Stuck In Thee Garage #297: November 29, 2019

Sometimes it may not feel like there's a lot to be thankful for, but when you think about it, you can always find something. On this Black Friday edition of Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about being thankful in hour 2.

Yo, pass the stuffing, dummy!

This playlist is coming, Elizabeth:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Wye Oak - Fortune/Single
Bodega - Truth/Shiny New Object
Liam Gallagher - Halo/Why Me? Why Not.
Lightouts - Yes I Du/Wake
DIIV - Like Before You Were Born/Deceiver
Kim Gordon - Murdered Out/No Home Record
Mark Lanegan - Night Flight to Kabul/Somebody's Knocking
Wilco - We Were Lucky/Ode to Joy
Twin Peaks - Laid in Gold/Lookout Low
Beck - Everlasting Nothing/Hyperspace
Yam Haus - The Thrill/Single
Nane - Always On My Mind/Single
Guided By Voices - Heavy Like the World/Sweating the Plague
White Reaper - Real Long Time/You Deserve Love
The Menzingers - Strawberry Mansion/Hello Exile
Refused - I Wanna Watch the World Burn/War Music

Hour 2: Thankful
Beastie Boys - Gratitude/Check Your Head
Bad Brains - Give Thanks and Praises/Build a Nation
The Pink Mountaintops - And I Thank You/Outside Love
Sly & the Family Stone - Thank You (Falettin Me Be Mice Elf Agin)/Greatest Hits
George Harrison - Thanks for the Pepperoni/All Things Must Pass
Led Zeppelin - Thank You/II
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start - I'll Thank You Later/Worst Band Name Ever
Speedy Ortiz - Thank You/Death to Speedy Ortiz
Mastodon - Thank You for This/Call of the Mastodon
Ty Segall - Thank You Mr. K/Ty Segall
Ben Folds Five - Thank You for Breaking My Heart/The Sound of the Life of the Mind
My Morning Jacket - Thank You Too!/Evil Urges
World Party - Thank You World/Goodbye Jumbo
Drive-By Truckers - The Thanksgiving Filter/Go-Go Boots
Mourn - Thank You for Coming Over/Sopresa Familia

Completely Conspicuous 520: Streaming for Vengeance

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the decade in TV and movies. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- This decade has flown by
- 10 years ago, Matt was getting ready to move to Ireland
- Hard to rank the best movies and TV because there's so much we haven't seen
- Recording on the day that Disney+ launched
- Some bugs because of the huge demand on day 1
- Biggest change is the move to streaming content
- Binge-watching has become a huge trend
- Spoilers abound
- Jay: Don't read reviews until after I've watched something
- HBO's Watchmen series is pretty good
- So easy to fall behind on a show
- Shows switch to different streaming services
- We're so distracted that many people are doing multiple things while watching a show
- Short seasons are appealing because you can finish them quickly
- Rare to watch shows live
- Matt watched final season of LOST from Ireland, live with his family via a laptop
- Similarly, there's so much new music being released but a lot of it doesn't get heard
- Radio stations play a lot of the same music over and over
- More and more original programming on non-traditional outlets: PlayStation, Amazon Prime, Apple+
- So many streaming services available now
- The end goal is to replace your $200 cable bill with an equal amount spent on streaming services
- Jay: Cut the cord three years ago, went to all streaming
- You can't get everything
- Takes a long time to decide what to watch sometimes
- Sometimes we watch two different things while in the same room
- Seeing movies in a theater is great, but dealing with other people isn't
- Stay off social media if you don't want spoilers
- Jay: 10 years ago, I was watching late night talk shows every day
- Now, watch clips online the following day
- Jay: Haven't seen a Star Wars movie since 1983
- Something to be said for holding onto hard media
- Bringing back dead actors using AI
- Deep fakes are freaky and amazing
- Superhero movies became big moneymakers in the last decade
- The Shining happened because Kubrick was at a low spot and needed a hit
- The new Fantasy Island reboot is a horror movie
- To be continued

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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.

Stuck In Thee Garage #296: November 22, 2019

New phone, who dis? Since their introduction, phones have always been an important part of everyday life. But these days, they've become like extensions of our hands...especially if you've got a particular set of skills.

This playlist may or may not find you and kill you:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Liam Gallagher - Shockwave/Why Me? Why Not.
Feet - Petty Thieving/What's Inside Is More Than Just Ham
Sports Team - Fishing/Making Hay
Squirrel Flower - Red Shoulder/I Was Born Swimming
Beach Bunny - Prom Queen/Honeymoon
Torres - Good Scare/Silver Tongue
Lightouts - Disappear/Wake
Guided By Voices - Downer/Sweating the Plague
Juliana Hatfield - Hole In My Life/Juliana Hatfield Sings the Police
Big Thief - Shoulders/Two Hands
Mark Lanegan - Dark Disco Jag/Somebody's Knocking
Desert Sessions - Something You Can't See/Vol. 11 and 12
Pixies - Long Rider/Beneath the Eyrie
The New Pornographers - Colossus the Rhodes/In the Morse Code of Brake Lights
Chastity Belt - Split/Chastity Belt
Rose Dorn - Collar/Days You Were Leaving

Hour 2: Phones
Stove - Dumb Phone/Is a Toad in the Rain
Telekinesis - Courtesy Phone/Ad Infinitum
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Get Off the Phone/L.A.M.F. - the lost '77 tapes
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap/Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
The Dirty Nil - Phone Call/Master Volume
Gluecifer - A Call From the Other Side/Automatic Thrill
Voivod - God Phones/Infini
Husker Du - Don't Try to Call/Savage Young Du
Kiss Concert - Stupid Guy On My Phone/Rick Rude - Kiss Concert split
The Kickovers - Hanging On the Telephone/Osaka
Jellyfish - Calling Sarah (demo)/Fan Club Disc 1
Nazz - Hello It's Me/Nazz
Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number/Pretzel Logic
Hallelujah the Hills - I'm in the Phone Book, I'm on the Planet, I'm Dying Slowly/A Band is Something to Figure Out
Okkervil River - Calling and Not Calling My Ex/The Stand Ins
Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?/AM
LCD Soundsystem - Call the Police/American Dream

Completely Conspicuous 519: Cornell '77

I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss the Grateful Dead bootleg Cornell '77. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at CompCon world HQ
- Talking about Dead show recorded on 5/8/77 at Cornell University
- Phil: Listened to this hundreds of times
- Jay: Very impressed by the bootleg
- Phil: The show was so random
- Dead had taken some time off from touring from '74 to '76
- By spring of '77, band was firing on all cylinders
- Phil's parents wouldn't let 8-year-old Phil see the Dead on that tour
- A lot of live albums are unnecessary
- But a great live recording is transcendent
- Phil: Early Chicago with Terry Kath on guitar was a great live act
- The Dylan and the Dead live album was a dud
- Phil Lesh: The Heineken Years
- Clapton's MTV Unplugged album was awful
- Jay: Solo Clapton is terrible
- Phil doesn't like Thin Lizzy
- The Dead has 36-minute versions of songs on their bootlegs
- Phil has around 125 Dead boots
- Figuring out which songs flow well into others
- Phil: The version of "Morning Dew" on this bootleg is the best
- Plenty of snow at that show, inside and outside
- Love when bands change up the setlist every night
- When you get sick of songs you love
- Somehow we start talking about "The Day After"
- AC/DC's music is more complicated than you think
- Phil would set his time machine to 5/8/77

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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.

Stuck In Thee Garage #295: November 15, 2019

It's mid-November. Darkness has descended upon us. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I try to ward off seasonal depression with songs about darkness in hour 2. Hopefully it will keep the zombies away.

The dark playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Refused - REV001/War Music
Beach Slang - Bam Rang Rang/The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Mundungus/Single
Destroyer - Crimson Tide/Have We Met
Mark Lanegan - Disbelief Suspension/Somebody's Knocking
R.E.M. - You (Remix)/Monster (25th anniversary reissue)
Lilith - Figure 1 Repeated/Safer Off
Juliana Hatfield - Next to You/Juliana Hatfield Sings the Police
Kate Teague - Gilly/Kate Teague
The Rallies - If You Do/Upside Down
Sean Henry - Surf Song/A Jump From the High Dive
Jeffrey Lewis & the Voltage - In Certain Orders/Bad Wiring
The Shivas - Gloria/Dark Thoughts
Guided By Voices - Unfun Glitz/Sweating the Plague
Mikal Cronin - Caravan/Seeker
Desert Sessions - Noses in Roses, Forever/Volumes 11 & 12

Hour 2: Darkness
Death Lurks - Some Days It's Dark/Kids In the Hall Brain Candy
Ween - Drifter in the Dark/Chocolate & Cheese
Purple Mountains - Darkness and Cold/Purple Mountains
Destroyer - Midnight Meet the Rain/Poison Season
George Harrison - Beware of Darkness/All Things Must Pass
PJ Harvey - The Darker Days of Me & Him/Uh Huh Her
Teenage Fanclub - The Darkest Part of the Night/Here
Jeff Rosenstock - Darkness Records/We Cool?
PUP - Dark Days/PUP
Cloud Nothings - Darkened Rings/Life Without Sound
Japandroids - Darkness on the Edge of Gastown/No Singles
Pods - Blackout/Where I'm Calling From
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Definite Darkness/Lenses Alien
She Sir - Dark Glass Tomb/Rival Island
Natural Velvet - Dark Inertia/Salome With the Head of John the Baptist

Completely Conspicuous 518: Terrapin Station

I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss the Grateful Dead's 1977 album Terrapin Station. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at CompCon world HQ
- The Dead's 9th studio album
- Band had signed with Clive Davis and Arista
- Album was produced by Keith Olsen, later known for slick AOR albums by Eddie Money, Rick Springfield, REO Speedwagon, Heart
- Phil: Would get a tattoo of the Terrapin cover
- Cover of "Dancing in the Streets" is pretty lame
- Live, the cover turns into a long jam (duh)
- Donna Godchaux was featured a lot on this record
- Side 2 is an side-long suite written by Hunter and Garcia
- Band didn't tour for this album after Mickey Hart got in a car accident
- The tour before this album was legendary for Dead fans
- Tried songs out live before they made it to studio recordings
- Side 1 closes out with a Donna G. song that sounds nothing like anything else the Dead has done
- The Godchaux marriage was splitting up while they were in the band
- Olsen erased Hart's drums on one song and replaced them with strings
- Lyrics on Terrapin Station are pretty dense
- Relatively short album for the Dead at 35 minutes
- Phil: These songs got better in the live setting
- Jay: A lot of filler on side 2
- Album feels like a contractual obligation
- Dead & Co. plays part of the title suite now
- Phil: Not a John Mayer fan, but he's a good guitarist
- Jay: Not a fan of this album
- Next: Cornell 5/8/77

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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.

Stuck In Thee Garage #294: November 8, 2019

Procrastination is something we all have done at some point. I could give you plenty of examples, but I'll save that for later. Suffice it to say, I played songs about procrastination in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage today and they were pretty good. It's a good accomplishment.

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Mark Lanegan - Stitch It Up/Somebody's Knocking
Desert Sessions - Move Together/Desert Sessions Vol. 11 & 12
Guided By Voices - Ego Central High/Sweating the Plague
Juliana Hatfield - Can't Stand Losing You/Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police
Cherry Glazerr - Call Me (feat. Portugal the Man)/Call Me
Kim Gordon - Hungry Baby/No Home Record
White Reaper - Raw/You Deserve Love
Omni - Skeleton Key/Networker
Angel Olsen - What It Is/All Mirrors
Wilco - Hold Me Anyway/Ode to Joy
Squid - Match Bet/Town Centre
Mikal Cronin - I've Got Reason/Seeker
Dirty Rugs - I Got Your Moves/Two Sides
Bodega - Knife on the Platter/Shiny New Model
DIIV - For the Guilty/Deceiver
Dead Soft - I Believe You/Big Blue

Hour 2: Procrastinate
Ben Folds Five - The Battle of Who Could Care Less/Whatever & Ever Amen
Radiohead - The Bends/The Bends
Foo Fighters - Baker Street/The Colour and the Shape (bonus track)
Arthur Buck - Forever Waiting/Arthur Buck
They Might Be Giants - Dead/Flood Live in Australia
Jane's Addiction - Jane Says/Jane's Addiction
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - I Need to Know/Live '78
Jimi Hendrix - Wait Until Tomorrow/Radio One
The English Beat - Save It For Later/Special Beat Service
Beck - Lazy Flies/Mutations
Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line/Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1
Neil Young - Powderfinger/American Stars N' Bars
Andy Samberg & Chris Parnell - Lazy Sunday/SNL
Dizzee Rascal - Sittin' Here/Boy in Da Corner
Green Day - Longview/Dookie
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant/Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols

Completely Conspicuous 517: Top of the Heap

It's part 3 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we conclude our countdown of our favorite albums of the decade. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at CompCon world HQ
- Kumar's #3 of the decade: Parquet Courts cements their post-punk presence (2014)
- Impressive body of work with an art-rock vibe
- Breitling's #2: Johnny Foreigner's self-produced magnum opus (2011)
- Breitling was running a JF-themed blog for a while
- Kumar's #2: A punk explosion of political anger from Superchunk (2018)
- Still vital after all these years
- Breitling's #1: Post-punk legend Walter Schreifels' debut solo album (2010)
- Sincere folk rock with incredible hooks
- Kumar's #1: Bowie's final album was a masterpiece (2016)
- Recorded in secret with an unknown jazz band
- He thought he had more time, but died a few days after the album came out
- That's a decade

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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.

Stuck In Thee Garage #293: November 1, 2019

Sure, Halloween's over, but the spirit lives on. I played two hours of Halloween music today on Stuck In Thee Garage, and it was just as effective as if I played them last night. Boo!





The frightening playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast/Live After Death
Blue Oyster Cult - Monsters/Cultosaurus Erectus
Queens of the Stone Age - Monsters in the Parasol/Rated R
Joy Division - Heart and Soul/Closer
Poptone - Movement of Fear/Poptone
Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls/OK Computer
PJ Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta/To Bring You My Love
Arctic Monkeys - Pretty Visitors/Humbug
David Bowie - We Are the Dead/Diamond Dogs
Jarvis Cocker - I Will Kill Again/Jarvis
Charly Bliss - Scare U/Guppy
Flower Girl - Scary Drive II/Tuck In Your Tie-Die
Chastity - Scary/Death Lust

Hour 2
Big Chief - John's Scared/Platinum Jive
High Rise - Monster a Go-Go/High Rise II
Masters of Reality - Kill the King/Masters of Reality
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon/Bark at the Moon
Black Sabbath - Voodoo/Mob Rules
Bullet Lavolta - Birth of Death/The Gift
Kyuss - Demon Cleaner/Welcome to Sky Valley
Black Mountain - Evil Ways/In the Future
Ty Segall Band - Death/Slaughterhouse
The Tragically Hip - Locked In the Trunk of a Car/Fully Completely
Neil Young - Vampire Blues/On the Beach
Dead Moon - Demona/What a Way to See the Old Girl Go
Grinderman - Heathen Child/Grinderman 2
Bad Brains - Fearless Vampire Killers/Bad Brains