Artist : Van Halen
Album : OU812
Bitrate : VBR 193 Average KB/s (High Quality 44.1 Joint Stereo)
Source : CD (LP)
Label : Warner Bros.
Year : 1988
Genre : Hard Rock
Ripper : NHH
Rip Date : 2010-02-03
Store Date : 1988-05-24
Rip Tool : EAC 0.99 prebeta 5 (Secure Mode)
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Size : 70.06 megs
Catalog # : 9 25732-2
Supplier : NHH
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Total Tracks : 10
1) Mine All Mine 5:14
2) When Its Love 5:39
3) A.F.U. (Naturally Wired) 4:30
4) Cabo Wabo 7:04
5) Source Of Infection 4:01
6) Feels So Good 4:31
7) Finish What Ya Started 4:24
8) Black And Blue 5:26
9) Sucker In A 3 Piece 5:55
10) A Apolitical Blues 3:51
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The somber black and white cover could have been a knowing allusion to
Meet the Beatles!, but its really a signal that Van Halen is playing it
for keeps on OU812, their second record with Sammy Hagar. Indeed, the
striking thing about OU812 is that all its humor is distilled into a
silly punny title, because even the party tunes here and there are
many are performed with a dogged, determined vibe. When David Lee Roth
fronted the band, almost everything that Van Halen did seemed easy as
big, boisterous, and raucous as an actual party but Van Hagar makes
good times seem like tough work here. Apart from a few cuts the
countryish hook on Finish What Ya Started, the slow, bluesy strut
Black and Blue the riffs are complicated, not catchy, the rhythms
plod, they dont rock, and Sammy strains to inject some good times by
singing too hard. It gives OU812 a bit of a dour feel, not entirely
dissimilar to Fair Warning, but unlike that early unheralded gem, this
isnt a descent into darkness; its merely a very inward rock record, as
Eddie Van Halen pushes the band toward interesting musical territory.
Often, this takes the form of jazzy chord changes or harmonies most
evidently on the sleek opener, Mine All Mine, but also on the
otherwise metallic boogie Source of Infection but theres also Cabo
Wabo, the longest jam theyve laid down on record to date, and a cover
of Little Feats A Apolitical Blues (which could have been a salute to
producer Ted Templemans early glories as much as a chance to do some
down-n-dirty blues rock). Of course, theres also a pair of power
ballads here, both poppier than the ones on 5150 When Its Love is
pure balladry, Feels So Good rides along on a gurgling synth but
really, theyre red herrings on a record thats the hardest, darkest
rock Van Halen has made since Fair Warning. And if it isnt as good as
that record (even if its nearly not as much fun), its nevertheless the
best showcase of the instrumental abilities of Van Hagar.

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