Stuck In Thee Garage #332: July 31, 2020

It's been a long, hot summer and we're not even in August yet. I brought the heat on today's episode of Stuck In Thee Garage by playing songs about heat in hour 2. Warning: There's a jheri curl alert!

This playlist is HOT:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

METZ - A Boat to Drown In/Atlas Vending

Protomartyr - The Aphorist/Ultimate Success Today

Hum - Cloud City/Inlet

JARV IS... - House Music All Night Long/Beyond the Pale

Psychedelic Furs - Come All Ye Faithful/Made of Rain

Emerald Comets - Twilight Houses/Strangelands

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Honey/Single

The Beths - Dying to Believe/Jump Rope Gazers

Used Cassettes - Dirty Beaches/Used Cassettes

Fake Names - First Everlasting/Fake Names

The Jayhawks - This Forgotten Town/XOXO

My Morning Jacket - Climbing the Ladder/The Waterfall II

Japandroids - Sovereignty/Massey Fucking Hall

Hour 2: HAWT

Husker Du - Celebrated Summer/New Day Rising

PUP - Sleep in the Heat/The Dream is Over

Los Campesinos! - A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; Or, Letters From Me to Charlotte/Romance is Boring

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Sweat/Orange

Buck 65 - Heatwave/Situation

The Roots - Rolling With Heat/Phrenology

Run DMC - Raising Hell/Raising Hell

Blue Oyster Cult - Hot Rails to Hell/Tyranny & Mutation

Rollins Band - Hotter and Hotter/Get Some Go Again

Van Halen - On Fire/Van Halen

Kool and the Gang - Jungle Boogie/Wild and Peaceful

Ohio Players - Fire/Fire

Donna Summer - Hot Stuff/Bad Girls

James Brown - Hot Pants, Pts. 1 and 2/Make It Funky: The Big Payback 1971-1975

Stuck In Thee Garage #331: July 24, 2020

Thanks to the pandemic, time has gotten a little weird lately. Things that happened a few months ago feel like they happened a lifetime ago. It wasn't always like this. Hopefully we'll be back to something resembling normalcy one of these days. But until then, we can remember what time was by listening to songs about time, which we did today on Stuck In Thee Garage. Isn't that right, brother?

This playlist is approved by Penny:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Protomartyr - Processed by the Boys/Ultimate Success Today
Emerald Comets - Insects/Strangelands
Wolfhounds - Can't See the Light/Electric Music
The Fiery Furnaces - Down at the So and So on Somewhere/Single
Mourn - Call You Back/Single
SAULT - Wildfires/Untitled (Black Is)
Swervedriver - Son of Mustang Ford/Petroleum Spirit Daze
Used Cassettes - Eagles Nest/Used Cassettes
Fake Names - Heavy Feather/Fake Names
The Asteroid No. 4 - Swiss Mountain Myth/Northern Songs
Sports Team - Kutcher/Deep Down Happy
NNAMDi - Perfect in My Mind/Brat
Eyelids - The Minutes/The Accidental Falls
Alice Bag - Switch Hitter/Sister Dynamite
Jehnny Beth - How Could You/To Love is to Live
Dig Nitty - Screen/Reverse of Mastery

Hour 2: Time
Chisel - 8 A.M. All Day/8 A.M. All Day
Wire - Two Minutes/Red Barked Tree
Ride - Fifteen Minutes/This is Not a Safe Place
The Who - 5:15/Quadrophenia
The Quireboys - 7 O'Clock/A Bit of What You Fancy
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight/Powerslave
David Bowie - 5:15 The Angels Have Gone/Heathen
Chastity Belt - 5am/I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
Craig Wedren - Fifteen Minutes Late/Lapland
Elliott Smith - 2:45 AM./Either/Or
U2 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock/Under a Blood Red Sky
Beastie Boys - 3-Minute Rule/Paul's Boutique
The Twilight Singers - My Time (Has Come)/Powder Burns
The Gentlemen  - Three-Minute Marriage Proposal/Brass City Band
Jeff Rosenstock - No Time/NO DREAM

Stuck In Thee Garage #330: July 17, 2020

The last four months have had a severe impact on how (and possibly if) Americans work, but we're doing the best we can. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about working in hour 2.

This playlist really doesn't want to deal with customer complaints:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Bob Mould - Forecast of Rain/Blue Hearts
Archers of Loaf - Cruel Reminder/Single
The Beths - I'm Not Getting Excited/Jump Rope Gazers
Fake Names - Driver/Fake Names
Cloud Nothings - The Sound of Everyone/The Black Hole Understands
Pottery - Take Your Time/Welcome to Bobby's Motel
Houses of Heaven - Sleep/Silent Places
Flock of Dimes - Like So Much Desire/Like So Much Desire EP
Twin Peaks - Any More Than You Want/Side A
Ty Segall & Cory Hanson - Milk Bird Flyer/She's a Beam
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Be Afraid/Reunions
Savak - Checked Out/The Point of the Point
Wylde Ratttz - Hollow/Wylde Ratttz
The Stairs - I Wanna Be Your Man/Titles Are Important
Peel Dream Magazine - Dialectrics/Moral Panics EP
No Age - Turned to String/Goons Be Gone
Jeff Rosenstock - Leave It In the Sun/NO DREAM

Hour 2: Working
R.E.M. - Finest Worksong/Document
The Tragically Hip - My Music At Work/Music@Work
The Ocean Blue - The Office of a Working Man/The Ocean Blue
Songs: Ohia - Love and Work/Axxess & Ace
Elvis Costello - Welcome to the Working Week/My Aim Is True
The Who - Bell Boy/Quadrophenia
John Lennon - Working Class Hero/Plastic Ono Band
Piebald - Our Very Own Employment Office/When Life Hands You Lemons
Hard Left - Strike For America/Single
Halfsour - Employees Must Wash Hands/Tuesday Night Live
Big Heet - Failure at Work/On a Wire
Prince - Let's Work/Controversy
Beastie Boys - Funky Boss/Check Your Head
Joe Jackson - Friday/I'm the Man
The Replacements - God Damn Job/For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986
Drive-By Truckers - This Fucking Job/The Big To-Do
Superchunk - Slack Motherfucker/Superchunk

Completely Conspicuous 539: Half and Half

It's part 2 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 directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded via Zoom
- Breitling's #10 and Kumar's #8
- Jangly indie pop sounds from Australia
- The lack of touring is really hurting bands and fans
- Breitling's #9
- A Matmos side project, "a niche of a niche"
- Kumar's #10
- All-star post-punk act out of LA
- Kumar's #9
- The loud/loud dynamic
- Breitling's #8
- Solo album from singer of Hop Along
- Breitling's #7
- Ambient electronic from an Italian musician in his 60s
- Bandcamp Friday has been a big hit this year
- Kumar's #7
- New band from Ian MacKaye, Amy Farina and Joe Lally
- Harking back to Fugazi's sound
- Kumar's #6
- Texas-based act with members from the Riverboat Gamblers and Rise Against
- Breitling's #6
- Another great Slumberland release
- Breitling's #5
- Dream pop from the Ukraine
- Kumar's #5
- Indie rock stalwart continues evolving his sound
- Kumar's and Breitling's #4
- Another cinematic effort from Canuck genius
- Breitling's #3
- Powerful release overshadowed by the pandemic
- Breitling's #2 and Kumar's #1
- Political hip hop as an art form
- Never more timely
- Kumar's #3
- Atmospheric new release from an alt-rock OG
- Kumar's #2
- Striking record from Boston-based indie rock act
- Breitling's #1
- UK indie act "like Elliot Smith making a Teenage Fanclub record"
- Looking forward to new releases from Sam Prekop, Katie Day, Bob Mould, IDLES, Fontaines DC, Psychedelic Furs
- When will concerts happen again?
- Probably dependent on a vaccine
- Liability is a big factor in whether shows come back

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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 #329: July 10, 2020

Given the current dystopian hellscape we're living in, it's easy to fall back on '90s nostalgia. Things weren't perfect, but they were a hell of a lot better than they are right now, or so we thought. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I happily partake in such nostalgia with songs from 1995 in hour 2.

Sadly, Chock Full o' Notes was unable to make an appearance.

The playlist, if you will:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Pottery - Under the Wires/Welcome to Bobby's Motel
Sloan - Jenny/Single
Savak - The Point of the Point/Single
Hum - Waves/Inlet
Public Enemy - State of the Union (STFU)/Single
Run the Jewels - Never Look Back/RTJ4
A Tribe Called Quest - Melatonin/We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service
Public Practice - Compromised/Gentle Grip
Phoebe Bridgers - I See You/Punisher
Cloud Nothings - Story That I Live/The Black Hole Understands
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Miles Away/Out of Interest
Twin Peaks - Whistle in the Wind (End of Everything)/Side A
The Stairs - Feedback Masters of the World/Titles Are Important
Ty Segall & Cory Hanson - She's a Beam/Single
Richard Dawson - The Queen's Head/2020

Hour 2: 1995
Helium - Pat's Trick/The Dirt of Luck
The Amps - Tipp City/Pacer
PJ Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta/To Bring You My Love
The Folk Implosion - Natural One/Kids soundtrack
The Pursuit of Happiness - Save the Whales/Where's the Bone
Jawbreaker - Sluttering (May 4th)/Dear You
Red Red Meat - Rosewood, Wax, Voltz + Glitter/Bunny Got Paid
Radiohead - The Bends/The Bends
Smashing Pumpkins - Muzzle/Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Rocket From the Crypt - Ball Lightning/Scream, Dracula, Scream!
Matthew Sweet - We're the Same/100% Fun
Rancid - Ruby Soho/...And Out Come the Wolves
Pavement - Grave Architecture/Wowee Zowee
Reeves Gabrels - 119 Years Ago/The Sacred Squall of Now
Mike Watt - Max and Wells/Ball-Hog or Tugboat?

Completely Conspicuous 538: The Middle of Nowhere

It's part 1 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 directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded via Zoom
- R.I.P., Great Scott
- Big blow to Boston rock scene
- Venues, bars, restaurants are going out of business all over the country
- Breitling and college friends have resurrected their old radio shows on Mixcloud
- Parcheesi Redux is on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
- Now 17 weeks in
- Music industry is at a standstill
- Touring has ceased altogether
- RATT's back, baby (thanks to Geico)
- Livestreams have become a thing
- There's no money in album sales anymore
- Breitling: Have been listening to more music this year
- Breitling's faves outside the top 10: Jesse Gallagher, Hum, Phoebe Bridgers, Katie Day
- Kumar's on the bubble picks: EOB, Jeff Rosenstock, Peel Dream Magazine, Porridge Radio, Savak
- Next time: On to our top 10

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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 #328: July 3, 2020

Just because the name of the show is Stuck In Thee Garage doesn't mean it's a show that only plays garage rock. I like all kinds of music and play a combination of things every week. But this week, I'm actually playing just garage rock in all its myriad forms in hour 2. So I've got that going for me, which is nice. It's like that time Opie started a band:

The gritty, gutty playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Hum - Step Into You/Inlet
Peel Dream Magazine - New Culture/Moral Panics EP
Sports Team - Born Sugar/Deep Down Happy
Public Enemy - Fight the Power 2020 (feat. Nas, Black Thought, Rapsody)/BET Awards 2020
Run the Jewels - Ju$t (feat. Pharrell Williams and Zach de la Rocha)/RTJ4
Elvis Costello - No Flag/Single
Jeff Rosenstock - Please Don't Rock Me Tonight/Saving for a Custom Van
Wylde Ratttz - World of Hurt/Wylde Ratttz
Joyce Manor - Leather Jacket/Songs From Northern Torrance
Sloan - It's In You, It's In Me/Jenny
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Same Mistakes/Out of Interest EP
Tanya Donelly - Big Love Bends Time/Big Love Bends Time EP
Sweet Spirit - No Dancing/Trinidad
Coriky - Hard to Explain/Coriky
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Falling Thunder/Sideways to New Italy
Japandroids - Younger Us/Massey Fucking Hall

Hour 2: Garage
The Sonics - The Witch/Here Are the Sonics
The Creation - Making Time/We Are Paintermen
The Stooges - Down On the Street/Fun House
Chain & the Gang - Devitalize/Best of Crime Rock
Mind Spiders - World's Destroyed/Mind Spiders
Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me/Watch Me Fall
The Hives - Supply and Demand/Veni Vidi Vicious
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Dang/Orange
The Black Lips - Take My Heart/200 Million Thousand
The King Khan & BBQ Show - Hold Me Tight/The King Khan & BBQ Show
Teenage Head - Somethin' Else/Frantic City
The Monkeywrench - Great Down Here/Clean as a Broke-Dick Dog
New Bomb Turks - Bullish on Bullshit/Information Highway Revisited
The Dirtbombs - Motor City Baby/Dangerous Magical Noise
Mr. Airplane Man - Make You Mine/C'mon DJ
The White Stripes - Jumble, Jumble/De Stijl
The Black Keys - Have Love, Will Travel/Thickfreakness
The Sons of Hercules - Piece of Mine/The Sons of Hercules
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages - Incarceration Casserole/Under the Savage Sky
Royal Trux - Every Day Swan/White Stuff
Ty Segall - Taste/First Taste