Stuck In Thee Garage #24: February 21, 2014

Yeah, I know everybody's watching the Winter Olympics this week. But you've gotta rock, too. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played the usual mix of kickass new and old music in hour 1 and then a collection of great album leadoff tracks in hour 2. The judges were generous in their scoring.

The playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Speedy Ortiz - Oxygal/Real Hair EP
Krill - Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts Into Tears/Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts Into Tears EP
Guided by Voices - Littlest League Possible/Motivational Jumpsuit
Willy DeVille - It's So Easy/Cruising soundtrack
Aerosmith - Chiquita/A Night in the Ruts
The Upper Crust - Cream of the Crust/The Decline and Fall of the Upper Crust
Mount Carmel - Swaggs/Real Women
Dead Meadow - What Needs Must Be/Old Growth
The Joy Formidable - The Magnifying Glass/The Big Roar
Art Brut - Slap Dash for No Cash/Art Brut vs. Satan
Kaiser Chiefs - Everything is Average Nowadays/Yours Truly, Angry Mob
Jarvis Cocker - Leftovers/Further Complications
The Coctails - Cast Stones/The Coctails
The Weakerthans - The Reasons/Reconstruction Site
Entrance - Grim Reaper Blues/Manifest Destiny
World Party - Is It Too Late?/Goodbye Jumbo

Hour 2: Great album leadoff tracks
Cheap Trick - Hello There/In Color
R.E.M. - Begin the Begin/Lifes Rich Pageant
The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop/Ramones
Motorhead - Ace of Spades/Ace of Spades
David Bowie - Changes/Hunky Dory
Blondie - Dreaming/Eat to the Beat
Nick Lowe - Cruel to Be Kind/Labour of Lust
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Accidents Will Happen/Armed Forces
Prince - Let's Go Crazy/Purple Rain 
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig/Flip Your Wig
The Replacements - I.O.U./Pleased to Meet Me
Bad Religion - Incomplete/Stranger Than Fiction
Fugazi - Turnover/Repeater
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole/Pretty Hate Machine
The Smithereens - A Girl Like You/11
Buffalo Tom - Sodajerk/Big Red Letter Day
The Hold Steady - Positive Jam/Almost Killed Me

 

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