Friday, March 10, 2017

Stuck In Thee Garage #168: March 10, 2017

Nerds have traditionally been the target of mockery and derision, but let's face it, they're some of the most influential people in the world nowadays. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I pay tribute to nerds (and geeks, dorks, etc.) in hour 2. Think twice about who you pick on, kids. They might be your boss someday.



The eminently dorky playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Priests - Nothing Feels Natural/Nothing Feels Natural
Spiral Stairs - Doris and the Daggers/Doris and the Daggers
The Courtneys - Silver Velvet/The Courtneys II
Cory Hanson - Replica/The Unborn Capitalist from Limbo
John Wesley Coleman III - Hang Tight/Microwave Dreams
Spaceface - Sun Kids/Sun Kids
Earth Girls - Say Goodnight/Wanderlust
Divisionists - The First Casualty/Daybreak
The History of Colour TV - As Gray as Park Can Be/Something Like Eternity
Imaginary People - Snapshot/October Alice
Siamese - Goldmind/The Mesmerist
John Andrews and the Yawns - Homesick in Heaven/Bad Posture
Los Campesinos! - 5 Flucloxacillin/Sick Scenes
Baked - Midnight Junkie/Farnham
Cloud Nothings - Things Are Right With You/Life Without Sound

Hour 2: Nerds
Art Brut - DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake/Art Brut vs. Satan
Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs/Rockin' the Suburbs
The Feelies - The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness/Crazy Rhythms
David Bowie - Kooks/Hunky Dory
Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill/The Eraser
Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA/Siamese Dream
Frank Black - Men in Black/The Cult of Ray
Oingo Boingo - Weird Science/Dead Man's Party
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science/The Golden Age of Wireless
They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)/Flood Live in Australia
Rush - Subdivisions/Signals
The Dears - You and I are a Gang of Losers/Gang of Losers
Weezer - In the Garage/Weezer


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