10 Hard Rock Albums With Only One Bad Song
3. Inside - Van Halen
Van Halen really deserve all the credit in the world for managing to pull off the impossible. In the grand tradition of AC/DC and the like, these kings of the glam metal genre found the strength to move on without their iconic frontman David Lee Roth, with Sammy Hagar proving himself with flying colors on 5150. Though the breaking in period was relatively smooth, there was a little bit lost on the final song Inside.
After going through some of the most classic material Van Halen would release in the '80s like Dreams and Love Walks In, this track feels like the epitome of half-baked, with most of the appeal being nothing more than a chorus...and not a very catchy one at that. Dominated by the lower register background vocals, Eddie and Michael Anthony almost sound tired when working their way through this song.
As much as Sammy might be in his element here, it's not like he's given that much to work with either, especially when the song just decides to quit about half way through and devolves into just a mindless jam session. Given how much 5150 is close to perfection from one side to the next, this is where you start to see the Van Halen locomotive really starting to run out of gas.