Fair Warning

Description

The song titles on Van Halens aptly titled Fair Warning dont lie. The likes of Unchained, Mean Street, Push Comes to Shove, One Foot Out the Door, and more indicate the moods the band channels on its 1981 record, the nastiest, darkest, and fiercest album of the groups storied career. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen uses the forceful arrangements as a playground for his seemingly unlimited arsenal. Supported by a crack rhythm section and an inspired David Lee Roth, he performs with an almost impossible combination of punk-like intensity, technical finesse, lyrical fluidity, and unbridled emotion. For the fourth time in four years, Van Halen threw down the gauntlet to all challengers and emerged victorious. Mastered from the original analogue tapes, Mobile Fidelitys numbered-edition hybrid SACD sounds the alarm with unfettered clarity, dynamics, and immediacy.