Album Rating: 3.5

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Album Rating: 4.5

Are you simply mad? Fair Warning may have sold less than Diver Down but does that make the case for a lesser album, seemingly so in your mind. I think it is one of their darkest and greatest albums if not the most, due to tensions between EVH and DLR . The guitar work is stellar and the mood of the entire album is intense. Even Thirty plus years later, musicians point to this as a favourite of the VH catalogue. And some go so far as to say this was the real VH at their pinnacle. I know you like to judge by sales so you can have their better selling albums along with the entire Hagar era.



P.S Means Streets can eat you up When Push Comes to Shove

First Ponton, now you're back? It must be like a Emeritus reunion, or something.

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm not sure why the review for Fair Warning was so scathing, yet gushed about Diver Down and 1984 (cough, cough, sellout, sellout).



Fair Warning is a great Van Halen record, beginning to end.

First half rules, second half doesn't.

Album Rating: 2.5

Totally agree with this reviewer. Fame, money and personalities were running wild in 1981, and the band criativity was lost. Unchained and Mean Street are fan favorites, but the rest of album is really weak, compared to anything on their first 3 records.



I made my own mash-up of Fair Warning, Diver Down and 1984, and thats the only way i can listen to their last 3 records with DLR.

Album Rating: 4.5

what an awful take