Read on for a track-by-track guide to the most misunderstood and divisive Van Halen album of the DLR era. The traditional instrumental number on Diver Down was ... the idea to cover this 1924 ...

Van Halen's fifth album should have been a disaster. Yet 1982's Diver Down, despite being a hastily ... a 31-minute hodgepodge featuring five cover songs (including their brief album-closing ...

Even the album’s deep cuts ... what makes a good record,” Van Halen said in 2014. “Diver Down was a turning point for me because half of it was cover tunes. When we made Fair Warning ...

Wolfgang Van Halen has hit back at online trolls who criticize ... referring the 1982 Van Halen album Diver Down, which was ...

This wasn’t easy, but it was fun – like most things with Van Halen ... ranking it higher. Diver Down is what many fans derisively refer to as the band’s “covers album” since it has ...

Decades before Greg Kurstin was producing hits for Adele, Paul McCartney and the Foo Fighters, he was a preteen Van Halen diehard. “I saw them on their Diver Down ... few years back, by digging ...

but it would give Van Halen freedom. They had felt under pressure to write and record Diver Down. The amount of cover songs frustrated Eddie. Speaking to Guitar World in February 1990, eight years on ...