I am the POLLer of these netherworlds: Best Song On Van Halen's First Album

wtf is julian cope talking about here, i can't find any deviations in track sequences anywhere?

Secondly, magnificent as the first LP is, their simple act of re-sequencing it for the new Remastered series so that the three strongest tracks now open the record, is not only proof that Warners and Van Halen themselves got it wrong the first time, but hell, it almost makes the thing an entirely new record. While “Running With The Devil” is just about the greatest (and most bass heavyyy) career opener of the 1970s, if it’s taken the protagonists over 25 years to realise what every Van Halen head always intuitively knew when making C90 comps for mates, that is: you follow “Running With The Devil” with “Atomic Punk” and “On Fire”, then should they have bothered at this late stage?

maybe it's some metafiction bullshit or something? sorry for bumping a VH thread if so. http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth/van-halen-atomic-punks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ewsHwVOyyE

getting a lot of mileage out of this recently. i know, not first album, but still

Released 40 years ago today.

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