Van Halen Greatest Hits 2
Van halen greatest hits 2 Continue AllMusic Rating User Ratings (0) Your review rating of the User Reviews of the Credits Releases Similar Albums In theory, Van Halen's greatest hits collection should be easy to collect, but Best Of, Vol. 1 proves that this is not the case. Trying to give David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar eras equal space, they end up not representing either particularly well. The first eight songs go through some of Diamond Dave's biggest songs - Ain't Talkin, Bout Love, Runnin With the Devil, And the Cradle Will Rock, Jump and Panama. It's hard to argue with any of the options, but significant songs like You Really Got Me, Beautiful Girls, (Oh) Beautiful Woman, I'll Wait, and Hot for a Teacher Missing. Similarly, the Sammy era has many big hits - Why It Can't Be Love, Dreams, When It's Love, and Right Now - but misses hits like Love Walks in, Black and Blue, and Finish What I Started. Obviously, the collection would have been better if it had been assembled as a double drive set, with Dave and Sammy getting a drive apiece. In addition, the much-hyped tracks reuniting with Roth, Can't Get This Stuff No More and Me Wise Magic, are a slight disappointment; The band sounds good, but no track contains a memorable hook. Also, the presence of Humans Being, one of Van Halen's worst tracks, is an insult, given how many great songs are missing. However, Best Of, Vol. 1 remains a good single drive encapsulating Van Halen's career, even if it's not a final retrospective.
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