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Fair Warning is the fourth studio album
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 by American
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 hard rock
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 band Van Halen
Van Halen

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, released in 1981
1981 in music

See also:* :Category:Record labels established in 1981* list of 'years in music'...
. Fair Warning went 2x platinum,, which was disappointing compared to the sales of the band's previous albums, making it the least commercially successful album of the David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth

David Lee Roth is an United States Rock and roll vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality, best known as the lead singer of Van Halen....
 years. The album featured a much more adventurous and progressive sound than most of their other albums, which may have been the cause of its disappointing sales.






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Fair Warning is the fourth studio album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
 by American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 hard rock
Hard rock

Hard rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music....
 band Van Halen
Van Halen

Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
, released in 1981
1981 in music

See also:* :Category:Record labels established in 1981* list of 'years in music'...
. Fair Warning went 2x platinum,, which was disappointing compared to the sales of the band's previous albums, making it the least commercially successful album of the David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth

David Lee Roth is an United States Rock and roll vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality, best known as the lead singer of Van Halen....
 years. The album featured a much more adventurous and progressive sound than most of their other albums, which may have been the cause of its disappointing sales. Also, unlike the previous 'party albums' the band released, this one had a darker and more brooding approach.

Track listing

All songs by Michael Anthony, David Lee Roth, Edward Van Halen and Alex Van Halen
  1. "Mean Street
    Mean Street

    "Mean Street" is the lead off track from Van Halen's 1981 album Fair Warning. The song set the tone for the album in that it is a very dark and almost brutal sounding song....
    " – 5:00†
  2. ""Dirty Movies"" – 4:08
  3. "Sinner's Swing!" – 3:09
  4. "Hear About It Later" – 4:35
  5. "Unchained
    Unchained (song)

    Unchained is the best-known song from Van Halen's 1981 album Fair Warning. Considered to be one of the band's signature tracks, it is instantly identifiable and one of the most requested songs on FM radio in the 1980s....
    " – 3:29†
  6. "Push Comes to Shove
    Push Comes to Shove (song)

    "Push Comes to Shove" is a rock music song written by the group Van Halen for their 1981 album Fair Warning. It is one of four singles issued for the album....
    " – 3:49†
  7. "So This Is Love?
    So This Is Love?

    "So This Is Love?" is a rock music song written by the group Van Halen for their 1981 album Fair Warning. It is one of four singles issued for the album....
    " – 3:06†
  8. "Sunday Afternoon in the Park" – 1:59
  9. "One Foot Out the Door" – 1:58


† denotes a single

Personnel

  • David Lee Roth
    David Lee Roth

    David Lee Roth is an United States Rock and roll vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality, best known as the lead singer of Van Halen....
     - vocals
  • Eddie Van Halen
    Eddie Van Halen

    Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen , is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and music producer, most famous as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen....
     - guitar
    Guitar

    The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
  • Michael Anthony - bass
    Bass guitar

    The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
  • Alex Van Halen
    Alex Van Halen

    Alexander Arthur Van Halen is a Dutch-American drummer and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen.Originally, his brother Eddie Van Halen had taken lessons for drums, while Alex practiced guitar....
     - drums
    Drum kit

    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....


Production

  • Producer: Ted Templeman
  • Engineers: Donn Landee, Gene Meros
  • Remastering: Chris Bellman, Gregg Geller
  • Project coordinator: Jo Motta
  • Art direction: Richard Seireeni
  • Design: Pete Angelus
  • Cover design: Pete Angelus
  • Cover artwork: From The Maze by William Kurelek
    William Kurelek

    William Kurelek, Order of Canada was a Canadian art and Canadian literature....
  • Photography: Greg Gorman, Neil Zlozower
  • Inlay photography: Greg Gorman


Charts


Album

Billboard (North America)
YearChartPosition
1981Pop Albums5


Singles

Billboard (North America)
YearSingleChartPosition
1981"So This Is Love?
So This Is Love?

"So This Is Love?" is a rock music song written by the group Van Halen for their 1981 album Fair Warning. It is one of four singles issued for the album....
"		Mainstream Rock15
1981"Mean Street
Mean Street

"Mean Street" is the lead off track from Van Halen's 1981 album Fair Warning. The song set the tone for the album in that it is a very dark and almost brutal sounding song....
"		Mainstream Rock12
1981"Push Comes to Shove
Push Comes to Shove (song)

"Push Comes to Shove" is a rock music song written by the group Van Halen for their 1981 album Fair Warning. It is one of four singles issued for the album....
"		Mainstream Rock29
1981"Unchained
Unchained (song)

Unchained is the best-known song from Van Halen's 1981 album Fair Warning. Considered to be one of the band's signature tracks, it is instantly identifiable and one of the most requested songs on FM radio in the 1980s....
"		Mainstream Rock13