5150 by Van Halen

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Awesome!. When David Lee Roth left Van Halen to pursue his solo career (which consisted of two songs I think) VH needed Sammy Hagar, not the other way around. Why? Because despite their success with 1984, they may have had two or three decent albums, but from what I remember from the famous Roth/Hagar battle, Eddie was tired of doing cover songs, and Roth thought they should do more (anyone remember his two songs after he left VH? "Just a Gigilolo" and "California Girls"). I really don't think Roth had a good voice range, he could never hit those high ones like Sammy. The Sammy Hagar years were the best for VH. The finally one a Grammy for their album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and they made way more money with Sammy then with Roth. When they kicked Sammy out of the band and then asked him back for a minute, he left the band for good, formed his own band, and became a multi-millionaire for making his own brand of tequila. Besides having discipline as a musician and a great guitarist, he is a shrewd business man as well. I always thought that Van Halen went downhill kicking Sammy out. I would have loved to have seen what other great albums they could have done with Sammy.

Not bad. I wasn't expecting a good album at first. But, as soon as I started playing it I was hooked. If you're a big Van Halen fan, I would give it a listen.

Awesome. This is a great album

Van Hagar forever. I love Hagar’s voice and the amazing instrumentals in these amazing songs!! Being a 2001 baby, my father grew me up on 5150, OU812, Balance, and of course the classic 1984 with Roth. But this is my most favorite album to date!

Just a tad bit weak. "Dreams" "Why cant this..." "Love Walks In" and "Summer Nights" are all pretty darn good songs. Other than that though ehhh.... I would personally place this 3rd out of the 4 Hagar era albums but its still a decent price on here.

All downhill from here. With the exception of Inside, every song on here is awesome. Unfortunately it was all downhill from here for Van Hagar.

Don't listen to Hope Friedland.. This album is ok but nowhere near as good as 1984, DLR made the real Van Halen, not Sammy Hagar.

5150 one of Van Halens absolute best. For many years I followed my father ideology that this simply was just not Van Halen, we were Roth purists. But still curiousity led me to this album, as well as the good natured personality I had came across when listening to Sammy Hagar interviews. The guy is just an around good guy who is extremely passionate for music & his fans. So I listened to 5150, and so a anti Hagar suddenly became open to this version of Van Halen. Hagar added this new element to the band that had never been heard before. Suddenly Van Halen had this vocalist that could add this soaring vocals to the element. This first effort by that band really is their best with Sammy. Suddenly for me Van Halen was no longer a roth days vs hagar days thing it really was just all Van Halen through and through.

2 Different Bands. This is a good album but, Van Halen is Dave! They should've changed their name. I like both era's and singers but they sound nothing alike and have a different feel. With Dave it was Rock with the attitude with Sammy more polished, more pop. Sammy has more range vocally but, the Dave era suited his voice. I wouldn't want to hear Dave sing Sammy's stuff either. Again I liked both but Van Halen is Dave. Van Hagar is Sammy.

Van Hagar is different from Halen but great. I thought Van Halen was over when DAve left or was kicked out. But when I heard Why Can't This Be Love i immediately knew it was VH...And I LOVED it! They aren't the same band with Sammy but they are great. Sammy is ten times the singer Dave is. Or at least he has 10 times the voice. I think Sammy made VH stick around longer because he made the band interesting and brought in a new audience. There is no doubt that this album and the new VH is more radio savy. Sammy is much more so then Dave. Dave is more of a showman. But the change isn't bad. It is just different. I am sure some VH puritists will be disappointed but trust me this is a truly great album. It is the VH album that sent me back and forward to buy them all. It is ironic that the first Dave VH album was the best and the First Sammy album is also the best of that version of VH.

Great Album, but I still recommend David Lee Roth than Sammy Hagar. I admit this is an awesome album. But when Sammy Hagar joined the group, he took all the credit mostly, I mean look at him, his own rum, left the group to persuade a solo career, his own nightclub and restaurant, his own beach bar, a bar and grill, he's taking credit for what Van Halen did, they were the ones that got the money to do all that, he's like Vince Neil. So that's why I recommend David Lee Roth over any other Van Halen singer, especially Sammy Hagar. Except for maybe Eddie Van Halen, he was the original singer before they found Roth in 1974

Sad after 1984’s greatnesses. This album was like a step backwards in my opinion regardless of Sammy Hagar whom I did not like with in Van Halen musically though 1984 was progressive and A step forward as Edward was listening to Alan Holdsworth and implementing some of those techniques, that seem to totally disappear with this album as did anything new.

Ridiculously great album. I remember driving through the Rocky Mountains when I was about 12 years old listening to this album for the first time with my cousins. Powerful album indeed. Needs a sound remaster though. 4.6 out of 5.0

A new different band. The best way to end the argument before it starts is to say “This is a new band, a great band nonetheless. The original Van Halen’s next album (despite Michael Anthony's absence) is ‘A Different Kind of Truth.’” As for 5150, a great album with no fillers. All the songs are memorable. Eddie’s unusual trebly guitar sound is however inexplicable.

Fu*king Amazing!. 5150 is the best Sammy era VH album. Great songs include Why Can't This Be Love, Dreams, Love Walks In, Summer Nights, and 5150. Great whammy bar guitar stuff!

THIS ALBUM ROCKS!. Van Halen was two different bands with Dave and Sammy. Both were great in there own right. Dave rocked but is basic and raw. Sammy is musically better but his style is more bluesy and intricate. If you are a VH fan, this album rips your face of right from the word go. Eddie shows his guitar prowess and Sammy is just a great singer. Period. Great soundtrack for summer driving. It will not dissapoint!

Definitely one of their best. It's just great... "Why Can't This Be Love" and "Love Walks In" are two of my favorite songs, "Summer Nights" and "Dreams" are both mystical and great. You can't forget "Inside" and "Good Enough", both fun songs.

"Summer Nights" !!!!. This is not a review of the album - there's only a couple of tracks on here that make the cut …but the tune "Summer Nights" still one of eddie's most mind blowing guitar solos & guitar tones - A sleeper track …. & one of their funkiest tunes … that's IT !

This album alone beats 1984!!. How would I rate this album?: 1. Good Enough (10/10) 2. Why Can't This Be Love (10/10) 3. Get Up (8/10) 4. Dreams (11/10) 5. Summer Nights (11/10) 6. Best of Both Worlds (10/10) 7. Love Walks In (7.5/10) 8. "5150" (8/10) 9. Inside (9/10) Entire album (15/10) Buy this album! It's Eddie's best work!

Mediocrity. Whether it was the introduction of Sammy Hagar and his musical tastes or eddie's newfound interest in different type of songwriting, van halen definitely lost what they had after dive down. This album is mediocre--not great but certainly not the worst. It's only not the worst because two reasons: a) there are a few really good songs on this (a bunch of god awful ones too) and b) there was a lot of garbage bands back in that era much more worse than VH

Great album, Van Hagar is not bad. This album has so many great songs including one of my favorites of all time (Love Walks In). Lots of people hate on Van Hagar but I think he is fine.

EXCELLENT. Van Halen is Van Halen, Dave or Sammy, period. This was the first VH tape I ever bought, and after that, I bought all the VH material and loved it, no matter the vocalist. This is the greatest summertime rock record ever, and it's also the best VH record with Sammy -- he took the band to an everyman level, and it was great. Every song is great, and the title track is an underrated classic. Haters go home, VH4EVER.

Hagar was a bad choice. DLR was the perfect compliment to EVH. Hagar’s sappy lyrics are below the level of Ed’s musicianship.

FORGET Y'ALL. THIS IS HIS GREATEST ALBUM EVERRRRRRR!!!!!!! DREAMS! HIS BEST SONG IS IN THERE! SAMMY HAGAR YUR DA MAAAANNN!! BETTER THAN DAVID LEE ROTH WHO IS STILL A GOOD SINGER!!!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

Exit Roth, enter Hagar...enter the age of ballads and anthems.. While the different schools of thought regarding Roth vs. Hagar can be quite polarizing, (It can be kind of like debating who is better between Captain Kirk and Captain Picard) I still like both versions of Van Halen. 5150 brought a shift of direction for Van Halen as they seemed to evolve into more of a mainstream band. While they were still hard rockers, they seemed to be more conservative with their song writing. It's as if they quit making music that they actually liked to make and started making music that they thought people wanted to hear in order to appeal to a wider demographic. Hence, came the ballads and all the mushy songs about love and such (which is O.K., it's just a lot different than what they had ever done before). This album also cemented Eddie's regular use of keyboards on albums, this was not necessarily new, but it definitely became a more prevalent tool of their trade. Nobody wants to go to a Monster truck show to see a tricycle race..."Best of Both Worlds" is, in my opinion, the best song "Van HAGAR" ever made. "Good Enough", "Get Up", "Summer Nights" and "5150" are all very strong songs in their own right as well. The album "5150" was a pretty good start for the new incarnation, but it was quite a departure from what Van Halen fans had known and loved and come to expect. Regardless, it was a huge commercial success when released, and ushered in the age of "Van Halen - the next generation".

WOW!!!. This is an amazing album, I could listen to it all day!!!....they never make music like this anymore!!!!

Awesome!!!. Forget David Lee Roth, he sucked! With all him being lost onstage, and forgetting the lyrics. Say Hagar rocks!! His voice is freakin amazing!! 👩‍🎤 🤘

8 songs are classics. The first 8 songs are fantastic. No band today (2019) can do that. Even the final song (Inside) is pretty great. This is Van Galen’s best album - IMO.

Sammy!. Sammy has allways been, and will allways be ten times the singer and lyracist that Dave was. Sorry. And this album was the perfect mix of amazing music with amazing vocals.

One of the greatest Albums of all time. This started Sammy Jaguars career with Van Halen and produced one of the greatest albums of all time! Enough said...

The best. The best Van Halen album the title track is a must hear

Top 3 VH album. This is behind VH1 and Fair Warning, But a really good album. Dreams, Love Walks In, Why Can’t This Be Love, Best Of Both Worlds. Great stuff.

🤮. start of the tragedy known as Van Hagar. The songs aren’t nearly as new and exciting as Roth Van Halen. Plus Hagars voice sounds like someone breathed in a whole balloon of Helium. Sad how far the greats can fall.

5150 time. Completely underrated, and under appreciated album of the Van Halen catalog. Hagar breathes inspiration and new life into the group. And also deserves a much needed remaster.

Dave left and ........ We got a whole new amazing band. This was the soundtrack to some amazing nights and some wild memories. “ She’s good enough........”

Best Classics!. Well while people listen to that stupid 21'st century crap I'm listening to the stuff real mean used to listen to back in the day! Screw fallout boy and all that crap! Hello 80's again and forever! I've grown up on this stuff my entire life thanks to my dad! This is where I'm at thanks Van Halen for letting me jam to your amazing songs! I love Summer Nights the most!

Better Van Halen music. I think Sammy Hagar sounds better in Van Halen than David Lee Roth. 5150 is a better album than 1984.

Best from the haegar era. Love it. I was a part of a fishing club last year and I listened to this on cassette and talked with my friends at the same time. Summer nights was the highlight of the trip. Best song on the album and I wish I could play it. Overall it's van halen it's awesome.

There is some good stuff on here. Honestly I prefer David Lee Roth over Sammy Hagar but that doesn't mean that I hate Sammy Hagar. There is actually some pretty good stuff on here, the albums rocks well and it has a few ballads here and there. It was the 80's , come on! Don't yell at Van Halen for making a few ballads here and there! Power ballads were HUGE in the mid 80's. I think this is the last album that showcased Eddie's work immensly. The sammy hagar influence really takes it's toll on their next album OU812. But the songs rock and it's just a classic 80's powerhouse hard rock album!

The End of Van Halen. Van Halen lost their swagger and personality when David Lee Roth left. From this album on, the band sounded like a Cheerios commercial. Unbelievably lame.

VH5150. Ah the summer’86 and this album set the tone. Incredible from start to finish.

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Somewhat New Direction For Van Halen. I wasn't a big fan of Dave leaving the group but the girl I was dating at the time begged me to listen to it. I was wrong for doubting. Eddie was still into his keyboard phase and it shows here no matter he wanted to go that direction and he does it well here. Sam did a great job considering the shoes he had to fill. The songs that didn't include keyboards are some of the best from that era of the band. The best thing about the whole Van Hagar era was they brought another guitarist into the mix. This shows how good it can be to have that even though Ed played everything on the album. Not that Ed was any slouch on his own! It show how great they were working together at the time. Alex and Mike do a wonderful job holding down the rythm section as always. If you are a fan of the Sammy years it's a must have.

Van Halen + Sammy Hagar = Dream Team. I’ve listened to this album more than any other in my life. This is the greatest 80s rock album of them all. VAN HAGAR!!!

Just...wow 🤩🤯. First off, I’m mind blown by Sammy. Before Eddie Van Halen’s death all I knew about Van Halen was barely anything of ‘jump’. I never really knew it and listened more to GnR or Def Leppard (that’s another story). Once I heard about his death on exactly October 6, 2020. I was obviously sad because someone from the 80’s died. I decided at that moment that I was going to listen to Van Halen more often. That started last year after EVH’s death in October. I listened more to the Roth side (1984, Van Halen II, Van Halen I, diver down, and women and children first). I started to side with the Roth side and at that time the only Van Hagar song I heard was ‘top of world’ from the the album ‘for unlawful and carnal knowledge’... I also agreed with Roth fans that he was better than Sammy. I think gradually till about January hey they both aren’t bad. It’s good they have a good relationship with each other (Roth and Hagar). Just like a week or so ago I came upon the 5150 album on a Van Halen station on Pandora. When I heard it I had no words to express what I heard. I was bamboozled and starstruck. Never have I heard such music. I now equally like them both for they are just as good as each other. This album is amazing. It brings me nostalgia when I listen to it even though I wasn’t alive till 2008. My favorites are Love Walks In and Why Can’t This Be Love?. My favorite on this album though is Love walks in. I must say that I am proud of myself as a fellow Van Halen fan. From just really not knowing much about jump to liking both Sammy and David and knowing some stuff about them and Alex, Eddie , and Michael, was a journey for me. Contact is all it takes -Nat Also I sometimes feel that I like Van Hagar more ,and at times I feel like I like Van Roth better

Best Van Hagar. It's not so much that Van Hagar was bad (albeit they were way more pop-oriented than the merciless raw power of the David Lee Roth era), as they were not VAN HALEN. I think it truly would have been appropriate to change the name because there is nothing similar between the two eras of the band. 5150 is, however, the closest Sammy and Co. come to the "Van Halen sound". As others have mentioned, many of these tracks were written with Roth, or initially with Roth in mind. I mean, who do you think was suppose to scream, "HELLO BABBBB YYYY" to kick off the album? Hagar even attempts some Roth type hoots and hollers along the way. And of course we can all hear diamond Dave singing "Get Up" or "Summer Nights." "Dreams" is a great song, but not a Van Halen song. "Love Walks In" ain't half bad either, but definitely the sort of poppy eighties ballad that drove Roth to strike out on his own. Ironically enough, Roth would put out some of the most blatantly eighties sounding/keyboard-driven music of anybody. But, I digress. Point being this was the closest this band came to sounding like Van Halen. From here on out, they would have been better off changing their name, and more honest to boot.

Roth wasn't everything. The feeling when David Lee Roth left Van Halen in the 1980s was that the band would not be nearly as strong without him. Though their best albums were with Roth, I would rank the Sammy Hagar replacement as the second greatest lead singer change in the history of hard rock. 5150 delivered the same heavy rock pop vibe of 1984, and carried it out effectively. It included several gems for the radio or hard rock fans, such as "Dreams," "Why Can't This Be Love," and "Summer Nights."

great album.... we just need a remastered version... all Sammy's albums ...

Sammy Hagar is the worst. I do not like Sammy Hagar

Good album. This was good but not the best I think Van Halen 2 was better than this but it still is a good album

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5150 is a masterpiece. This album still sounds awesome, and don’t you just miss the glory days of music, particularly rock and metal of 80/90’s.

Bigboi. VH best album sammy is awesome on this album. One of my favourite VH albums. I would recommend this album to anyone who likes Van Halen.

Superb - stands the test of time. I first heard this album when it was released in 1986 - all those years ago - and I'm not sure if it's nostalgia or just that this is a quality album, but it really hasn't lost a thing in all those years. Classic, brilliant, energy-laden...definitely worth the few bucks it costs to buy the entire album.

5150 VH's best!. The ultimate Summer album. Van Hagar at its best!

Classis Gold Rock. I was a general Fan with Roth, I heard "Why can't this be love of the radio at the time and went out and got the LP. I was blown away by the new direction. Sammy H is magic and the band really progressed to the next level as far as i was concerned. That said it still is a fab album and hasn't lost anything in today.