If you weren't there, Y2K anxiety was real. Twenty years ago, there was much hype and hullabaloo about the impending crisis that would ensue on Jan. 1, 2000 when all the computers would go haywire. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1999 in hour 2. It was the end of the century and the millennium and everybody was bracing for impact. When in reality, the biggest menace was Shasta McNasty.
The Napster-proof playlist:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Hash Redactor - Step 2: Success/Drecksound
Sebadoh - Raging River/Act Surprised
Black Mountain - Boogie Lover/Destroyer
The Mountain Goats - Doc Gooden/In League With Dragons
Weyes Blood - Andromeda/Titanic Rising
Tacocat - Little Friend/This Mess is a Place
Remo Drive - The Grind/Natural, Everyday Degradation
Slow Pulp - New Media/Big Day EP
Cosmonauts - Medio Litro/Star 69
Craig Finn - Something to Hope For/I Need a New War
Jenny Lewis - Do Si Do/On the Line
Jeff Tweedy - Empty Head/WARMER
Wand - Thin Air/Laughing Matter
White Denim - Head Spinning/Side Effects
Silkworm - Dust My Broom/In the West reissue
Hour 2: 1999
The Sheila Divine - Hum/New Parade
Built to Spill - The Plan/Keep It Like a Secret
The Flaming Lips - Waitin' for a Superman/The Soft Bulletin
Sloan - Friendship/Between the Bridges
Gigolo Aunts - The Big Lie/Minor Chords and Major Themes
Sebadoh - Flame/The Sebadoh
Beck - Get Real Paid/Midnite Vultures
Chris Cornell - Flutter Girl/Euphoria Morning
Ben Folds Five - Army/The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Songs: Ohia - Hot Black Silk/Axxess & Ace
My Morning Jacket - O is the One That is Real/MMJ-Songs:Ohia Split EP
Wilco - Can't Stand It/Summerteeth
Piebald - Giddy Like a Schoolgirl/If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds, It Would Be Curtains For Us All
Frank Black & the Catholics - I Love Your Brain/Pistolero
Fu Manchu - Godzilla/Eatin' Dust
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