Unchained

About Unchained

Unchained is the best-known song from Van Halen's 1981 album Fair Warning. Considered to be one of the band's signature tracks, it is instantly identifiable and one of the most requested songs on FM radio in the 1980s. Eddie Van Halen wrote the main riff at 4:00 in the morning with engineer Donn Landee while they were doing some overdubbing on the album. The song features prominent use of the MXR M-117 flanger, which has become a popular sound and a preset for the flanger setting was included on the EVH Flanger MXR later manufactured. .

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About this song

Credited to

Van Halen

Album

Best of Volume 1 · Track 6 of 17

Released

September 24, 1996

Duration

3:29

On Last.fm

172,224 listeners on Last.fm

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From the album: Best of Volume 1