VAN HALEN: expanded edition Of 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' due in July

[SexxAtraxxion]

https://blabbermouth.net/news/van-halen ... ue-in-july

VAN HALEN's ninth studio album, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", debuted at No. 1 and stayed there for three weeks during the summer of 1991. It was the third consecutive No. 1 album from singer Sammy Hagar, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen and bassist Michael Anthony.

An expanded edition of the album is arriving this summer from Rhino, including a newly remastered version of the original, along with previously unreleased audio and video footage from VAN HALEN's December 4, 1991 concert in Dallas, Texas.

"For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (Expanded Edition)" will be available on July 12 and includes two LPs, two CDs, and a Blu-ray.

Rhino.com will have an exclusive bundle featuring the release and a set of four seven-inch singles, including "Poundcake" / "Pleasure Dome", "Top Of The World" / "In 'N' Out", "Right Now" (Organ Version) / "Man On A Mission" and "Right Now" (Guitar Version) / "The Dream Is Over" (Instrumental Version).

Originally released in June 1991, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" was an immediate success. It reached triple platinum certification and earned VAN HALEN its first Grammy Award for "Best Hard Rock Performance" and American Music Award for "Favorite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Album". Producer and engineer Bernie Grundman expertly remastered and cut lacquers for this edition, ensuring pristine sound quality.

The expanded edition includes previously unreleased alternate versions of "Right Now" and "The Dream Is Over". The main attraction, however, has to be the previously unreleased concert footage from VAN HALEN's December 4, 1991, performance in Dallas. Captured during the "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" tour, this electrifying show is a powerful example of VAN HALEN's unparalleled stage presence.

The show's setlist mixes new songs ("Judgement Day" and "Poundcake") with songs from "5150" and "OU812" ("Best Of Both Worlds" and "Finish What Ya Started"). The band also played "Panama", a hit from its time with singer David Lee Roth, plus two of Hagar's hits, "I Can't Drive 55" and "There's Only One Way To Rock".

In addition, the Blu-ray includes the official music videos for "Poundcake", "Runaround", "Top Of The World" and the 1992 MTV VMA "Video Of The Year" winner "Right Now". Finally, the remastered album is included in the set as a double LP, featuring an etching of the VAN HALEN logo on the fourth side.

"For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (Expanded Edition)" 2-CD track listing

Disc One: Original Album Remastered

01. Poundcake
02. Judgement Day
03. Spanked
04. Runaround
05. Pleasure Dome
06. In 'N' Out
07. Man On A Mission
08. The Dream Is Over
09. Right Now
10. 316
11. Top Of The World

Disc Two: Rarities & Live

01. Right Now – Organ Version (Single Mix)
02. The Dream Is Over – Instrumental Version *
03. Right Now – Guitar Version (Single Mix) *

Live at the Westend Market, Dallas, TX (12/4/91)

04. Poundcake *
05. Judgement Day *
06. There's Only One Way To Rock *
07. Runaround *
08. Why Can't This Be Love *
09. Panama *
10. A Apolitical Blues *
11. Finish What Ya Started *
12. I Can't Drive 55 *
13. Best Of Both Worlds *
14. Top Of The World *

Blu-ray

Live at the Westend Market, Dallas, TX (12/4/91)

01. Poundcake *
02. Judgement Day *
03. There's Only One Way To Rock *
04. Runaround *
05. Why Can't This Be Love *
06. Panama *
07. A Apolitical Blues *
08. Finish What Ya Started *
09. I Can't Drive 55 *
10. Best Of Both Worlds *
11. Top Of The World *
12. Poundcake - Promo Video
13. Runaround - Promo Video
14. Right Now - Promo Video
15. Top Of The World - Promo Video

LP: Original Album Remastered

2-LP track listing

LP One: Side One

01. Poundcake
02. Judgement Day
03. Spanked
04. Runaround

Side Two

01. Pleasure Dome
02. In 'N' Out
03. Man On A Mission

LP Two: Side One

01. The Dream Is Over
02. Right Now
03. 316
04. Top Of The World

Side Two

VAN HALEN Logo Etching

* Previously unreleased

[SexxAtraxxion]

Poundcake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMGUAZM-qb8

[SterileEyes1]

Is this the same remaster I just bought in that 5 LP set [checks watch] less than a year ago?

If so, thank goodness for Spotify to check out all the rest of this stuff.

[Rocker4Real]

NIce. The Blu Ray concert footage would be cool. Did they overdub the live stuff so it's no longer live? If so, fuck that.

[FreddyFender]

Poundcake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMGUAZM-qb8

I don't think a single note of that is live.

[Anthrax442]

Is this the same remaster I just bought in that 5 LP set [checks watch] less than a year ago?

If so, thank goodness for Spotify to check out all the rest of this stuff.

Was that remastered? The one in the box set is only one disc, not two, so it's definitely oriented differently, just not sure if the music is the same.

[Rocker4Real]

My childhood was destroyed when I learned Live Without a Net wasn't live. Van Hagar betrayed a 13 year old!

[Bono Nettencourt]

God... they played Apolitical Blues at a free show? I would've put $20 in the hat to get them not to.

[Psychobolia.com]

Disc 2: what idiot decided that the live show should go after the 3 stupid ass "rarities" that are only going to be listened once? No wonder the record industry is struggling.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Eh, watch the blu-ray then, froggy.

[DemonFilth2001]

Eh, watch the blu-ray then, froggy.

People still own blu-ray players?

[Bono Nettencourt]

Eh, watch the blu-ray then, froggy.

People still own blu-ray players?

Right. Patently ridiculous, but owning a CD player somehow still makes sense

[HottKarl777]

This is the tour that Sammy claimed to have "brutal sex" with 8 women at a time under the stage during Eddie's solo. I hope the expanded edition has video of Sammy fucking 8 women at once like some sexual tyrannosaurus. (even walking around with the tiny dinosaur arms screaming "raaaarrghhh!)

[DemonFilth2001]

Eh, watch the blu-ray then, froggy.

People still own blu-ray players?

Right. Patently ridiculous, but owning a CD player somehow still makes sense

It doesn’t.

[BernieTaupson]

My childhood was destroyed when I learned Live Without a Net wasn't live. Van Hagar betrayed a 13 year old!

Live : Right Here Right Now.

And that sucked anyway.

[BernieTaupson]

Oh and I said at the time that Hagar box with a so called disc of “rarities” (a bunch of which were on the original album on CD to begin with) was a half ass job.

There’s still a bunch of single edits that should be included on this set too.

Maybe they can come out next year when they re re re master them and put them in a box set of box sets with all the shit that should have been included the first time.

[Anthrax442]

Oh and I said at the time that Hagar box with a so called disc of “rarities” (a bunch of which were on the original album on CD to begin with) was a half ass job.

There’s still a bunch of single edits that should be included on this set too.

Maybe they can come out next year when they re re re master them and put them in a box set of box sets with all the shit that should have been included the first time.

The only reason I bought the box set was to get a copy of Balance at a reasonable price.

The fact that It's About Time, Up for Breakfast and Learning to See are available on Vinyl, and Me Wise Magic and Can't Get This Stuff No More aren't is a crime against humanity.

(Yes, I know there's a bootleg of Best of Vol 1 out there, and I've almost bought it, but it's the principle of the thing.)

[mfgtr]

UUUUUGH
There are three fully recorded and mixed songs that were left off this album :
1 The Wish
2 You Never Know
3 Out of the Either

I was so excited thinking " wow , finally gonna hear those songs "

NOPE - same old VH bullshit

UUUGH

[Anthrax442]

UUUUUGH
There are three fully recorded and mixed songs that were left off this album :
1 The Wish
2 You Never Know
3 Out of the Either

I was so excited thinking " wow , finally gonna hear those songs "

NOPE - same old VH bullshit

UUUGH

You know, if those songs really exist, I'm pretty surprised they aren't showing up here. I know VH is dysfunctional and all, but that's not even a matter of having to go through Eddie's tape library and finish tracks.

Is there actual proof those songs exist? This is the first I'm hearing of it, but I don't live on the VH website either.

[mfgtr]

UUUUUGH
There are three fully recorded and mixed songs that were left off this album :
1 The Wish
2 You Never Know
3 Out of the Either

I was so excited thinking " wow , finally gonna hear those songs "

NOPE - same old VH bullshit

UUUGH

You know, if those songs really exist, I'm pretty surprised they aren't showing up here. I know VH is dysfunctional and all, but that's not even a matter of having to go through Eddie's tape library and finish tracks.

Is there actual proof those songs exist? This is the first I'm hearing of it, but I don't live on the VH website either.

GO TO the 12:07 point. Edward says there's actually FOUR but only drops " Out of the Either " at the end of his answer and doesnt reveal the fourth songs title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVxhWX5kCFk

[BernieTaupson]

Maybe Wolftits ripped them off for his solo albums.

[Hellbound]

UUUUUGH
There are three fully recorded and mixed songs that were left off this album :
1 The Wish
2 You Never Know
3 Out of the Either

I was so excited thinking " wow , finally gonna hear those songs "

NOPE - same old VH bullshit

UUUGH

Hate how extremely obvious shit like this happens.

Metallica do this too: playing Antarctica? No Trapped Under Ice. Movie is called Through The Never? Don't play that song.

Deluxe box set of And Justice for All is due, everyone and their dog wants the thing remix. Nope. They don't do that.

I actually like F.U.C.K and I own the CD. Without those out-takes I never heard of before now I will never spend more money on that album for the rest of my life. Who gives a fuck about remasters anyway? Its remixes that really change the listening experience, for better or worse.

TL;DR: Wolf is fat.

[BernieTaupson]

[Love_Industry]

UUUUUGH
There are three fully recorded and mixed songs that were left off this album :
1 The Wish
2 You Never Know
3 Out of the Either

I was so excited thinking " wow , finally gonna hear those songs "

NOPE - same old VH bullshit

UUUGH

You know, if those songs really exist, I'm pretty surprised they aren't showing up here. I know VH is dysfunctional and all, but that's not even a matter of having to go through Eddie's tape library and finish tracks.

Is there actual proof those songs exist? This is the first I'm hearing of it, but I don't live on the VH website either.

GO TO the 12:07 point. Edward says there's actually FOUR but only drops " Out of the Either " at the end of his answer and doesnt reveal the fourth songs title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVxhWX5kCFk

From ultimateclassicrock: "The first two of these unheard outtakes from 1991′s For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge featured “She Blinded Me With Science” hit maker Thomas Dolby assisting on keyboards. In return, Eddie Van Halen appeared on two songs from Dolby’s 1992 album Astronauts & Heretics. It was eventually decided that “You Never Know” and “The Wish” didn’t fit in with the back-to-basics approach of the rest of the Van Halen album. “Out of the Ether” was reportedly also considered for inclusion on the band’s next album, Balance, with the working title of “Hendrix Jam”

As for the fourth song this is probably it:
- Backdoor Shuffle - (Recorded and reworked as Can't Get This Stuff No More)

[Anthrax442]

GO TO the 12:07 point. Edward says there's actually FOUR but only drops " Out of the Either " at the end of his answer and doesnt reveal the fourth songs title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVxhWX5kCFk

From ultimateclassicrock: "The first two of these unheard outtakes from 1991′s For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge featured “She Blinded Me With Science” hit maker Thomas Dolby assisting on keyboards. In return, Eddie Van Halen appeared on two songs from Dolby’s 1992 album Astronauts & Heretics. It was eventually decided that “You Never Know” and “The Wish” didn’t fit in with the back-to-basics approach of the rest of the Van Halen album. “Out of the Ether” was reportedly also considered for inclusion on the band’s next album, Balance, with the working title of “Hendrix Jam”

As for the fourth song this is probably it:
- Backdoor Shuffle - (Recorded and reworked as Can't Get This Stuff No More)

Thank you both. Sounds like we're not missing that much.

[Love_Industry]

GO TO the 12:07 point. Edward says there's actually FOUR but only drops " Out of the Either " at the end of his answer and doesnt reveal the fourth songs title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVxhWX5kCFk

From ultimateclassicrock: "The first two of these unheard outtakes from 1991′s For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge featured “She Blinded Me With Science” hit maker Thomas Dolby assisting on keyboards. In return, Eddie Van Halen appeared on two songs from Dolby’s 1992 album Astronauts & Heretics. It was eventually decided that “You Never Know” and “The Wish” didn’t fit in with the back-to-basics approach of the rest of the Van Halen album. “Out of the Ether” was reportedly also considered for inclusion on the band’s next album, Balance, with the working title of “Hendrix Jam”

As for the fourth song this is probably it:
- Backdoor Shuffle - (Recorded and reworked as Can't Get This Stuff No More)

Thank you both. Sounds like we're not missing that much.

Still it would be cool to hear some completely new unreleased VH and it's not like they didn't have keyboard songs on the album. At least one, Right Now, and it was a huge hit. Unreleased VH is almost as good as released VH even if I think they mostly made the right choices. Down in Flames should have made VH2, and maybe She's the Woman on VH1 but I'm not sure what they would have removed.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Mean Street would have to go then. Uh-uh.

[Love_Industry]

Mean Street would have to go then. Uh-uh.

Mean Street was Voodoo Queen in the club days. Good tune but not as good as Mean Street.

[LSD69]

This is the tour that Sammy claimed to have "brutal sex" with 8 women at a time under the stage during Eddie's solo.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Mean Street would have to go then. Uh-uh.

Mean Street was Voodoo Queen in the club days. Good tune but not as good as Mean Street.

There was a little She's The Woman in there too.