Van Halen - Fair Warning
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Free Music Notes for Fair Warning
Free Music Review: Great Album
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great VH album to own. It has the same musical "cool factor" as their self-titled debut and 1984. If for nothing else, you'll be able to play the cool instrumental "Sunday Afternoon In The Park" over and over again.
Unfortunately, I'm very disappointed that in this "digitally remastered" version the record company did not fix the sound level problems in a couple of the songs. These problems also appeared on the original vinyl record. The volume in "So This Is Love?" goes up an down several times, which is very noticeable and annoying. And it was/is not an artistic flare. The song starts at a good level with the bass line and drums, and then they are turned down for the guitar and vocals. Not a good effect. It seems like a poor editing decision. It would have been better to have all the music and vocals at the same recorded volume. The same volume "errors" happen on the next song, an instrumental -- "Sunday Afternoon In The Park." But I suppose on that song that you could want it to get louder from time to time as an effect. It's very abrupt, though, and, as a result, not that impressive. They should have spent a little time with some digital audio software and fixed the problems. However, it is faithful to the original.
Even with the audio issue on a couple songs, you should have this album in your VH collection. I still give it 5 stars. "Mean Street," "Unchained," and "So This Is Love?" are classic songs. "Dirty Movies," "Sinner's Swing," and "Push Comes To Shove" add to the cool-factor of the album. I think I can speak for everyone who heard this album for the first time in the 80s, that "Sunday Afternoon In The Park" was an instrumental that just blew us all away because it was so cool and different; everyone talked about it at one time or another.
Free Music Review: Good Time Rock From The Halen's.
Hit: 5 Stars
This album rocks,and it is a classic.Takes me back to my high school years of the early 80's.Free Music Review: The tension album
Hit: 5 Stars
The fights among the band are starting here and it shows, the music is very angry and Ed's playing is full of fire like the first album. Some of the best albums in history were made under tense conditions and this is one of those great albums that was worth the hell they went through to record it.Free Music Review: guitar whiz-kid could have used songwriter
Hit: 3 Stars
Eddie VH changed the way the electric guitar was and is played. The weak link is the songwriting. While better than the material on other VH albums ("beautiful girls"!? "dance the night away"!?), Fair Warning suffers from this flaw less than anything outside of W&C 1st.Free Music Review: Van Halen's finest hour!
Hit: 5 Stars
After Women and Children first, Van Halen knew they had to make a definite music decision: return back to the upbeat pop-influenced sound of their first two albums, or continue the less structed, more open approach of Women and Children First? The latter path was the eventual conclusion after Eddie voiced dissatisfaction at being held back on musical direction. The result was a more rockish album, the lyrics dealt with matters similar to the first three but did so in a format that fit more with the band's live show and not their pop sensibilities.
The list:
1.Mean Street (4:55): The meanest EVH guitar opener with the pulling handtapping technique that produces a very unique sound effect (he fingertaps and whilst moving his hand up and down the fretboard). Shortly after follows one of Van Halen's darkest riffs followed by a funk element? One of the harder staples in the VH catalogue.
2."Dirty Movies" (4:08): Obvious synth work from Eddie throughout, a very dark sound scape is present although the subject manner is very light (its about a girl who becomes a porn star after high school and the effect it has on her hometown).
3.Sinner's Swing! (3:08): An exclamatory song! The only time you hear the words "Sinners Swing!" is at the very beginning of the song. Warning: Dave drops the f-bomb on the virst virse, which is friggn unnecessary on a Van Halen recrod. Otherwise the song is great: I think it is about a guy trying to get with some chick and she keeps brushing him off and about how if you want someone keep trying, no matter what.
4.Hear About it Later (4:33): Van Halen's darkest song is about not worrying about the future, for it takes care of itself; that is what I gather from the lyrics, which jump from one event to another. One of Eddie's most creative guitar solos takes mainstage.
5.Unchained (3:27): Kind of has the same sound as "Mean Street" and "Sinners Swing!" but more commercialized. One of Dave's most creative one-liners is present: " Woo-hoo! Take a look at this!
Hey man, that suit is you!
Whoo-whee! You'll get some leg tonight for sure!
Tell us how you do! Hoo hoo hoo!
(Come on Dave, gimme a break)
Hey hey hey hey! One break, comin' up!" Very original. The song is about life being Unchained, nothing stays the same (dur!).
6.Push Comes to Shove (3:48): Oh wait! There is a pop-influenced song on this album. There is an omnipresent bass line throughout with a little guitar whine here and there. A big break from the first 5 rockers on here.
7.So This is Love? (3:05): A classic example of how combining different music styles into one can create a superior sound. Starts of with a light intro that is easy listening into a guitar driven conclusion.
8.Sunday Afternoon in the Park (2:00): A keyboard instrumental that is pretty heavy. Van Halen is one band that is noted for turning a keyboard into a metal weapon, and still make it sound good. This track has to be one of the heaviest instrumentals that use only a keyboard.
9.One Foot Out the Door (1:56): A very short song that is about Dave having to bolt out of some ladies house after her husband shows up out of nowhere and the escape. Could be considered Van Halen's "Paranoid" due to the short song length (how many songs do you know are in the 1:00-2:00 range and have actual lyrics and song structure?) and the intense furiosity of the band. Maybe Van Halen's most intense song ever.
The greatest Van Halen album ever:
1.Fair Warning
2.Women and Children First
3.Van Halen
4.1984
5.Van Halen II
6.Balance
7.5150
8.OU812
9.Diver Down
10.For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
11.Live: Right Here, Right Now
12.Van Halen 3