the best of the both worlds "sort of"
This product right here is a two-disc set featuring both david lee roth and sammy hagar songs, none with gary cherone. In my mind, the first disc should be david lee roth songs, and the 2nd disc is sammy hagar. But instead one song is david and the next is sammy. It is by no means a crappy album. It just ruins it when i am listening to david lee roth singing Jump and then the next track comes and it's sammy singing. Also, I should say that there are three new tracks on this, Sammy, Eddie and Alex play on it but no michael anthony

Van Halen Rocks
This two cd collection of Eddie and the guys is without a doubt the best of their best.If you love Van Halen,do yourself a huge favor and get this,I listen to it over and over.

Highly Flawed
First of all, this is album is tainted politically. This was at the time when Eddie was having issues with Roth, and they were writing a few tunes with Sammy Hagar; hence, the over abundance of Sammy material.

This is simply unfair. If anything, it should be more Roth, but at least could've split evenly. Their most substantive material was written with Roth. That is fact. Now, I dig the Red Rocker, too, but lets be real about it, Roth era was the best.

Eddie's goddamn ego taints everything. Take, for instance, the lack of material from VH III! I know this album sucked, but christ, lets not pretend it didn't happen. Throw us a track or two.

This is a good compilation for the ladies, as it has plenty of Sammy soft rockers on it.

I do not recommend this.

This remastering job isn't good
The song list is great. I don't care that the Dave stuff is mixed in with the Sammy stuff. It's all good.

The two stars are there because of the mastering job. What "remastering" really means is this: "We're going to throw a bunch of compression on the original mix. It doesn't matter that we're adding distortion (where it doesn't belong), raising the noise floor, and killing the dynamics, as long as we can get more level out of it. The folks that mastered Van Halen's previous studio albums didn't know what the hell they were doing anyway."

I would never have bought this if it wasn't for the three new Sammy songs. Unless you need the complete Van Hagar era, stay away from this.

Haphazard track order spoils album
The order of the tracks completely ruins this album for me. It should be arranged in roughly chronological order or at least separated by lead singer. The three new tracks are not very good and this is made worse by placing them as tracks 2-4. The selection of songs is not so bad otherwise, although the live versions with Hagar performing a few of Roth's hits are a largely a throw-away as far as I'm concerned.

I only bought this version because of the fact that it includes everything on Best of Van Halen, Vol. 1. I intend to separate the tracks myself and burn one CD for Sammy Hagar and one for David Lee Roth. The original CDs will sit unused on the shelf.