5150 (album)
| 5150 | ||||
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| Van Halen's studio album | ||||
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Publication |
March 24, 1986 |
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admission |
November 1985 - February 1986 |
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| Label (s) | Warner Music Group | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
43:14 |
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Mick Jones , Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Donn Landee |
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Studio (s) |
5150, Hollywood , California |
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5150 (pronounced "fifty-one-fifty") the title of the published 1986 seventh studio album is the US hard rock - band Van Halen and the first of four albums the band, the one after the top spot of the US album charts reached .
background
Van Halen reached number two on the US charts in 1984 with the album of the same name and climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with Jump as a single . People all over the world became aware of the long-acclaimed band through this album. Despite this greatest success to date, tensions arose in the band structure. Singer David Lee Roth had released a successful solo EP with Crazy From the Heat in January 1985 and was now planning to release a film with the same title. However, as Van Halen wanted to work on the band's next album at the same time, a conflict of interest arose which ended in the summer of 1985 with the separation from David Lee Roth.
“I never thought Dave would really leave. I thought he was waking up again. At the height of the success we had worked for so long, he kind of pulled the plug on us. That made me incredibly angry. "
Possible successors for the remaining band members were Patty Smyth , Eric Martin and Jimmy Barnes, among others . During a visit to Claudio Zampolli's car workshop in Van Nuys , Eddie Van Halen saw a black Ferrari 512 BB and asked the workshop owner who the car belonged to. Zampolli replied: “The car belongs to Sammy Hagar . You should bring him into your band! "
Hagar began his musical career with Montrose , a band that had been a major musical influence on Eddie Van Halen. Their debut album in 1973 and in 1974 published work PaperMoney were by Ted Templeman and his sound engineer Donn Landee produced was what was the reason for Van Halen, to commit these two in 1978 for her debut album and all subsequent albums. Hagar had left Montrose after Paper Money and embarked on a solo career that made him a star in the United States.
Eddie Van Halen called Hagar to offer him the job of singer at Van Halen. Hagar was by no means surprised:
“Who else should you have called? At that time there were only three singers on solo paths who could have joined such a huge band: Ozzy Osbourne , Ronnie James Dio and me! "
Emergence
Hagar agreed to meet with Eddie Van Halen to a meeting in which after the police code for a confused person named 5150 - Studio , met on Michael Anthony and Alex Van Halen, and at a jam session , which lasted until midnight, emerged from two song ideas presented to Hagar, Summer Nights and Good Enough . Hagar agreed to become the band's new singer.
However, he tied his record deal yet for three more albums on the label Geffen Records . While the record companies were arguing about Hagar's move to Van Halen and looking for a solution that was acceptable to all involved, Hagar and the band continued to work on new songs. When the head of the Warner Music Group , Mo Ostin , was visiting the studio, the musicians played him the newly created Why Can't This Be Love , which commented on the song with the words "I smell money".
Warner and Geffen agreed on the following solution: Geffen let Hagar go, but Hagar still had to record a solo album for the label. In addition, Geffen received a share of the proceeds from the band's upcoming album. The melodic singer and guitarist became a member of the band; He delivered his compulsory part for Geffen in 1987 with the album I Never Said Goodbye produced by Eddie Van Halen .
As with the search for a singer, there were several potential candidates for the production of the album. Quincy Jones was one of them, as was Rupert Hine and Nile Rodgers . Ted Templeman had decided after the production of Roth's solo EP Crazy From the Heat to continue working with him rather than Van Halen. When Sammy Hagar suggested Mick Jones from Foreigner , who was already in Los Angeles , Jones was invited to the studio, where the group played him the song Get Up :
“I had never heard anything like it. It sounded like four guys inside the speakers were fighting each other and beating the shit out of each other. I just thought: I'm in! "
Jones shared the producer role with Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and Donn Landee. The recordings began in November 1985.
Landee, who had hoped to be able to produce the new album alone with the Van Halen brothers, was not at all happy about Jones' involvement and closed himself in the studio towards the end of the recording process and threatened to burn the tapes . It was most of the day before Landee gave in, unlocked the studio, and spoke to Jones. Both then mixed the album together.
Result
After the album was released on March 24, 1986, David Lee Roth commented:
“With me in the band, you felt like dancing, sex and a drink. With the new Van Halen you want a glass of milk, a small Japanese car and a stable relationship. "
The album made Van Halen sound “more structured, more sophisticated and clearly more catchy”. The band lost the "frenetic exuberance and exuberant energy of the Roth era", but gained a "song-serving discipline".
Track list
| 5150 | |||
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| No. | title | Songwriter | length |
| 1. | Good enough | Sammy Hagar , Eddie Van Halen , Alex Van Halen , Michael Anthony | 4:03 |
| 2. | Why Can't This Be Love | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 3:48 |
| 3. | Get up | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 4:37 |
| 4th | Dreams | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 4:54 |
| 5. | Summer Nights | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 5:05 |
| 6th | Best of Both Worlds | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 4:49 |
| 7th | Love Walks In | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 5:11 |
| 8th. | 5150 | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 5:43 |
| 9. | Inside | Hagar, E. Van Halen, A. Van Halen, Anthony | 5:02 |
| Overall length: | 43:14 | ||
reception
André Verhuysen wrote for Metal Hammer that the music of 5150 has "changed little" compared to its predecessor ( 1984 ). Here and there “some jump- style keyboard , but this time in a less dominating way”. In fact, 5150 is more like Van Halen than it did in 1984 . In conclusion, the author expressed his hope that “records like this would be released more often” and wondered “what David Lee Roth would do about this album”. Verhuysen awarded five out of seven possible points.
On April 25, 1986, 5150 was the first of all Van Halen albums to reach number one in the US album charts, number 16 in Great Britain and number 11 in Germany. It is six times in the US with a platinum record for more than six million albums sold and received a gold record in Germany .
Web links
- Why Can't This Be Love on YouTube , accessed June 20, 2020.
- Dreams on YouTube , accessed June 20, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Californian nights are long in: Rocks - Das Magazin für Classic Rock, issue 04.2017, pages 86–89
- ^ Patty Smyth Is Happy to Have Turned Down Van Halen Job. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Rocks - The magazine for Classic Rock, issue 05.2010, page 35
- ↑ Rocks , issue 04.2017, page 88
- ↑ Metal Hammer, No. 5.1986, page 80
- ↑ Entry in the RIAA's award database , accessed on June 15, 2020