It was also the first Van Halen album to finally reach the #1 spot on the charts. [1984 likely also would have achieved that feat, but it had the disadvantage of going head-to-head with the ...

The post Van Halen Broke Out the Synths and Conquered the Charts with 1984 appeared first on Consequence. In the early ‘80s, synthesizers and keyboards within the realm of heavy metal and hard rock ...

Each week in The Vinyl Vault, Ozarks First’s Parker Padgett and Tony Nguyen dive into a featured album, highlight standout tracks and explore what makes it truly unique. The vinyl of the week this ...

Just like the final moments of New Year’s Eve in 1999 did not close out the 20th Century or the millennium (despite what Prince sang in “1999”), musical eras of rock ’n’ roll do not align with decades ...

“If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records,” was famously David Lee Roth’s sales pitch for the legendary California hard rock quartet he ...

Van Halen released some superb LPs while David Lee Roth was in the band. These four album-openers from that era still bring the thunder.

After four intense rounds of voting, only AC/DC and Van Halen are left standing in our Best '80s Album March Madness bracket. That's right, it's Back in Black vs. 1984 for all the marbles. You've only ...

This wasn’t easy, but it was fun – like most things with Van Halen. Ranking any great band’s discography is bound to irritate some fans, especially a band like this, which enjoyed two highly ...