Friday, November 21, 2014

Stuck In Thee Garage #58: November 21, 2014

Riffs are one of the building blocks of great rock music. A great riff sticks in your head and makes you want to hear that song over and over again. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I dedicated hour 2 to songs with great riffs, but songs that don't get played to death on classic rock radio.

Riff Randell knows what I'm talking about:






The rock n' roller-approved playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Parquet Courts - Pretty Machines/Content Nausea
Menace Beach - Fortune Teller/Ratworld
The Fresh & Onlys - Fascinated/Play It Strange
Sloan - You've Got a Lot On Your Mind/Commonwealth
Guided by Voices - Gold Star for Robot Boy/Live at Threadwaxing Space, 6/25/94
Brass Bed - Be Anything/Be Anything
Safety Net/Iroquois/Plastic Heart
Thee Oh Sees - I Was Denied/Warm Slime
The Rationales - All the While/Keep Safe Boston 2014 For Planned Parenthood
Hallelujah the Hills - Affectionate Darlings 4 Life/Keep Safe Boston 2014 For Planned Parenthood
Corin Ashley - Jellyfish/Keep Safe Boston 2014 For Planned Parenthood
Mick Jagger and the Jim Keltner Orchestra - Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup)/Bootleg
Squeeze - Slap and Tickle/Cool for Cats
The Jam - Town Called Malice/The Gift
Nick Lowe - Switch Board Susan/Labour of Lust
The Vapors - Spring Collection/New Clear Days

Hour 2: Riffs
Fu Manchu - Evil Eye/The Action is Go!
Fugazi - Merchandise/Repeater
Helmet - Unsung/Meantime
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog/The Stooges
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock/Let There Be Rock
Van Halen - D.O.A./Van Halen II
Ozzy Osbourne - Steal Away (The Night)/Blizzard of Ozz
The Ramones - Loudmouth/Ramones
Elastica - Line Up/Elastica
The Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys/Pretenders
Drive Like Jehu - Golden Brown/Yank Crime
Rocket from the Crypt - On a Rope/Scream Dracula Scream!
Rollins Band - Earache My Eye/Sub Pop Singles Club
Eagles of Death Metal - Cherry Cola/Death by Sexy
Sloan - Money City Maniacs/Navy Blues 
The Pursuit of Happiness - The One Thing/One Sided Story

Stuck In Thee Garage #58 by Koomdogg on Mixcloud


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