Van Halen / 5150 Expanded Edition

Van Halen will celebrate 40 years of 5150 with a new five-disc super deluxe edition, in March.

The 1986 album was Van Halen’s first with former Montrose singer Sammy Hagar on lead vocals – rock legend has it that he was recommended by a mechanic working on Eddie Van Halen’s Lamborghini – and the first without producer Ted Templeman. Engineer Donn Landee and Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones took over on production duties and, though 5150’s embrace of love songs unsettled some fans, it was a massive hit, selling over six million in the US alone.  

The 5150 super deluxe includes:

• LP and CD1 – The original album remastered by engineer Donn Landee 
• CD2 – Single edits, extended versions and live tracks originally released as B-sides
• CD3 – 12 tracks recorded at their 27 August 1986 concert in New Haven, Connecticut, originally released as the 1986 VHS Live Without A Net (the 2004 DVD release included the whole set)
• Blu-ray – The full Live Without A Net film given a high-definition upgrade, promo videos for ‘Dreams’ and ‘Why Can’t This Be Love’
• 24-page book

Separate 2CD and 2LP versions replicate the tracklisting of the first two CDs of the super deluxe. An Amazon-exclusive green vinyl edition will also be available. 

As with previous VH sets, the lack of any previously unreleased material will be a frustration to fans, not to mention the disc which is essentially an edited audio version of Live Without A Net. And of course the studio album is not included as hi-res or in immersive audio on the blu-ray.

5150 is reissued on 27 March 2026, via Rhino.

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Tracklisting

5150 Van Halen / Super deluxe edition

• • CD 1: Original Album Remastered
    1. Good Enough
    2. Why Can’t This Be Love
    3. Get Up
    4. Dreams
    5. Summer Nights
    6. Best Of Both Worlds
    7. Love Walks In
    8. 5150
    9. Inside
  • CD 2:
    1. Best Of Both Worlds (Single Edit)
    2. Dreams (Single Edit)
    3. Love Walks In (Single Edit)
    4. Why Can’t This Be Love (Extended Version)
    5. Dreams (Extended Version)
    6. Best Of Both Worlds (Live)
    7. Rock And Roll (Live)
    8. Love Walks In (Live)
  • CD 3:

    New Haven Veteran Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT (8/27/86)

    1. There’s Only One Way To Rock
    2. Summer Nights
    3. 5150
    4. Panama
    5. Best Of Both Worlds
    6. Love Walks In
    7. Guitar Solo
    8. I Can’t Drive 55
    9. Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love
    10. Wild Thing
    11. Why Can’t This Be Love
    12. Rock And Roll
  • Blu-ray
    1. Live Without a Net (HD Upgrade)
    2. Dreams (Promo Video)
    3. Why Can’t This Be Love (Promo Video)
  • Vinyl LP: Original Album Remastered

    Side One

    1. Good Enough
    2. Why Can’t This Be Love
    3. Get Up
    4. Dreams
    5. Summer Nights

    Side Two

    1. Best Of Both Worlds
    2. Love Walks In
    3. 5150
    4. Inside