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| | Women and Children First | | | Music Artist : | | Van Halen | | Music Style : | | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | | Record Label : | | Warner Bros / Wea | | Release Date : | | 2000-09-19 | | Store Price : | | $7.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $6.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. And the Cradle Will Rock...
2. Everybody Wants Some!!
3. Fools
4. Romeo Delight
5. Tora! Tora!
6. Loss of Control
7. Take Your Whiskey Home
8. Could This Be Magic?
9. In a Simple Rhyme
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 1980 Van Halen remastered CD.
Submitted on: 2009-11-18 |
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| This was another good record for the band, known as Van Halen, with their style of Hard Rock/Heavy Metal, which focused more on the positive side, making their music one big party. |
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COULD THIS BE MAGIC?
Submitted on: 2009-06-25 |
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| van halen with roth on the mike.van halen's 3rd release keeps the string of great realeases going, in fact all releases with roth are worth the price(even if they did slip a bit with diver down later on) diver down being their only 4 star release and 3 with cherone being the worst at 3 stars) |
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Van Halen Women and children First
Submitted on: 2009-05-28 |
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| Another great Van Halen masterpiece ! Worth it's weight in gold to Van Halen fans. |
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vanhalen women and children frist.
Submitted on: 2009-03-27 |
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first off diverdown and 1984 and fair warning get so much more attention than this cd. i was maybe 7 or 8 at the time. later on i heard it. its one of my favorite vanhalen cds. and so underated. there are so many classic songs. and maybe now that time has passed maybe this cd will finally get the attention it deserves. diverdown in my opinion was just awful . and fairwarning i liked like two songs off it. so pick up the cd already. and be ready to be in awe. the boys are in there glory. and its before the tensions that started to mount in later of 1981. into 1982.
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The first Van Halen album of the 1980s and with proper title is also one of their greatest
Submitted on: 2009-03-10 |
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Van Halen's third album (their first with a proper title) called Women and Children First was originally released in March of 1980.
The album was recorded in two weeks in early 1980 but the way that lead singer David Lee Roth, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, his drummer brother Alex Van Halen and bass player Michael Anthony played here it doesn't sound it. The album was also produced again by Ted Templeman and their first where the band wrote all of the songs on the album.
The opening rocker "And the Cradle Will Rock..." had a killer keyboard riff which sounds like an electric guitar but was a distorted Wurlitzer piano cranked through a Marshall amp and stack and two killer Eddie Van Halen guitar solos in the middle. David Lee Roth's vocals were killer on this album. "Everybody Wants Some" is next with Alex's superb drum intro and an awesome song and all I can think about is the claymated hamburger singing this song in Better Off Dead but a killer song nonetheless with stellar bass work from Michael Anthony and more guitar work from Eddie whom just rocks on this entire album. "Fools" follows and is an awesome track which starts out with just Diamond Dave and Eddie's guitar before going into a full throttle rocker. The first half closing rocker "Romeo Delight" is a killer and sounds like proto-thrash with its punkish drumming and metal riffs.
The second half kicks off with the killer fanfare "Tora! Tora!" before rocking out to the speed metal sounding "Loss of Control". Next is the bluesy Take Your Whiskey Home which may have started out as an acoustic piece at first and then rocks out. Next is the acoustic blues of "Could This Be Magic" with Eddie doing some killer dobro and the late Nichollette Larson suppylying some uncredited backing vocals towards the end of the track. The closing "In a Simple Rhyme" starts out as an acoustic piece before it rocks out then slows again then rocks for the solo then slows for the end like in beginning. After the song ends, there is a hidden 30 second instrumental at the end of the album.
When this album was released, it stormed right into the US Top 5 and was another Multi-Platinum hit for the band.
I first heard this album when I got it for Christmas in 1984 on cassette and the album still sounds great today.
Highly recommended! |
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