When this came out it's hard to describe what it did to our ears and our minds. We had never experienced anything like it. Every song on the Van Halen I album is fantastic in it's own right. If you ever start doing full albums, this one has to be on the list.

Michael Anthony’s background vocals were a huge part of the Van Halen sound. That dude has got an epic high range!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

I've been a Van Halen fan for so long that I had this album on 8-Track.

Probably one of the greatest debut albums in rock history in my opinion. Just a little ol’ band from Pasadena California!!!!! Every song just hits you right in the face with its pure VH sound!!!! Their second album is a banger too!!!!! Actually, the first four are great also….

One of the most iconic sounds in music history!! Blessed to have been in high school when this was released!!

Saw this live in 1980,81,82..love your reactions!

Running With The Devil from this album is also amazing. Van Halen changed rock music forever. For something a little happier from them, my personal favorite is Dance The Night Away, from Van Halen II. Enjoyed your reaction, guys!

Ok so when you see them live and they play this at the Hey! Hey! Hey! part they flash super bright lights in sync with the HEY's so the entire arena lights up. Every single person yells along them with the HEY HEY HEY and pumping their fists in the air. This was the very first concert I ever went to (1982) and it still ranks in my top 5 out of maybe 100 shows I have seen over years.

This whole album is _NUCLEAR!!!_ You _GOTTA_ hear the whole thing. "I'm the One" really shows off Eddie's speed and execution. The bass & drums have trouble keeping up.

“You’re semi-good looking” gets me every time.

This guitar riff is iconic 🤘

From their 1st album in 1978 and I had never heard anything like this. It blew me away. Thanks for the reaction.

I turned 12 in 1978, and just started to get into music and buy my own albums with my paper route money. This was one of my first albums. The perfect time to grow up.

First time I heard this on the radio, I knew the music scene had changed. It was something very different and spawned a new type of rock and metal.

lets go! the late 70s eariler 80s were oh my God status! i have every music genre in my album collection!

My favorite from them!!

Greetings from Oregon. You two get it. Welcome to our generation

When Eddie came onto the music scene no one had ever heard anything like that before. EVER!!!

From Van Halen’s Debut Album. The Album that Changed Rock Music Forever. When this Album dropped, Minds Were Blown. That Guitar 🎸 A Frontman’s Frontman in DLR. That Bass & Backing Vocals by Michael Anthony & Alex Van Halen’s Drums 🤘🏻 Rock Music was different after this Album. Panama is a great choice. Van Halen made great songs and Made it Fun

That intro 8s the sound of an alien coming to earth and completely changing what anyone thought was possible on the electric guitar, the man was a god.

This album is the first one i owned as a teen!! To me, one of their best!! This whole album rocked!

This was part of the soundtrack of my Junior High Sexperience. It was on the radio I bought the album and like so many people my age played the hell out of it and people would find a way like on eight-track and bring it out to the lake on a summer day and this whole album got played endlessly. Not just as one song. The whole album. It just had that attitude in that cool Innovative musical progeny going on that just kicked so much ass.

It's always amazing to me that four individual people from different backgrounds can come together and create magic. To me, that defines Van Halen. I already listed my recommendations. I'm just appreciating you appreciating my all-time favorite band.

Greatest rock band ever. One of my new favorite channels! More please 🙏

This song and album was incredible. 1978. Rock on VH!!!!!

I have said it many times, the first four Van Halen albums are perfection, every song is 🔥

this was a big thing in the 80s. being a teen driving with this cranked with the T-tops off. good times...Van Halen, Def Leppard, Motley Rules.... and Zeppelin!!

Yep, had this in high school when I was 16. A banger.

The way this album was recorded was great sound wise …as long as both your headphones were working 😂. Eddie arpeggiating the opening with delay and phase shifting is to this day one of my all time favorite riffs. The guitar/amp tone on this album were so awesome

This album changed the face of rock and roll forever. When it debut it was fresh, it was exciting, it was what was needed to jump start heavy rock. At the time if you looked up Rock Stars in the dictionary, Van Halen would have been pictured. Don't get me wrong, the bands that came before Van Halen set the stage for bands like Van Halen. They were next level at that time.

This is the best album from Van Halen!

The Cradle Will Rock, Dancing in the Streets, Everybody Wants Some.

I was a senior in high school when this album came out…..image being that age when this song hit the airwaves 😎😎

When this album plays, I can't help but jam to it in its entirety. Song for song, it really is that good \m/ VH!

"Mean Street" from the Fair Warning album is another bad ass song like this one. I was a big fan of the David Lee Roth Van Halen era and I got to see them live at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.

Fond memories of getting this album when it came out and blasting this track over and over at max volume until my Dad pounded on my door yelling "Turn that sh*t down!"

Imagine hearing this for the 1st time in my brother's Z-28 Camaro on 8-trac ... wow I'm getting old !

Eddie and Alex were always in sync with the guitar and drums!

Check out Van Halen - "Love Walks In" - it was from the "Van Hagar" era when David Lee Roth left and Sammy Hagar took over on lead vocals. It gave them a slightly different sound, but they were still great. Sammy was very well known and had his own solo career previously, so he was a great fit.

If you were alive in the 80's then this was the SHIT

Being a songwriter, musician and vocalist myself this is one of my favorite Van Halen albums. And if you like this song then I'm sure you would like the whole album. This is where the guitar solo eruption started. The original verison is on this album but it was shorter. It would be on track 2, so the second song on this album. This was their debut album and they were the opening act for Black Sabbath on their tour. Eddie also does another guitar solo on their second album called Van Halen 2 titled Spanish Fly and he does that one on acoustic guitar. Great Reactions from both of you. The guy was really moving his head and hands jamming and the lady was doing the samething but her's looked more smooth. She was enjoying it but kinda kickin back. That was too cool. Nice!

1984 The album that first put a guitar in my hands.

This is Also One of my favorite songs from Van Halen . Great job with your reaction to Ain't Talking About Love . The other Favor one would be Right Here Right Now.

Ahhhhh that Intro - I am melting

Van Halen's first attempt at a ballad song with DLR was "I'll Wait" Their more sophisticated ballads and songwriting/lyric writing came when Sammy Hagar joined the band. They became a more commercial/top 40 band with their next two albums after 1984.

In the late 70s, I was at a show at the Whiskey A-GO GO in Hollywood. As the crowd was filing out I heard people yelling out, "Van Halen suck" and other expletives deleted. I thought "what's going on?" this was a punk show I'd just seen. Before getting to the exit, the aisle curved to the right. When I rounded the curve, there sitting in a half moon booth was David Lee Roth. He had a smoking hot chick on both sides of him. He raised his right hand, snapped his fingers and made a V. The girl on his rt. placed a cigarette between the V. He then moved hie hand over to the girl sitting to his left and she lit the cigarette. A true rock star moment that I won't forget and I'm 70 years old.

Seen them live at the Cotton Bowl Dallas Texas Texas Jam 1978 with many other acts including Heart. Head East Journey. Eddie Money Atlanta Rhythm Section Btw your channel one of toppermost of poppermost 🎸🔥

The entire first album, from which this song comes, is incredible. Changed rock n roll w/Eddie's guitar. The whole band is incredible. This album is more raw, it's the 70s rock sound influence.

And Eddie playing in the back is so unique. I know no other guitar player who does it like him.

Excellent reaction!!! Fire song!!!

I've always been a van Halen fan. I grew up listening to their music. Partying it up jungle juice party's . This song was always playing at party's I remember. A lot of hang overs 💯💯💯💯💯💯🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

This album changed everything in rock music. At one time these guys ruled the world. Something a little darker is the song 'Mean Streets" off the spectacular album Fair Warning.

Great reaction to a great album. I highly recommend checking out “ Running with the Devil” which is as rocking as this one and maybe more.

My brother had this album cover as a poster on our bedroom wall. I saw it for the first time at a record store in the mall.

This album came out when I was in the 8th grade. I agree that this song is much more representative of Van Halen than the other songs you mentioned. Keep listening to them. It's a DEEP rabbit hole.

Im 15 had this jamming my buddy comes over and says who the HELL IS THIS THE REST THEY SAY IS HISTORY.

I was 13 years old in 1978 when I first heard this album and I was blown away, I fell in love with Van Halen and I've been their biggest fan since then, their music is incredible and Eddie guitar mastery is second to none

While the band name came from Eddie Van Halen, lead guitarist, and his brother, Alex Van Halen on drums, there were really two bands stylistically. David Lee Roth would be on lead vocals from 1974-1984, and then in 1985 he would go do a solo project, and Eddie would recruit Sammy Hagar to take over vocals from 1986 to 1996. I love both iterations of Van Halen, but the styles are just different. I didn't hear Van Halen until I was 14 in 1982 listening to Pretty Woman from Diver Down on Casey Kasem's top 40, and by 1986, I left for College, so David Lee Roth was the Van Halen I knew as a teenager, and Sammy Hagar, who had an incredible solo career before joining and whose solo music I already liked, would beget the Van Halen I knew from College into my young adult years. Keep these distinctions in mind when you are listening to Van Halen on KZfaq because you too will notice the difference.

This is one of the songs I play while on my elliptical machine!

Eddie Van Halen was amazing guitar player 🔥🔥

The whole Van Halen run Van Halen 2 albums were awesome all the David Lee Roth era Albums were the best so you can't go wrong with any songs of those albums

Running with the devil is the song we all heard first on their debut album. That set the tone.

I read from one of Rock sites that Eddie was going to contact Michael Anthony on possible reunion of all original members for one last tour as Van Halen prior to his health issue. But his cancer cancelled the possible tour.

I remember this release breaking the back of the world when it came out. And considering all the "heavies" that were out there by the late 70s, that was no small task.

“And The Cradle Will Rock…” or "Jamie's cryin'" would be my suggestion for your next reaction

3:27 best line(put down) in a song. My fave song by them! Was Unchained for many years, but when i went through all the Dave albums again one wknd I made a Top 10 and this just hit for me. All 6 Dave albums and songs are AWESOME!!! The first 3 Sammy Albums with him are great as well

This is the REAL shit...THE MIGHTY VAN HALEN

The entire album is 🔥🔥!! Missing you Ed, but we are rockin ya!! 😢

Badass tune!!!

This album came out and we all just thought WOW. I was in elementary school at the time.

This was a very big song for all of us VH fans in the 80s. I can remember partying to this many many times in those days.

This album changed music forever

(You know your semi good-looking). One of the best lines in any song anywhere.

"You know I've been to the edge, there I stood and looked down. You know I lost a lot of friend there baby, got no time to mess around." He's talking' about getting married.

Here's a couple great ones you would love from them,, Where Have All the Good Times Gone, dead or alive

My favorite song off that album is Ice Cream Man.Very cool tune,and that whole album is 🔥

This song is 'How To Write A Two Chord Loop Hit - 101'. 😄

Denim vests, leather jackets, feather ear rings, cigarettes, beers, this was the era. I was 15, this album breathed new life into youth. God bless EVH❤

Some of Van Halen's "Deeper" cuts actually showcase the band better than some of the hits IMO. :Little Dreamer", "D.O.A." and "Take Your Whiskey Home" just to name a few.

This is earlier VH,jump was later...saw them in 80's..badass...check out "Running with the devil". Def an anthem..saw them wen Eddie first started eruption,he was a beast

What really impresses me about Van Halen is the backing vocals

Major headbanging album for me in high school - It was an 8-track tape. This launched VH into the "rock" stratosphere. The band, and Eddie in particular, evolved and would not be confined to the "rock" box. They got heat from that community when Eddie started doing leads with a keyboard, but it was still great music.

Hey, guys! First things first. There is no such thing as a "little more" Van Halen! Lol This was their first album, and it blew my mind when it came out in '78...and it still blows my mind here, 45 years later! Check out the song "I'm the One" from this same album, and you'll be treated to the VH mastery of the shuffle and King Edward's frenetic fretwork! Finally, Michael Anthony's soaring harmonies take this song over the top! SO, so many excellent songs...looking forward to witnessing your VH adventures!!

if you wake up one morning and find you’re out of coffee, just crank this up and you’ll be good to go!

Love the reaction guys!

You should check out the rest of this, their debut album….to get a real sense of their sound and how they are fun in many ways!

First VH song I ever heard, in mid-1979.

Wait for Eddie to pull out the harmonics. Just beautiful!!

I'm just happy your discovering van halen.i think Roth and Hager were the best years.of van halen.everyone knew Eddie had vocals..but I love Wolfie has to keep the legacy alive..he plays just like his dad..RIP EDDIE...LOVE YOU WOLF.. KEEP SHREDDING ❤️😎👍👌

Great choice for a reaction. Always love y’all’s reviews. It’s long, but you two should do the RUSH Hemispheres story, It’s about 20 minutes long, but it’s amazing. Their 2112 story, their Necromancer story and their Bytor and the snow dog story is also amazing.

Great song and review. "Panama" is too commercial, as you'll see, but the one that goes really good with "Ain't Talking Bout Love" is a song called "And the Cradle Will Rock". Also love a little slleper called "Little Dreamer" (yeah that's a pun, too). And "Running With the Devil" was iconic, too.

If you want to hear the best Van Halen song then I strongly recommend I'm The One from their debut album. The song is absolutely 🔥 as Eddie kills it on guitar.

Micheal Anthony on that bass love it

Great reaction.... It made the hair on my arms stand up as it reminded me of when I had seen them live. I was rocking out with you guys. 👍

Best riff ever!

Most definitely do "Panama". I think you'll find similarities with this song. If you can, do the official vid.

I was 13 when this album came out, lemme tell you when I put on side one and the intro to " runnin with the devil started 🤯 I thought what is this? Then I thought........ I dig this ✌️

Romeo Delight, D.O.A, Light Up The Sky, Mean Street, House of Pain or Girl Gone Bad. These are my recommendations. All these songs are phenomenal and VH classic.

For context Eruption was from the first album in 1978. 1984 was several albums later.

Listen to their darkest album with original lineup "Fair Warning" from 1981. Probably my favorite Van Halen album.