Delight.
"How Many Say I"
On Fire
I’m pretty sure it was Eruption for literally every person on the planet
I'm surprised that I didn't see this one on the list, but for me it was Fools. Nice slow start and then that first fast lick is just killer.
I'm going new school. Stay Frosty, Honeybabysweetiedoll, As Is.
On Fire!
Spanish Fly
Every answer correct!
On Fire.
Today I listened to Van Halen III for the first time and to be honest I didn't expect the song From Afar to hit that fucking hard.
Push comes to shove (while high) 😍