Stuck In Thee Garage #279: July 19, 2019

Certain truths are self-evident in this world. Others, not so much. I stumbled onto one of those less-evident truths this week: Apparently, there are a lot of rock songs about monkeys. Who knew? This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about monkeys in hour 2.

It packs more punch than Clint Eastwood's orangutan:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Sleater-Kinney - Hurry On Home/The Center Won't Hold
J. Robbins - Un-Becoming/Un-Becoming
The Raconteurs - Don't Bother Me/Help Us Stranger
Oxford Collapse - I Feel Better/Tiny Changes: A Tribute to Frightened Rabbit
Oceans of the Moon - Hope Will Pass/Oceans of the Moon
Purple Mountains - Margaritas at the Mall/Purple Mountains
Thom Yorke - Not the News/ANIMA
Superchunk - Driveway to Driveway/Acoustic Foolish
Palehound - In Town/Black Friday
All the Saints - Closer, Owner/Look Like You're Going Somewhere
Clinic - Rubber Bullets/Wheeltappers and Shunters
Amyl and the Sniffers - Got You/Amyl and the Sniffers
Generationals - Breaking Your Silence/Reader as Detective
Boundaries - Forgiver/Single
Stef Chura - Scream/Midnight
Hatchie - Unwanted Guest/Keepsake
Emily Wolfe - Holy Roller/Emily Wolfe

Hour 2: Monkeys
Buffalo Tom - Latest Monkey/Big Red Letter Day
Red Red Meat - Hot Nikkety Trunk Monkey/Red Red Meat
Uranium Club - Grease Monkey/The Cosmo Cleaners
Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven/Doolittle 20th Anniversary Live Sampler (live in Paris 2009)
Iggy Pop and James Williamson - Lucky Monkeys/Kill City
Milkpale - The Day of the Monkey/And I Forgot a Long Time Ago How You Feel
The Beatles - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey/The White Album
The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man/Let It Bleed
The Feelies - Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)/Crazy Rhythms
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench/The Colour and the Shape
Mother Love Bone - Half Ass Monkey Boy/Shine
Earworms - Monkey ET/Earworms
The Jesus Lizard - Monkey Trick/Goat
Elliott Smith - New Monkey/New Moon
PJ Harvey - The Orange Monkey/The Hope Six Demolition Project
Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey/Security

Stuck In Thee Garage #278: July 12, 2019

Desperation can take many forms. It may involve a desperate need for love, money, acceptance or revenge. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about desperation in hour 2. It'll help you get through your next violent showdown.

This playlist has unfinished business:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Spoon - No Bullets Spent/Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon
The Raconteurs - Sunday Driver/Help Us Stranger
Horse Jumper of Love - Volcano/So Divine
Oceans of the Moon - I'm On a Roll/Oceans of the Moon
Mannequin Pussy - Patience/Patience
Summer Cannibals - Like I Used To/Can't Tell Me No
Thom Yorke - I Am a Very Rude Person/ANIMA
Froth - Catalog/Duress
Martha - Sight For Sore Eyes/Love Keeps Kicking
Truth Club - No Planned Sequel/Not an Exit
Sacred Paws - Almost It/Run Around the Sun
Trinary System - Out on Rte. 5/Lights in the Center of Your Head
Sebadoh - Follow the Breath/Act Surprised
Versing - Vestibule/10000
Cosmonauts - Suburban Hearts/Star 69
Silversun Pickups - Straw Man/Widow's Weeds
Grey - Burning Chrome/Age Hasn't Spoiled You

Hour 2: Desperate
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues/Grinderman
X - We're Desperate/Wild Gift
Descendents - Days of Desperation/Hypercaffium Spazzinate
Joy Division - Isolation/Closer
PJ Harvey - The Desperate Kingdom of Love/Uh Huh Her
Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over/Grace
Black Flag - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie/Damaged
Soundgarden - Tears to Forget/Screaming Life
Nirvana - Negative Creep/Bleach
Faith No More - Last Cup of Sorrow/Album of the Year
Drive-By Truckers - Sink Hole/Decoration Day
Living Colour - Desperate People/Vivid
The Dirty Mac - Yer Blues/The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
The Cars - Gimmie Some Slack/Panorama
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Desperate/Acme
Robert Pollard - Current Desperation (Angels Speak of Nothing)/Coast to Coast Carpet of Love
David Bowie - Rock n' Roll Suicide/The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Stuck In Thee Garage #277: July 5, 2019

Sometimes you just need to give it up to the ladies. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs by female-fronted acts in hour 2. They run the gamut from quiet to loud and everything in between.

This playlist eats to the beat:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Summer Cannibals - Can't Tell Me No/Can't Tell Me No
Martha - Love Keeps Kicking/Love Keeps Kicking
Mannequin Pussy - Drunk II/Patience
Truth Club - Not an Exit/Not an Exit
Froth - Laurel/Duress
Sacred Paws - Write This Down/Run Around the Sun
The Minus 5 - Goodbye Braverman/Stroke Manor
Dumb - Some Big Motor Dream/Club Nites
All the Saints - Old Order/Look Like You're Going Somewhere
Jay Som - Superbike/Anak Ko
Hatchie - Obsessed/Keepsake
Palehound - Killer/Black Friday
Radiohead - Lift/MiniDisc songs
David J - The First Incision/Crocodile Tears and the Velvet Cosh
Silkworm - Parsons/In the West reissue

Hour 2: Women
Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best/Sometimes I Sit And Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
Colleen Green - TV/I Want to Grow Up
Joanna Gruesome - There Is No Function Stacy/Peanut Butter
Cat Power - Cross Bones Style/Moon Pix
Boss Hog - Walk In/Boss Hog
The Breeders - Fate to Fatal/Fate to Fatal EP
Bettie Serveert - Tomboy/Palomine
Jennifer Trynin - Better Than Nothing/Cockamamie
Blondie - Union City Blue/Eat to the Beat
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion/Show Your Bones
Speedy Ortiz - Cash Cab/Major Arcana
The Spinanes - Spitfire/Manos
Wild Flag - Romance/Wild Flag
Sleater-Kinney - You're No Rock 'N Roll Fun/All Hands on the Bad One
PJ Harvey - Send His Love to Me/To Bring You My Love
Sonic Youth - My Friend Goo/Goo
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)/Bad Reputation

 

Completely Conspicuous 509: The Good Stuff

It's part 3 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of the year so far. Listen to the episode below or download it directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ
- Breitling's #6
- Changing his take on "Steve Miller Band for millennials"
- Kumar's #6
- Band recently relocated to Nashville
- Breitling's #4
- Another accomplished Boston indie rock act continues to evolve its sound
- Kumar's #5
- Don't call it a comeback; fuzzy power pop from low-key indie rocker
- Breitling's #3
- Reissue of mid-'90s release from San Jose hardcore trio
- Definitely check out the reissue of Silkworm's In the West
- Kumar's #3
- Scrappy pop punk from Toronto band
- Breitling's #2
- Veteran act with inspired new release
- Kumar's #2 and Breitling's #5
- Inspired by '80s riff rock
- Breitling's #1 and Kumar's #4
- A triumph from a legendary rock god
- Possibly as good as anything from his previous bands
- Kumar's #1
- Out of left field for me, but a great sweeping folk pop record
- Female solo artist who has come into her own
- New albums coming from Titus Andronicus, Sleater-Kinney, Redd Kross, Purple Mountains, possibly Ava Luna

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.