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Van Halen is the debut studio album by American rock band Van Halen, released on February 10, 1978, by Warner Bros. Records.
Van Halen's self-titled debut studio album. Released on February 10, 1978. Track List: 1 - Runnin' With The Devil 0:00 2 - Eruption 03:36 3 - You Really Got Me 05:18 4 - Ain't Talkin' Bout...
Van Halen’s eponymous debut is among their most influential and critically acclaimed work, with nearly every track being a hit or a classic rock staple.
Van Halen broadened hard rock’s audience with music that appealed to the mainstream without putting off purists. Over the course of its six-album original-lineup run, the band opened the door for hard rock on the pop charts, and made an ever-increasing number of Top 40 listeners receptive to music previously limited to AOR stations.
Released on Feb. 10, 1978, Van Halen ushered in a new wave of hard rock. The elements that classified the music throughout the ‘70s were still there: wafer-thin lyrical content, a preoccupation...
Van Halen's magnificent 1978 self-titled debut album simultaneously rewrote the rules of rock guitar and hard rock in general. It's one of those rare debut albums — think The Doors, Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced, Led Zeppelin— that simply announces itself.
Van Halen's self-titled 1978 debut album all but completely re-wrote the vocabulary of rock music. Here's a track-by-track look at how they did it.