Saturday, May 17, 2014

Stuck In Thee Garage #36: May 16, 2014

We have complicated relationships with our cars. We depend on them to get us where we need to go, and when they break down or are unreliable, it can be devastating. Some of us turn into raging maniacs when we're in them. And some of us are WAY too attached to them. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, hour 2 features songs about cars and driving.

It'll get your motor running:



Here's the 1.21-gigawatt powered playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Black Lips - Funny/Underneath the Rainbow
Johnny Foreigner - Le Schwing/You Can Do Better
The Wrens - Everyone Choose Sides/The Meadowlands
The Mighty Fine (feat. Mick Collins) - Something for Your Ass/Get Up to Get Down
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - She's On It-Jack the Ripper/Live in Japan 2012
The Nuclears - This is How We Party/This is How We Party
Blondie - Living in the Real World/Eat to the Beat
Veruca Salt - It's Holy/MMXIV
Eels - Mistakes of My Youth/The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
Sun Kil Moon - Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes/Benji
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)/Broken Social Scene
Mission of Burma - 2wice/The Obliterati
The Murder City Devils - Midnight Service at the Mutter Museum/Thelema
Yo La Tengo - Ohm/Fade

Hour 2:  Songs about cars
Big Star - Back of a Car/Radio City
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Driveby/Sleeps With Angels
The Clash - Car Jamming/Combat Rock
Modest Mouse - Dashboard/We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Superchunk - Driveway to Driveway/Foolish
Avengers - Car Crash/We Are the One 7-inch
David Bowie - Always Crashing in the Same Car/Low
Gary Numan - Cars/The Pleasure Principle
Primal Scream - Autobahn 66/Evil Heat
Rush - Red Barchetta/Moving Pictures
The Tragically Hip - Highway Girl/Live in Toronto 1989
Max Webster - Drive and Desire/Universal Juveniles
Fu Manchu - Boogie Van/King of the Road
Spoon - Car Radio/A Series of Sneaks



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