#ADKOT
On A Different Kind Of Truth’s 13th anniversary, Darren Paltrowitz talks about:

VH’s final 2 albums, ADKOT & Tokyo Dome Live In Concert in this #TBPC YouTube clip.

𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐄!

#DavidLeeRoth #podcast #VanHalen #ADKOT

𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡: youtu.be/eZdDxHGnv5o?si…
February 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
My favorite example is Van Halen though.

Complete Zero gives you like 65% of the first four albums before a single final track was mastered and then Eddie gets a second wind hooking up with Sammy and THEN DLR comes back one and they scrape the bottom of the barrel for ADKoT BUT IT WORKS
Like they did it once for the big cloud of Appetite and UYI songs, and then Axl seemed kind of spent by himself and barely squeezed Chinese Democracy out but whoops now the reunited band are slowly cherrypicking whatever's decent out of the archive rather than trying to write anything new
I love when bands do the thing where they have this huge creative explosion and write like a hundred songs and slowly pick sets of ten for each new album as they go

This thought brought to you by falling back down the Guns & Roses hole, which is a weirdly egregious and multi-stage example
February 22, 2024 at 3:01 AM
I was a massive VH fan when I was younger but I could not hang with most of the lyrics after a point. I also think most fans were sleeping on ADKoT, and the music on III was some of their most challenging but were let down by Cherone's turgid melodies.
October 14, 2023 at 5:47 PM
In no particular order:

Yellowjackets: Mint Jam
Yellowjackets: Fasten Up
Bruce Springsteen: The Rising
Sloan: Never hear the end of it
Van Halen: ADKOT
Bruce Hornsby: Absolute Zero
Tom Petty: Hypnotic Eye
Oasis: Dig Out Your Soul
Mike Stern: Echoes & Other Songs
Paul Motian: Time & Time Again
Okay you gave the Times your ten best movies of the century, but what about your ten best ALBUMS, hmm? Hit me with that shit.
July 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM