California has always held a special allure for the rest of the country and probably the rest of the world. There's something about it that promises sun, fun and endless possibilities. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about California in hour 2.
I wish they all could be playlists like this:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Mikal Cronin - Show Me/Seeker
The New Pornographers - Falling Down the Stairs of Your Smile/In the Morse Code of Brake Lights
Black Ferns - This Illusion/Devices
Versus - University/Ex Voto
Necking - Still Exist/Cut Your Teeth
Kal Marks - Kimmy/Let the Shit House Burn Down
Titus Andronicus - My Body and Me/An Obelisk
Beeef - Devil's in the Details/Bull in the Shade
Goon - Critter/Heaven is Humming
The Sour Notes - Shoulda/Single
Mini Mansions - Forgot Your Name/Guy Walks Into a Bar...
Greys - Constant Pose/Age Hasn't Spoiled You
Purple Mountains - Darkness and Cold/Purple Mountains
Silver Jews - Random Rules/American Water
Silver Jews - The Farmer's Hotel/Tanglewood Numbers
Hour 2: California
2Pac - California Love (feat. Roger Troutman and Dr. Dre)/All Eyez on Me
Kool and the Gang - Hollywood Swinging/Wild and Peaceful
St. Vincent - Los Ageless/Masseduction
Neil Young - Revolution Blues/On the Beach
Frank Black - Ole Mulholland/Frank Black
Sloan - Losing California/Between the Bridges
Mike Watt - Drove Up From Pedro/Ball-Hog or Tugboat?
Minutemen - History Lesson, Part II/Double Nickels on the Dime
The Afghan Whigs - Fountain and Fairfax/Gentlemen
Alice in Chains - Check My Brain/Black Gives Way to Blue
Fu Manchu - California Crossing/California Crossing
Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales of San Francisico/Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Pavement - Unfair/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Ty Segall - Californian Hills/Emotional Mugger
R.E.M. - Electrolite/New Adventures in Hi-Fi
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