Friday, September 11, 2020

Stuck In Thee Garage #338: September 11, 2020

Your heroes tend to evolve over the years. They may start out as comic book or movie superheroes, turn into athletes or musicians, maybe become politicians or other public figures, and then end up back as superheroes. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about heroes in hour 2.


None of these songs was written by George Costanza:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Hot Snakes - Not In Time/Single

Throwing Muses - Bo Diddley Bridge/Sun Racket

Sweeping Promises - Hunger For a Way Out/Hunger For a Way Out

Hallelujah the Hills - Popular Anti-Depressants of the 21st Century/Single

Eels - Baby Let's Make It Real/Single

Land of Talk - Footnotes/Indistinct Conversations

Kestrels - Vanishing Point/Dream or Don't Dream

Lo Tom - Start Payin'/LP2

Jonny Polonsky - You Turn Me On (Jim Sclavunos remix)/You Turn Me On (Jim Sclavunos remix)

Chicano Batman - The Prophet/Invisible People

Illuminati Hotties - superiority complex (big noise)/FREE I.H.: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For

 Bully - Where to Start/SUGAREGG

Alice Bag - Risk It/Sister Dynamite

Happyness - Undone/floatr

X - Water & Wine/Alphabetland

Knot - I Live in Fear/Knot

Cloud Nothings - A Weird Interaction/The Black Hole Understands

The Pursuit of Happiness - On & On & On/Brave New Waves


Hour 2: Heroic

Dambuilders - Colin's Heroes/Encendedor

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Even Heroes Have to Die/The Brutalist Bricks

Tin Machine - Working Class Hero/Tin Machine

Black Grape - Kelly's Heroes/It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah

The Libertines - Time For Heroes/Up the Bracket

A Giant Dog - Hero For the Weekend/Toy

Foo Fighters - My Hero/The Colour and the Shape

The Hellacopters - Throw Away Heroes/High Visibility

Rollins Band - Shine/Weight

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Western Hero/Sleeps With Angels

The Flaming Lips - Waitin' For a Superman/The Soft Bulletin

Pixies - Tony's Theme/Surfer Rosa

Husker Du - Sunshine Superman/Savage Young Du

Pylon - Batman/Live

Prince - Batdance/Batman: Motion Picture Soundtrack


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