For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge 1991 Album

Van Halen

The messy and labored "F.U.C.K." album - it took slight over a year to record - somehow breathed a new commercial wind into the group, right at the cusp of the grunge movement. I fail to understand how it happened, for this is easily the least fun, least interesting, least musical, and most preachy VH record to date, most likely cut as a response to the party-laden OU812. But at least it retained characteristics of the group which fans could relate to, while this version went off the deep end into populist cliché and pandering, as "Right Here, Right Now" can certainly attest to.