Friday, March 08, 2019

Stuck In Thee Garage #261: March 8, 2019

First impressions are very important, in life, movies and even music. An opening riff can grab your attention, but so can an opening line. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs with great opening lines in hour 2.



Lemme tell you what this playlist is about:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Beach Slang - I Hate Alternative Rock/MPLS
Telekinesis - Cut the Quick/Effluxion
Frankie & the Witch Fingers - Work/ZAM
Night Beats - Her Cold Cold Heart/Myth of a Man
Pottery - Hank Williams/Single
Strand of Oaks - Weird Ways/Eraserland
Hand Habits - Placeholder/Placeholder
Better Oblivion Community Center - Dylan Thomas/Better Oblivion Community Center
Flamingods - Marigold/Levitation
FEELS - Find a Way/Post Earth
Royal Trux - Suburban Junkie Lady/White Stuff
Deep State - Dozer/The Path to Fast Oblivion
Lowin - Sake/Heavy as the Sun
Piroshka - What's Next?/Brickbat
White Lies - Denial/FIVE

Hour 2: Opening lines
Beck - Sexx Laws/Midnite Vultures
Prince - Sign O' the Times/Sign O' the Times
The Clash - The Guns of Brixton/London Calling
Public Enemy - Bring the Noise/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Eels - Novocaine for the Soul/Beautiful Freak
The Tragically Hip - Twist My Arm/Road Apples
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues/Bringing It All Back
Boss Hog - Winn Coma/Boss Hog
Rocket From the Crypt - Middle/Scream Dracula Scream!
Iggy & the Stooges - Search and Destroy/Raw Power
X - The Unheard Music/Los Angeles
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Oliver's Army/Armed Forces
David Bowie - Panic in Detroit/Aladdin Sane
Joe Jackson - I'm the Man/I'm the Man
Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent/Favourite Worst Nightmare
The Pretenders - Precious/Pretenders
The Buzzocks - Ever Fallen in Love/Singles Going Steady


 

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