Friday, May 25, 2018

Stuck In Thee Garage #225: May 25, 2018

Everyone goes through lonely times at some point or another. With any luck, they don't last for very long. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I play songs about loneliness in hour 2. They'll give you something to listen to while you wait for the phone to ring.


This playlist will keep you company:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Albert Hammond Jr. - Far Away Truths/Francis Trouble
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake/Wide Awake!
Poptone - Go!/Poptone
Courtney Barnett - Charity/Tell Me How You Really Feel
Beach House - Dark Spring/7
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Refute/Sparkle Hard
Billy & Dolly - Archies/Five Suns
Shakey Graves - Kids These Days/Can't Wake Up
Lifted Bells - Tragedy Gold/Minor Tantrums
E - Untie Me/Negative Work
King Tuff - Ultraviolet/The Other
Klammer - Modern God/You Have Been Processed
Tancred - Reviews/Nightstand
Infinite Room - Wildfires/Infinite Room EP
La Luz - Greed Machine/Floating Features
Speedy Ortiz - Lean In When I Suffer/Twerp Verse

Hour 2: Lonely
Frightened Rabbit - The Loneliness and the Scream/The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Joy Division - Isolation/Closer
The Replacements - If Only You Were Lonely/For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986
The White Stripes - I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)/Get Behind Me Satan
The Smithereens - In a Lonely Place/Especially for You
Screaming Trees - Lonely Girl/Clairvoyance
Silversun Pickups - It's Nice to Know You Work Alone/Swoon
Billy Squier - Lonely is the Night/Don't Say No
Mick Jagger - Lonely at the Top/She's the Boss
Neil Young - Oh Lonesome Me/After the Gold Rush
New York Dolls - Lonely Planet Boy/New York Dolls
Jesse Malin and the St. Marks Social - Lonely at Heart/Love It to Life
The Tragically Hip - The Lonely End of the Rink/World Container
Eagles of Death Metal - How Can a Man With So Many Friends Be So All Alone?/Heart On
Foo Fighters - Alone + Easy Target/Foo Fighters


Saturday, May 19, 2018

Stuck In Thee Garage #224: May 18, 2018

The older you get, the more it feels like time is speeding up. That, of course, is not true at all. There are still 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year, but it seems like you can blink and suddenly 15 years have flown by. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2003 in hour 2 and it simultaneously felt like they just came out and holy crap, that was a long time ago. Fortunately, I have no plans to go back to school.


This playlist is ready to party:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Lifted Bells - Inevitable Devil/Minor Tantrums
Arthur Buck - Are You Electrified?/Arthur Buck
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Middle America/Sparkle Hard
La Luz - Loose Teeth/Floating Features
Wimps - Garbage People/Garbage People
Hinds - The Club/I Don't Run
Forth Wanderers - Not For Me/Forth Wanderers
Frankie Cosmos - Being Alive/Vessel
Shopping - Shave Your Head/The Official Body
Arctic Monkeys - Star Treatment/Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
Eleanor Friedberger - Are We Good?/Rebound
Rat Scabies - Floating/P.H.D. (Prison, Hospital, Debt)
Frog Eyes - Itch of Summer Knees/Violet Psalms
Painted Doll - Painted Doll/Painted Doll
Franz Ferdinand - Finally/Always Ascending

Hour 2: 2003
Ween - It's Gonna Be a Long Night/Quebec
The Riverboat Gamblers - Hey! Hey! Hey!/Something to Crow About
Electric Six - I'm the Bomb/Fire
Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up, Look Sharp/Boy in Da Corner
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - (Do Not Feed the) Oyster/Pig Lib
Joe Jackson Band - Awkward Age/Volume 4
The Twilight Singers - Martin Eden/Blackberry Belle
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Ballad of the Sin-Eater/Hearts of Oak
Drive-By Truckers - Hell No, I Ain't Happy/Decoration Day
Cat Power - He War/You Are Free
The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed/Electric Version
The Wrens - Everyone Choose Sides/The Meadowlands
Matthew Sweet - Tonight We Ride/Kimi Ga Suki Raifu
Sloan - False Alarm/Action Pact
TV On the Radio - Staring at the Sun/Young Liars
The Shins - Mine's Not a High Horse/Chutes Too Narrow


Friday, May 11, 2018

Stuck In Thee Garage #223: May 11, 2018

It helps to get off to a good start, but finishing well is also very important. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played great album closers in hour 2. Some are short and sweet, some rock, some are quiet and some are long and epic. But they all get the job done.



This playlist throws serious heat:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
The Spook School - Still Alive/Could It Be Different?
Speedy Ortiz - Sport Death/Twerp Verse
Frog Eyes - Don't Sleep Under Stars/Violet Psalms
Okkervil River - Pulled Up the Ribbon/The Rainbow Rain
Pearl Jam - Can't Deny Me/Single
Sloan - Don't Stop (If It Feels Good Do It)/12
Jeff Rosenstock - Beating My Head Against a Wall/POST-
Preoccupations - Solace/New Material
Japan Suicide - Blown Away/Santa Sangre
Modern Time Machines - Alper/MTM
Holy Wave - The Nurse's Tale/Adult Fear
MGMT - James/Little Dark Age
Wye Oak - It Was Not Natural/The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs
Hop Along - Somewhere a Judge/Bark Your Head Off, Dog
The Wedding Present - Emporia/Going, Going...

Hour 2: Closers
Camper Van Beethoven - Ambiguity Song/Telephone Free Landslide Victory
The Replacements - Here Comes a Regular/Tim
Pavement - Fillmore Jive/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
The Clash - Train in Vain/London Calling
Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance/Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down/Sound of Silver
OFF! - I Need One (I Want One)/OFF!
Living Colour - Which Way to America?/Vivid
Soundgarden - New Damage/Badmotorfinger
R.E.M. - Oddfellows Local 151/Document
David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away/Blackstar
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain/Purple Rain


Friday, May 04, 2018

Stuck In Thee Garage #222: May 4, 2018

Hate to break it to you, but life's not a non-stop thrill ride. There are going to be some lulls in the action every once in a while. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about boredom in hour 2. Deal with it, Sporto.




This playlist will put you in detention:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Speedy Ortiz - Buck Me Off/Twerp Verse
L.A. Witch - Drive My Car/L.A. Witch
Dead Meadow - I'm So Glad/The Nothing They Need
Jo Passed - Millennial Trash Blues/Their Prime
Beach House - Dive/7
Frankie Cosmos - Jesse/Vessel
Flasher - Pressure/Constant Image
Neko Case - Hell-On/Hell-On
Melody's Echo Chamber - Breathe In, Breathe Out/Bon Voyage
The Moondoggies - Soviet Barn Fire/A Love Sleeps Deep
Dick Stusso - Modern Music/In Heaven
La Luz - California Finally/Floating Features
King Tuff - Birds of Paradise/The Other
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Talking Straight/Hope Downs
Okkervil River - Famous Tracheotomies/In the Rainbow Rain

Hour 2: Bored
The Pursuit of Happiness - Bored of You/The Downward Road
Bully - Feel the Same/Losing
Dead Stars - Boredom/Perfect Patterns
Built to Spill - Good Ol' Boredom/There is No Enemy
The Walkmen - I'm Never Bored/Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone
The Feelies - Waiting/Time for a Witness
Father John Misty - Bored in the USA/I Love You, Honeybear
The Beatles - I'm So Tired/The White Album
XTC - Day In Day Out/Drums and Wires
Gang of Four - Glass/Content Value Add
Frank Black and the Catholics - Do Nothing/Snake Oil
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Wasted State of Mind/So Divided
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation/Blank Generation
Pointed Sticks - Nothing Else to Do/Part of the Scene
Green River - Ain't Nothing to Do/Live at the Sunset Tavern, 7/10/08
Fu Manchu - Nothing Done/The Action is Go!
Death Angel - Bored/Frolic Through the Park


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