Product Description: No Description Available No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: VAN HALEN Title: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS Street Release Date: 07/20/2004 Domestic Genre: ROCK/POP
Amazon.com: One shouldn't have too much difficulty imagining a two-disc Van Halen compilation entitled The Best of Both Worlds. The first disc will showcase the David Lee Roth-fronted version of the band that reenergized hard rock with its titanic 1978 debut and peaked commercially with 1984's, uh, 1984. Disc two will take up where David Lee was left off--from 1986 on, when Sammy Hagar (and, briefly, Hagar-sound-alike Gary Cherone) took over the mike. Well, unfortunately, that's not the anthology assembled this time out. Rather than sequence the selections chronologically and, in the process, display the band's evolution (or devolution, depending on where one stands in the great Roth/Hagar debate), the band has opted for a more eccentric sequencing strategy. After the opener "Eruption" confirms the sass and chops of the young VH, three fairly uninspired new tracks featuring a back-in-the-fold (for now?) Hagar interrupt the flow. Unfortunately, the flow never really recovers, as Roth and Hagar tracks leapfrog one another through the next 29 selections. Three live Hagar takes on songs from the Roth era finish things off in confusing fashion. Obviously, there's plenty of powerful music here, but do fans really need a lesson in what happens when worlds collide? And didn't David Lee earn at least one photo in the package? --Steven Stolder
Binding: Audio CD Brand: VAN HALEN EAN: 0081227896126 Format: Original recording remastered Item Dimensions:100 Label: Warner Bros. Manufacturer: Warner Bros. MPN: 78961 Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Warner Bros. Release Date: July 20, 2004 Studio: Warner Bros.
Customer Reviews
Worst of Both Eras!!!
Get a life Van Halen fans! This collections SUCKS! It is a true abomination and shows how utterly deep Eddie has suck into the bottle. Alex needs to sack up & get his li'l bro in line! The sequencing order is asinine! The lack of songs from Van Halen II & Fair Warning is ludicrous! The only choice I agree with is totally ignoring the "living abortion" Van Halen III era with that true loser Gary Cherone. This is the only good choice Eddie has made in the last 12 years. Just get their first 6 albums ... Read More