Song · Van Halen
“So This is Love?” by Van Halen
From the album Fair Warning (1981)
“So This is Love?” by Van Halen appears on 14 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1990 and 2023. It was first released in 1981 on the album Fair Warning. Its best result is #322 on the KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,029 classic rock song of all time.
"So This Is Love?" comes off Fair Warning, Van Halen's 1981 album, and it's the odd duck in their catalog: a hard rocker rooted in a swing beat, something no other song of theirs can claim. All four of them wrote it, Ted Templeman produced, and Donn Landee engineered with Gene Meros assisting.
Alex Van Halen swings it, Michael Anthony's bass line keeps things plain and unfussy, and Edward Van Halen's lead guitar sweats all over the top while David Lee Roth hams it up. Chuck Klosterman, ranking it 29th among the band's songs, spotted the catch: the verses brim with romantic hope while the title sounds like the letdown. It was one of four singles from the album, and its promo clip was filmed at the Prehistoric Park in Rivolta d'Adda and aired on Italian TV's Happy Circus.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Classic Rock
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All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 690 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 345 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 322 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 440 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 376 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 358 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 575 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2012 | 1076 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) | 1200 |
| 2013 | 347 | 99.1 PLR | 99.1 PLR CT 500 (2013) | 500 |
| 2013 | 859 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 831 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2015 | 868 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
| 2022 | 480 | 99.1 PLR | 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2023 | 722 | 101.5 WPDH | WPDH Top 1015 (2023) | 1015 |
Also listed as: So This Is Love?; So This Is Love; So This is Love.
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