Van Halen - Atomic Punk REACTION/REACTION

[@princeofpcos9804]

The entire first album is all killer no filler

[@foxchasejrt1]

True! One of few artists that I remember exactly what, where and with who I was first time hearing.

[@KreeptOut]

You're right. 30 - 35 minute albums back then.. Solid the whole way through.

[@timl.1184]

That's the absolute mother trucking truth!

[@glenmaylone6333]

For sure

[@davidolson2729]

@@foxchasejrt1 You absolutely beat me to the comment. I’m 54 and can visualize the exact basement right now. A friend’s basement listening to his older brother’s albums. 79’ or 80’.

[@BROU-bb2uc]

From front to back killer album 🤘

[@chrisgarcia9629]

Nobody rules these streets at night like me, The Atomic Punk!!! Ahhhhhhhhh!!! I love that last vocal lyric and that is DLR at his peak vocal ability! Monstrous vocal talent!

[@roberthaines1227]

One of my favorite tracks off their first album.

[@Matt..G]

Many people, fans and musicians, say the two guitarists that changed ‘the game’ more than any other are Jimi Hendrix & Eddie Van Halen. Since Jimi was before my time, EVH has been my favorite since VH’s first album (1978). Many great Van Halen songs to choose from. “Take Your Whiskey Home” is a fun one. Great entertaining lyrics by David Lee Roth and killer guitar by Eddie. All around banger imo.

[@showtime4243]

Another banger off one of the best albums of all time Van Halen ! You should do the rest of the songs off this album and enjoy the ride !! Keep those Van Halen reactions coming !

[@jamesedwards2237]

My favorite tune off the album!!

[@g-pa-Rok-n-Tok]

Saw this tour. Openers for Sabbath in 78

[@inspectorvol951]

This song is a great illustration of why/how Van Halen changed the music scene back in the day. There is a pre & post Van Halen point on the timeline of rock music history. It was like nothing else at the time.

[@k9eden]

I remember hearing this for the first time in the 8th Grade, I saved up enough money to buy the first album; Van Halen. It sounds just as good in 2022 as it did in 1978/79. This is another one of those albums that doesn’t have a bad track. Would love to see you react to the rest of this one, then on to Van Halen II. It’s all good. 🎸💯

[@jenniferfoster1692]

Please do the entire album!! This is their debut album and it changed rock n roll. All the songs are great.

[@robycip9715]

FIRE!!!!!!

[@yves78]

Eddie was a true master of the guitar. Besides genius playing, he could make the guitar do whatever he wanted. What you hear in the beginning is pick scraping on the heavy strings with a phase effect.

[@briansummers6074]

If you like the guitar at the beginning. Try, and the cradle will rock.

[@quincee3376]

Underrated track from their debut album. RIP Eddie.

[@alrivers2297]

One of the greatest debut albums of all time

[@matthewmatt5285]

THE greatest~ Just groundbreaking on so many Levels~

[@norwegianblue2017]

I'm not the biggest Van Halen fan, but that first album they had was fire!

[@naturesounds-ib5dh]

Van Halen change up: Little Dreamer

[@sonnywolfblues]

The David Lee Roth 1978-84 era is worth doing a track by track of every album review...they are just as important to hard Rock as AC/DC is....so many banging songs from them back then like 'unchained','mean streets','somebody get me a doctor','take your whiskey home' ect.

[@jenniferfoster1692]

Eddie Van Halen loved AC/DC, so your observation about their similarities are great.

[@jasonmccluskey3623]

One of my FAVES!

[@workingman6681]

Eddie was known to make all kinds of different noises with his guitar. Eddie Van Halen🙏🙏🙏

[@glenmaylone6333]

Oh yes. This entire album was a game changer. I remember exactly where I was when my buddy Keith walked in with it. Just came from Musicland with it. We tore off the cellophane, put it on the turntable, packed the bong, and were just amazed! Right out of the gate with Eruption.. oh Biz that sound is heavy distortion, delay, and a flanger effect. This album deserves an entire album review.

[@tjmasson1013]

This album is nasty. Pure fire. The real raw VH

[@matthewmatt5285]

It's relentless~

[@michaelstephens7549]

Might try Stay Frosty, which was for their 2012 album with Roth back as singer and Eddie’s son on bass. Or Mean Streets from 1981. And “One Foot Out the Door” also from 1981. Eddie’s best guitar solo. It’s ferocious, he did it in just one take, I think.

[@danarchuleta1154]

The Mighty Van Halen! This seminal album is a masterpiece! Showtime below is right....do the whole album like you did with AC/DC. When you hear one banger after another, it'll give you the full fiery flavor....from these Rock and Roll saviors! "Fair Warning" is also one of my fav. albums....start with Mean Street. The 81' Concert from Oakland is kick a.. to get a live flavor 🔥🔥

[@joetspaulding]

like the other guys say, Van Halen I (first album) is worth a TxT

[@mjb0183]

The harmonic “taps” are awesome 🎸

[@maxbrazil3712]

"Take Your Whiskey Home" is Van Halen at their grimiest.

[@davidenders9282]

That intro sound is made by muting the strings with his left hand on the frets of the neck. Then taking his palm of the side of his right hand and rubbing the strings up & down. Also for additional sound effects he is using a Phase 90. Just one of a hundred sound effects Eddie created on the guitar.

[@FrankZen]

One of their slept on albums IMHO is Van Halen II. Light Up The Sky and DOA are killer tracks from that album. This is one of my faves from the first one though. Killer bassline and riff!

[@nobody617]

Primus, wynonas big brown beaver, my name is mud, to many puppies. Iconic songs from them.

[@mattharvey968]

A great deep track from the debut album! Another couple deep tracks to check out are Outta Love Again, Dirty Movies and House of Pain!!!

[@dipsydoodle7988]

I love the description. Polished but edgy. You could probably define at least the first 2 albums that way. The next few were also edgy, but just a little more polished as they went on. This song is just a power house. That opening riff is so dope, but one of my favorite parts of this song is that damn bass killing it in the background.

[@Thomas-aka-TomD]

Check a LIVE of them doing "Black Magic Woman" "Savor/Jingo" from Tanglewood......FIRE! Thanks for this one....

[@BigC.]

On Fire next from the same debut album?

[@sumonjamal1653]

I think David Lee Roth (vocals) was taking a shot at the punk rockers of the 70's... Van Halen were L.A. rockers and the punk rockers were always at odds w/ them in an era when fans of The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Generation X, and The Misfits hated bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Boston... (which Van Halen were fans of)... Roth was one of those personalities that liked to pick fights and rivalries against those whom he felt were against him in public ... He once admitted that his lyrics were usually about putting those who mocked him down in the dirt. In 1984, when Van Halen were on the UK Festival Monsters of Rock @ Donington, AC/DC was the headliner. David Lee Roth was backstage telling the press that he and Van Halen were going to "blow the Aussies off the stage"... Of course, that didn't happen 🙄 AC/DC conquered that night... Van Halen never got the same popularity in the UK like they did in the USA.

[@patrickdiverpd]

0:26 "I got the shhlyrics pulled up" XD

[@richierich2534]

Nobody did stuff like Eddy he built his own guitars to make the sound he wanted he was a mad scientist of the guitar Michael Anthony with that thunders bass.

[@tilemonkee5510]

HELLZ YEAHH!!! ❤️

[@Śħẽĩłã]

Ahhhhhhhh I get so mad when I’m late and miss the instant upload of these awesome reviews!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I am SUPER excited that you went back to a beginning song for Van Halen!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do this ENTIRE album!!!!! It is 🔥🔥🔥🔥 And I know I know I know, you saw/heard Eddie’s live version of Eruption, but you HAVE to listen to the studio version because it is different AND it leads into You Really Got Me 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🤣🤣🤣 For real though, you really should check out this entire album … you will not be disappointed!!!! Thank you for this!!!! Love ya fam!!! 💞 *EDIT* 😔 RIP Eddie Van Halen 😔💔

[@matthewmatt5285]

Welcome to the THUNDERDOME~

[@gerhardbraatz6305]

It was David Lee Roth that was on Rogan.

[@georgefirth4502]

I sure wish Roth had the lyrics when he came back to Halen after Sammy left. Watching live concert footage was interesting. The band would be playing perfect and hard and then there was Roth going sometimes a quarter of the song just making the occasional noises because he couldn't remember the words. Eddie looked like he was having fun laughing at him but I wondered if he wasn't somewhat disappointed at how things turned out. It looked more like a band practice with out the singer but cool to watch how the band plays on while Roth missed most of his queue's.

[@tonylightcap2053]

The doctor does it again my friend!!

[@SouthTexasRocker1]

One of Eddie Van Halen's all-time favorite albums was Powerage. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnaznqWNo62qqJI He had a special bond with Malcolm Young. Eddie considered Mal one of the greatest rhythm guitarists ever. RIP Eddie and Malcolm! Keep the =VH= coming, bro! The first 6 albums are untouchable!

[@billtmarchi4320]

Atomic punk was the nickname of someone they knew or worked with in the studio. Or something like that. Dave wrote this song I think.

[@SouthTexasRocker1]

DLR wrote ALL of the lyrics when he was quarterback in =VH= (not including covers, of course)

[@billtmarchi4320]

@@SouthTexasRocker1 wrong. Michael macdonald got some songwriting credits for I'll Wait.

[@SouthTexasRocker1]

@@billtmarchi4320 That's true. Producer, Ted Templeman was also the Doobie Bros. producer and he invited Michael to come in to help with some of the lyrics for that song.

[@markyates1116]

Heck yeah!! Old VH !

[@joshcomedy1521]

The multiple take soloes didn't really happen til the 3rd album. For the first 2 it's all pretty much one track, rhythm into solo and back to rhythm, no punch ins or overdubs.

[@bigtrouble4447]

listen too LIL DREAMER.... off of the self titled debut Van Halen Album ... peace BIZ

[@riffmondo9733]

The early VH is all good

[@jeffmiller3555]

EVH at beginning is palm muting

[@matthewmatt5285]

Just one of MANY guitar concepts introduced to the World on this Album~ Completely changed rock and metal single-handedly~

[@Kritikalhit-uf8ez]

1977s heaviest shit 🤯

[@RareHarmony]

Killer track but umm did Dave fart in the microphone in the middle of Eddie's solo? 4:15

[@alanfeldstein9761]

Look at the back of the album cover. Special thanks to Gene Simmons.

[@dannytapp7259]

First time I saw them it only cost 12 bucks and my hearing for a couple days

[@IZZY_EDIBLE]

Do I'M THE ONE!

[@ericmyers5003]

✌🎸🤘🙏🙏👍❤❤❤

[@scottcoleman5088]

You're dead wrong on the solos those are improvise base one takes very little over dubbing that's what's great about Eddie

[@chuckbradley6887]

Say what you want but Van Halen with David Lee Roth is a hundred times better than Van Halen with Sammy Hagar.

[@demonhoopa]

Don’t really like Van Halen. Was a fan as a kid, but was so disappointed when I went to the 1980 Invasion tour, I totally lost interest. However off this first album, Atomic Punk, On Fire, Ice Cream Man and I’m the One are incredible.

[@CharlesTRose]

Im The One, On Fire, Little Dreamer ,all of the deep cuts from this album are great