TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.0389
Sammy Hagar Album Rankings
1
One listen to Sammy Hagar's new album and you can clearly tell that the former Van Halen vocalist has left behind the ghost of his unexpected departure from that band.
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2
Sammy Hagar's career as a solo act was not immediately successful after his departure from Montrose in 1974. In fact, he didn't chart a single song or album in the '70s.
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3
In between his days with hard-rockingMontrosein the early '70s and his takeover of lead singing duties fromDavid Lee RothinVan Halen, Sammy Hagar had a moderately successful solo career.
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4
I was never particularly fond of the Sammy Hagar era of Van Halen. To me, when they were together, they always sounded like two entirely different bands playing at the same time.
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5
After releasing several competent but more or less undistinguished albums on Capitol, Sammy Hagar switched to Geffen in 1981 and releasedStanding Hampton, a polished but tough record that showed a sur
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6
It's been years since the events that separated Van Halen from its secondary frontman, Sammy Hagar, played themselves out and it's rather amazing who has managed to land on his feet.
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7
Like blues traveler and spin Doctors, God Street Wine built their reputation by playing for bar crowds weaned on classic rock but sophisticated (or stoned) enough to appreciate extensive, blues-based
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8
VOA was the last album Sammy Hagar recorded before he became the lead singer of Van Halen, and this effort shows why he was invited to join the band.
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9
Sammy Hagar, the singer's last solo album, was released a year after his first album with Van Halen, 1986's 5150.
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11
One of Sammy Hagar's rawest recordings, Musical Chairs features some guitars that are a treat for listeners fond of the much tougher, uncompromising music that Hagar used throughout the '70s to build
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15
One of Sammy Hagar's better early career outings, this eponymous effort is most commonly referred to as "the Red Album.
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16
Much like the guy who uses the cheesiest pick-up line on every girl who walks into the bar, Sammy Hagar has made a career out of being so damn persistent that eventually someone takes him home.
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18
As Sammy Hagar's career was at its height in the early '80s, Capitol, his '70s record label, released Rematch, a compilation of highlights from his six albums with the label.
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19
A CD-era collection of Hagar's Capitol work that supplants Rematch, The Best of Sammy Hagar has a nearly identical track listing as the previous collection and suffers from the same flaws.
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22
Continuing the sleek, driving pop-oriented sound of Hagar's breakthrough, Standing Hampton, Three Lock Box equals its predecessor, featuring such highlights as the double entendres of the title track
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33
While most would suggest that the seminal American hard rock debut from the Sammy Hagar-fronted Montrose is the real coming-out for the singer/guitarist, serious Hagar fans might disagree and offer t
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