VAN HALEN [SELF TITLED DEBUT LP] JAPANESE VINYL NM OBI WB BURBANK P-10479W 1978

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I had 5 brick and mortar stores in Portland, OR, Boise, ID, Fairbanks, AK, and 2 stores in Anchorage, AK. I operated under the name Nickelodeon Records & Tapes from 1973 to 1979, hence the eBay name Original 1976 Nickelodeon Records.

All of my Listings are NEAR MINT VINYL By Visual Inspection UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
Not Play Graded

EACH COVER CONDITION is INDIVIDUALLY NOTED

THIS LISTING is for VAN HALEN [SELF TITLED] WARNER BROS P-10479W 1978
ROLLING STONE LISTS VAN HALEN NUMBER 410 IN THE 500 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
 
COVER AND VINYL ARE NEAR MINT
  WITH OBI LOOKS UN PLAYED
COMPLETE AND PRISTINE PRISTINE
 
PRESSED IN JAPAN BY WARNER PIONEER CORPORATION

ORIGINAL ROUND PLASTIC INNER SLEEVE
ORIGINAL LYRIC SHEET

Songs include: SIDE 1: Runnin' with the Devil, Eruption (Instrumental),
                                                                    You Really Got Me, Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love,            
                                                                    I'm the One.

                          SIDE 2 : Jamie's Cryin',Atomic Punk, Feel Your Love Tonight,     
                      Little Dreamer, Ice Cream Man, On Fire.

"Van Halen is the debut studio album by American rock band Van Halen.. Released on February 10, 1978, the album peaked at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album became widely recognized as the band's popularity grew, selling more than ten million copies in the United States by 1999 and achieving RIAA Diamond status.

Van Halen contains many of Van Halen's signature songs, including "Runnin' With The Devil", the guitar solo "Eruption", The Kinks cover "You Really Go Me", "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love", "Jamie's Cryin'", and the cover version of John Brim's "Ice Cream Man". In 1994, Van Halen was ranked number eight in Colin Larkin's Top 50 Heavy Metal Albums. Larkin described it as "one of the truly great" debut albums of heavy metal. In 2003, Rolling Stone, listed it among The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time , at number 410. According to Rolling Stone's Joe Levy, the album "gave the world a new guitar hero and charismatic frontman" in Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth, respectively. Levy credits the tracks "Runnin' with the Devil" and "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" with "put[ting] the swagger back in hard rock", praising Eddie Van Halen's "jaw-dropping technique", which "raised the bar for rock guitar". WIKIPEDIA

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LEGACY from 1978

"Allmusic writer Stephen Thomas Earlewine described Van Halen as "monumental" and "seismic", while noting that it is typically not viewed as an "epochal generation shift" in the same way as the debut albums of Led Zeppelin, the Ramones, The Rolling Stones, and the Sex Pistols. He explains, "The reason it's never given the same due is that there's no pretension, nothing self-conscious about it". He commented: "The still-amazing thing about Van Halen is how it sounds like it has no fathers ... Like all great originals Van Halen doesn't seem to belong to the past and it still sounds like little else, despite generations of copycats."  In Erlewine's opinion, the album "set the template for how rock and roll sounded for the next decade or more". A retrospective review by Q noted, "Hit singles came later, but this dazzling debut remains their trump card."

On April 15, 2013, David Lee Roth was interviewed by Jay Mohrfor his podcast, where he selected the album as his favorite Van Halen album". WIKIPEDIA