Official "A Different Kind of Truth" Album Review Thread

[NIN1211]

Shit...this whole album will kick your teeth out . As Is.....Outta Space....China Town........I can't believe how good this is. VH 2/22/12 Indy

[chi-town324]

an old co worker just sent me a text all it said....stay frosty.....fucking love it...i responded back with .. HOW DEEP DOES A RABBIT HOLE GO?

[riggodrill44]

I'm hearing from people I haven't talked to in 25 years. Consensus is... MIGHTY.

[flub]

It's been a long time since I last posted here. There is little I can say that hasn't already been said. I just had to come in here and add to the mass hysteria. I have waited more than half my life for this album and this reunion. The anticipation was high and my hopes were even higher. This bad ass album shattered my expectations and then melted them with a flame thrower. This is Van Halen. This is a masterpiece. Thank you, thank you, thank you Van Halen. I can't wait to see the spectacle in Philadelphia!

[sadaist]

. Its all very clear now.......Sammy was an employee. Dave is family.

Awesome.

[sadaist]

A couple of the best things are....


We will never, ever, ever have to hear again how Humans Being is Van Halens heaviest song.

And we will never ever have to hear again how their only #1 album was with Sammy. (I'm predicting a little here. We'll see soon enough with Billboard)

[Luke D]

Entertainment Weekly gives the album an A-

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20568414,00.html

No new Van Halen songs will ever be able to top arena-filling classics like ''Unchained'' or ''Panama.'' The band agrees: The bulk of A Different Kind of Truth, their first full-length David Lee Roth-led outing in 28 years, is made up of new takes on old demos. The result is a gloriously satisfying cop-out — the speed-demon grooves on ''Bullethead'' and ''She's the Woman'' let Eddie Van Halen tap into late-'70s pyrotechnics and Roth indulge in his contagious sense of huckster tomfoolery. A-

[rocking ron]

And we will never ever hear Spammy in Van Halen again!!

[tjvhou812]

ADKOT Will debut at number 4 according to billboard top 200
I was hoping for number 1 , but it still has time

[chi-town324]

four aint bad

[VHscraps]

what is that based on? It was only officially released yesterday - do they make up the charts on a Thursday or something?

I figure first week is probably the only chance it can get to numero uno - unless they have a big hit single to keep it up there.

aside from the hoopla on here, and at VHND and other sites - the Links, etc - it is really difficult to gauge who, or how many, will actually buy it.

my brother, for instance, thinks it's great and has been listening to it since the weekend, but did he buy it? NO.

I figure there'll be a lot of people who really think it is a good album who just don't buy albums / CDs anymore.

[tjvhou812]

not sure how they do it, but its debut is number 4, and on itunes its number 2

[VHscraps]

Van Halen vs. Adele for No. 1 Next Week

there's more HERE, just posted in the last few minutes:

Van Halen might be on its way to a sixth career No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart -- unless Adele's "21" stands in the veteran band's way.

Industry sources suggest that Van Halen's "A Different Kind of Truth" may sell about 180,000 to 200,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, Feb. 12. Under normal circumstances, that would be enough for the recently-signed Interscope act to bump Queen Adele from the top slot.

However, this isn't a normal week. The 54th Grammy Awards take place on Feb. 12, at 8-11:30 PM on CBS -- where Adele is scheduled to perform. The artist is nominated for six Grammys this year, and the performance will mark her first since undergoing surgery last year on her vocal chords. Further, Adele will sit down with Anderson Cooper for an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" immediately before the Grammys.

It's certainly possible that whatever buzz is generated by Adele on Grammy night -- the final day of the tracking week for next week's Billboard 200 -- could engineer a big gain in sales for "21." This past week, the set shifted 122,000 (up 5% according to Nielsen SoundScan) in its 19th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

If Van Halen does reach No. 1, it will be the band's first chart-topping studio set with reunited frontman David Lee Roth. The latter departed the group in 1985, a year after its "1984" album was released. "1984" spent five weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 -- the band's highest charting set with Roth. (He would later return to the fold, temporarily, to record two new songs for 1996's "Best Of Volume 1" hits album. That set debuted at No. 1 with 233,000 sold in its first week.)

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The new Billboard 200 chart's top 10 will be revealed on the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 15.

[Sensible Shoes]

Adele is OK but I will hate her forever if she fucks this up for them.

[tjvhou812]

here is the the link for it

http://www.metro.co.uk/music/889785-lana-del-rey-to-stay-at-no-1-with-born-to-die-for-second-week