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Billy Idol – ‘Dream Into It’ (2025) – Album Review (The Billy Idol Series)

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It has been 11 years since we’ve had a full length studio album from Billy Idol. His last one was 2014 with ‘Kings And Queens of the Underground’. He has had a couple of 4 song E.P.’s since then, but no full album of new music. Now, the time is upon us. After he did those two E.P.’s, he realized the press on those was as much as a full length album so why not simply do a full album and we are glad he did. The album was released on April 25, 2025 and it went to #79 in the U.K., but Switzerland saw it go to #3 and Germany it was #2. How did it fare in the U.S.? Well, it was Billy’s first ever Top 10 album as it went to #7. Not bad Billy…not bad at all!

The interesting about this release is that it is a concept album and it is broken down in to two parts. Part 1 is called “Dying to Love” and is Side One on the vinyl. This side is focused on the past and sees Billy being nostalgic and focusing on his early years. Part 2 is called, “I’m Reborn” and is Side Two of the album. The focus here is more forward looking on his life now which sees him now as Grandpa and in love with a great family. Cool to see someone that almost died from his drug use and rock & roll lifestyle to be an older rocker and simply loving life. He seems to be in a good place.

I ended up buying both the CD and the vinyl simply because I collect everything Billy so had to have both versions. We get 9 songs, but really only 8 new ones as one of the song is a remake of the song “John Wayne” which was on hit 2008 greatest hits album called The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself. This time around it is a duet and we will get to that later. A little disappointing that we didn’t get 10 new songs. I was worried he was going to re-use some of the songs from his last two E.P.’s, but thankfully that was not the case. But we do a good some good stuff and some okay stuff, so let’s get to the music.

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The Collection: Ep. 64 – ‘Off the Soundboard: San Antonio, TX 12-3-1985’ by Kiss – Album Review

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This week on the collection, we are going to show of the new Kiss ‘Off the Soundboard’ release we have on both vinyl and CD. The show is from San Antonio, TX recorded on December 3, 1985 and is the first ‘Off the Soundboard’ release to feature Bruce Kulick on guitar. The tour was for ‘Asylum’ which is one of the tours I saw and I actually saw the show later that month in 1985 in Atlanta. We will talk the packaging, the crappy things Kiss Online store do and talk the show itself.

So go check it out as it will be live tonight right now, July 7, 2025 at 7pm. Thanks for stopping by and please click “Like” and hit “Subscribe” as it helps out the site when you do.

My Sunday Song – “In My Veins” by Colton Dixon

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For My Sunday Song #440, we are talking “In My Veins” by Colton Dixon. The song is off his stellar 2017 album ‘Identity’ released on March 24th of that year. The song was not a single, but my absolute favorite song on the album. The singles “Limitless” and “All That Matters” helped propel the album to #73 on the US Top 200 albums chart, but it went to #1 on the US Christian Albums chart. If you don’t know Colton, he is a former American Idol participant during Season 11 and made it to the Top 7, but amazingly didn’t win.

The song was written by Colton and Tommee Profitt and of course is a very religious song. The album it was from, ‘Identity’, was a concept album that had three parts, The Mind, The Body and The Spirit. “In My Veins” fell in The Body section. It is about how Jesus is inside of us, He is the fire in our veins. He gives us life through His death. When your world is dark, he is the light, the power that drives you and through your faith you can accomplish anything with His name written in your veins. A very spiritual and powerful message and every time I hear this song, I feel rejuvenated.

The song opens with a dramatic keyboard run, then the drums explode and you get some orchestration. It is all explosive and over the top in a good way. The chorus is huge, layers of vocals, great harmonies and Colton sounds amazing. The slow build up, the explosiveness and then to go go back to the softness before it explodes again takes you on a journey both musically and lyrically. The music gives you an uplifting, rejuvenated feeling that washes over you. Colton’s vocals are a higher range that is delivered so smooth and so effortlessly. The combination is perfection. A Christian song that is both a sensational pop song and a rock song at the same time.

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Friday New Releases – July 4, 2025

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Happy July 4th!! It is Independence Day here in the States and as a result, there isn’t much this week. The biggest release is definitely Kesha’s new one “.”. There isn’t anything for me so I’m going to enjoy the day off and the fireworks. Let me know what you want to hear and if there isn’t anything, there is always next week. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great long weekend!!

  • Kesha – . – (Kesha Records)
  • Dropkick Murphys – For The People – (Dummy Luck Music / Play It Again Sam)
  • Average White Band – Essential Selection – (Edsel Records)
  • The Reds, Pinks and Purples – The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed – (Fire Records)
  • Warkings – Armageddon – (Napalm Records)
  • Joe Stump’s Tower of Babel – Days of Thunder – (Silver Lining Music)
  • Wytch Hazel – V: Lamentations – (Bad Omen Records)
  • Rimmar – Raises – (Rockshots)
  • Leonov – Shape of Ash E.P. – (Pelagic Records)
  • Gaupa – Fyr E.P. – (Magnetic Eye)
  • Shouse – Collective Ecstasy – (Hell Beach)
  • Claudia Brucken – Night Mirror – (Edsel / Demon Music Group)
  • Rival Consoles – Landscape From Memory – (Erased Tapes)

Kiss – ‘Snake Attack Budokan: Last Show Japan Tour 1977’ – Album Review (The Kiss Bootleg Series)

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I have been doing a Kiss Bootleg Series for years. You get a review every time I add a new one to the collection. Well, after buying 38 Bootleg CDs from John Humphrey’s personal collection, I figured let’s jump right back in and do a whole lot of reviews on the Bootlegs. Oh, if you don’t know who John Humphrey is, you need to know he is a massive Kiss collector. And he is the drummer of the band Seether. John decided to sell off his entire collection…sort of…he kept all the vinyl (like 4,000 of them). He did it through an auction at Backstage Auctions and I had to have a piece of it…and I did wind up with some things.

A month ago, we did a review of ‘Kabuki Beasts: Kyoto 1977’ and it was recorded Saturday, March 26, 1977 at Kyoto Kaikan Dai Ichi Hall in Kyoto, Japan. This is another Japanese show from that tour. In fact, it is the Last Show of the 1977 Japanese Tour and it was April 4, 1977 at Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. It is called ‘Snake Attack Budokan: Last Show Japan Tour 1977’. There were only 150 of these made and sold so good luck trying to find one and if you do, I hope your wallet is full. Mine is #62.

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The Collection: Ep. 63 – June 2025 Wrap-Up

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It is the last day of the month so it is time for the monthly wrap-up so lets see what 2 Loud 2 Old Music added to the collection this month. This is June 2025 and we have a little vinyl, a whole lot of CDs, some cassettes and even a book. So much to go through including several new Rock Candy CDs in the collection, a new item for the Kiss collection and even a Box Set. Lots of great new and old stuff to go through and show for this month so I hope you enjoy the show!!

So go check it out as it will be live tonight right now, June 30, 2025 at 7pm. Thanks for stopping by and please click “Like” and hit “Subscribe” as it helps out the site when you do.

And here it all is in case you can’t watch…

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My Sunday Song – “Down Incognito” by Winger

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For My Sunday Song #439, we are talking “Down Incognito” by the band Winger which was from their third album, ‘Pull’, which came out on May 18, 1993. The song was the band’s lead single for the album and went all the way to #15 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Chart. The song was written by Kip Winger and Reb Beach who are both so talented as is this while band. Thanks to Beavis & Butthead, they never got a fair shake…but that is a whole other story.

The song is about dealing with Addiction. It talks about how he is out of money, can’t pay the rent and that he is waiting on a cure for his condition…addiction. There is a line about “My monkey’s M.O.” and the so called monkey is a term used for said addiction. By the end of the song it sounds like he has beat if for now, but it is right there over his shoulder waiting for him to slip. He can reminisce about it now, but the taste for it is always there. At least that is what I get out of it.

I love how the song opens with that bluesy, yet haunting harmonica. Then we get a Reb riff, a driving bass from Kip and a pounding drum beat from Rod Morgenstein. Kip’s vocals are stellar as always, but it is those harmonies in the chorus that really take the song over the top. It is huge and catchy as hell. The harmonica pops up every now and again and even gives us a little solo. The hidden secret to the song are the keyboard fills that add just the right amount of texture. A great rock song with some great pop sensibilities. A band that should have been bigger than they were as they were more talented than 99% of the bands out there.

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Friday New Releases – June 27, 2025

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We are to the end of yet another month and we have more new releases for you this week. There are two I’m interested in hearing and maybe I’ll buy down the road. Those two are the new Bruce Springsteen which is a ton of lost albums and the new Orianthi album which I can’t wait to see what she has to offer this time around. Let me know what you want to hear this week or what we may have missed. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend!

  • Bruce Springsteen – Tracks II: The Lost Albums – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
  • Bruce Springsteen – Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
  • Orianthi – Some Kind of Feeling – (Woodward Avenue Records)
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd – Celebrating 50 Years: Live at the Ryman – (Frontiers Records)
  • Lorde – Virgin – (Universal Music)
  • Motorhead – The Manticore Tapes – (Sanctuary Records / BMG)
  • Rod Stewart – Ultimate Hits – (Rhino / Warner Records)
  • Barbra Streisand – The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2 – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
  • Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – Cheaper Than Cheep: The Soundtrack – (Universal Music)
  • Sodom – The Arsonist – (Steamhammer)
  • TSS – End of Time – (Fearless Records / Concord)
  • Jakko M. Jakszyk – Son of Glen – (InsideOutMusic)
  • Heaven Shall Burn – Heimat – (Century Media Records)
  • Shadow Intent – Imperium Delirium – (Shadow of Intent)
  • Lord Belial – Unholy Trinity – (Hammerheart Records)
  • Crystal Viper – The Live Quest – (Crystal Viper)
  • Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services – (Relapse Records)
  • Crematory – …Just Dreaming – (Roar)
  • Arc De Soleil – Lumin Rain – (Maison Records)
  • Royale Lynn – Black Magic – (Epitaph)
  • Parker McCollum – Parker McCollum – (MCA Nashville / UMG)
  • Cole Swindell – Spanish Moss – (Warner Music Nashville)
  • Durry – This Movie Sucks – (Big Pip Records / Thirty Tigers)
  • Smut – Tomorrow Comes Crashing – (Bayonet Records)
  • Daisy The Great – The Rubber Teeth Talk – (S-Curve Records)
  • Late Night Drive Home – As I Watch My Life Online – (Epitaph)
  • Cheer-Accident – Admission – (Skin Graft Records)
  • Mareux – Nonstop Romance – (Revolution Records)
  • Greet Death – Die In Love – (Deathwish Inc)
  • Robert Randolph – Preacher Kids – (Dare Records / Sun Label Group)
  • Durand Jones & The Indications – Flowers – (Dead Oceans)
  • The Brummies – Drift Theory – (The Brummies)
  • Jeanines – How Long Can It Last – (Slumberland Records)
  • Katseye – Beautiful Chaos E.P. – (HYBE x Geffen / UMG)
  • Lauren Spencer Smith – The Art of Being a Mess – (Three Name Productions, Inc. / Island Records)

Kiss – ‘Detroit 1984: Cabo Hall Dec. 12, 1984’ – Album Review (The Kiss Bootleg Series)

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I have been doing a Kiss Bootleg Series for years. You get a review every time I add a new one to the collection. Well, after buying 38 Bootleg CDs from John Humphrey’s personal collection, I figured let’s jump right back in and do a whole lot of reviews on the Bootlegs. Oh, if you don’t know who John Humphrey is, you need to know he is a massive Kiss collector. And he is the drummer of the band Seether. John decided to sell off his entire collection…sort of…he kept all the vinyl (like 4,000 of them). He did it through an auction at Backstage Auctions and I had to have a piece of it…and I did wind up with some things.

The bootleg we have for you this time around is called ‘Detroit 1984’ and it was recorded at Cabo Hall in Detroit, Michigan on December 12, 1984. If you are die hard Kiss fan you know why this date is important. This show was recorded on video and released as the first concert video Kiss had ever released and it was called ‘Animalize Live Uncensored’. I had this on VHS and I remember it vividly although I did watch it again to make sure I didn’t miss anything. It came out on April 19, 1985 and I was so excited when this came out mainly because I saw this tour. My second Kiss show ever and now I was getting a video from that tour, how cool was that.

The show had a varied setlist with some old and some new. They kick off and end with some classic Kiss songs, but everything else in the middle was all 80’s from ‘Creatures of the Night’ (4 songs) to ‘Lick It Up’ (2 Songs) to ‘Animalize’ (3 Songs). For me, this is where I wanted them to spend their time as I was discovering Kiss on my own with these albums so I wanted these songs and I got my money worth with it.

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The Collection: Ep. 62 – Tour Books (Kiss, Rush, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi & More)

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This week, we are changing it up. We aren’t showing off any vinyl, any cd’s, any cassettes, no musical items at all…well, not quite. We are going to show TOUR BOOKS!! Yes, the Tour Books that artist sell at their shows…or at least they used to sell them. I bought a handful of Kiss ones back in the today and recently so I thought I’d start collecting them when I found them and now I have over 20. We will go through them here this week. The bands include The Monkees, Alice Cooper, The Police, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Rush and a whole lot of Kiss! I hope you enjoy…now I don’t show every page, but you can search them up here on the site and check them out in greater detail.

So go check it out as it will be live tonight right now, June 23, 2025 at 7PM. Thanks for stopping by and please click “Like” and hit “Subscribe” as it helps out the site when you do.