Category: Rock

The Collection: Ep. 56 – Noble Records Exclusives (Part 1 of 2)

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This week, we have Part 1 of 2 Noble Records Exclusives shows. Noble Records is my local record store and they do monthly exclusives of private press album releases from lost gems of the past. The exclusive part is the colored vinyl that is exclusive to his store. We have psych rock, funk, hard rock, southern rock and some really obscure stuff at times. Check it out as there is some really cool stuff such as Orang-Utan, Poobah, Farm, Randy Holden and so much more.

Check out Dillon’s YouTube channel for some really cool vinyl content! https://www.youtube.com/@noblerecords

So go check it out as it will be live tonight right now, May 12, 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 – “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” by The Darkness

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For My Sunday Song #432, we are going for pure fun and a love for 80’s rock with “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” by the band The Darkness. The song was the third single off this 2003 debut album ‘Permission to Land’. The song went to #1 in their home country of the UK, but in the states it didn’t fair as well. It did go to #23 on the Mainstream Rock Chart and #9 on the Alternative Chart and it did go Platinum with over 1 million copies sold. The song for me brought back the fun that songs can have and the good feelings they can bring.

The song was written by the band including Justing Hawkins, Dan Hawkins, Frankie Poullain and Ed Graham. At one Justin had stated that the bands during this time were afraid to write a song about Love…so he did. It is somewhat comical feel to the song due to Justin’s vocals, but it does have a powerful message. It simply states that love can be life changing and have a significant impact on you as a person. It can change your life, upend your world and move you in ways you have never have been before. It is the utter belief in love that matters.

What I love about the song, and the video, is its playfulness in both its music and vocals. Justin’s falsetto’s are sick. No one sings like this anymore and honestly, no one really can but Justin. His range is crazy…such a talent. The music is guitar heavy with killer riffs and a blistering solo. The bass thumps away driving the song as well as those heart pounding drums. A throwback to the 80’s in style and sound and we are all the better for it. It is pure fun like 80’s music used to be. It doesn’t take itself to seriously, but these guys are seriously great musicians and singers. A mind blowing introduction for me to this band.

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Friday New Releases – May 9, 2025

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Welcome back to Friday New Releases and we got another handful for you this week. There are a couple I’m interested in and they are the new Kaleo album (his last two were fantastic) and the 40th Anniversary Edition of the INXS album Listen Like Thieves. Outside of that I’m good and still catching up on the things I’ve bought over the last few weeks. What do you want to hear this week or what did we miss? Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

  • Kaleo – Mixed Emotions – (Atlantic Records)
  • INXS – Listen Like Thieves (40th Anniversary Edition) – (Atlantic Records)
  • Maren Morris – Dreamsicle – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
  • Behemoth – The Shit Ov God – (Nuclear Blast)
  • Sleep Token – Even in Arcadia – (RCA Records)
  • Candlemass – Black Star E.P. – (Napalm Records)
  • Arcade Fire – Pink Elephant – (Arcade Fire Music)
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W.E.T. – ‘Apex’ (2025) – Album Review (The Jeff Scott Soto Series)

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As we now know as we are on their now fifth studio album, W.E.T. is a culmination of some great artist including Robert Sall of the band Work of Art (The “W”); Erik Martensson of the band Eclipses (The “E”) and Jeff Scott Soto of the band Talisman (The “T”). All three bands are Swedish bands and all on Frontiers so it made it easy to bring these three guys together. Rounding out the band are Magnus Henriksson (Eclipse); Jamie Borger (Talisman) and Andreas Passmark (Work of Art & Royal Hunt). All in some shape, form or fashion have been a small part of one of the three founding bands.

The album was released on March 28, 2025 a good 5 years after their last release and way too long between albums. I am sure getting these guys schedules to all coincide at the same time is not an easy task, but they managed it thankfully. A band I thought was going to be a one-off project now has 5 albums and a live album spanning over 16 years since the release of the debut back in 2009. If you love solid, melodic hard rock, this will not disappoint. And as usual, Erik Martensson is handling the productions so you know the sound is going to be amazing and it is.

The album opens strong with “Believer” and it is worth every minute we’ve waited since the last release. Jeff sounds amazing and I have to admit this is his wheelhouse and my favorite style of singing for me. The guitar solo on here is blistering fast and just rips right through the song. The drums are pounding and all is immense and powerful. The sound is more Eclipse than Talisman or Work of Art, but I’m good with that. Erik does most of the writing so that Eclipse influence is going to flow through.

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The Collection: Ep. 55 – April 2025 Wrap-Up

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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 April 2025 and we have lots of vinyl, CDs and even some 8-Tracks. So much to go through including a new Rock Candy collection, new items for the Kiss collection and a couple Box Set collections. Lots of great new albums and old ones 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, May 5, 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!!

My Sunday Song – “Dad Vibes” by Limp Bizkit

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For My Sunday Song #431, we are talking about the notoriously loved and hated band Limp Bizkit and their 2021 song “Dad Vibes”. The song is the first single from their album ‘Still Sucks’ which was released on October 31, 2021. The album was announced back in 2012 and with delay after delay with being dropped from the label, member changes, partying problems and the such, it became their ‘Chinese Democracy’. In July 2021, the band debuted “Dad Vibes” as the final song of the 2021 Lalapalooza set and 3 months later, the album dropped.

The song was written by Fred Durst, Sam Rivers, John Otto and Wes Borland and it is classic Limp Bizkit. Full of self-deprecating humor, the song is basically a parody of the band. We are 24 years past their debut in 1997 and now these guys are so much older and dads now. They are still wearing the pants that sag (even more so now that they older). Now, they aren’t just a band, they are a franchise and they are still cool whether you can live with them or not, they don’t care as they still have the swagger they always have had. They don’t give two fucks whether you like them or not and they are going to do their own thing. Heck, their tours are still drawing large crowds.

Musically, it has a killer beat, some drum loops that drive the song forward. Wes Borland’s riffs are killer and are as heavy as ever. Fred Durst spits out the lyrics in his same old cocky-ass style and you want to punch him in the face…and that my friends is the charm of this band. A great song to crank while driving down the road as I have my own dad vibes (I’m even older than these guys, but my pants don’t sag). What people miss from these guys that it is all in jest and fun…they are serious about their music, but they have fun with it too.

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Friday New Releases – May 2, 2025

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Happy Friday…compared to last week, this week is pretty mild. I have too much to get through to worry about anything this week, personally. Hopefully there is something for you. Let me know what you want to hear or what we may have missed. And as always, thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend.

  • Eric Church – Evangeline vs. The Machine – (EMI Records / BigEC Records)
  • Pink Floyd – Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII – (Legacy Recordings)
  • Suzanne Vega – Flying With Angels – (Cooking Vinyl Records)
  • Josh Groban – Gems – (Reprise Records)
  • Pet Shop Boys – Dreamland: The Greatest Hits Live – (Parlophone Records / x2 Recordings)
  • The Flower Kings – Love – (InsideOutMusic)
  • Cat Stevens – Saturnight (Cat Stevens Live in Tokyo) – (Universal Music / Cat-O-Log Records / UMG)
  • Maddie And Tae – Love & Light – (Mercury Nashville / UMG Recordings)
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D’Luna – ‘Monster’ (2024) – Album Review (The Jeff Scott Soto Series)

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If you’ve followed along when I did the Jeff Scott Soto Series, you will notice a trend where Jeff can’t say no. If a friend of his asks him to sing on their album, he usually says yes, even when he shouldn’t. Is this project one he should’ve said NO!? Let’s find out.

Guitarist, Dave Deluna, is the namesake behind the D’Luna name. This is his album, his concept, his everything…well, Jeff Scott Soto does contribute to the song writing as well, but this is Dave’s baby. I am not familiar with Dave at all before this album and the only reason I know about it is because of Soto as if you can’t tell from the number of reviews I’ve done on Jeff from the list at the bottom, I’m a big fan.

The rest of the band consists of Philip Bynoe (bass), Dan Meyers (keyboards), Oren Halmut (drums) and occasional guests on certain songs. And if you need to describe the style of music on this album, it would be heavy! Heavy guitars, heavy drums, heavy bass and straight up heavy rock. Throw Jeff in the mix and all should be right with the world…right???

The album definitely starts out strong with the title track “Monster”. Nasty riffs, with an almost Vai-esque style to it (for a brief moment at least). Jeff’s vocals are strong, intense and serious. But there is a cool surprise with this one as it also features King’s X, Dug Pinnick, on vocals with Jeff. The two make a powerful force. The guitar work on this one is solid, no denying that my only complaint is the solo doesn’t match the song really.

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The Collection: Ep. 54 – Kiss Bootlegs from John Humphrey’s Collection

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A couple weeks ago, John Humphrey, from the band Seether, sold off his entire Kiss Collection. Well, all but his vinyl. There were some really cool stuff in their and I wanted a piece of it. I lost out on some 8-Tracks, but I did win two lots of Bootleg CDs and they have arrived. We will go through all 38 Bootleg CDs and there is some really cool stuff in there.

So go check it out as it will be live tonight at 7pm, April 28, 2025 on YouTube. Thanks for stopping by and please click “Like” and hit “Subscribe” as it helps out the site when you do.

My Sunday Song – “We All Die Young” by Steelheart

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For My Sunday Song #430, we are talking Steelheart’s “We All Die Young”. It is the first song off their 1996 album “Wait”, but that is not where you know it. You probably know it from the 2001 movie “Rock Star” with Mark Wahlberg. It was a song sung by the band Steel Dragon in the movie.  Miljenko Matijevic did the vocals for Mark on this song which makes sense as he did them with Steelheart and he co-wrote the song with Kenny Kanowsk.

The song deals with mortality and how fragile life is since we know that death is basically inevitable. The knowledge of that can be isolating and lonely as well as crush your dreams if you let it overpower you. The challenges in life can be overwhelming and take its toll on you if you let it.

The song starts with a slow build and is 80’s style hard rock song even though this was actually 1996. Miljenko’s vocals are freaking insane. Not too many singers can hit the high notes like he can. It is impressive to say the least. The song is not a high energy rocker, but more slow burner with some heavy ass drums and wicked guitar playing, but nothing comes close to outshining Miljenko’s screams and falsettos. A truly killer song.

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