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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 4813
Released: September 19, 2000 |
| Our Price: $7.17 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Fair Warning Track Listing:
1. Mean Street
2. 'Dirty Movies'
3. Sinner's Swing!
4. Hear About It Later
5. Unchained
6. Push Comes To Shove
7. So This Is Love?
8. Sunday Afternoon In The Park
9. One Foot Out The Door
Editorial Review:
Japanese pressing. Reissue of 1981 original release has been remastered and comes in a standard jewel case. Warner. 2005.
Fair Warning Reviews:
Van Halen - Their Least Party Oriented Album 
2008-06-08 - "Fair Warning" is kind of the black sheep album in the Van Halen catalogue. Other than "Unchained" the album did not receive a lot of airplay (at least compared to the band's other Roth era discs) and is probably the least commercial of their late 70's early 80's works. The band took some chances on this one which for me is a good thing. This is also probably the least party / fun oriented album of the Roth years. There was tension within the band by this point and it shows. There are no acoustic guitars to be found here either as the majority of the album is hard and heavy. The first use of keyboards by Eddie can be found here on "Sunday Afternoon In The Park". These would become more and more a part of the Van Halen sound on later albums. The album really starts out strong with "Mean Streets", "Dirty Movies", "Sinners Swing", "Unchained" and "Hear About It Later" all solid tunes. The second half of the album is not quite as good, but still decent. I would probably rate this one as my 3rd favorite of the Roth years. Although it did not spawn a lot of hits and was a commercial disappointment this one is well worth owning for fans of the band.
What you think is nothin might be somethin after all... 
2008-05-07 - Probably my favorite VH album. The first 6 albums of theirs are really must haves. But this one is different. From the cover art to the lyrics.
Eddies guitar solos are very cool here. A lot of other reviewers have summed it up pretty well. Highly recommend this record.
A Must Have For Van Halen Fans
2008-05-03 - This was the first album that I ever bought from Van Halen as a kid and it helped to really get me interested in the band. The material on the album is darker than on the previous Van Halen releases. Check out the instrumental "Sunday Afternoon in The Park". That is one really creepy and trippy song! The most accessible songs are "Unchained", "Mean Streets", and "So This is Love?". All were but hits on the radio back in the early 1980's. I also really love the sleazy "Dirty Movies", the breakneck "One Foot Out The Door" and the laid back "When Push Comes to Shove". "Fair Warning" may not be the most popular album of the David Lee Roth era but it is essential.
Short with a powerful punch! Van Halen's best!
2008-04-14 - Dark, dreery, seedy, gritty. Van Halen, the Beach Boys of metal, put aside their crotch rock tendencies to make an album about the underbelly of society (if you'll pardon the cliche.) Eddie Van Halen's guitar work is nothing short of mindblowing and fits the feel of stories David Lee Roth spins (of porn actresses, adulterous paramours, sinners in general.)
Legend has it that Eddie was miserable and considering quitting the group when Fair Warning was recorded. In true blues master fashion, he channeled all his angst into the music and it sounds the way one would imagine he probably felt.
Fair Warning is great. Even at just a shade over half an hour, it's loaded with a lot of guts and feel. No incarnation of Van Halen ever recorded a better album. It's a hard rock mammoth, one of the best albums in its genre ever released.
VH's most underrated but possibly best album
2007-11-30 - Love this album! I had it on 8 track when it came out. It is probably my favorite VH album. I loved them with both Dave and Sammy, but this album was just solid. Good variety, some heavy songs. Just a classic rock album.
