Friday, May 22, 2015

Stuck In Thee Garage #81: May 22, 2015

It's safe to say mankind has been obsessed with flight long before the Wright Brothers got their first plane off the ground. That obsession has continued in the world of music, where there have been countless songs written about flying, whether literally or figuratively. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played a bunch of these songs in hour 2.



This is the Cabin Boy of playlists (that's a good thing in my book, pal):

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Faith No More - Superhero/Sol Invictus
METZ - Spit You Out/II
Thee Oh Sees - Lupine Ossuary/Mutilator Defeated at Last
Titus Andronicus - Dimed Out/The Most Lamentable Tragedy
Dignan Porch - Out of the Picture/The Hand Cut Record Club
Eyelids - Seagulls Into Submission/854
Malka - A Flock of Crows/The Constant State
Kathryn Calder - Take a Little Time/Kathryn Calder
Alabama Shakes - Don't Wanna Fight/Sound & Color
La Luz - You Disappear/Weirdo Shrine
Bullet Lavolta - Mother Messiah/The Gift
Helmet - Turned Out/Meantime
AC/DC - What's Next to the Moon/Powerage
Black Sabbath - Snowblind/Vol. 4

Hour 2: Flying
The Beatles - Back in the USSR/The White Album
Paul McCartney and Wings - Jet/Band on the Run
Husker Du - Eight Miles High/single
Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again/Diary of a Madman
Sloan - Flying High Again/Never Hear the End of It
Rush - Fly By Night/Fly By Night
Drive-By Truckers - Road Cases/Southern Rock Opera
The Faces - Flying/First Step
Queens of the Stone Age - Auto Pilot/R
Black Francis - Test Pilot Blues/Bluefinger
Gorillaz - Pirate Jet/Plastic Beach
El-P - Flyentology/I'll Sleep When You're Dead
M.I.A. - Paper Planes/Kala
Swervedriver - Sci-Flyer/Raise
The Waldos - Flight/Rent Party
Van Halen - Tora! Tora!/Women and Children First
Iron Maiden - Flight of Icarus/Piece of Mind



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