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called the song a "tongue-in-cheek anthem," saying that "David Lee Roth's acrobatic vocal leaps are in fine form," that Eddie Van Halen provides "sonic lead guitar blasts" and that the song has "industrial strength rhythms."
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ranked it the 50th-best Van Halen song, writing "I’ve always found it a bit ponderous and uncompromisingly average, but I’ve also listened to it somewhere in the vicinity of 8,000 times."
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and was released as a single. It is also the first song released by the band that featured the keyboard playing of
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The song begins with what sounds like a guitar, but is, in fact, a flanger-effected
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played "And the Cradle Will Rock..." along with Van Halen's cover of "
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Index

The Cradle Will Rock
Cradle Will Rock

Single
Van Halen
Women and Children First
B-side
Everybody Wants Some!!
Genre
Hard rock
Label
Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)
Michael Anthony
Alex Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen
David Lee Roth
Producer(s)
Ted Templeman
Van Halen
Beautiful Girls
So This Is Love?
"And the Cradle Will Rock..."
YouTube
Van Halen
1980
Women and Children First
Eddie Van Halen
Wurlitzer electric piano
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