Whats So Great About Van Halen?

Vast popularity. I personally am not a fan, but if a band is popular, then they can be generally defined as "great".

"Eruption" should explain that in no uncertain terms.
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"Eruption" should explain that in no uncertain terms.
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Vast popularity. I personally am not a fan, but if a band is popular, then they can be generally defined as "great".

Fortier

Eddie Van Halen is an above average guitaristNisstyre_56

Eddie Van Halen is an above average guitaristNisstyre_56

Eddie Van Halen is an above average guitaristNisstyre_56

Eddie Van Halen is an above average guitaristNisstyre_56

I am a fan of Van Halen. I really enjoy their music mainly because of the guitar stuff. funkadelichika

Heavy guitar is good

Eddie Van Halen is an above average guitaristNisstyre_56

Yeah that is why he is considered one of the best in the world. Not only can the man play with imense speed and accuracy he plays with passion which is what the majority of guitarist's these days lack..the likes of Steve Vai, Satriani. I think they are good but they are all technical and respect to them for their skill but i would not listen to them. Eddie Van Halen also made the finger-tapping technique popular. I think that you are very wrong.

[QUOTE="Nisstyre_56"]Eddie Van Halen is an above average guitaristArch_Angel_21

Yeah that is why he is considered one of the best in the world. Not only can the man play with imense speed and accuracy he plays with passion which is what the majority of guitarist's these days lack..the likes of Steve Vai, Satriani. I think they are good but they are all technical and respect to them for their skill but i would not listen to them. Eddie Van Halen also made the finger-tapping technique popular. I think that you are very wrong.

Eddie Van Halen is an above average guitaristNisstyre_56

Van Halen is great -you have to judge them from when they played; their good stuff was in the 80's. No, their sound is different from what's out today, as it's not as modern, but that's okay. Their music also changed over the years, and they have a lot of great material that wasn't always on the radio. OU812 and Diver Down are good Van Halen albums, and there are many more.

Let's see how many bands today sell as many albums as Van Halen and are still being talked about twenty years later.

Van Halen  -from Wikpedia. They had more than "a couple good songs"

From 1978 to 1998 the band released 11 studio albums (all of which broke the Top 20 spot of the Billboard 200 music charts. The band has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide and has received several Grammy nominations. Van Halen is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records with the most number one hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock List. According to the Recording Industry Association of America Van Halen is #19 on the list of Top Selling Artists of all time (having sold more than 56 million albums in the U.S.). Van Halen is one of five rock groups that have had two albums (not including Greatest Hits albums) (the self titled debut and 1984) sell more than 10 million copies in the U.S. (the others being: Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Def Leppard).

Van Halen  -from Wikpedia. They had more than "a couple good songs"

From 1978 to 1998 the band released 11 studio albums (all of which broke the Top 20 spot of the Billboard 200 music charts. The band has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide and has received several Grammy nominations. Van Halen is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records with the most number one hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock List. According to the Recording Industry Association of America Van Halen is #19 on the list of Top Selling Artists of all time (having sold more than 56 million albums in the U.S.). Van Halen is one of five rock groups that have had two albums (not including Greatest Hits albums) (the self titled debut and 1984) sell more than 10 million copies in the U.S. (the others being: Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Def Leppard).

Deltaforce-

Van Halen  -from Wikpedia. They had more than "a couple good songs"

From 1978 to 1998 the band released 11 studio albums (all of which broke the Top 20 spot of the Billboard 200 music charts. The band has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide and has received several Grammy nominations. Van Halen is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records with the most number one hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock List. According to the Recording Industry Association of America Van Halen is #19 on the list of Top Selling Artists of all time (having sold more than 56 million albums in the U.S.). Van Halen is one of five rock groups that have had two albums (not including Greatest Hits albums) (the self titled debut and 1984) sell more than 10 million copies in the U.S. (the others being: Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Def Leppard).

Deltaforce-

*reads replies in thread about not knowing who Van Halen is*

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[QUOTE="Fortier"]

Vast popularity. I personally am not a fan, but if a band is popular, then they can be generally defined as "great".

nickmag

You got a point there with Britney, I'd have to admit. Perhaps she's "great" at making money, or cutting her hair short, but she's not a "great" band, true.

Yes, I'm a Van Halen fan. But still, while there may be exceptions, popular-longevity correlates more to being a good band, than not. It takes some popularity, perhaps unfortunately, to get backing for successive albums from a record company in the first place. People have their music tastes, and there are one-hit-wonder flukes, but to sell album after album for three decades (like Van Halen has) is no fluke; there's good music there. While some of my favorite bands are not popular, more great bands are popular than not.