Fair Warning (studio album) by Van Halen

Fair Warning by Van Halen
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 2,307th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 256 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (37th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (355th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,307th)
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Fair Warning is ranked 3rd best out of 16 albums by Van Halen on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Van Halen is Van Halen which is ranked number 371 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,903.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 256 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.0.

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85/100
From 02/13/2024 17:08
Warrants more repeats. Sounds adult and rough, good
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80/100
From 02/03/2022 16:14
Even if not my favourite, i admit, is the most "elegant" album of VH dischography.
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75/100
From 09/07/2019 09:42
This album showcases the music side of Van Halen moreso than the previous efforts. In that sense, DLR takes more of a seat back to let Eddie, Alex and Michael really shine. This is Eddie's album though. His guitar playing on this album is fantastic. Really good effort. Continued Van Halen's hot streak of albums.
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95/100
From 07/09/2019 23:30
Great sound an great tracks. Unfortunately, the last two tracks aren't really songs as much as they are experiments
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85/100
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90/100
From 11/05/2017 22:33
VH's darkest album, and one of their best. They started to more fully incorporate synths into their style at the end, and Eddie revealed some of his best guitar moments.

Best Tracks: Mean Street, Hear About It Later, Unchained, So This Is Love, One Foot Out the Door
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90/100
From 08/29/2017 04:55
Mean Street, Sinners Swing and Push Comes to Shove give the nasty, gritty feeling to the album, like a Dirty Harry movie. Not the party album by Van Halen, but still one of the top four Van Halen albums.
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From 06/07/2016 13:05
The last great Van Halen album in my opinion. Fair warning, has some great tracks in, mean street, sinners swing, and, push comes to a shove, also like the strange drone of, Sunday afternoon in the park. Never would Van Halen be this energetic again.
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From 12/25/2012 20:18
Check out this album with an open mind, whether you think you may like Van Halen or not.

"Fair Warning" isn't a party like "Van Halen" and doesn't have something for everyone like "1984." It has a cynical, streetwise, skateboard punk attitude, and funk grooves in almost every song.

It's been only a few months since I got the 12 VH albums from iTunes... When I was growing up in the late '90s, I thought of Van Halen as a hard rockin' Bon Jovi... This is much closer to punk.

Every song's either very good or great.
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