Van Halen

High Quality, 45 Rpm, Limited Edition, Box Set
Van Halen vocalist David Lee Roth says it all on the second song of the band’s third album — and third consecutive smash in less than three years time. “Everybody wants some!,” he declares before immediately querying, “Baby, how ‘bout, you?” Roth and the rest of Van Halen already knew the answer. The quartet further confirmed its status as America’s leading rock band and principal party starters on Women and Children First while heading in harder, heavier directions with thrilling fare that Rolling Stone scribe David Fricke deemed “works of high-volume art.” From the opening strains of the leadoff “And the Cradle Will Rock…,” Van Halen’s familiar embrace of adventurousness, flair, humor, and ecstasy hits you between the eyes. Sourced from the original analog tapes, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing on MoFi SuperVinyl, and strictly limited to 7,500 copies, Mobile Fidelity’s UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP set of Women and Children First explodes with dynamic energy, saturated colors, multi-dimensional textures, and vivid detail. Made with few overdubs and featuring a live-on-the-floor feel, the record can now be experienced with unparalleled transparency, clarity, balance, and, if you so choose with your volume settings, concert-like solidity, scope, and decibel levels. Credit MoFi’s SuperVinyl compound, which allows you to crank this set as high as you want without risking noise-floor interference. As the song says, Women and Children First presents Van Halen wanting some — and getting more.