The Best of Both Worlds | 
 enlarge | Artist: Van Halen
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  273 reviews
Sales Rank: 2846
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 78961
UPC: 081227896126
EAN: 0081227896126
ASIN: B000286S8S
Release Date: July 20, 2004
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Eruption | | • | It's About Time | | • | Up For Breakfast | | • | Learning To See | | • | Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love | | • | Finish What Ya Started | | • | You Really Got Me | | • | Dreams | | • | Hot For Teacher | | • | Poundcake | | • | And The Cradle Will Rock | | • | Black And Blue | | • | Jump | | • | Top Of The World | | • | (Oh) Pretty Woman | | • | Love Walks In | | • | Beautiful Girls | | • | Can't Stop Loving You | | • | Unchained |
Disc 2
| • | Panama | | • | Best Of Both Worlds | | • | Jamie's Cryin' | | • | Runaround | | • | I'll Wait | | • | Why Can't This Be Love | | • | Runnin' With The Devil | | • | When It's Love | | • | Dancing In The Street | | • | Not Enough | | • | Feels So Good | | • | Right Now | | • | Everybody Wants Some | | • | Dance The Night Away | | • | Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Live) | | • | Panama (Live) | | • | Jump (Live) |
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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
Album Description
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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| Customer Reviews:
 6 missing gems..... December 22, 2008
Because of the 3 terrible new songs.....And....the 3 terrible live tracks........THIS ALBUM BITES. WHY, mess up hit's collections with new (BAD) songs? WHY, mess up great openings in the track list, for live songs? SO EVERBODY WILL WAIT AND BUY THE NEXT, "HIT's ALBUM". More money, for a "LAZY,DON'T GIVE A HOOTE BAND" . JUST LIKE AXEL ROSE,VAN-HALEN TREATS IT'S FANS TERRIBLE. The sad, thing is....most of there fans love the PAIN. " And pay for it ".
 Rev Me Up (at your risk) November 11, 2008
Happy 3itch (Twin Oaks)
You there, yeh YOU, how did you know, when you just reached out and touched me ~ that it was OK? Nobody touches me. 'Cept you. What's up with you, you telepathic or something, that's pretty fearless 'cause I'm pretty unpredictable and fairly illimitable when I put my heart in it. Watch it ~ 'cause it can get fast, fast. But whatcha really need to know before you proceed with me is what's the big fat difference between David Lee and Sammy.
PATHETIC BEHAVIOUR November 5, 2008
David P. Weber (North Fremantle)
Trying to reduce Cherone's time in the band by refusing to acknowledge he was even there is childish. Including live tracks of Hagar trying to be Lee Roth is pathetic. A few tracks from the unfairly-maligned Cherone album would've kept everyone happy.
 the best of the both worlds "sort of" August 15, 2008
Zachary D. Furr (IN, Indianapolis)
This product right here is a two-disc set featuring both david lee roth and sammy hagar songs, none with gary cherone. In my mind, the first disc should be david lee roth songs, and the 2nd disc is sammy hagar. But instead one song is david and the next is sammy. It is by no means a crappy album. It just ruins it when i am listening to david lee roth singing Jump and then the next track comes and it's sammy singing. Also, I should say that there are three new tracks on this, Sammy, Eddie and Alex play on it but no michael anthony
Van Halen Rocks July 28, 2008
Scott N. Murphy (Winthrop Harbor Illinois)
This two cd collection of Eddie and the guys is without a doubt the best of their best.If you love Van Halen,do yourself a huge favor and get this,I listen to it over and over.
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