Skyscraper (album)

Skyscraper
Studio album by David Lee Roth
Released	January 26, 1988
Recorded	Spring – Autumn 1987
Genre	Hard rock, glam metal
Length	41:17
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	David Lee Roth, Steve Vai
David Lee Roth chronology
Eat 'Em and Smile (1986) Skyscraper (1988) A Little Ain't Enough (1991)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
The Daily Vault	C−
Los Angeles Times
Robert Christgau	C+
Rolling Stone

Skyscraper is the second full-length album by David Lee Roth, the original and current lead vocalist of Van Halen. It was released in 1988 on Warner Bros. Records.

Skyscraper was issued shortly after the commercially and critically successful Eat 'em and Smile World Tour of 1986–1987. Skyscraper hit #6 on the Billboard Top 200 U.S. album chart during February 1988, en route to selling two million copies in the U.S. alone. The album features one of Roth's most popular international hit singles, "Just Like Paradise", which reached #6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Additionally, it features the acoustic ballad "Damn Good", which reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Rock chart.

At the time of its release, the eclectic, quasi-psychedelic Skyscraper divided public and critical opinion. Retrospective reviews tend to evaluate the album more favorably.

Although Roth's 1988 Skyscraper Tour was successful, many fans and critics who had felt disappointed by Van Halen's post-Roth, keyboard-heavy sound expressed similar dissatisfaction with Skyscraper. Guitarist Steve Vai (who co-produced Skyscraper, and wrote a majority of its songs) and bassist Billy Sheehan, who formed the core of David Lee Roth's solo band, left the group over various controversies regarding Skyscraper.

All songs written by David Lee Roth and Steve Vai unless otherwise noted.

All songs written by Roth/Vai unless otherwise noted.

Album

Singles

^*sales figures based on certification alone
^{^}shipments figures based on certification alone

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