Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart and yielded hit singles "Dance the Night Away" and "Beautiful Girls."

[5] The hit single "Dance the Night Away" sees the group fully embrace the bubblegum pop idiom, and features calypso rhythms in the intro and after the second chorus, whereas "Outta Love Again" is funkier than any of Van Halen's earlier material, with percussive vocals from David Lee Roth and jazz-funk drumming from Alex van Halen.

[5] The brief interlude "Spanish Fly" is a intricate solo performed on an acoustic nylon-string guitar, with chiming natural harmonics; it is followed by the loud "D.O.A.

[7] However, the guitar was completed by Charvel, delivered to Eddie by Karl Sandoval in early October 1978 and was photographed in use on the 2nd European leg of Van Halen's 1978 tour.

[citation needed] David Lee Roth is shown in a cast in the inner liner notes, as he allegedly broke his heel on the third try of the spread-eagle jump used on the back cover photo.

On Van Halen's first tour, they stayed at the hotel and destroyed the seventh floor, having fire extinguisher fights in the hallways and throwing televisions out windows.

[9] In a 1979 Rolling Stone review, Timothy White writes, "Scattered throughout Van Halen's second album are various Vanilla Fudge bumps and grinds, an Aerosmith-derived pseudobravado, a bit of Bad Company basement funk and even a few Humble Pie miniraveups," adding that the "LP retains a numbing live feel.

"[17] In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic noted that the album is "virtually a carbon copy of their 1978 debut," though goes on to say it is "lighter and funnier" and "some of the grandest hard rock ever made."