Friday, August 28, 2015

Stuck In Thee Garage #93: August 28, 2015

Of all the genres of rock and/or roll to come along over the years, power pop is right up there with my favorites. It's got the catchy melodies, the singalong choruses, the crunchy riffs...y'know, all the good stuff. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played an hour of power pop in hour 2 in addition to a great collection of new and exciting music in the first hour.



The playlist that says "I Want You to Want Me":

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Donovan Wolfington - Ollie North/How to Treat the Ones You Love
Phylums - Can't Get Through/Phylum Phyloid
Wimps - Take It As It Comes/Super Me EP
JEFF the Brotherhood - Prairie Song/Wasted in the Dream
Summer Fiction - On and On/Himalaya
Painted Palms - Gemini/Horizons
Destroyer - Times Square/Poison Season
Blacklisters - Shirts/Adult
Strange Wilds - Pronoia/Subjective Concepts
Dead Stars - Calm Punk/Calm Punk
Faith No More - Separation Anxiety/Sol Invectus
Palehound - Cushioned Caging/Dry Food
Big Ups - Justice/Eighteen Hours of Static
LVL UP - DBTS/Hoodwink'd
Ovlov - There's My Dini!/am
Krill - Mom/A Distant Fist Unclenching

Hour 2: Power pop
The Kinks - Where Have All the Good Times Gone/The Kink Kontroversy
Big Star - When My Baby's Beside Me/#1 Record
Paul McCartney and Wings - Helen Wheels/Band on the Run
Cheap Trick - He's a Whore/Cheap Trick
Nick Lowe - Cruel to Be Kind/Labour of Lust
Joe Jackson - Don't Wanna Be Like That/I'm the Man 
XTC - Helicopter/Drums and Wires
The Smithereens - Blues Before and After/11
Redd Kross - 1976/Third Eye
The Posies - Solar Sister/Frosting on the Beater
The Pursuit of Happiness - Two Girls in One/One Sided Story
Sloan - She Says What She Means/Navy Blues
Teenage Fanclub - God Knows It's True/God Knows It's True
Matthew Sweet - Walk Out/100% Fun
Jonny Polonsky - Half Mind/Hi My Name is Jonny
The Shins - Mine's Not a High Horse/Chutes Too Narrow
The New Pornographers - Use It/Twin Cinema
 

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