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Dance the Night Away with Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD of Van Halen II: Sourced from the Original Analog Tapes for Audiophile Sound Bottoms Up!: Van Halen's Five-Times-Platinum Sophomore Album Ups the Fun and Musicianship Made with Minimal Overdubs, 1979 Record Features ''Beautiful Girls,'' ''D.O.A.,'' and ''Somebody Get Me a Doctor'' How do you follow up one of the most groundbreaking albums ever made? For Van Halen, the answer was obvious. Treading the same path the band took to stardom on its debut, and upping the fun factor and musicianship, Van Halen II extinguished any possibilities of a sophomore slump. Leveraging years of experience as a tight-knit live group, drawing on material initially recorded for its professional demos with Kiss leader Gene Simmons, and hitting the studio just days after completing a 10-month tour, the quartet completed the 1979 LP in under a month while inviting fans to ''dance the night away.'' Boy, did they ever. Sourced from the original analog tapes and housed in mini-LP gatefold packaging, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition hybrid SACD of Van Halen II lets it all hang out. Van Halen's original intent - that of music recorded live in one big room, Marshall amplifiers turned up, and resonating with the purity, excitement, and interaction of three primary instruments and voices - comes through with extraordinary clarity and purpose. Created with minimal overdubs and afforded massive dynamics, air-moving energy, and palpable solidity on this audiophile edition, Van Halen II is rock 'n' roll at its most direct, straightforward, and electric. Every track pulses with what Eddie Van Halen once referred to as a ''vibe, feeling, and pocket'' that only these four individuals could establish and maintain. Numbered Hybrid Stereo SACD NUMBERED SPECIAL EDITION

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