Category: Pop Music

Friday New Releases – October 31, 2025

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Happy Halloween and no tricks for you, only treats. We have another batch of new releases coming your way. Let me know what you want to hear or what we may have missed. I’m interested in the Cars – Heartbeat City Deluxe Set but that is it. I’ll stream for now and maybe get down the road. Too much coming out lately to keep up. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great weekend.

  • The Pretty Reckless – Taylor Momsen’s Pretty Reckless Christmas – (Goin’ Down Inc. / Fearless Records)
  • Florence + The Machine – Everybody Scream – (Polydor Records / Republic Records / Universal)
  • Avatar – Don’t Go In The Forest – (Black Waltz AB / Thirty Tigers)
  • The Cars – Heartbeat City (Deluxe Edition) – (Elektra Catalog Group)
  • Bob Dylan – Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 1956-1963 – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
  • Duff McKagan – Lighthouse Live From London – (Blood Meridian / earMusic / Edel Entertainment)
  • Guided by Voices – Thick Rich And Delicious – (GBV Inc.)
  • Thompson Twins – Industry & Seduction: A Thompson Twins Collection Deluxe – (BMG Rights Mgmt)
  • ODC – Twisted Love – (Frontiers Records)
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Friday New Releases – October 24, 2025

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Welcome to Friday New Releases and we have a big week for you with almost 50 releases coming out. There is something for everyone. I’m interested in the Mammoth new one as well as the Bon Jovi album that is a reissue of his last album ‘Forever’ and this time with duets for all the songs. There are some interesting people on board. I am sure Demi Lovato will be big this week and cool to see a new one by Big Wreck. Lots to choose from. Let me know what you want to hear or what we may have missed. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

  • Mammoth – The End – (I Am the Sheriff LLC / BMG Rights Mgmt)
  • Bon Jovi – Forever (Legendary Edition) – (Captain Kidd Corp/ Island Records)
  • Demi Lovato – It’s Not That Deep – (DLG Recordings LLC / Island Records)
  • Five Finger Death Punch – Best of Volume 2 – (Better Noise Music)
  • Bad Company – Can’t Get Enough: A Tribute to Bad Company – (Primary Wave Music III)
  • Frank Zappa – Halloween 78 (Super Deluxe) – (Universal Music / UMG)
  • Big Wreck – The Rest of the Story – (Thorn in my Side Publishing / Unyon Records)
  • Brandi Carlile – Returning To Myself – (Interscope Records / Lost Highway)
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Friday New Releases – October 17, 2025

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You made it through another week and as your reward, we have a bunch of new releases for you to explore. For me, my prize for making it is the latest Scorpions album, ‘From the First Sting’. A compilation celebrating 60 years of Scorpions! That is crazy!! What do you see here that you want to grab or simply stream? Let me know and what we may have missed. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great weekend.

  • Scorpions – From The First Sting (60th Anniversary) – (BMG Rights Mgmt)
  • Biohazard – Divided We Fall – (Frontiers Records))
  • Sabaton – Legends – (Better Noise Music)
  • Chrissie Hynde – Duets Special – (Parolphone Records Limited)
  • Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska ’82 (Expanded Edition) – (Columbia Records / Sony Music) – Sorry Bruce was moved to Oct. 24th…but will be worth the wait!
  • David Gilmour – The Luck And Strange Concerts – (Sony Music / David Gilmour Music)
  • Boz Scaggs – Detour – (Concord Records / Concord)
  • Alison Brown & Steve Martin – Safe, Sensible And Sane – (Compass Records)
  • Tame Impala – Deadbeat – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
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Friday New Releases – October 10, 2025

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Welcome to the Friday New Releases. We have another batch of great releases for you. This week for me, it is Sammy Hagar and John 5. Those two are on pre-order and I hope they make it to me today so I can crank them on the stereo. What do you want to hear this week? Let us know and tells us what we may have left off so everyone knows. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

  • Sammy Hagar – Sammy Hagar & The Best Of All Worlds Band: The Residency – (F.W.O. / Gebbia Media LLC / Big Machine Rock)
  • John 5 – Ghost – (60 Cycle Hum Records)
  • Testament – Para Bellum – (Nuclear Blast)
  • Yellowcard – Better Days – (Better Noise Music)
  • Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (10th Anniversary Edition) – (Stax Records / Concord)
  • LANY – Soft – (Sunset Garden)
  • Perturbator – Age of Aquarius – (Nuclear Blast)
  • Frayle – Heretics And Lullabies – (Napalm Records)
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Friday New Releases – October 3, 2025

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Does it really matter all the releases that are coming out today? Seriously, is anyone going to talk about anything other than the new Taylor Swift album? Doubtful, but I will at least try. I have at least 30+ other releases for you that are not Taylor Swift. Hopefully there is something for you to listen to this week. There is nothing for me to go and grab so nice to have a break. 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 wonderful weekend!!

  • Taylor Swift – The Life of a Showgirl – (Taylor Swift)
  • Oasis – Whats The Story Morning Glory (30th Anniversary) – (Big Brother Recordings)
  • Waylon Jennings – Songbird – (Son of Jessi / Thirty Tigers)
  • Dirkschneider & The Old Gang – Babylon – (Reigning Phoenix Music)
  • Michael Schenker Group – Don’t Sell Your Soul – (earMusic / Edel Music & Entertainment)
  • Thrice – Horizons / West – (Epitaph)
  • AFI – Silver Bleeds The Black Sun… – (Run For Cover Records)
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The Collection: Ep 75 – September 2025 Wrap-Up

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September draws to a close, 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 the September 2025 Wrap-Up and we have a little vinyl, a whole lot of CDs and even a book. Plus, I visited a record store…twice, ordered from Discogs, ordered from another record store online and went thrifting. So much to go through including a couple new Rock Candy CDs in the collection, Kiss and 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, September 29, 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 if you can’t watch…but please watch!!

Friday New Releases – September 26, 2025

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We are to the last Friday Releases in September and it is the most I think we’ve had in a while as we are close to 50 releases for you to check out. Sadly, for me, there is nothing I’m dying to check out, but that doesn’t mean you will have nothing. Take a look and 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 great weekend.

  • Robert Plant – Saving Grace – (Nonesuch Records / Es Paranza Recordings)
  • Doja Cat – Vie – (Kemosabe Records / RCA Records)
  • Hardy – Country! Country! – (Big Loud Records / Mercury Records)
  • Mariah Carey – Here For It All – (Mariah / Gamma)
  • The Bangles – Watching The Sky: The Bangles (Box Set) – (Cherry Pop Records)
  • Sloan – Based On The Best Seller – (Two Minutes For Music / Yep Roc)
  • Ronnie Wood – Fearless: Anthology 1965-2025 – (BMG Rights Mgmt)
  • Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway – (Atlantic Records)
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My Sunday Song – “Beautiful Disaster” by Jon McLaughlin

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For My Sunday Song #451, we are going to talk about the pop ballad “Beautiful Disaster” by Jon McLaughlin. The song is off his 2007 album ‘Indiana’. The single was released in April of that year and was the first single on the album. It hit #28 on the Adult Top 40 chart and helped push the album to #81 on the Billboard 200 Chart. Jon wrote the song with the help of Jamie Houston and they penned a song that is extremely heartbreaking and yet beautiful at the same time.

“Beautiful Disaster” is about a woman who is so broken inside. She is beyond lonely as it seems she has been left many times before and is now extremely insecure. She doesn’t feel worthy and feels ugly on the inside and out. Everything in the world is telling her she’s not enough…the magazines, the guys who left her and if this was in the present time, the social networks would as well. No one has ever told her that she is perfect the way she is and it is okay to be who you really are not to pretend to be someone she’s not.

She hooks up with guys and does what they want just to feel something. She bends to their will as she is so desperate for a connection. But what she is really looking for is that someone that will take her home and love her for who she is. She simply wants to be Needed. The line…”She never stays the same for long / Assuming that she’ll get it wrong / Perfect only in her imperfection” summarizes how she feels that she has to act a certain way to be loved. It is all terribly sad.

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Friday New Releases – September 19, 2025

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I have had the whole week off and did a staycation. It was awesome. But that doesn’t mean I still can’t bring you the Friday New Releases to you and this week we have around 40 albums for you. I am curious about the 38 Special album and the Jelusick so those will get a listen. Jury is out on Mike Tramp because I am not enjoying these rehashed White Lion songs. If I want to hear the White Lion songs, I’ll listen to the WHITE LION SONGS! Sorry…I was about to go on a giant rant there. Anyway, 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 wonderful weekend.

  • 38 Special – Milestone – (38 Special Records)
  • Mike Tramp – The Songs of White Lion Vol. III – (Frontiers Records)
  • Jelusick – Apolitical Ecstasy – (Escape Music)
  • Buckingham Nicks – Buckingham Nicks (2025 Remaster) – (Buckingham Records / SN Entertainment)
  • I Prevail – Violent Nature – (Fearless Records)
  • Nine Inch Nails – Tron: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – (The Null Corporation and Walt Disney / Interscope Records)
  • Cardi B – Am I The Drama? – (Atlantic Records)
  • Biffy Clyro – Futique – (1968 Ltd / Warner Music)
  • The Favors – The Dream – (Darkroom Records)
  • Briscoe – Heat of July – (ATO Records)
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My Sunday Song – “Ordinary” by Train

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For My Sunday Song #450, we are talking the song “Ordinary” by the band Train. The song is from the Spiderman 2 Soundtrack as well as a bonus studio track on the Train album ‘Alive At Last’. The song was the fourth single off the Spiderman 2 soundtrack and was released August 17, 2004. I believe the song charted at #12 on the Adult Top 40 Chart (not the actual Top 40 Chart). It was written by Pat Monahan from Train and composer Bart Hendrickson.

The song was written for Spiderman 2 and the theme of it fits Spiderman perfectly. He goes out of his way to try and save everyone, but he always get left behind as people move on. It is a really darker theme to it. He does it all for a woman. People think he is trying to save the world but he is simply trying to save the girl. At the same time, he needs her to save him as he is in so deep and he is just a kid. He doesn’t recognize who he is anymore. I love the line “And this web that I’m tied up / Is taking me right up these walls”. He is afraid it is too much. It is the darker side of Peter Parker. And it is awesome.

The song is pretty heavy…for a Train song. The darker themes come out in the music as it has a seriousness too it you aren’t used to with them. The drums are powerful, the guitar is ripping. There is orchestration that gives it a grander feel and the piano is simply haunting. Pat really delivers the lyrics in such a beautiful way. He really feels the lyrics and he conveys the darkness behind Spiderman’s eyes. This is a completely different side of Train and when I heard this song along with another bonus studio track called “New Sensation”, I thought we might get a new direction for the band…but that didn’t happen.

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