Best Of – Volume I (Van Halen album)

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This article is about the Van Halen album. For German album Best Of - Vol.1, see Michael Wendler. For other albums, see The Best Of, Volume 1.
Best of Volume I
File:Van Halen - Best of Volume I.jpg
Greatest hits album by Van Halen
Released October 22, 1996
Recorded 1977–1996
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal
Length 71:33
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Ted Templeman, Van Halen, Mick Jones, Donn Landee, Andy Johns, Bruce Fairbairn, Glen Ballard[1]
Van Halen chronology
Balance
(1995)Balance1995		 Best of Volume I
(1996)		 Van Halen III
(1998)Van Halen III1998
Singles from Best of Volume I
  1. "Humans Being"
    Released: 1996
  2. "Me Wise Magic"
    Released: 1996
  3. "Can't Get This Stuff No More"
    Released: 1997
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars link
Q 3/5 stars link
Robert Christgau (1-star Honorable Mention)[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 2.5/5 stars link

Best of Volume I is the first greatest hits album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1996.

The album does not contain any songs from the band's 1982 album Diver Down. Best of Volume I also features "Humans Being," the band's contribution to the Twister soundtrack. The two newly recorded songs, "Can't Get This Stuff No More" and "Me Wise Magic," at the end of the album are with original lead vocalist David Lee Roth. These two songs were released as singles to promote this compilation. They are also the last songs recorded by the original Van Halen lineup of Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Roth and Michael Anthony. The Van Halen brothers would not record again with Roth until the album A Different Kind of Truth, released in 2012. Anthony has not played with Van Halen since the band's 2004 tour.

Initial pressings of the album contained an alternate edit of "Runnin' with the Devil" where the verses, chorus and solos were arranged in a different order than that of the original album version. It was reported that this was accidental and subsequent pressings have replaced this version with the one found on Van Halen. However, some radio stations still play this erroneous version of the song.

The album itself, while not controversial, sparked a great deal of in-band controversy because of the personnel issues surrounding the band at the time. Sammy Hagar, who by this time had been a member of Van Halen for eleven years, equal to the amount of time as the previous lead vocalist, David Lee Roth, left the band in June 1996 due to a number of unclear circumstances. Some sources reported that Hagar was dissatisfied with the decision to issue a "greatest hits" collection, and was instead more inclined to do an entirely new album of new material. In either case, the band announced that Hagar had left the band and the band was instead working with David Lee Roth on new material for inclusion on the disc. This was not to last, as Roth and Eddie Van Halen clashed publicly and the band once again was without a lead singer, before hiring Gary Cherone. All songs except "Humans Being", "Can't Get This Stuff No More", and "Me Wise Magic" are included on the band's subsequent greatest hits album The Best of Both Worlds (2004).

Despite the aforementioned friction, the album went on to win Metal Edge magazine's 1996 Readers' Choice Award for "Best Hits or Compilation Album". Hagar shares the accolade with Roth, since the album features material from both singers. Also, the song "Humans Being" (featured on both the album and the Twister film soundtrack) was voted "Best Song From a Movie Soundtrack."[3]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Original Album Length
1. "Eruption"  
Van Halen 1:42
2. ""Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love""  
  • Anthony
  • Roth
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 Van Halen 3:47
3. "Runnin' with the Devil"  
  • Anthony
  • Roth
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 Van Halen 3:32
4. "Dance the Night Away"  
  • Anthony
  • Roth
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 Van Halen II 3:04
5. "And the Cradle Will Rock..."  
  • Anthony
  • Roth
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 Women and Children First 3:31
6. "Unchained"  
  • Anthony
  • Roth
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 Fair Warning 3:27
7. "Jump"  
  • Anthony
  • Roth
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 1984 4:04
8. "Panama"  
  • Anthony
  • Roth
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 1984 3:31
9. "Why Can't This Be Love"  
5150 3:45
10. "Dreams"  
  • Anthony
  • Hagar
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 5150 4:54
11. "When It's Love"  
  • Anthony
  • Hagar
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 OU812 5:36
12. "Poundcake"  
  • Anthony
  • Hagar
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge 5:22
13. "Right Now"  
  • Anthony
  • Hagar
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge 5:21
14. "Can't Stop Lovin' You"  
  • Anthony
  • Hagar
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 Balance 4:08
15. "Humans Being"  
  • Anthony
  • Hagar
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 Twister soundtrack 5:14
16. "Can't Get This Stuff No More"  
  • Anthony
  • Roth
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 new 5:16
17. "Me Wise Magic"  
  • Anthony
  • Roth
  • Van Halen
  • Van Halen
 new 6:09
Total length:
 71:33

Personnel

Charts

Album

Chart (1996) Peak
position
Australian Top 50 Albums[4] 11
Austrian Top 75 Albums[5] 16
Canadian Top Albums[6] 1
Finnish Top 50 Albums[7] 3
German Albums[8] 7
Netherlands Top 100 Albums[9] 12
New Zealand Top 50 Albums[10] 2
Norwegian Top 40 Albums[11] 36
Swedish Top 60 Albums[12] 19
Swiss Top 100 Albums[13] 26
UK Albums Chart[14] 45
US Billboard 200[15] 1
Chart (2002) Peak
position
US Catalog Albums[15] 21
Chart (2008) Peak
position
US Hard Rock Albums[15] 18

Singles

Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1996 "Humans Being" Mainstream Rock Tracks 1
1996 "Me Wise Magic" Mainstream Rock Tracks 1
1997 "Can't Get This Stuff No More" Mainstream Rock Tracks 12

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[16] Platinum 70,000
Brazil (ABPD)[17] Gold 100,000
Canada (Music Canada)[18] 2× Platinum 200,000
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[19] Gold 22,015[19]
Germany (BVMI)[20] Gold 250,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[21] Silver 60,000
United States (RIAA)[22] 3× Platinum 3,000,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

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Preceded by Billboard 200 number-one album
November 9–15, 1996		 Succeeded by
Anthology 3 by The Beatles
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