Van Halen discography

• First and best selling album
• First album with David Lee Roth on vocals

• First top 20 single "Dance the Night Away"

• First album to feature no cover songs
• Only one single released from the album - possibly part of why sales were low

• Least commercially successful Van Halen album with David Lee Roth

• First album to break cycle of each album selling progressively less well than the last
• Five of the twelve songs were covers

• Grammy Award Nomination: Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group ("Jump"). Jump reached #1 on Billboard Charts; stayed for 5 weeks
• The band's second best selling album
• Last album with David Lee Roth on vocals

• First and most successful album with Sammy Hagar on vocals
• First Billboard #1 album

• Named in response to David Lee Roth's solo album, Eat 'Em and Smile as a tongue in cheek joke (Oh You Ate One Too)

• Grammy Award Win: Best Hard Rock Performance
• Album title is a false etymology for the word "fuck"

• First and only official live album
• Included Sammy Hagar singing four David Lee Roth-era songs
• Features two songs from Sammy Hagar's solo career

• Grammy Award Nomination: Best Hard Rock Performance ("The Seventh Seal")
• Least successful studio album of Sammy Hagar era
• Last album with Sammy Hagar on vocals

• First and only album with Gary Cherone on vocals
• First and only studio album not to have gone at least 2x Platinum in the USA - lowest overall sales
• Michael Anthony only played bass on three songs; Eddie Van Halen played the rest himself
• Eddie Van Halen takes lead vocals on a song for the first time

• Featured a song from the band's contributions to the 'Twister' soundtrack not available elsewhere
• Included the only two David Lee Roth songs released since the '1984' album, recorded newly for the compilation and unavailable on any other albums
• Covers releases 1978-1996
• Features no songs from the band's Diver Down or Live: Right Here, Right Now albums
• 10 songs feature Roth on vocals, 7 feature Hagar. Songs are in chronological order of release
• Outsold all Van Halen releases since 1988's OU812 due to the media attention surrounding Roth's return to the band

• Featured three new songs with Sammy Hagar on vocals, recorded newly for the compilation and unavailable on any other albums
• The band's only releases since 1998's 'Van Halen III', first release with new Sammy Hagar songs since 1995
• Most recent release by the band of any kind
• None of the new songs featured Michael Anthony on the bass; bass recordings were made by Eddie Van Halen despite group songwriting credits
• Covers releases 1978-1995 (plus the new songs from 2004) - excludes any of the new songs from Best of Volume 1 (1996) and Van Halen III (1998)
• Named after the Van Halen song of the same name from Sammy Hagar's first album with the band, 5150 but also because it has the best of both of Van Halen's famous vocalists
• Features 20 songs with Sammy Hagar on lead vocals, 16 with David Lee Roth despite Roth recording 6 albums with the band and Hagar recording 4 and a live album. The album also features no photos of Roth in the artwork either

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