Category: Pop Music

The Collection: Ep. 65 – Robbie Williams – ‘Life Thru A Lens’: The Box Sets (CD & 7″ Singles)

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This week on The Collection, we talk Robbie Williams. With the news of a new album and some new songs including one with Tony Iommi, I thought let’s go back to the beginning and talk about his debut ‘Life Thru A Lens”. I have two box sets of that album. One is a 4CD set and the other is 7 – 7″ Singles Box Sox Set. We go through it all and talk about the album and the songs. If you remember songs like “Angels”, “Let Me Entertain You” and “Ego a Go Go”, then come along for the ride.

So go check it out as it will be live tonight right now, July 14, 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 – “Wrecking Ball” by Lifehouse

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For My Sunday Song #441, we are talking “Wrecking Ball”. And it is not to be confused with the Miley Cyrus song. This is its own animal. “Wrecking Ball” that I want to talk about is by the band Lifehouse and off their 2010 album ‘Smoke & Mirrors’. This was not a single, but it was my favorite song on the album. The one song that grabbed hold from the get go and I still can’t stop listening to it some 15 years later. The album went to #6 on the Billboard charts which is really great and it was produced by Jude Cole, whose solo work I really love so I found it really cool to know he produced the album, but Jude is a whole other discussion we can have.

If you are a fan of the band, you know Jason Wade is the lead singer…but not on every song. This is one of the rare instances where the bass player, Bryce Soderberg handles the lead vocals. And what a job he does. Jason originally sang it, but it didn’t work so they were going to scrap it and so Bryce gave it a shot and Wow!! The song is about a relationship that sounds like it is a little destructive. It has its good moments and its bad ones…a lot of ups & downs. But the singer can’t get enough of her. She builds him up and breaks down his walls, but then turns around a tears him down. He feels he’s riding a wrecking ball as it swings like a pendulum.

The song opens with a cool bass run and a great, yet simple guitar riff. When the verse comes in it is only the bass and drum driving the rhythm. That guitar riff comes back and then the full band is all there on the chorus. And what a great big chorus it is. Great harmonies, I mean how could it not with Jason there to handle those since he wasn’t singing. Bryce’s vocals are so smooth, and very much like Jason’s. He captures the emotion and feel of the song and you can’t help but get lost in his voice. A song that is mid-tempo song that is close to a power ballad and a straight up pop rock song. This should’ve been a single in my opinion.

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Friday New Releases – July 11, 2025

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Another Friday and another small batch of releases. Like last week, there are not a ton of releases, but a few really big names coming at you. There is nothing for me this week, but hopefully there is something for you. 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.

  • Backstreet Boys – Millennium 2.0 – (Legacy Recordings)
  • Wet Leg – Moisturizer – (Domino Recording Co.)
  • Noah Cyrus – I Want My Loved Ones To Go With Me – (Records Label / Columbia Records)
  • Amy MacDonald – Is This What You’ve Been Waiting For? – (Infectious Music / BMG)
  • Steve Hackett – The Lamb Stands Up Live at the Royal Albert Hall – (InsideOutMusic)
  • Split Chain – Motionblur – (Epitaph)
  • Floating – Hesitating Lights – (Transcending Obscurity Records)
  • Born of Osiris – Through Shadows – (Sumerian Records)
  • Impureza – Alcazares – (Season of Mist)
  • Calva Louise – Edge of the Abyss – (Mascot Records)
  • Matt Jencik & Midwife – Never Die – (Relapse Records)
  • Mal Blum – The Villain – (Get Better Records)
  • The Boxmasters – Pepper Tree Hill – (Keentone / Thirty Tigers)
  • Half Japanese – Adventure – (Fire Records)
  • Gina Birch – Trouble – (Third Man Records)
  • Jeffrey Runnings – Piqued – (Independent Project Records)
  • World’s First Cinema – Something of Wonder – (Fearless Records / Concord)
  • The Terrys – The Terrys – (Westway Collective)
  • Clipse – Let God Sort Em Out – (Roc Nation Distribution)
  • Brent Cobb – Ain’t Rocked In A While – (Ol’Buddy Records)
  • Tanner Usrey – These Days – (Atlantic Recording Corporation)
  • Petey USA – The Yips – (Capitol Records / Crow Island LLC / UMG)
  • Long Tall Deb & Colin John – Light It Up – (Long Tall Deb & Colin John)
  • Stars Go Dim – Roses – (Curb)

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)

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)

Friday New Releases – June 20, 2025

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Happy Friday! It is time for another batch of new releases this week. I have to admit there is nothing for me this week and sadly that is becoming a trend. However, for a lot of you there is an abundance of big names starting off with Benson Boone so don’t flip over it. You’ve also got Haim, Badflower, Yungblud and a ton others. 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 wonderful weekend!

  • Benson Boone – American Heart – (Night Street Records / Warner Records)
  • Haim – I Quit – (Columbia Records)
  • Badflower – No Place Like Home – (Big Machine Records / John Varvatos Records)
  • Yungblud – Idols – (Locomotion Recordings / Capitol Records)
  • Lukas Nelson – American Romance – (6 Ace Records / Sony Music)
  • The B-52’s – The Warner Reprise Years – (Rhino / Warner Records)
  • Brett Young – 2.0 – (Big Machine Label Group)
  • Keke Palmer – Just Keke – (Big Bosses Ent. / The SoNo Recording Group)
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Friday New Releases – June 13, 2025

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As the Summer keeps getting hotter, I can’t say the new releases are for me. Another slow week here although there are a lot of albums, only the Buckcherry one is of any interest for me. I’ll keep diving in to the new Inglorious from last week and enjoying the Rock Candy addition of Yesterday & Today’s debut that dropped last week as well. 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 wonderful weekend!

  • Buckcherry – Roar Like Thunder – (Round Hill Records)
  • King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – Phantom Island – (p(doom) records)
  • The Cure – Mixes of a Lost World – (Polydor Records / Lost Music Ltd / Universal Music)
  • Metallica – Load (Deluxe Box Set) – (Blackened Recordings)
  • Van Morrison – Remembering Now – (Exile Productions)
  • Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts – Talkin To The Trees – (The Other Shoe Productions / Reprise Records)
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Friday New Releases – June 6, 2025

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Things are starting to heat up outside and in the Friday New Releases. I’m really excited about the new Inglorious album and I have it on order. I’ll also check out the Triumph Tribute album and maybe even spin The Doobie Brothers. What are you wanting to hear this week? Let me know and tell us what we missed as well so everyone knows. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend.

  • Inglorious – V – (Frontiers Records)
  • Volbeat – God of Angels Trust – (Vertigo Berlin / Universal Music)
  • Triumph – Magic Power: All Star Tribute to Triumph – (Round Hill Records)
  • Doobie Brothers – Walk This Road – (Rhino Records)
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter – Personal History – (Lambent Light Records)
  • Brian Eno/ Beatie Wolfe – Luminal – (Verve Records)
  • Brian Eno/ Beatie Wolfe – Lateral – (Verve Records)
  • Turnstile – Never Enough – (Roadrunner Records)
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My Sunday Song – “I Hope UR Miserable Until UR Dead” by Nessa Barrett

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For My Sunday Song #435, we are going to visit a song that I only know because of my daughter. It is Nessa Barrett’s brutal song “I Hope UR Miserable Until UR Dead” off her debut E.P., ‘Pretty Poison’ released back in 2021. The song was written by a whole slew of people including Nessa herself. It also has Evan Blair, Madi Yanofsky, Samuel Mark Catalano and Tim Randolph. The song only went to #88 on the Billboard Top 100 chart, but it is #1 in my book.

Some toxic relationships end and you can either take the high road and move on and not look back or you can take the low road and be petty and bitter. This song is the latter. She is completely brutal in this song wishing this guy was miserable until he dies…that is harsh. It talks about how toxic he was and she wants to call him out for all the bad crap he’s done, but won’t. She knows that his true colors will show and his friends will end up hating him since he really is a little shit. She does let him go and moves on with her life, but still wants him to be miserable. Toxicity should not be tolerated and you should always get out of those type of relationships.

Nessa’s vocals are really awesome. This sweet sounding angel with the mouth of a sailor really shines throughout the song. I think her vocals are what make the song. What I like about the song is the rock sound with the heavy guitar riffs during the hard parts and soft acoustic guitars during the slower parts. And the drum beats are heart poundingly brutal and make you feel the anger that really lies behind those lyrics. A dark, brooding song that has such great pop sensibilities with its massive hooks and melody. A killer track.

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Friday New Releases – May 30, 2025

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Welcome to the end of May. The month might be about over, but the new releases keep coming. This week a few I’m interested in streaming, but not necessarily purchase…yet. I would’n’t mind hearing the new Miley, Garbage, Daises and Anderson East albums. What are you interested in hearing or what did we miss. Let us know. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great weekend.

  • Miley Cyrus – Something Beautiful – (Columbia Records)
  • Garbage – Let All That We Imagine Be The Light – (BMG Rights Mgmt)
  • The Dead Daisies – Lookin’ For Trouble – (Fame – Malaco)
  • Anderson East – Worthy – (Rounder Records)
  • Wolves At The Gate – Wasteland – (Solid State Records)
  • Aesop Rock – Black Hole Superette – (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
  • Grouplove – Rock N’ Roll You Won’t Save Me (Live) – (Glassnote Music LLC)
  • Gloria Estefan – Raices – (Sony U.S. Latin)
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