Fair Warning (Van Halen album)
| Fair Warning | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
The album cover is taken from a painting by William Kurelek. | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | April 29, 1981 | |||
| Recorded | March–April 1981 | |||
| Studio | Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 31:11 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Ted Templeman | |||
| Van Halen chronology | ||||
| ||||
| Singles from Fair Warning | ||||
| ||||
Fair Warning is the fourth studio album by American rock band Van Halen. Released on April 29, 1981, by Warner Bros. Records, the album peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200, while the single "So This Is Love?" failed to reach Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 110 on the Bubbling-Under list. The album sold more than two million copies in the United States, but was still the band's slowest-selling album of the David Lee Roth era. Despite the album's commercially disappointing sales, Fair Warning was met with mostly positive reviews from critics. It was listed by Esquire as one of the "75 Albums Every Man Should Own".