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The Collection: Ep. 20 – Wrap Up June 2024

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As we end another month, it is time to go back and see what 2 Loud 2 Old Music added to the collection. This is June 2024 and we have vinyl, CDs, Cassettes, Singles, DVDs and even a book. So much to go through including not one…not two…but three Noble Record Exclusives. And to top that off we have some Kiss CDs & Cassettes and even a Billy Idol Floppy Disk…you read that right. So much to show for this month so I hope you enjoy the show!!

So go check it out as it will be live tonight right now, July 1, 2024 at 8pm. Thanks for stopping by and please click “Like” and hit “Subscribe” as it helps out the site when you do.

And for those that like to see all the stuff in one shot…here you go…

Richie Sambora – ‘Aftermath of the Lowdown’ (2012) – Album Review (The Bon Jovi Collection Series)

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In 2012, Richie was still in Bon Jovi. His departure was not too far in the future as he becomes unhappy with the direction of the band. His solo albums are his chance to do something he wants to do and I will say that this is better than anything Bon Jovi was doing at the time. Richie went deep in to his problems and laid them out bare for all of us to see. A very personal album, but based on what happens later, not sure it was a healing album for him. He was still fighting demons even after this release.

The album, ‘Aftermath of the Lowdown’, was released on September 12, 2012. Okay, that was the release date in Japan, the UK saw September 17th and North America saw the 18th (well, digital release, physical was even a week later on the 25th). Yeah, I hate these staggered release dates. Just do it all at once or none at all. The album only went to #149 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart, but did go to #10 on the Hard Rock Album Charts, so it had moderate success. But the real success is in the music. A Richie Sambora solo album is always welcome especially when a Bon Jovi album was not in my world. Bon Jovi had lost the plot, but Richie found his way with this one.

The album opens with “Burn the Candle Down” and it is a wall of sound with an explosive opening, a killer riff and some distorted vocals by Richie. The guitar sounds like a siren warning of the onslaught of rock we were going to get. A heavy rocker, with drum beats that will break your balls. The solo shreds harder then anything BJ was doing at the time; heck, there are even two solos in this song. Damn it is killer. The song really gets the blood flowing and kicks off the album in style.

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My Sunday Song – “Fallin’ For You” by The Defiants

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For My Sunday Song #419, we have another song from The Defiant’s. This time around it is “Fallin’ For You” from the bands second album, ‘Zokusho’. It was written by Paul Laine and his buddy Bruno Ravel. If you thought the first album was good, then this one will not disappoint. A band that is celebrating that 80’s rock sound and this particular song is all that and more. This one was a single and even had a video. You gotta love that.

Lyrically, the song is about a woman that comes in to his life when he wasn’t looking for love. Heck, she wasn’t either as she just got out of a relationship. They were both wrong place, wrong time, but the heart wants what the heart wants. He has fallin’ for her hard and wants to know what to do. How can they make it work despite everything saying it can’t. A classic love story that has been in every Rom-Com out there.

With a little keyboard opening and then a gritty guitar riff, we get a classic Danger Danger style rocking love song. You get swept up in those big choruses, catchy hooks and that Paul Laine vocal. He was made for these type of songs. The guitar solo is huge, crazy riffs, fast flying fingers. It all screams 80’s and I scream along with it…Hell Yeah!!! A fun song that will get stuck in your head for days.

Give the song a listen and tell me that music doesn’t take you back to the 80’s. 80’s music was the best as it was the most fun and I am thrilled The Defiants are celebrating that sound. It makes you feel so good. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed this week’s song. Have a wonderful and Happy Sunday!!

“Fallin’ For You”

I wasn’t looking for somebody to love me
I wasn’t waiting for a second chance
You know I’ve never really been that lucky
I’d given up trying to understand
You were getting over some old heartbreak
You never counted on me walking through your door, yeah

I didn’t know I was waiting for you
It’s out of my hands and there’s nothing I can do

Girl, I can’t help it (I can’t help it)
There’s something in the air tonight
I just wanna tell you (wanna tell you)
That my heart’s got nothing to hide
I can’t hold back even if I tried
Tell me what I gotta do
‘Cause girl, you got me
Fallin’ for you (fallin’ for you)
What’s a boy to do? (Fallin’ for you)
You got me fallin’, fallin’ for you, oh

I was runnin’ in the wrong direction
I was headed down a dead end road
In the mirror was my own reflection
Telling me you’re better off alone
All I knew is there was someone for me
Someone out there with a heart that beat like mine, oh

You were the one I was dreaming about
I’m head over heels and there ain’t no doubt

Girl, I can’t help it (I can’t help it)
There’s something in the air tonight
I just wanna tell you (wanna tell you)
That my heart’s got nothing to hide
I can’t hold back even if I tried
Tell me what I gotta do
‘Cause girl, you got me
Fallin’ for you (fallin’ for you)
And there ain’t no use (fallin’ for you)
You got me fallin’, fallin’ for you

‘Cause that’s the thing about love when you find it
Try to hold on and never let go
It’s the chance that you take
Between love and fate
And only your heart will know

I didn’t know I was waiting for you
It’s out of my hands and there’s nothing I can do
You were the one I was dreaming about
I’m head over heels and there ain’t no doubt

Girl, I can’t help it (I can’t help it)
There’s something in the air tonight
I just wanna tell you (wanna tell you)
That I’m ready to give you this heart of mine
I can’t hold back even if I tried
Tell me what I gotta do
‘Cause girl, you got me
Fallin’ for you (fallin’ for you)
Girl, I’m stuck on you (fallin’ for you)
(Fallin’ for you) and there ain’t no use

what’s a boy to do?
(Fallin’ for you, fallin’ for you) oh girl, you got me fallin’
(Fallin’ for you) hey (fallin’ for you) oh, oh, I’m fallin’
(Fallin’ for you, fallin’ for you) fallin’ for you
(Fallin’ for you) fallin’ for you (fallin’ for you) fallin’ for you
(Fallin’ for you) yeah, you know I can’t help it (fallin’ for you)
Oh, I wanna tell you (fallin’ for you)
There’s something in the air tonight (fallin’ for you) hoo

Songwriters: Paul Laine / Bruno Ravel Dicecco

Friday New Releases – June 28, 2024

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Welcome back to Friday New Releases. We are already to the final week of June and although Summer is heating up, for me, the releases this week aren’t that hot. Nothing I have to have and actually, the Stryper ‘To Hell With the Amp’ is a reissue of what they released earlier this year exclusively on their site and it sold it fast (yes, I have a copy). And speaking of Michael Sweet, he also has Sunbomb which I’m not thrilled with, but will get eventually as I do with Michael’s stuff. A lot people might be in to Imagine Dragons and Camila Cabello as they have a new ones, not for me though. I might give The Fabulous Thunderbirds a listen as I didn’t realize they were still together. Let me know what you want to hear this week or what we may have missed. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

  • Imagine Dragons – Loom – (KidInACorner./ Interscope Records)
  • Sunbomb – Light Up The Sky – (Frontiers Records)
  • Stryper – To Hell With The Amp – (Stryper Recording) – Reissue of exclusive website only CD
  • Megan Thee Stallion – Megan – (Hot Girl Productions)
  • The Fabulous Thunderbirds – Struck Down – (RHM-Linus / Stony Plain Records)
  • Johnny Cash – Songwriter – (Mercury Nashville / UMe)
  • Can – Live in Aston 1977 – (Mute Music)
  • Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – South of Here – (Stax Records / Concord)
  • Camila Cabello – C,XOXO – (Geffen / Interscope Records)
  • Jxdn – When the Music Stops – (DTA Records / Elektra Records)
  • The Warning – Keep Me Fed – (Republic Records / UMG / Lava Music)
  • Lupe Fiasco – Samurai – (1st And 15th Too / Thirty Tigers)
  • Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Early Daze – (Reprise Records)
  • Yes – Fragile (Super Deluxe Edition) – (Rhino Entertainment / Warner Music Group)
  • Guided By Voices – Strut of Kings – (GBV Inc.)
  • Robert Jon & The Wreck – Red Moon Rising – (Journeyman Records)
  • Anvil – One and Only – (AFM Records / Soulfood Music Distribution)
  • Nothing More – Carnal – (Better Noise Music)
  • Neaera – All Is Dust – (Metal Blade Records)
  • The Eternal – Skinwalker – (Reigning Phoenix Music)
  • 200 Stab Wounds – Manual Manic Procedures – (Metal Blade Records)
  • Wraith – Fueled by Fear – (Prosthetic Records)
  • Islander – Grammy Nominated – (Islander / Blood Blast Distribution)
  • Gerry Beckley – Gerry Beckley – (Blue Elan)
  • White Stones – Memoria Viva – (Reigning Phoenix Music)
  • Hiatus Kaiyote – Love Heart Cheat Code – (Brainfeeder)
  • Still Woozy – Love Seat – (Insterscope Records)
  • Aaron Frazer – Into the Blue – (Dead Oceans)
  • Scene Queen – Hot Singles In Your Area – (Hopeless Records)
  • Omar Apollo – God Said No – (Warner Records)
  • Silverada – Silverada – (Prairie Rose Records)
  • Washed Out – Notes from a Quiet Life – (Sub Pop Records)
  • Yellow House – Psalms of Yellow House – (Foreign Family Collective)
  • Lucky Daye – Algorithm – (Keep Cool / RCA Records)
  • Keke Wyatt – Certified – (Shanachie Ent. Group)
  • Marsha Ambrosius – Casablanco – (Aftermath Records / Interscope Records)
  • Sour Widows – Revival of Friends – (Exploding in Sound Records)
  • Lorrie Morgan – Dead Girl Walking – (Cleopatra Records)
  • Austin Snell – Still Bleeding – (River House Artists / Warners Music Nashville)
  • Adam Doleac – About: Time – (Mom & Daddy’s Money)
  • Kaitlin Butts – Roadrunner! – (Soundly Music)
  • Redd Kross – Redd Kross – (In the Red)

Def Leppard – ‘Euphoria’ (1999) – Album Review (The Def Leppard Collection Series)

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In 1998, Def Leppard went back in the studio to record their seventh studio album, ‘Euphoria’. The band’s plan for the album was pretty much, don’t abandon the original Leppard sound. Go back and record an album that sounded like the albums that made the band famous. And the album turned out exactly like that. After creating an album like ‘Slang’, that was a brand new sound for the band and wasn’t that successful. This was probably a smart idea. It was produced by Pete Woodruffe and Def Leppard at Joe’s Garage Studio’s 1 & 2 in Dublin, Ireland and would be released on June 8, 1999. The album would actually be moderately successful, hitting #11 on the Billboard charts and it would go Gold in the States.

Longtime friend and producer, Robert John “Mutt” Lange, came and helped out with the album, but only spent four days in the studio giving them advice rather than sitting at the boards working. Heck, he even helped write a few songs and sang backing vocals on a track. I’m sure his direction in those short four days helped the direction of the album. Speaking of direction, the band’s look went in a different direction too. The hair was cut short, the clothes were nicer and they looked like a more modern rock band going in to the year 2000. But musically, it was back to their heyday of the 80’s and early 90’s. And not a moment too soon.

The band was still Joe Elliott, Rick Savage, Rick Allen, Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell and is still that band today as I write this in 2024. What I like about this album is that Vivian keeps getting more involved and has a lot more writing credits on this one. His influence on the band is evident. The band have aged well, matured and delivered us a solid Leppard album.

Coming out of the cage with a roar is the opening track “Demolition Man”. A high energy, fist pounding rocker. The song sees the typical gang type vocals on the chorus, the fast, frenzied guitars and Joe spitting out lyrics at breakneck speed. A banger of an opener that let it be clear, Leppard was back with what you want to hear, yet sounding both old school and modern at the same time. A nice mixture of the two.

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The Collection: Ep. 19 – Generation X

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A few weeks back, we went through my Billy Idol Vinyl. I promised we would come back and do a walk through Billy’s first big band, Generation X. Here we are ready to tackle the Generation X collection. We go through all the vinyl I have and even throw in a few CDs and a cassette. If you like some Punk, then you’ll love Generation X. We start with a young lad name William Broad that turns in to the great Billy Idol and how he developed in to the superstar he would later become. I hope you enjoy!!

So go check it out as it is live now on June 24, 2024 at 8pm. Thanks for stopping by and please click “Like” and hit “Subscribe” as it helps out the site when you do.

Bon Jovi – ‘Inside Out’ (2012) – DVD Review (The Bon Jovi Collection Series)

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Only the band’s second live album, ‘Inside Out’, was released on November 27, 2012. It was not one show though, it was spread across 3 epic venues as the back of the box states. The songs are from the 25th Anniversary show at Madison Square Garden, the Hometown opening night at New Meadowlands Stadium and then from the Historic 12 night run at London’s O2 Arena. 12 nights…damn!! Usually, I would hate something that wasn’t all one show, but this works. If I’m not mistaken, this is only available on iTunes. Well, that is unless you are able to find the Australian promo of the actual video…which I do. And that is what we are reviewing here, the DVD and not the iTunes version.

The DVD is a promo as it says on the back of the box and on the disc itself, “not for sale”. The video is the actual screening from the theatrical release and it does something cool. We get 14 tracks from the 3 venues and what they do at times during the songs is switch to split screen and show shots of them performing the song from the other arena or arenas in some cases. An interesting way of doing things and it makes it fun to watch. It is 75 minutes of pure Bon Jovi live energy.

The show kicks off with one of my favorite tracks, “Blood on Blood”, from ‘New Jersey’. It feels untouched as you can here the little wobbles and cracks in Jon’s voice like a good live show should have. The song might not have the same grit live as it does on the studio version, but they do put their all in to it. “Lost Highway” sees Jon dripping wet with sweat and when they show the split screens, he is perfectly dry in those which tells me one song was played early in the set and the other later.

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My Sunday Song – “Wide Awake And Dead” by Danger Danger

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For My Sunday Song #418, we are talking about Danger Danger’s song “Wide Awake And Dead” off the band’s third album ‘Dawn’ from 1995. Technically, their fourth recorded, but third release but that is a story for another time. The song was written by Paul Laine and Bruno Ravel. Although not a single, the song was one that connected to me for its dark tone and subject matter.

The song is about some major daddy issues. The child is in pain but the dad doesn’t seem to ever listen to him and care. It was as if no father was ever there. The darkness has filled the boy and he is ready to kill his father. The emptiness he feels has left him emotionless. He is wide awake, but dead inside. It is a horrible situation. Read the lyrics below and see how dark this thing gets. No child should ever feel that way.

The music matches the lyrics. This is 1995, the music scene had taken a darker turn from the party time of the 80’s and the earlier Danger Danger albums. To fit with the times, we get this brilliant song. The more somber tones, the heavier beats, the rich bass all giving to the dark soulless feelings of this little child. The guitar solo screams out with pain. If that isn’t enough, the guitar riff from Bruno that is thrown in every now again after the chorus is so cool. Paul’s vocals show the hurt and despair the child is feeling. There is a spoken part from Paul that is hidden behind the instrumental break that you have to listen close. It gives you more insight to the song. For such a depressing song, you can’t helped but be mesmerized by its beauty at the same time. One of the coolest songs on the album.

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Friday New Releases – June 21, 2024

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Welcome to the Friday New Releases. This week we have another handful of releases and there is a lot of variety in this list so hopefully you can find something. There is nothing for me this week which is good because Summer Vacation starts soon and I need to save some money. Let me know what you want to hear this week or what we may have missed. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wondeful weekend.

  • Avril Lavigne – Greatest Hits – (Sony Music)
  • Daryl Hall – D – (United Artist Productions)
  • Lake Street Dive – Good Together – (Fantasy Records)
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Def Leppard – ‘Live in Argentina 1997’ (Bootleg DVD) – DVD Review (The Def Leppard Collection Series)

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I know, we’ve been doing a lot of Def Leppard Bootlegs from the Slang era, well, I do have a lot from that time. So bare with me for one more item. This time though, it is a Bootleg DVD so we get to actually the boys playing. This one was filmed down in Argentina back in 1997 and was actually recorded and played on Canada’s MuchMusic. How do I know that? Well, in the top left hand corner of the screen throughout the show is their logo. Yes, someone videotaped the show off their television and later transferred it to DVD.

When I googled the show, AI had this to say about it…Def Leppard performed at Cine Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 19, 1997, marking their first show in the city and country. The venue is located near the coast and east of the city center, and was built in an Art Deco style in July 1937...Couldn’t have said it better myself. If I’m not mistaken, the song “Photograph” from the show was not shown during the broadcast and sadly, as a result, that isn’t here on this DVD either. Heck, what did you expect, he/she recorded it straight from the broadcast.

The band at the time and still today is still Joe Elliott, Rick Savage, Rick Allen, Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell. And they are all in fine form for this show. The setlist is basically identical to the Montreal Show I reviewed a couple weeks ago. The big differences being the Montreal Show had “Photograph”, “Another Hit & Run” as well as “Miss You In a Heartbeat” sung by Phil Collen. The Argentina show doesn’t “Photograph” but it does have, “Action” (which is great) and “Make Love Like a Man” (which is a horrible song). The DVD also has “When Love & Hate Collide” instead of “Miss You In a Heartbeat”, but I think I like Phil Singing “Miss You…” better. Everything else is spot on in same order as well.

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