MOFI 1984

"Van Halen Goes Full Blast and Top Down on 1984: Ten-Times-Platinum Album Seamlessly Bridges Pop and Metal Sensibilities, Includes ''Jump,'' ''Panama,'' and ''Hot for Teacher'' Hear Every Last Detail with Definitive Clarity: Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Features Incredible Soundstaging and Separation Ain't nothin' like it. Full blast and top down. Less than six years after changing the music landscape with its diamond-platinum-certified self-titled debut, Van Halen repeated the creative and commercial feats. Featuring groundbreaking performances, infectious chemistry, and four enormous singles, 1984 witnesses the band incorporating synthesizer elements that guitarist Eddie Van Halen had been championing - as well as bridging pop and metal sensibilities into a cohesive melodic whole. Punchy and catchy, glamorous and glitzy, blustery and heavy, wild and pyrotechnic, fast and pleasurable: 1984 feels as fresh, fun, and innovative as it did in the Reagan Era. Sourced from the original analog tapes and housed in mini-LP style gatefold packaging, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition hybrid SACD presents the group's final album with singer David Lee Roth for nearly four decades in definitive sound. You have never heard 1984 so clear and direct on disc. Soundstaging that extends beyond the external boundaries of your speakers; imaging that allows you to picture each member in an exact space; attack, timing, and physicality that come across with breathtaking balance and realism. The traits associated with hallmark Van Halen - dynamic thunder, distinctive tonalities, vivid detail, sensory-invigorating immediacy, tongue-in-cheek playfulness, throttling intensity - emerge with involving presence and liveliness. As the man says in ''Drop Dead Legs'': You know that you want it. Numbered Hybrid Stereo SACD NUMBERED SPECIAL EDITION