Best of 78-84 release date OFFICIAL!

[Stryker75]

BLABBERMOUTH.NET can reveal that Rhino Records has pushed back the projected release date of VAN HALEN's "Best Of (1978-1984)", the first single-disc compilation exclusively spotlighting 1978-1984, the group's original David Lee Roth era, to March 27 from the previously announced March 13. The album, which coincides with VAN HALEN's March 2007 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, contains over an hour of remastered classics from the albums "Van Halen", "Van Halen II", "Women And Children First", "Fair Warning", "Diver Down", and "1984". Highlights include "Runnin' With The Devil", "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love", and "And The Cradle Rock". Also featured are "Everybody Wants Some", "So This Is Love" and "Oh, Pretty Woman". The CD booklet will contain rarely seen photos and liner notes.

"Best Of (1978-1984)" tentative track listing:

01. Runnin' With The Devil
02. Eruption
03. You Really Got Me
04. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
05. Jamie's Cryin'
06. Dance The Night Away
07. Somebody Get Me A Doctor
08. Beatuiful Girls
09. And The Cradle Will Rock
10. Everybody Wants Some
11. Mean Street
12. Unchained
13. So This Is Love?
14. Where Have All The Good Times Gone
15. Oh, Pretty Woman
16. Dancing In The Street
17. Jump
18. Panama
19. Hot For Teacher

VAN HALEN released a statement last Friday (Feb. 2) saying David Lee Roth will come back to the band for a summer tour of North America. The 40-date trek will mark the first time since 1984 that Roth will perform with Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen along with new bassist, Wolfgang Van Halen (Eddie's 15-year-old son). Eddie said in a statement, "I am very excited to get back to the core of what made VAN HALEN."

[indeedido]

Wow, wish I had those songs.

[wizzkidder]

It's a nice compilation but I'd like to see a DLR-era boxed set with the early demos and live shit in the package. The stuff has been bootleged enough. It's time to put out the real deal.

[knuckleboner]

who knew that eddie's songwriting ability lay entirely within his tongue?

[larry]

yawn!!! is this the "best of" volume what? sounds like another money grab! give us something new! give us something different instead of these remastered, rereleased, recalutated way to take our hard earned money. wow! a few rare pictures and some liner notes! big woop! I cant wait to see the tour with my 7 year old son, however this is one cd i aint buying.

[Vinnie Velvet]

No one is forcing anyone to buy it.

I'd be interested to see what the packaging would be like, nothing more.

[NATEDOG001976]

Man, while it sounds cool. I have all these songs 10 times over. Throw in some new songs, and I'm all over it.

[PlexiBrown]

I'm looking forward to the tour but I won't be buying the compilation CD. They used to bang out a great CD every year for the first six years but now they can't get it done even with all of the material Eddie says he has accumulated over the years at 5150.

[General Hina]

Originally posted by larry
yawn!!! is this the "best of" volume what? sounds like another money grab! give us something new! give us something different instead of these remastered, rereleased, recalutated way to take our hard earned money. wow! a few rare pictures and some liner notes! big woop! I cant wait to see the tour with my 7 year old son, however this is one cd i aint buying.

You're taking a 7 year-old to a concert. Are you out of your mind?

Over & Out,
General Hina

[FORD]

Originally posted by General Hina
You're taking a 7 year-old to a concert. Are you out of your mind?

Over & Out,
General Hina

Could be a great opportunity for the kid. If there's another tour after this one, Eddie will probably need a new drummer.

[Bob_R]

Originally posted by Vinnie Velvet
I'd be interested to see what the packaging would be like, nothing more.

Why?

Are there going to be pictures of Valerie naked?

[Wacke]

Tunes they forgot: On Fire, Women In Love, Girl Gone Bad, House Of Pain... Those are great tunes that I would add to a compilation of the Dave years...

[Roth & Roll]

Who gives a fuck...This is about as newsworthy as the fart I unleashed reading this stupid thread.

[ppg960]

I dought I would buy it. I've already got all these songs five times over.
Hence the need for a new album??

[perticelli]

I wont be buying a VH releasze for the first time in my life. Until something new and unheard is released, no more money from me on releases. I already own all of it several times over and in every conceivable format already.

Fuck rhino records, but who can blame them, its a business and timing IS everything.