#292 Van Halen, 'Van Halen' (1978)

The album starts with ‘Runnin’ With The Devil,’ but that’s not the song that was to announce Van Halen’s arrival to the world. That would be track 2, ‘Eruption;’ a song that brought together metal and classical music. A 1 minute and 42 second instrumental song that changed the way people thought about electric guitar and changed the way people played it, popularising the two-handed tap.