- rock, hard rock, heavy metal
- 32 min
- 12 tracks
- Warner Bros. Records
Diver Down is the fifth studio album by American rock band Van Halen, released on April 19, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records. It spent 65 weeks on the album chart in the United States and had, by 1998, sold four million copies in the United States. Despite its commercial success, selling faster than its predecessor Fair Warning (1981), it was more lukewarmly received by contemporary music critics.
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Character
Spare, classical in form, unpretentious and grave.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Christgau's Record Guide: The '80sB−
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- The Great Rock Discography6/10
- Lincoln Journal Star3.5/4 ★
- Record Mirror3/5 ★
- Rolling Stone2/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
- Sounds3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Where Have All the Good Times Gone!3:04
- 2Hang ’Em High3:29
- 3Cathedral1:23
- 4Secrets3:28
- 5Intruder1:40
- 6(Oh) Pretty Woman2:55
- 7Dancing in the Street3:46
- 8Little Guitars (intro)0:42
- 9Little Guitars3:49
- 10Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)2:46
- 11The Full Bug3:22
- 12Happy Trails1:05
12 tracks, 32 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Van Halen
- Label
- Warner Bros. Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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