I originally reviewed this album nearly three years ago, and it is one of the best albums ever recorded. So, why revisit it I hear you cry? Well, Mobile Fidelity have decided to give the first six Van Halen albums the one step treatment and this beauty is the first to be released. Hands on heart, I didn’t think the Bernie Grundman remaster could be beat, but this is in another league all together.
The separation and clarity is outstanding, you could be in the room with them. Ted Templeman and Don Landee did such a good job capturing the original recordings. Word of warning, these are expensive babies to buy and unless you are playing your records on a half decent set up then I would save your money. I guess the only way to release this again would be in surround sound, and I hope they do that at some point but until then… man this is soooo good. My favourite tack… all of them baby.
10,000/10 from The Grooveman.
