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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 5874
Released: September 19, 2000 |
| Our Price: $7.16 |
| Used Price: $6.25 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Women and Children First Track Listing:
1. And The Cradle Will Rock...
2. Everybody Wants Some!!
3. Fools
4. Romeo Delight
5. Tora! Tora!
6. Loss Of Control
7. Take Your Whiskey Home
8. Could This Be Magic?
9. In A Simple Rhyme
Editorial Review:
Japanese pressing. Reissue of 1980 original release has been remastered and comes in a standard jewel case. Warner. 2005.
Women and Children First Reviews:
This disc gets played the most 
2008-07-21 - Although I had heard some of Women and Children First at a friend's house, I didn't really get into it until after I heard And the Cradle Will Rock on the radio. Then I had to buy the album and listened to it again, and again and again. Most VH fans I'm sure similarly wore out their turntables (not to mention enraging their parents and neighbors since of course the volume had to be turned all the way up). Now I have everything on CD and this disc, along with Fair Warning, get played more than the other DLR-era albums.
From a broadcast of Off the Record with Mary Turner I remember Roth joked that Eddie sleeps with his stratocaster. I think this album, more than any other, demonstrates what he was getting at, in terms of Eddie's familiarity with the instrument. The virtuosity of Eddie's playing is superlative. Although maybe performing a solo like Eruption is harder technically, here he has a kind of spontaneity that has never been replicated. Indeed I believe the entire album was recorded in about two weeks.
(As I recall there were two interviews conducted by Mary Turner for Westwood One (circa 1980-81). One was with Roth and Alex, the other with Eddie. Eddie was modest and unpretentious, even a little shy; Roth was Roth. Just polar opposites.)
My favorite song on this record is Fools.
Van Halen - A Nice Comeback After The Lackluster II 
2008-06-08 - After the somewhat lackluster "II" album Van Halen made a nice comeback with this one. In fact I think this is one of the band's best discs. Things get started with the heavy rocking "And The Cradle will Rock..." and "Everybody Want's Some" both big hits and great songs. I am not a huge fan of the next track "Fools", but after that "Romeo Delight", the short Sabbath like instrumental "Tora Tora", "Loss Of Control" and the bluesy acoustic "Take Your Whiskey Home" are all great tunes. "Could It Be Magic" and "In A Simple Rhyme" close out the album and are both good tunes as well. By today's standards this album would only be an EP at a little over 30 minutes, but at least it is all original material with no covers. This is one of the band's best discs and essential for fans.
70s + 80s Meet 
2008-05-06 - While the first Van Halen record will always be my favorite, I did enjoy "Women and Children First." While "Van Halen I" has more of an 80s sound, and "Van Halen II" has kind of a 70s sound, "Women and Children First" seems to have a little of each. 'And the Cradle Will Rock' is a pretty good opener. 'Everybody Wants Some' is one of the most 80s sounding songs on the record. 'Fools' was strange, but interesting. 'Romeo Delight' is listenable. 'Tora Tora' was unusual but still good. 'Loss of Control' has kind of a strange sound, but it does have its charm. 'Take Your Whiskey Home' sounds notably softer, but has a 70s charm. (Some would probably say 60s.) While also on the gentler side, 'Could This Be Magic' cleverly inserts the title of the record. (While not the most heavy track on the record, 'Could This Be Magic?' arguably steals the record.) 'In a Simple Rhyme' is a bit anticlimactic, but still good. Overall, it's a good record.
Van Halen's best album ever
2008-02-08 - Wow I haven't heard this album in years. Due to their recent reunion tour, minus Michael Anthony(shame on you), with Wolf, Eddie's son, I was really motivated to buy their CD catalogue. I only like the David Lee Roth years. That's real Van Halen. This album just Rocks. Eddies guitar sounds so clean and turned up! Really brings back those cool High School party years. A+++
Who's Sammy???
And my cradle was rocked...
2007-10-03 - I remember listening to this for the first time, I thought it was the best band I had ever heard.
My favorite will always be DAVID LEE ROTH.
Now that VH has reunited with ROTH, I will get to see ROTH with VAN HALEN.
LOSS OF CONTROL 10/10
Fools 10/10
COULD THIS BE MAGIC 10/10
These are my favorite songs on the album.
I rate this CD a 9 from 1to10!!
