Saturday, August 05, 2017

Stuck In Thee Garage #185: August 4, 2017

Thirty-five years ago, the world was very different. Ronald Reagan was in his second year as president, MTV was still a fledgling cable station with a small audience and the Me Decade of the '70s had morphed into the Yuppie paradise of the '80s. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1982 in hour 2. It's a pretty wide-ranging collection of songs.



From the playlists of Police Squad:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
The Afghan Whigs feat. James Hall - You Want Love/Single
Nine Inch Nails - Not Anymore/Add Violence EP
Broken Social Scene - Protest Song/Hug of Thunder
Guided By Voices - Just to Show You/How Do You Spell Heaven?
Cloud Control - Rainbow City/Single
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Altered Beast III/Murder of the Universe
Alvvays - In Undertow/Antisocialites
Jen Cloher - Forgot Myself/Jen Cloher
Moss Lime - I Always Get What I Want/Zoo Du Quebec
Ron Gallo - Put the Kids to Bed/Heavy Meta
Dead Stars - Pink Clouds/Perfect Patterns
White Reaper - Crystal Pistol/The World's Best American Band
Matthew Sweet - Trick/Live at KUTX
Lo Tom - Find the Shrine/Lo Tom
Top Down - Wanna Be Alone/Rough Roads
B Boys - Energy/Dada
Spoon - First Caress/Hot Thoughts
Chastity Belt - Used to Spend/I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone

Hour 2: 1982
Mission of Burma - Dead Pool
The Clash - Car Jamming/Combat Rock
Lou Reed - Waves of Fear/The Blue Mask
Bad Brains - Banned in DC/Bad Brains
Misfits - 20 Eyes/Walk Among Us
Motorhead - Iron Fist/Iron Fist
Robert Plant - Pledge Pin/Pictures at Eleven
Van Halen -  Hang 'Em High/Diver Down
Scorpions - Blackout/Blackout
Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Coming/Screaming for Vengeance
The Jam - Town Called Malice/The Gift
The Cure - A Short Term Effect/Pornography
INXS - Don't Change/Shabooh Shoobah
X - The Have Nots/Under the Big Black Sun
Prince - All the Critics Love U in New York/1999


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