29-503: [REDACTED] Look up on fire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. On Fire may refer to: Film and television [ edit ] On Fire , a 1996 Hong Kong film directed by Clarence Fok "On Fire" ( Law & Order: Criminal Intent ) , a television episode On Fire (film) , upcoming film directed by Sean McNamara Literature [ edit ] On Fire (book) ,
58-453: A 2013 strip of the webcomic Gunshow , origin of the "This is fine" internet meme See also [ edit ] Fire On the Fire , a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title On Fire . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
87-494: A 2019 non-fiction book by Naomi Klein On Fire: A Teen Wolf Novel , a 2012 novel by Nancy Holder On Fire , a 1993 memoir by Larry Brown Albums [ edit ] On Fire (The Cottars album) , 2004 On Fire (Galaxie 500 album) , 1989 On Fire (The Higher album) , 2007 On Fire (The Lights Out album) or the title song, 2012 On Fire (Mastercastle album) , 2013 On Fire (Michel Camilo album) or
116-634: A Los Angeles club at which Van Halen often performed during late 1976-1977. The guitar pictured on the cover is Eddie Van Halen's signature Frankenstrat (before he added the red paint), a highly customized Stratocaster-style guitar built out of replacement parts. The liner notes thank radio disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer and Kiss bassist Gene Simmons , the latter usually credited with discovering Van Halen although Bingenheimer deserves credit for introducing Van Halen to Simmons. "A lot of people stick me on their [thanks list], even though I don't deserve it," Simmons remarked. "One that I did deserve to be on
145-690: A big, powerful guitar record, and he had all he needed in what Eddie was doing." The subsequent tour began March 3, 1978 at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago with the band opening for Journey and Ronnie Montrose in the United States. They later opened for heavy metal band Black Sabbath in Europe and the United States. The cover photos for Van Halen were taken at the Whisky a Go Go,
174-506: A contract with Warner. The recording of this debut album with producer Ted Templeman began August 29, 1977. The tracks were recorded quickly during sessions between August 31 and September 8, 1977. It was mostly recorded live, but "Runnin' with the Devil", "Jamie's Cryin'", "Feel Your Love Tonight" and "Ice Cream Man" contain guitar overdubs. Eddie also overdubbed his solo for "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" with an electric sitar . Work on
203-487: A guitarist who redefined what was possible on six strings. His sound on this album—christened 'The Brown Sound'—remains the holy grail of guitar tones." Record World called the single "Jamie's Crying" a "driving rhythm piece, which may be [Van Halen's] most interesting single to date." saying that "its rock energy never lets up." On August 7, 1996, Van Halen was re-certified by the RIAA for selling ten million copies in
232-572: Is the biggest bar band in the San Fernando Valley ;... The term becomes honorific when the music belongs in a bar. This music belongs on an aircraft carrier." According to Rolling Stone ' s Holly George-Warren, with the album's release the mainstream media focused on Roth's "swaggering good looks and extroverted persona", while fans and musicians "were riveted by Eddie Van Halen's guitar mastery", which included "an array of unorthodox techniques." She notes that, even before
261-575: Is typically not viewed as an "epochal generation shift" in the same way as the debut albums of Led Zeppelin , the Ramones , The Rolling Stones , and the Sex Pistols . He explains, "The reason it's never given the same due is that there's no pretension, nothing self-conscious about it." He commented: "The still-amazing thing about Van Halen is how it sounds like it has no fathers ... Like all great originals Van Halen doesn't seem to belong to
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319-460: The United States alone. One of only seven rock bands to release two RIAA Diamond status albums, Van Halen remains one of Van Halen's two best-selling albums, along with 1984 . Van Halen went to Gold status on May 24, 1978, and then went to Platinum status just a few months later, on October 10, 1978. In less than a year the album sold more than one million copies in the US alone, meaning that
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#1732788052331348-468: The album "gave the world a new guitar hero and charismatic frontman" in Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth , respectively. Levy credits the tracks "Runnin' with the Devil" and "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" with "put[ting] the swagger back in hard rock", praising Eddie Van Halen's "jaw-dropping technique", which "raised the bar for rock guitar." In 2006, Guitar World readers ranked it number 7 on
377-427: The album ended October 4 with the final mixing of "Little Dreamer" and "Eruption" (titled simply "Guitar Solo" on studio documents). Overall, the album cost approximately $ 54,000 to produce. "We didn't have a ton of material," recalled bassist Michael Anthony , "so we basically just took our live show and all the songs we knew and went for it. The whole album only took a couple of weeks. Ted Templeman wanted to make
406-515: The album was already a great success. On October 22, 1984, the album went to 5× Multi-Platinum status . The album went to 6x Multi-Platinum on February 1, 1989, and then went to 7× Multi-Platinum on September 29, 1993. In less than a year later, on July 11, 1994, the album went to 8x Multi-Platinum , and finally, on August 7, 1996, just two years later, the album went to Diamond status by RIAA. The Van Halen album, like Van Halen's other David Lee Roth-era albums—excepting Van Halen II , which
435-612: The album was ranked number 292 in Rolling Stone ' s list of the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ". Van Halen recorded demos of 10 songs in November 1976 during sessions at Village Recorders in West L.A. and New York’s Electric Lady studios, produced and financed by Gene Simmons of Kiss. However, the resulting three-track demo tape attracted little interest from record labels, and Kiss’s manager Bill Aucoin even declined to manage
464-517: The art of lead/rhythm guitar in the tradition of Jimmy Page and Joe Walsh ; several riffs on this record beat anything Aerosmith has come up with in years. Vocalist Dave Lee Roth manages the rare hard-rock feat of infusing the largely forgettable lyrics with energy and not sounding like a castrato at the same time. Drummer Alex Van Halen and bassist Michael Anthony are competent and properly unobtrusive." Village Voice critic Robert Christgau said, "For some reason Warners wants us to know that this
493-422: The band's debut, "Eddie became a legend among local guitarists." Kerrang! magazine gave the album a very positive review, and considers the album to be an "essential purchase." They wrote, "IT'S DIFFICULT to overstate the effect VH's debut had upon its release. With the music world split between punk, disco and prog rock, Van Halen combined a dazzling live show with a party-hearty motto and, in Eddie Van Halen,
522-402: The band. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen was not convinced of the quality of the material because they could not make the recordings with their own equipment. Simmons left to tour with Kiss after recording the demos, but said he would try to secure Van Halen a record deal afterwards. After recording the demos, the band was offered several concerts. At a sold-out show in their hometown, Pasadena ,
551-497: The country. Van Halen contains some of the band's most well-known songs, including " Runnin' with the Devil ", " Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love ", " Jamie's Cryin' ", their cover version of the Kinks ' 1964 song " You Really Got Me ", and the instrumental " Eruption "; written and played by guitarist Eddie Van Halen , it is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitar solos of all time and helped popularize two-handed tapping . In 2020,
580-491: The first character; please check alternative capitalizations and consider adding a redirect here to the correct title. If the page has been deleted, check the deletion log , and see Why was the page I created deleted? Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_fire " Van Halen (album) Van Halen is the debut studio album by American rock band Van Halen , released on February 10, 1978, by Warner Bros. Records . Widely regarded as one of
609-559: The greatest debut albums in rock music, and considered a progenitor of glam metal , the album was a major commercial success, peaking at number 19 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart. It has sold more than 10 million copies in the United States, receiving a Diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and making it one of the best-selling albums in
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#1732788052331638-616: The group's future manager, Marshall Berle, discovered the band. He and musical entrepreneur Kim Fowley paired them with punk rock band Venus and the Razorblades for a gig at the Whisky a Go Go . After being well received by Berle at the Whisky a Go Go, the band gained the attention of Mo Ostin and Ted Templeman of Warner Bros. who both attended the band's performance at the Starwood on February 3, 1977. Van Halen proceeded to sign
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696-498: The past and it still sounds like little else, despite generations of copycats." In Erlewine's opinion, the album "set the template for how rock and roll sounded for the next decade or more." A retrospective review by Q noted, "Hit singles came later, but this dazzling debut remains their trump card." In 1994, Van Halen was ranked number eight in Colin Larkin 's Top 50 Heavy Metal Albums . Larkin described it as "one of
725-1570: The title song, 1989 On Fire (Peter Furler album) , 2011 On Fire (Spiritual Beggars album) , 2002 On Fire (Stetsasonic album) or the title song, 1986 On Fire (T-Connection album) or the title song, 1978 On Fire! , by Petra, 1988 On Fire (EP) , by Alec Empire, 2007 On Fire , by the Kaʻau Crater Boys , 1995 On Fyre , by Lyres, 1984 Songs [ edit ] "On Fire" (Blue Zone song) , 1987 "On Fire" (Lil Wayne song) , 2009 "On Fire" (Lloyd Banks song) , 2004 "On Fire" (Loïc Nottet song) , 2018 "On Fire" (The Roop song) , 2020 "On Fire" (Stefanie Heinzmann song) , 2015 "On Fire", by Bizzy Bone from Heaven'z Movie , 1998 "On Fire", by Carmada , 2014 "On Fire", by Eminem from Recovery , 2010 "On Fire", by Franka Batelić , 2011 "On Fire", by Garbage from No Gods No Masters , 2021 "On Fire", by Lightning Bolt from Wonderful Rainbow , 2003 "On Fire", by Luke Bond featuring Roxanne Emery , 2014 "On Fire", by Modjo from Modjo , 2001 "On Fire", by Redman from Muddy Waters , 1996 "On Fire", by Sebadoh from Harmacy , 1996 "On Fire", by Spiritualized from Let It Come Down , 2001 "On Fire", by Switchfoot from The Beautiful Letdown , 2003 "On Fire", by Tone Lōc from Lōc-ed After Dark , 1989 "On Fire", by Van Halen from Van Halen , 1978 "On Fire", by Young Thug from Beautiful Thugger Girls , 2017 Other uses [ edit ] "On Fire",
754-594: The truly great" debut albums of heavy metal. According to authors Gary Graff and Daniel Durchholz, writing in MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (1999), Van Halen is a "headbanger's paradise"; before its release, "no one had heard or seen anything like it." In 2003, Rolling Stone , listed it among The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time , at number 410; the list's 2012 edition had it ranked 415th. The 2020 list placed it at 292. According to Rolling Stone ' s Joe Levy,
783-522: Was mostly negative. In 1978, Rolling Stone critic Charles M. Young predicted, "In three years, Van Halen is going to be fat and self-indulgent and disgusting ... follow[ing] Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin right into the toilet. In the meantime, they are likely to be a big deal." But he also wrote that: "Van Halen's secret is not doing anything that's original while having the hormones to do it better than all those bands who have become fat and self-indulgent and disgusting. Edward Van Halen has mastered
812-836: Was re-certified in 2004, to coincide with the promotion of a Warner Bros. Records greatest hits collection —was last brought by Warner Bros. Records to the RIAA for re-certification in 1996, while 1984 was re-certified on February 8, 1999. The band's split with Warner Brothers in 2002, and subsequent agreement with Interscope has eliminated Warner Brothers' incentive for paying the [relatively substantial] fee to promote Van Halen's back-catalog by having its albums re-certified. Despite lack of re-certification, Van Halen's 1978 debut has continued to sell prolifically, re-appearing numerous times on Billboard 's Top LPs & Tape and Top Pop Catalog Albums charts, as recently as 2020. AllMusic 's Stephen Thomas Erlewine described Van Halen as "monumental" and "seismic", while noting that it
841-687: Was that first Van Halen record – the guys still owe me a couple thousand bucks! But I love 'em." In the United States, Van Halen reached number 19 on the Billboard 200 ; their debut single, a cover of The Kinks ' " You Really Got Me ", spent eleven weeks, three of which in the Top 40, on the Billboard Hot 100 , peaking at number 36. Soon after its February 1978 release, Van Halen became regarded by fans and critics as one of rock music’s greatest debut albums; however, its initial critical reception
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