The Best of Both Worlds

Van Halen - The Best of Both Worlds

The Best of Both Worlds
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Artist: Van Halen
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-07-20
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Eruption
  2. It's About Time
  3. Up For Breakfast
  4. Learning To See
  5. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
  6. Finish What Ya Started
  7. You Really Got Me
  8. Dreams
  9. Hot For Teacher
  10. Poundcake
  11. And The Cradle Will Rock
  12. Black And Blue
  13. Jump
  14. Top Of The World
  15. (Oh) Pretty Woman
  16. Love Walks In
  17. Beautiful Girls
  18. Can't Stop Loving You
  19. Unchained
Music CD 2
  1. Panama
  2. Best Of Both Worlds
  3. Jamie's Cryin'
  4. Runaround
  5. I'll Wait
  6. Why Can't This Be Love
  7. Runnin' With The Devil
  8. When It's Love
  9. Dancing In The Street
  10. Not Enough
  11. Feels So Good
  12. Right Now
  13. Everybody Wants Some
  14. Dance The Night Away
  15. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Live)
  16. Panama (Live)
  17. Jump (Live)

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Free Music Review: This remastering job isn't good
Hit: 2 Stars

The song list is great. I don't care that the Dave stuff is mixed in with the Sammy stuff. It's all good.

The two stars are there because of the mastering job. What "remastering" really means is this: "We're going to throw a bunch of compression on the original mix. It doesn't matter that we're adding distortion (where it doesn't belong), raising the noise floor, and killing the dynamics, as long as we can get more level out of it. The folks that mastered Van Halen's previous studio albums didn't know what the hell they were doing anyway."

I would never have bought this if it wasn't for the three new Sammy songs. Unless you need the complete Van Hagar era, stay away from this.
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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
Van Halen rocketed to stardom with their raucous, 10X-platinum-plus 1978 self-titled album, one of the greatest debuts ever. Anchored by Eddie Van Halen's guitar wizardry and David Lee Roth's vocal showmanship, the band's dynamic sound reinvented hard rock. A run of multiplatinum Top 10 discs followed, peaking with 1984, another 10X-platinum blockbuster and Roth's swan song. Sammy Hagar replaced the vocalist, a transition that cost the band no momentum. The Red Rocker's VH debut, 1986's 5150 , hit #1 on The Billboard 200, as did 1988's OU812. The Grammy-winning 1991 release, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, reached #5. This new compilation spotlights Van Halen's always-stellar musicianship over the course of 25 years and two world-class frontmen, and continues the story with three brand new Hagar-fronted tracks!

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