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Track Listings
| 1. Mean Street |
| 2. 'Dirty Movies' |
| 3. Sinner's Swing! |
| 4. Hear About It Later |
| 5. Unchained |
| 6. Push Comes to Shove |
| 7. So This Is Love? |
| 8. Sunday Afternoon In The Park |
| 9. One Foot Out The Door |
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CD =Remastered=
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By Uriel
Format:Audio CD
By the early 80s the strain that was later to drive David Lee Roth to leave the band had started to become evident. The result was Fair Warning, regarded by many Van Halen fans as their best album to date.
Many of the guitar parts were written through the night by a troubled Edward Van Halen who was finding it hard to spend time with the band's hyperactive frontman. The sheer depth of emotion hurls itself from the guitar throughout the album.
Dispite the division that was creeping in, the song writing partnership between the singer and guitarist was second to none. In all of Van Halen's first six albums this is is never more apparrent than in 'Unchained' and 'Mean Street', two songs that 20 years on have never been bettered.
Fair Warning represents what heavy metal should have been. Indeed, several lesser bands spent most of the 80s trying (and failing miserably) to sound like this.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By MT
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Prior to buying this album (in the remastered form - which is essential), I'd only ever heard Unchained (itself one of VH's best songs). Many reviews had put me off stating this to be a darker album with less party style anthems we/I had become accustomed to. Now I have heard it in its entirety (and this is an album that works better by listening in one sitting than as standalone tracks), it ranks as my joint #1 album by the band (alongside VHII).
Every song is a winner. The opening Mean Streets is full of streetwise sass, you can imagine it scoring the opening to a New York Scorsese movie. In fact, where Women & Children First was the soundtrack to many a summer BBQ along the American West Coast in 1980, a year later this soundtracks the dark neon lit underbelly of the East Coast. It is a darker album without a doubt but not darker in a sombre way.
It's possibly the most `heavy metal' Van Halen have ever been......And it totally Rocks!
Every song is a winner. The opening Mean Streets is full of streetwise sass, you can imagine it scoring the opening to a New York Scorsese movie. In fact, where Women & Children First was the soundtrack to many a summer BBQ along the American West Coast in 1980, a year later this soundtracks the dark neon lit underbelly of the East Coast. It is a darker album without a doubt but not darker in a sombre way.
It's possibly the most `heavy metal' Van Halen have ever been......And it totally Rocks!
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I got Fair Warning when it was released in 1981 and was totally awestruck by the whole album. And 24 years later I still love it. I think Eddie Van Halen's brown sound is the best guitar sound ever recorded.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Fair warning
Album arrived quickly and in good condition. Love van halen music and this has some excellent melodic songs. A great bonus for your collection.
Published 1 month ago by Richard Bailey
5.0 out of 5 stars
Van halen CD
If you like van Halen this CD will not dissapoint. Good recording which is not too bright, a problem I find with certain CD recordings.
Published 2 months ago by bx/by
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Unpublished review from 2007
Van Halen - Fair Warning May 20th, 2007
FAIR WARNING is easily Van Halen's most decadent, immoral album. FAIR WARNING is a dark, mean album. Read more
FAIR WARNING is easily Van Halen's most decadent, immoral album. FAIR WARNING is a dark, mean album. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mike London
5.0 out of 5 stars
harder edged but still successful..
van halen was conquering the world , you wouldn't know it now because the uk is contaminated by nonmusic techno crap instead of band music. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Michael Dobey
4.0 out of 5 stars
Van Halening
Good album, not like the two debut but it is good as well.
I love the solo in Mean street, Eddie is a great guitarist and i admire him. Read more
I love the solo in Mean street, Eddie is a great guitarist and i admire him. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Yaniv Riahi
3.0 out of 5 stars
Mixed bag
I was unsure as to what to expect and bought the album out of curiosity and a vague recollection of a mate of mine owning this on vinyl. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Philip
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a KILLER album!!
I loved all VH best stuff, the first release "Van Halen", 1984, I even like 5150 for all you sammy fans. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Chris Baker
5.0 out of 5 stars
Van Halens Heaviest, Darkest and Best....
I first heard this album on tape around 1985 after hearing 5150 and 1984 and was totally blown away, it was much darker than both these albums and i loved it from the opening riff... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mr Fahrenheit
5.0 out of 5 stars
Most underrated album ever
It's not as accessible as most of the other Van Halen albums, I'll admit it was not the Van Halen album spending most time on the turntable when I was a youngster. Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2010 by Bogie
5.0 out of 5 stars
stone wall van halen classic!!!!
I feel that it captures this great band at their absolute peak and is full of fire and anger and it features some of Eddies best recorded guitar tones, which is high praise indeed. Read more
Published on 15 April 2009 by S. Monks
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