Title: Van Halen Should Have Sued Themselves For This One!
Product review: Just total crap, from start to finish. It's got a slightly curious electronically manipulated guitar experiment from Eddie, and a couple faintly recognizable moments from that once dominant rhythm section, but mostly it's just totally lame. Ed can make extraordinary sounds at will, and Alex could be as monumental and heavy as an avalanche, but there's absolutely no inspiration driving 'em here. They're on auto-pilot as Sammy Hagar imitator Gary Cherone claws and scratches his way through leaden, dismal social consciousness and even more dismal heartaches. The joy of the original Van Halen was their remarkable harnessing of raw, molten energy into profoundly original rock songs. All these tunes on III are profoundly cliched duds. It's so bad, I'm sure it's committing a dozen crimes against nature.
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