5150 [Warner Bros., 1986]
I wonder what guitar mavens who thought Eddie's face-melting pyrotechnics and balls-to-the-walls hooks equaled Van Halen will think now that video star David Lee Roth has been replaced by one of the biggest schmucks in the known business. No musician with something to say could stomach Sammy Hagar's call and this album proves it. C

Reminder that all official box sets and DVDs of the band show Hagar-era live footage because Diamond Dave was shit and ass live. Also reminder that Eddie was the actual rocker here not Dave who just wanted to do his Yiddish theater schtick.