"And the Cradle Will Rock..." is a song written and performed by Van Halen. It appears on their 1980 album Women and Children First. It was one of two singles from the album; the other is the B-side "Everybody Wants Some!!". It is also the first song released by the band that featured the keyboard playing of Eddie Van Halen.

"And the Cradle Will Rock..."
Single by Van Halen
from the album Women and Children First
B-side	"Everybody Wants Some!!" "Loss of Control"
Released	May 1980 (1980-05) (US)
Recorded	December 1979 – February 1980
Genre	Hard rock
Length	3:31
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Michael Anthony Alex Van Halen Eddie Van Halen David Lee Roth
Producer(s)	Ted Templeman
Van Halen singles chronology
"Beautiful Girls" (1979) "And the Cradle Will Rock..." (1980) "So This Is Love?" (1981)
Audio
"And the Cradle Will Rock..." on YouTube

Chuck Klosterman of Vulture.com 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."[1]

Composition

The song begins with what sounds like a guitar, but is, in fact, a flanger-effected Wurlitzer electric piano played through Eddie Van Halen's 1960s model 100-watt Marshall Plexi amplifier.[2] During live performances on the 1980 tour, Michael Anthony would play the keyboards.

Reception

Cash Box 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."[3]

Eric Carr of KISS played "And the Cradle Will Rock..." along with Van Halen's cover of "You Really Got Me" as part of his audition tape, which successfully led to his becoming the new drummer for KISS.[4]^{[importance?]}

Charts

References

Further reading

• Van Halen Guitar Anthology. Van Nuys, California: Alfred. 2006. pp. 68–75. ISBN 9780897246729. OCLC 605214049.

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