Stuck In Thee Garage #406: December 31, 2021

Another year has come and gone. They go by quickly the older you get, trust me on that one. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played two hours of my favorite songs of 2021; I'll have two more next week. But as sketchy as this year was at times, there was a lot of good music to enjoy. If you doubt me, just ask ol' Buck here.

Crank this playlist up on your brand new hifi system:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Kiwi Jr. - Domino/Cooler Returns

Mogwai - Richie Sacramento/As the Love Continues

Fuzzed Out - My Own Worst Enemy/Fuzzed Out

Sleaford Mods - Short Cummings/Spare Ribs

Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard/New Long Leg

Sorry - Cigarette Packet/Twixtustwain

Shame - March Day/Drunk Tank Pink

Ex-Hyena - Ultraviolet/Artificial Pulse

Mister Goblin - The Elevator/Four People in an Elevator and One of Them is the Devil

St. Vincent - Pay Your Way in Pain/Daddy's Home

Bachelor - Stay In the Car/Doomin' Sun

Goat Girl - The Crack/On All Fours

Glitterer - Didn't Want It/Life is Not a Lesson

Teenage Wrist - Yellowbelly/Earth is a Black Hole

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - I Hope I Never Fall in Love/Uncommon Weather

The Natvral - New Year's Night/Tethers

Ian Sweet - Dumb Driver/Show Me How You Disappear

Hour 2

The Hold Steady - The Prior Procedure/Open Door Policy

Paul Jacobs - Day to Day/Pink Dogs on the Green Grass

TUNS - We Stand United/Duly Noted

Cloud Nothings - Sound of Alarm/The Shadow I Remember

Dale Crover - Untrue Crime/Rat-a-Tat-Tat!

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - White Elephant/Carnage

Prince - Welcome 2 America/Welcome 2 America

Matthew Sweet - Coming Soon/Catspaw

Fridge Poetry - Lights O&O/Half the Battle

Iceage - Vendetta/Seek Shelter

Squid - Narrator (feat. Martha Skye Murphy)/Bright Green Field

Billy Nomates - Heels/Emergency Telephone

Hand Habits - 4th of July/Dirt

The Dirty Nil - Done With Drugs/Fuck Art

Quicksand - Inversion/Distant Populations

Death From Above 1979 - Mean Streets/Is 4 Lovers

Stuck In Thee Garage #405: December 24, 2021

Even if you're not big on the religious or commercial parts of the holiday, Christmas is still a pretty huge deal in Western society. After all, hopefully you at least get a few days off from work. Anyhoo, we here at Stuck In Thee Garage like to celebrate each year with two full hours of holiday-themed rock jammers, and this year is no exception. From a gaggle of Boston indie rockers to a mournful classic from LCD Soundsystem to EIGHT glorious minutes of Kurtis Blow ripping it up, this show's got it all. Gather by the tree and crank it up already! Oh, and don't mind Paulie, he's drunk.

What does Paulie get? How about this playlist?

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Sad13 - Shit for Christmas/Simply Having a Wonderful Compilation

Maneka - Santa is a Neocon/Simply Having a Wonderful Compilation

Melkbelly - Hating You for Christmas/Simply Having a Wonderful Compilation

Diet Cig - Happy Holiday/Simply Having a Wonderful Compilation

Turnstile - Holiday/Glow On

The White Stripes - Candy Cane Children/Merry Christmas From the White Stripes

Jesse Malin and the St. Marks Social - All the Way From Moscow/Love It to Life

St. Vincent - At the Holiday Party/Daddy's Home

Thurl Ravenscroft - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch/How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Apples in Stereo - Holiday Mood/Redeye 2008 Holiday Sampler

Sloan - Kids Come Back Again at Christmas/Single

James Brown - Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto/Soulful Christmas

Donny Hathaway - This Christmas/Donny Hathaway

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects/It's a Holiday Soul Party

Freddie Jackson - Christmas Forever/The Greatest Hits of Freddie Jackson

Eldridge Rodriquez - Christmas Eve (At Old Country Buffet)/Christmas on the Allston-Brighton Line

Birdwatching - 2,000 Miles/A Very Allston Christmas Vol. 3

Lilith - That Was the Worst Christmas Ever/A Very Allston Christmas Vol. 2

Garbage Time - Eggnog/A Very Allston Christmas Vol. 2  

Moist Boy - You Don't Gotta Be a Good Boy Tonight/A Very Allston Christmas Vol. 4

Jake & Derek From Fucko - Father Christmas/A Very Allston Christmas Vol. 3

 

Hour 2

Morphine - Sexy Baby Christmas Mine/Live on WMBR 1993

Los Campesinos! - Kindle a Flame in Her Heart/Single

Low - Just Like Christmas/Christmas

Julian Casablancas - I Wish It Was Christmas Today/Phrazes For the Young

Run the Jewels - A Christmas Fucking Miracle/Run the Jewels

Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin'/Kurtis Blow bonus track

LCD Soundsystem - Christmas Will Break Your Heart/Single

Courtney Barnett - Boxing Day Blues/Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Greg Dulli - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas/Single 

The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song/Maybe This Christmas Tree

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home on Ice/Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

The Vandals - Oi to the World/Oi to the World

Descendents - Christmas Vacation/I Don't Want to Grow Up

The Celibate Rifles - Merry Xmas Blues/Single

  

 

Completely Conspicuous 580: The Dream of the '90s is Alive

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our top albums of 2021. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded at Clicky Clicky World HQ

- On to the top 10

- Breitling's #10: The Reds, Pinks and Purples with an ephemeral pop release on Slumberland

- Kumar's #10: Raw collection of rippers from Juliana Hatfield

- Breitling's #9 and Kumar's #8: Instant classic from Ovlov

- Kumar's #9: IDLES shifts gears with some stylistic changes

- Breitling's #8: Chime School with a quality jangle-rock album

- Breitling's #7: More Slumberland goodness from the Umbrellas

- Kumar's #7: St. Vincent digs into a late '70s vibe

- Breitling's #6: Toronto's Ducks Ltd. with an excellent Feelies-esque record

- Kumar's #5: Baltimore hardcore screamers Turnstile explores different sounds

- Breitling's #4 and Kumar's #2: Dino Jr. continues to kick ass

- Kumar's #4: Kiwi Jr. is another Toronto act working the '90s slacker rock vibe

- Breitling's #3: MBV-esque shoegaze from Fleeting Joys

- Kumar's #3: Parquet Courts moves into danceable Talking Heads territory

- Breitling's #2 and Kumar's #6: The War on Drugs fully embraces a mid-80s FM radio sound

- Breitling's #1: Blue Ocean with a shoegaze/post punk compilation of two EPs

- Kumar's #1 and Breitling's #5: More Bay Area-based slack-rock awesomeness with Pardoner

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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 #404: December 17, 2021

Sometimes, you've gotta look out for number 1. Carve out a little Me Time. Focus on your inner child. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about self in hour 2. Maybe you can dedicate an entire season to yourself.

I proclaim that this playlist kicks ass:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Superchunk - Endless Summer/Wild Loneliness

Kim Gordon and J Mascis - Abstract Blues/Single

Artsick - Despise/Fingers Crossed

Ombiigizi - Residential Military/Sewn Back Together

Boy Harsher - Give Me a Reason/The Runner (Official Soundtrack)

Reptaliens - Like a Dog/Multiverse

La Luz - The Pines/La Luz 

Hand Habits - More Than Love/Fun House

Snail Mail - Madonna/Valentine

Goodbye Honolulu - Ultraviolet Stone/Goodbye Honolulu

Geese - First World Warrior/Projector

Chime School - Radical Leisure/Chime School

Black Country, New Road - Concorde/Ants From Up There

Courtney Barnett - Write a List of Things to Look Forward to/Things Take Time, Take Time

Steve Gunn - Circuit Rider/Other You

Good Morning - Wahlberg/Barnyard

Hour 2: Self

The Beatles - I Me Mine/Let It Be

Frank Black - Hang On to Your Ego/Frank Black

Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself/100% Fun

Peter Gabriel - No Self Control/Melt

Sonic Youth - Self-Obsessed and Sexee/Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

Spoon - Let Me Be Mine/They Want My Soul

A Tribe Called Quest - Ego/We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service

Courtney Barnett - Crippling Self-Doubt and a General Lack of Confidence/Tell Me How You Really Feel

Sebadoh - Defend Yr Self/Defend Your Self

Motorhead - I Got Mine/Another Perfect Day

Moaning - Ego/Uneasy Laughter

Big Ups - Atheist Self-Help/Eighteen Hours of Static

Black Beach - Ego Death Ritual/Shallow Creatures

Fake Fruit - Stroke My Ego/Fake Fruit

Flaming Lips - Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Guided By Voices - Ego Central High/Sweating the Plague

Infinity Girl - Around Me/Harm

Completely Conspicuous 579: On the Bubble

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of 2021. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click or "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded at Clicky Clicky World HQ

- Fully boostered podcast

- We've been to concerts

- Some shows have been postponed or canceled

- Physical media is disappearing

- Vinyl shortage

- We're still doing our Internet radio shows (Parcheesi Radio, Stuck In Thee Garage)

- Tiktok is becoming a way to break music

- What the f are NFTs?

- Our favorite music, starting with the ones that didn't make our top 5

- Breitling: Mogwai, Lilys reissue, Fievel Is Glauque, Spirit of the Beehive

- Kumar: Ducks Ltd., Courtney Barnett, Jeff Rosenstock, Black Country New Road, Dry Cleaning, Fiddlehead

- Breitling: Stomp Talk Modstone, Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders/London Sympathy Orchestra, Palberta, Kiwi Jr., Colleen, Fog Lake

- Kumar: Chubby and the Nuts, Mdou Moctar, The Bevis Frond, Sleaford Mods, Colleen Green, TV Priest, Bachelor, Shame

- 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 #403: December 10, 2021

Twenty years ago at this time, I was listening to music on my 64MB Diamond Rio MP3 player, using a crappy flip phone and getting ready for my first child to arrive in a few months. People were just starting to use planes again after 9/11. It was a weird time, to be sure. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2001 in hour 2. Sometimes people shared a jacket to save money.

Four out of five doctors approve this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Smokey Brights - Honey Eye/Single

Mattiel - Jeff Goldblum/Georgia Gothic 

Fine Place - Cover Blind/This New Heaven

Papercuts - Try Baxter's Bliss/Baxter's Bliss

La Luz - Goodbye Ghost/La Luz

Black Country, New Road - Bread Song/Ants From Up There

IDLES - Meds/Crawler

Ovlov - Strokes/Buds

Blonder - D.C.T./Knoxville House

Ament - O.O.F./I Should Be Outside

Gustaf - Dog/Audio Drag For Ego Slobs

Amyl & the Sniffers - Maggot/Comfort to Me

Illuminati Hotties - MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA/Let Me Do One More

Turnstile - New Heart Design/Glow On

The Bevis Frond - Find the Mole/Little Eden

Quicksand - Katakana/Distant Populations

Hour 2: 2001

Radiohead - Knives Out/Amnesiac

Fugazi - Full Disclosure/The Argument

Built to Spill - Strange/Ancient Melodies of the Future

The New Pornographers - The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism/Mass Romantic

Ben Folds - Fired/Rockin' the Suburbs

The Strokes - Take It Or Leave It/Is This It

Sloan - If It Feels Good Do It/Pretty Together

Tenacious D - Tribute/Tenacious D

Fu Manchu - Squash That Fly/California Crossing

The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground/White Blood Cells

Gorillaz - M1 A1/Gorillaz

Stephen Malkmus - The Hook/Stephen Malkmus

Drive-By Truckers - Road Cases/Southern Rock Opera

Spoon - Me and the Bean/Girls Can Tell

Circulatory System - Yesterday's World/Circulatory System

Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer/Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Stuck In Thee Garage #402: December 3, 2021

It's important to get off on the right foot. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played great album openers in hour 2. They get you in the mood to get in the cage. Right, guys?

This playlist will lead to high praise:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Just Mustard - I Am You/Single

Papercuts - A Dull Boy/Baxter's Bliss

Ovlov - Cheer Up, Chihiro!/Buds

Generationals - Mercy/Ileana

Snail Mail - Ben Franklin/Valentine

My Morning Jacket - Love Love Love/My Morning Jacket

The War On Drugs - I Don't Wanna Wait/I Don't Live Here Anymore

Sun Atoms - Two Wolves and a Lamb Voted on What's For Dinner/Let There Be Light

Beach House - Pink Funeral/Once Twice Melody

Courtney Barnett - Turning Green/Things Take Time, Take Time

The Dodos - The Surface/Grizzly Peak

Parquet Courts - Marathon of Anger/Sympathy For Life

Alex Orange Drink - It's Only Drugs (Limerence)/Everything Is Broken Maybe That's OK

Chime School - Dead Saturdays/Chime School

Hour 2: Album openers

Dinosaur Jr. - Out There/Where You Been

New York Dolls - Personality Crisis/New York Dolls

Nirvana - Serve the Servants/In Utero

Television - See No Evil/Marquee Moon

The Gun Club - Sex Beat/Fire of Love

The Twilight Singers - Martin Eden/Blackberry Belle

Elliott Smith - Speed Trials/ Either/Or

Interpol - Untitled/Turn On the Bright Lights

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love/To Bring You My Love

Elvis Costello - Welcome to the Working Week/My Aim Is True

Joe Jackson - On Your Radio/I'm the Man

Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)/Slanted and Enchanted

Prince - Sign O' the Times/Sign O' the Times

Run the Jewels - Yankee and the Brave/RTJ4

The Clash - The Magnificent Seven/Sandinista!

Stuck In Thee Garage #401: November 26, 2021

Let's face it, Thanksgiving is built up as this big family holiday, but another big part of it is strapping the ol' feed bag on and going to town. Even the most diet conscious of us seem to relinquish all self-control for a day or two every November. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I celebrated Black Friday with songs about eating in hour 2. Bon appetit!

Make room for the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Ovlov - Feel the Pain/Buds

My Morning Jacket - Complex/My Morning Jacket

Geese - Fantasies/Survival /Projector

Snail Mail - Valentine/Valentine

Courtney Barnett - Sunfair Sundown/Things Take Time, Take Time

Spiritualized - Always Together With You/Everything Was Beautiful

IDLES - The New Sensation/Crawler

Ty Segall - Waxman/Harmonizer

Amyl and the Sniffers - No More Tears/Comfort to Me

Ament - I Hear Ya/I Should Be Outside

Blonder - Ice Cream Girl/Knoxville House

Bad History Month - Ritual Condo Immolation Center/Death Takes a Holiday

Low - I Can Wait/Hey What

Guided By Voices - I Share a Rhythm/It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!

Chubby and the Gang - I Hate the Radio/The Mutt's Nuts

Goodbye Honolulu - Stray Dog/Goodbye Honolulu

METZ - Draw Us In/Live at the Opera House

 

Hour 2: Eat

Beastie Boys - Egg Man/Paul's Boutique

Frank Zappa - Don't Eat the Yellow Snow/Apostrophe

Ween - Don't Shit Where You Eat/Chocolate & Cheese

Enumclaw - Eat/Jimbo Demo

Deep State - Heavy Lunch/Thought Garden

U-Men - Last Lunch/U-Men

Naked Giants - Easy Eating/Easy Eating EP

The Pursuit of Happiness - Food/One Sided Story

Paul McCartney - Eat at Home/RAM

Palehound - Dry Food/Dry Food

The Hold Steady - Unpleasant Breakfast/Open Door Policy

Twin Peaks - Making Breakfast/Mind Frames

Future of the Left - Eating For None/The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left

Bullet Lavolta - Every Hungry Rabbit/Gimme Danger

Nadine Shah - Fast Food/Fast Food

Kim Gordon - Hungry Baby/No Home Record

Diet Cig - Dinner Date/Sleep Talk

Stove - Wet Food/Is Stupider

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #400: November 19, 2021

Milestones are cool. You do something long enough and you hit some good milestones, like I did this week with the 400th episode of Stuck In Thee Garage. Hour 2 featured songs about memory. Sometimes you need a few reminders.

The unforgettable playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

IDLES - Car Crash/Crawler

Blonder - Heavy/Knoxville House

Ament - Passion Denied/I Should Be Outside

Courtney Barnett - Take It Day By Day/Things Take Time, Take Time

Geese - Bottle/Projector

Beach House - Once Twice Melody/Once Twice Melody

The Dodos - Eyes Open/Grizzly Peak

Generationals - Lost Cities/Ileana

Chime School - Gone Too Fast/Chime School

Ducks Ltd. - Fit to Burst/Modern Fiction

Parquet Courts - Zoom Out/Sympathy for Life

Turnstile - New Heart Design/Glow On

Quicksand - Rodan/Distant Populations

Gustaf - Cruel/Audio Drag for Ego Slobs

Pom Pom Squad - Cake/Death of a Cheerleader

Alex Orange Drink - Clickbait, Click Me/Everything Is Broken Maybe That's OK

Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe - Turning in Reverse/Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe

 

Hour 2: Memory

Superchunk - I Guess I Remembered It Wrong/On the Mouth

Firehose - Choose Any Memory/Ragin', Full On

We Are Scientists - Selective Memory/In Action

The Kinks - Do You Remember Walter?/The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

Rush - Making Memories/Fly By Night

Talking Heads - Memories Can't Wait/Fear of Music 

Cloud Nothings - Memory of Regret/The Black Hole Understands

Radiator Hospital - Do You Remember?/Something Wild

Bully - I Remember/Feels Like

Broken Social Scene - Memory Lover/Let's Try the After

Pavement - Speak, See, Remember/Terror Twilight

The Roots - I Remember/Undun

De La Soul - Memory of (Us) (feat. Estelle and Pete Rock)/And the Anonymous Nobody...

Aerosmith - Remember (Walking in the Sand)/Night in the Ruts

Husker Du - Do You Remember? (live)/Savage Young Du

Mudhoney - I Don't Remember You/Vanishing Point

Bloc Party - I Still Remember/A Weekend in the City

Queens of the Stone Age - The Vampyre of Time and Memory/...Like Clockwork

Peter Gabriel - I Don't Remember/Melt

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #399: November 12, 2021

Ah, 1981. It was a busy year. There were failed assassination attempts on the president and the pope, MTV made its debut, Post-It Notes were invented, and people (myself included) got all excited by a new portable cassette player called the Walkman. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1981 in hour 2, and if you crank it up loud, it'll be a hell of a day in the neighborhood.

Mister Robinson personally approves of this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Breeze - Come Around (feat. Cadence Weapon)/Only Up

The Dodos - Pale Horizon/Grizzly Peak

Generationals - I Was a Tunnel/Ileana

Geese - Rain Dance/Projector

MAITA - Pastel Concrete/I Want to Be Wild For You

Parquet Courts - Homo Sapien/Sympathy For Life

Guided By Voices - Dance of Gurus/It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!

The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore/I Don't Live Here Anymore

Nyxy Nyx - It's In the Past/Death Takes a Holiday

Joyer - Two Times/Perfect Gray

Turnstile - Don't Play/Glow On

Chubby and the Gang - It'll Be Me Who Pays/The Mutt's Nuts

Colleen Green - It's Nice to Be Nice/Cool

Stuck - White Lie/Content That Makes You Feel Good

The Bevis Frond - Brain Fatigue/Little Eden

Alan Vega - River of No Shame/After Dark

Hour 2: 1981

Black Flag - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie/Damaged

Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song/Signals, Calls and Marches

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Bad Reputation/Bad Reputation

Motley Crue - Live Wire/Too Fast For Love

Black Sabbath - Turn Up the Night/Mob Rules

Ozzy Osbourne - You Can't Kill Rock 'N Roll/Diary of a Madman

The Kinks - Destroyer/Give the People What They Want

Van Halen - Hear About It Later/Fair Warning

April Wine - Just Between You and Me/Nature of the Beast

Kool and the Gang - Get Down On It/Something Special

Rick James - Super Freak/Street Songs

Prince - Let's Work/Controversy

Gang of Four - A Hole in the Wallet/Solid Gold

R.E.M. - Sitting Still/Radio Free Europe

Joy Division - The Only Mistake/Still

Stuck In Thee Garage #398: November 5, 2021

A lot is made of stories having a defined plot, a driving force that compels the reader or viewer to keep following the action. But sometimes, it's fine to just have a story about nothing. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about nothing in hour 2, and it still rocked most steadfastly.

This playlist is alright, alright, alright:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Spoon - The Hardest Cut/Lucifer on the Sofa

Yard Act - The Overload/The Overload

Parquet Courts - Black Widow Spider/Sympathy for Life

Guided By Voices - High In the Rain/It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It is Them!

Turnstile - Blackout/Glow On

Amyl and the Sniffers - Guided By Angels/Comfort to Me

The War On Drugs - Wasted/I Don't Live Here Anymore

Bad History Month - Deep Bright Future/Death Takes a Holiday

Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe - Living Dead/Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe

Gustaf - Best Behavior/Audio Drag for Ego Slobs

Alex Orange Drink - Brooklyn, Central Booking/Everything Is Broken Maybe That's OK

Makthaverskan - This Time/For Allting

Chime School - Fixing Motorcycles/Chime School

Illuminati Hotties - Cheap Shoes/Let Me Do One More

Slothrust - White Rabbits/Parallel Timeline

Ducks Ltd. - Sullen Leering Hope/Modern Fiction

Goodbye Honolulu - How Are You Doing/Goodbye Honolulu

Hour 2: Nothing

Sloan - Nothing Left to Make Me Want to Stay/One Chord to Another

Pugwash - Better Than Nothing at All/Silverlake

Elliott Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing/Either/Or

Telekinesis - Like Nothing/Effluxion

Tony Molina - Nothing I Can Say/Kill the Lights

Jennifer Trynin - Better Than Nothing/Cockamamie

Frank Black and the Catholics - Do Nothing/Snake Oil

The Sons of Hercules - IOU Nothing/The Sons of Hercules

The Police - Nothing Achieving/Fall Out

Sebadoh - Nothing Like You/Harmacy

Tom Vek - Nothing But Green Lights/We Have Sound

Living Colour - Nothingness/Stain

Kiwi Jr. - Nothing Changes/Football Money

PUP - Nothing Changes/This Place Sucks Ass

Mike Krol - Nothing to Yell About/Power Chords

Brainiac - Nothing Ever Changes/Hissing Prigs in Static Couture

Pavement - Nothing Ever Happens/Slanted and Enchanted Luxe and Reduxe

Priests - Nothing Feels Natural/Nothing Feels Natural

Soundgarden - Nothing to Say/Screaming Life

Completely Conspicuous 578: Playing Out the String

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we discuss rock stars and retirement. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded recently via Skype

- Will we see KISS JR.?

- Will bands bring in replacements after the original members are all retired/dead?

- Plenty of good cover bands out there who can probably outperform the originals

- The "officially licensed cover band"

- Hologram concerts are still trying to get off the ground

- Fan base is also getting older

- The big money these days is in hip hop, pop and country

- Meanwhile, revered indie artists like Lou Barlow are playing living room/backyard shows

- Who's going to stadium shows?

- We don't like large venues

- Bands like VH should release archival live shows like Neil Young

- Sammy Hagar's living the good life

- Bands that are outstaying their welcome

- When bands you like are disappointing

- Checking out Canadian classic rock radio

- Nobody in 1991 would have predicted Dave Grohl would be the face of rock n' roll 30 years later

- Will rock ever make a comeback?

- Might end up like jazz, blues, bluegrass

- Lots of interesting new rock coming out all the time

- Commercial rock radio is pointless

- It's easy to release albums, but tough to find an audience

- Brian: Spotify's new music algorithm works well

- Singers have a tougher time replicating their heyday

- Iggy Pop has aged gracefully, believe it or not

- We should take better care of artists

- So hard to make a living as a musician these days

- Jay: As a journalism major, I feel their pain

- The band Sloan has carved out a nice niche in Canada

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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 #397: October 29, 2021

Things aren't completely back to normal yet, but it's a good sign that Halloween seems to be back in full effect. To wit, I've got a full two hours of spooky and/or scary (or maybe just slightly creepy) songs on this week's installment of Stuck In Thee Garage. I've got it on good authority that the show is playing on repeat at the Overlook Hotel bar. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

Jack's enjoying himself, so why don't you?

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)/Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

Black Mountain - Cemetery Breeding/IV

The Black Angels - Bad Vibrations/Phosphene Dream

Morphine - Buena/Cure For Pain

Beck - Devil Got My Woman/Odelay deluxe edition

R.E.M. - Ghost Riders in the Sky/Live at Rockpalast 10/2/85

Frank Black and the Catholics - Skeleton Man/Pistolero

Elvis Costello - Spooky Girlfriend/When I Was Cruel

The Fiery Furnaces - Cabaret of the Seven Devils/Widow City

The Breeders - Walking With a Killer/All Nerve

Meat Puppets - Lake of Fire/II

Mudhoney - Ghost/Tomorrow Hit Today

Sonic Youth - Ghost Bitch/Bad Moon Rising

Van Halen - Intruder/Diver Down

Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil/Shout at the Devil

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

Hour 2

Radiohead - Burn the Witch/A Moon Shaped Pool

Protomartyr - The Devil In His Youth/The Agent Intellect

Alice Cooper - Ballad of Dwight Fry/Love It to Death

The Pink Mountaintops - Plastic Man, You're the Devil/Axis of Evol

The Blood Brothers - Set Fire to the Face on Fire/Young Machetes

Nine Inch Nails - Demon Seed/The Slip

Misfits - 20 Eyes/Walk Among Us

New York Dolls - Frankenstein/New York Dolls

Redd Kross - Dracula's Daughter/Researching the Blues

Teenage Fanclub - Satan/Bandwagonesque

Panthers - Goblin City/The Trick

Iron Maiden - Still Life/Piece of Mind

Ozzy Osbourne - Little Dolls/Diary of a Madman

Judas Priest - Devil's Child/Screaming for Vengeance

John Carpenter - Halloween theme/Halloween soundtrack

Completely Conspicuous 577: Hang 'Em High

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we discuss rock stars and retirement. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded recently via Skype

- David Lee Roth recently announced his retirement

- Should more aging rock stars retire?

- Robert Plant isn't trying to be the Golden God anymore

- Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford can still deliver high-energy metal performances

- Shut it down, Clapton

- Ozzy's been doing retirement tours for 30 years

- KISS keeps playing "final" tours

- DLR actually predicted his retirement in a 1991 video

- Jay: Never saw Dave play with VH

- VH changed the hard rock game

- Dave and Sammy are different kinds of clowns

- Dave only did a few solo albums after 1991

- DLR's image radically changed as his looks did

- Bands keep touring into their 70s and 80s

- Grant Hart looked pretty rough toward the end of his life, but kept touring

- Similar to athletes who don't know when to hang it up

- Ringo Starr has the right idea: Let the young guys do the heavy lifting

- Ozzy and Sharon have had issues with writing credits

- To be continued

Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts and anywhere else you get podcasts. Subscribe and write a review!

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 #396: October 22, 2021

The wheels of justice turn slowly, or so they say. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about the law in hour 2. It can get pretty complicated at times, but even if you're an unfrozen caveman lawyer, you'll be able to figure it out.

Hopefully this playlist won't frighten and confuse you:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe - Sanctified/Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe

Amyl and the Sniffers - Choices/Comfort to Me

Gustaf - Mine/Audio Drag for Ego Slobs

Yves Tumor - Tuck feat. NAKED/The Asymptotical World

Alex Orange Drink - How High?/Everything Is Broken Maybe That's OK

Chime School - Anywhere But Here/Chime School

The Bevis Frond - Start Burning/Little Eden

Nyxy Nyx - No Worries/Death Takes a Holiday

Bad History Month - The Flight From Hell/Death Takes a Holiday

Steve Gunn - Reflection/Other You

Ducks Ltd. - 18 Cigarettes/Modern Fiction

Illuminati Hotties - Cheap Shoes/Let Me Do One More

Goodbye Honolulu - Reason to Hate You/Goodbye Honolulu

Neal Francis - Can't Stop the Rain/In Plain Sight

Modest Mouse - Walking and Running/The Golden Casket

Pom Pom Squad - Crimson + Clover/Death of a Cheerleader

Sun Atoms - Half Robot Half Butterfly/Let There Be Light

Hour 2: Law

Beck - Sexx Laws/Midnite Vultures

Spoon - Take the Fifth/Girls Can Tell

Parliament - Testify/Up for the Down Stroke

Iggy Pop and James Williamson - Beyond the Law/Kill City

The Kominas - Sharia Law in the USA/Wild Nights in Guantanamo Bay

The Dils - Before the Law/Dils Dils Dils

Stephen Malkmus - The Greatest Own in Legal History/Traditional Techniques

Atoms For Peace - Judge, Jury and Executioner/AMOK

Fake Fruit - Lying Legal Horror Lawyers/Fake Fruit

Hop Along - Somewhere a Judge/Bark Your Head Off, Dog

The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed/Electric Version

Judas Priest - Breaking the Law (live)/Defenders of the Faith 30th Anniversary Edition

Titus Andronicus - I Fought the Law (live)/Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol. 1

Pavement - Sue Me Jack/Slanted and Enchanted Luxe and Reduxe

The Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis/Stay Positive

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial/Your Funeral, My Trial

Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On the Run/Band On the Run

Stuck In Thee Garage #395: October 15, 2021

A lot can happen in 15 years. You can build a social media empire, watch your revolutionary technology become obsolete, or just marvel at the sheer political insanity that lurks around every corner. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2006 in hour 2. It was the height of MP3 blog mania, to which kids nowadays would say, "The whatnow?" Ah, to be old.

This playlist has exactly zero Dropkick Murphys songs on it:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

IDLES - The Beachland Ballroom/CRAWLER

Black Country, New Road - Chaos Space Marine/Ants From Up There

Steve Gunn - Fulton/Other You

Melkbelly - Prehistoric Worm/Single

Chime School - Wait Your Turn/Chime School

Slothrust - Waiting/Parallel Timeline

Ducks Ltd. - How Lonely Are You?/Modern Fiction

Illuminati Hotties - Knead/Let Me Do One More

Mac McCaughan - Sleep Donor/The Sound of Yourself

Absolutely Free - Epilogue/Aftertouch

The Bevis Frond - Numb in the Head/Little Eden

Low - Disappearing/Hey What

Colleen Green - I Believe In Love/Cool

Chubby and the Gang - Pressure/The Mutt's Nuts

Cub Scout Bowling Pins - Sister Slam Dance/Clang Clang Ho

Ty Segall - Feel Good/Harmonizer

Descendents - I'm Shaky/9th and Walnut

Hour 2: 2006

The Black Angels - The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven/Passover

Destroyer - 3000 Flowers/Destroyer's Rubies

TV On the Radio - Province/Return to Cookie Mountain

Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor/Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy!/Boys and Girls in America

Sloan - Another Way I Could Do It/Never Hear the End of It

The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes/Broken Boy Soldiers

Mission of Burma - Careening With Conviction/The Obliterati

The Twilight Singers - Live With Me/A Stitch In Time EP

Neko Case - Star Witness/Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

Midlake - Roscoe/The Trials of Van Occupanther

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion/Show Your Bones

Beck - Think I'm In Love/The Information

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye/Carnavas

Completely Conspicuous 576: One Tree Hill

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite music of 1987. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded in the backyard of CompCon HQ

- Jay's non-top 5 albums: Terence Trent D'Arby, Pixies, The Cure, Prince (The Black Album), Sonic Youth, Def Leppard, Guns N' Roses

- It's easier to listen to bro-country or classic rock than look for new music these days

- Phil's #5: GNR's debut took a few years to really take off

- Jay's #5:  The Cult goes for a hard rock sound

- Jay's #4 and Phil's #1: U2 with a massive mainstream breakthrough

- Phil's #3: The Cure with a killer double album

- Jay's #3: R.E.M.'s last album on IRS, embracing a big rock sound

- Phil's #2: The Grateful Dead go mainstream

- Jay's #2: The Replacements' last great album

- Jay's #1 and Phil's #4: Prince tries out many styles, makes social commentary

- Favorite songs: "One Tree Hill" (Phil), "Sign O' the Times" (Jay)

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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 #394: October 8, 2021

Reality, what a concept. It can be easy to lose track of reality in this crazy world we're in. Red pill or blue pill, real world or fantasy. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about reality in hour 2. Although in an interesting coincidence, the show never actually aired on BFF.fm because of a technical glitch. Does that mean it wasn't real? You be the judge.

The real-world playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Hatchie - This Enchanted/Single

Illuminati Hotties - Pool Hopping/Let Me Do One More

Ovlov - Land of Steve-O/buds

Ducks Ltd. - Under the Rolling Moon/Modern Fiction

Goodbye Honolulu - You and Me/Goodbye Honolulu

Slothrust - The Next Curse (feat. Lizzy Hale)/Parallel Timeline

Mac McCaughan - The Sound of Yourself/The Sound of Yourself

Good Morning - Depends On What I Know/Barnyard

The Bevis Frond - The Man In the Garden/Little Eden

The War On Drugs - Living Proof/I Don't Live Here Anymore

Tom Morello - Driving to Texas (feat. Phantogram)/The Atlas Underground Fire

Piroshka - We Told You/Love Drips & Gathers

The Shivas - Undone/Feels So Good, Feels So Bad

Cheekface - Reward Points/Emphatically Mo' (b-sides)

Hana Vu - Everybody's Birthday/Public Storage

Ill Peach - GUM/Excuse Us While We Find Our Minds

Hour 2: Reality

Fontaines DC - Too Real/Dogrel

Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers - Reality Bites/Bought to Rot

Lizzy Rose - Alternate Reality/Crocodile Tears

Camp Cope - Animal & Real/How to Socialise & Make Friends

Spoon - Don't Buy the Realistic/Live on KTRU 1997

Okkervil River - For Real/Black Sheep Boy

Swervedriver - Feel So Real/Raise

Eels - Baby Let's Make It Real/Earth to Dora

The Afghan Whigs - Be For Real/Now We Can Begin

Parliament - Fantasy Is Reality/Live: P-Funk Earth Tour

Metric - Dreams So Real/Synthetica

Ex-Hex - It's Real/Single

Jay Reatard - My Reality/Watch Me Fall

Jeff Buckley - So Real/Grace

Completely Conspicuous 575: Everybody Wang Chung Tonight

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite music of 1987. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded in the backyard of CompCon HQ

- In '87, Phil was 17 going on 18, Jay was 19 going on 20

- The Bangles had the #1 single of the year with "Walk Like An Egyptian"

- Another big year for movie soundtracks

- A lot of female pop artists hit big

- Jay: Concerts I saw included Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Motley Crue, Jon Butcher Axis and U2

- Phil: Saw INXS, U2 twice, Sting, Smithereens

- Bruce Willis released an album

- Starship churns out the crap

- Many bands changed their sound in the '80s to stay "relevant"

- Phil's non-top 5 albums: INXS, Hoodoo Gurus, the Smiths, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr., Jane's Addiction, Midnight Oil, 10,000 Maniacs, George Harrison, Sinead O'Connor, Bowie, The Tragically Hip

- The meteoric rise and quick decline of INXS

- That time Husker Du went on the Joan Rivers Show

- 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 #393: October 1, 2021

Life's full of questions, but not all of them have answers. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs that ask questions in hour 2. Turd Ferguson approved.

Nice try, Trebek:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Goodbye Honolulu - Cut Off/Goodbye Honolulu

The Bevis Frond - You Owe Me/Little Eden

The Violent Hearts - Everything and Nothing/Everything and Nothing

Good Morning - Matthew Newton/Barnyard

Mac McCaughan - Circling Around/The Sound of Yourself

Colleen Green - Highway/Cool

Eldridge Rodriguez - Alice Drills/Megalodon

The Haunted Youth - Coming Home/Single

Goat - Fill My Mouth/Headsoup

Joyer - Lucky/Perfect Gray

Pile - No Bone/Songs Known Together, Alone

Maxshh - Nature I Guess/Bonus Flowers

Sun Atoms - The Cat's Eye/Let There Be Light

Quicksand - Phase 90/Distant Populations

Pom Pom Squad - Red With Love/Death of a Cheerleader

Jim Ward - Safe Pair of Hands/Daggers

Hour 2: Questions

Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want/Check Your Head

Living Colour - What's Your Favorite Color?/Vivid

Talking Heads - Who Is It?/Talking Heads '77

The Beatles - Why Don't We Do It In the Road?/The White Album

Sloan - Who Taught You to Live Like That?/Never Hear the End of It

Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding/Armed Forces

Pixies - Where Is My Mind?/Surfer Rosa

The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?/Singles Going Steady

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?/Meat Is Murder

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Who Do You Love??Living With the Living

Frightened Rabbit - Who'd You Kill Now?/The Midnight Organ Fight

Matthew Sweet - What Do You Know?/Altered Beast

Protomartyr - Why Does It Shake?/The Agent Intellect

Les Savy Fav - What Would Wolves Do?/Let's Stay Friends

Hot Snakes - Why Does It Hurt?/Suicide Invoice

Weezer - Why Bother?/Pinkerton

Stuck In Thee Garage #392: September 24, 2021

Sometimes you just need a kick in the pants to get going. Life can wear you down, so motivation is important. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs that will make you want to run through a wall in hour 2. Nothing's over until we decide it is!

Don't stop the playlist, it's on a roll:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Bevis Frond - And Away We Go/Little Eden

Eldridge Rodriguez - Megalodon/Single

Low - More/Hey What

Colleen Green - You Don't Exist/Cool 

Ex-Hyena - Nightmare Pills/Single

The Psychedelic Furs - Evergreen/Single

Dry Cleaning - Tony Speaks!/Bug Eggs

Geese - Low Era/Projector

Joyer - Crows/Perfect Gray

Absolutely Free - Interface/Aftertouch

Prince - 1010 (Rin Tin Tin)/Welcome 2 America

Ducks Ltd. - It's Easy/Get Bleak

Chubby and the Gang - Beat That Drum/The Mutt's Nuts

Split Single - Mangled Tusk/Amplificado

Near Beer - A Randy Newman Song/Sleeping Is For Suckers

 

Hour 2: Run through wall

Helmet - Unsung/Meantime

Rollins Band - Low Self Opinion/The End of Silence

New Bomb Turks - Id Slips In/Information Highway Revisitied

Run DMC - It's Tricky/Raising Hell

Run the Jewels - Close Your Eyes (and Count to Fuck) (feat. Zach de la Rocha)/RTJ2

Living Colour - Who Shot Ya/Shade

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Dang/Orange

Mr. Airplane Man - Make You Mine/C'mon DJ

The Hives - Die, All Right!/Veni Vidi Vicious

AC/DC - High Voltage/T.N.T.

Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks/L.A.M.F. - the lost '77 tapes

Mark Lanegan Band - Sideways In Reverse/Bubblegum

Sleater-Kinney - The Fox/The Woods

My Bloody Valentine - (When You Wake) You're Still In a Dream/Isn't Anything

The Saints - (I'm) Stranded/(I'm) Stranded

The Replacements - Lay It Down Clown/Tim

Husker Du - Celebrated Summer/New Day Rising

 

Completely Conspicuous 574: Bigmouth Strikes Again

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite music of 1986. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded in the backyard of CompCon HQ

- Phil's #5: Solid effort from the Pretenders, which was basically just Chrissie Hynde at this point

- Jay's #5: Metallica hits their high point

- Neighborhood dogs start chiming in

- Phil is a big fan of Ratt n' Roll

- Phil's #4: The debut of the Van Hagar era

- Eddie fully embraces synths, poppier sound

- Didn't realize until recently that the riff of "Best of Both Worlds" is identical to Kool and the Gang's "Celebration"

- Jay's #4: David Lee Roth's out VH's VH

- The best Dave solo album

- Phil's #3 and Jay's #2: R.E.M. starts embracing power chords

- Jay's #3: John Lydon teams up with studio musicians to create a classic

- Steve Vai, Ginger Baker and others show up

- Phil's #1: The Smiths in the middle of a strong run of albums

- Johnny Marr elevates this album

- Phil's #2 and Jay's #1: Husker Du's last great record

- First major label album featured more pop hooks

- Grant Hart and Bob Mould each bringing in great songs

- Favorite songs: "Bigmouth Strikes Again" (Phil), "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" (Jay)

- Check out my Spotify playlist "Hits of the Year," which collects all the favorite songs we picked from 1970 onward

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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 #391: September 17, 2021

The '90s were a tumultuous and amazing time for music and not just in this country. While we were focused on grunge, hip hop and later bubblegum pop, the Brits had their own thing going on. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played '90s Britpop songs in hour 2. It's enough to get you slackers fired up.

Oi, 'ere's the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Colleen Green - Someone Else/Cool

Dry Cleaning - Bug Eggs/Single

Low - I Can Wait/Hey What

Prince - Same Page,  Different Book/Welcome 2 America

Pile - Mama's Lipstick/Songs Known Together, Alone

Lou Barlow - Reason to Live/Reason to Live

Sweet Nobody - Young In Love/We're Trying Our Best

Bachelor - Sick of Spiraling/Doomin' Sun

St. Vincent - The Melting of the Sun/Daddy's Home

Gang of Youths - The Angel of 8th Ave./Total Serene

Quicksand - Missile Command/Distant Populations

Ty Segall - Waxman/Harmonizer

Stuck - Playpen of Dissent/Content That Makes You Feel Good

Cub Scout Bowling Pins - Nova Mona/Clang Clang Ho

Near Beer - Card Shark Kids/Sleeping is for Suckers

Hour 2: Britpop

Elastica - Line Up/Elastica

Pulp - Party Hard/This Is Hardcore

Ride - Vapour Trail/Nowhere

The Charlatans - The Only One I Know/Some Friendly

Blur - Parklife/Parklife

The Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums/The Stone Roses

Cornershop - Brimful of Asha/When I Was Born for the 7th Time

Ash - Girl From Mars/1977

Suede - Animal Nitrate/Suede

Kula Shaker - Hey Dude/K

The Lightning Seeds - Change/Jollification

Mansun - She Makes My Nose Bleed/Attack of the Grey Lantern

Ocean Colour Scene - Hundred Mile High City/Marchin' Already

Supergrass - Alright/I Should Coco

Oasis - Live Forever (Live at Glastonbury)/Single

Completely Conspicuous 573: It's Tricky

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1986. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded in the backyard of CompCon HQ

- Jay was 18 going on 19 in '86, Phil was 16 going on 17

- Nine of the top 10 selling albums of '86 came out the year before

- Older artists make comebacks

- Pop and hair metal were big

- Boston finally released its third album

- Phil's non-top 5s: Talking Heads, Smithereens, Prince, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, XTC, Bad Brains, Gene Loves Jezebel, Love and Rockets, World Party, Dead Milkmen, B-52s, Luka Bloom, Feelies, Joe Jackson, Pet Shop Boys, Sonic Youth, Rolling Stones, Dylan, Steve Earle, DLR

- Jay's non-top 5s: David & David, Peter Gabriel, Iron Maiden

- 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 #390: September 10, 2021

The older you get, the more it seems like you misplace the years that have gone by, like forgetting where you left your car in a parking garage. You wander around for a while aimlessly before you eventually reconnect with what was going on that year, and all is good again for a while. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I connected with music from 1991 in hour 2 and it was a blast.

Now where did I put that darn playlist?

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Prince - Check the Record/Welcome 2 America

Slothrust - Once More for the Ocean/Single

Sleigh Bells - Locust Laced/Texis

Quicksand - The Philosopher/Distant Populations

Chubby and the Gang - Overachiever/The Mutt's Nuts

Danko Jones - Ship of Lies/Power Trio

METZ - Sugar Pill/Live at the Opera House

Ducks Ltd. - Gleaming Spires/Get Bleak

Alan Vega - Hi Speed Roller/After Dark

Black Country, New Road - Athens, France/For the first time

Ty Segall - Play/Harmonizer

Enumclaw - Cinderella/Jimbo Demo

Modest Mouse - The Sun Hasn't Left/The Golden Casket

Smile Machine - Snail S(h)ell/Bye For Now

Fiddlehead - Heart to Heart/Between the Richness

Pardoner - Hammer Factory/Came Down Different

Hour 2: 1991

Matthew Sweet - Divine Intervention/Girlfriend

Dinosaur Jr. - Muck/Green Mind

Teenage Fanclub - Metal Baby/Bandwagonesque

Mudhoney - Who You Drivin' Now?/Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Smashing Pumpkins - Bury Me/Gish

Soundgarden - Room a Thousand Years Wide/Badmotorfinger

De La Soul - Pass the Plugs/De La Soul Is Dead

A Tribe Called Quest - What?/The Low End Theory

Living Colour - Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothin'/Biscuits

Fishbone - Fight the Youth/The Reality of My Surroundings

Slowdive - Catch the Breeze/Just for a Day

The Ocean Blue - Mercury/Cerulean

The Feelies - Real Cool Time/Time for a Witness

R.E.M. - Texarkana/Out of Time

Stuck In Thee Garage #389: September 3, 2021

Eight years is a long time to do anything, let alone host a radio show. And yet, that's where we are: Eight years into Stuck In Thee Garage...and the station that hosts it, BFF.fm. That's 778 hours of radio goodness, home slice. It's hotter than a fire at a birthday party.

Eric the clown approves:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Quicksand - Lightning Field/Distant Populations

Chubby and the Gang - On the Meter/The Mutt's Nuts

Danko Jones - I Want Out/Power Trio

METZ - Draw Us In/Live at the Opera House

The Marias - Hush/Cinema

La Luz - In the Country/In the Country

Occurrence - Flies Dead Midair/I Have So Much Love to Give

Maxshh - The Stone and I and Everybody/Bonus Flowers

Yves Tumor - Crushed Velvet/The Asymptotical World

Split Single - Belly of Lead/Amplificado

Ducks Ltd. - Anhedonia/Get Bleak

Cub Scout Bowling Pins - Magic Taxi/Clang Clang Ho

Sleater-Kinney - Down the Line/Path of Wellness

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - A Kick in the Face That's Life/Uncommon Weather

Adult Books - Sparrows on the Razor Wire/Grecian Urn

Guardian Singles - Midnight Swim/Guardian Singles

Shame - Alphabet/Drunk Tank Pink

Hour 2: Doors

The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking?/Sticky Fingers

The White Stripes - My Doorbell/Get Behind Me Satan

The Hives - Knock Knock/Veni Vidi Vicious

Hop Along - The Knock/Painted Shut

Enon - Knock That Door/Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence

The New Pornographers - The Surprise Knock/In the Morse Code of Brake Lights

Redd Kross - Beyond the Door/Beyond the Door

White Reaper - Party Next Door/The World's Best American Band

The Posies - Definite Door/Frosting On the Beater

Spoon - Knock Knock Knock/They Want My Soul

Arctic Monkeys - Secret Door/Humbug

Savak - We Lead Them to Our Doors/Beg Your Pardon

Sloan - Suppose They Close the Doors/Navy Blues

Fugazi - Shut the Door/Repeater

Soul Asylum - Standing in the Door/Hang Time

Van Halen - One Foot Out the Door/Fair Warning

Stuck In Thee Garage #388: August 27, 2021

Scumbags are an unfortunate reality of life. Like many other unpleasant things, we have to deal with them from time to time.This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about scumbags in hour 2. The songs are much more enjoyable than having to encounter a rich d-bag from an '80s teen movie.

Unlike Steff there, this playlist is very cool:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Parquet Courts - Walking at a Downtown Pace/Sympathy For Life

Pardoner - Broadway/Came Down Different

Ducks Ltd. - Oblivion/Get Bleak

Alan Vega - Nothing Left/After Dark

Ty Segall - Harmonizer/Harmonizer

Alexalone - Electric Sickness/Alexaloneworld

La Bonte - Francis Right/Don't Let This Define Me

Enumclaw - Eat/Jimbo Demo

Stuck - Serf the Web/Content That Makes You Feel Good

Descendents - To Remember/9th and Walnut

Cub Scout Bowling Pins - She Cannot Know/Clang Clang Ho

Occurrence - The Preferred One/I Have So Much Love to Give

Tycho & Benjamin Gibbard - Only Love/Single

Nox Novacula - Victim/Ascension

Ash Code - Fear (Forever Grey remix)/Fear EP

Piroshka - Echo Loco/Love Drips & Gathers

Hour 2: Scumbags

The Young Leaves - Scumbag/Life Underneath

Thin Lips - I Know I'm the Asshole/Chosen Family

Beck - Mutherfucker/Mellow Gold

Them Crooked Vultures - Scumbag Blues/Them Crooked Vultures

Peeping Tom - Sucker (feat. Norah Jones)/Peeping Tom

Against Me - Osama Bin Laden as the Crucified Christ/Transgender Dysphoria Blues

Living Colour - Asshole/The Chair in the Doorway

Rilo Kiley - Asshole/Rilo Kiley

Dios Malos - Asshole/Starting Five

PJ Harvey - Who the Fuck?/Uh Huh Her

Arctic Monkeys - Red Right Hand/Crying Lightning

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee/Murder Ballads

Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do/Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap/Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Paw - Death to Traitors/Death to Traitors

Mudhoney - Douchebags on Parade/Vanishing Point

Stuck In Thee Garage #387: August 20, 2021

We spend a lot of time over our lifetimes obsessing about two things: life and death. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I did something a little different and played songs about life in hour 1 and songs about death in hour 2. It's a duality thing, yo.

This playlist is suitable for all occasions:

Hour 1: Life

Prince and the Revolution - Pop Life/Around the World in a Day

Run the Jewels - All My Life/Run the Jewels 2

Talking Heads - Life During Wartime/Stop Making Sense

Spoon - Back to the Life/Kill the Moonlight

Woolen Men - Life in Hell/Temporary Monument

Cloud Nothings - Another Way of Life/Last Building Burning

Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life/Grace

Peter Gabriel - Kiss of Life/Security

Wolf Parade - Artificial Life/Cry Cry Cry

The Replacements - Hold My Life/Time

PUP - My Life Is Over and I Couldn't Be Happier/The Dream Is Over

Sloan - The Best Part of Your Life/B-Sides Win: extras, bonus tracks and b-sides 1992-2008

The Feelies - It's Only Life/Only Life

R.E.M. - Imitation of Life/Reveal

Pavement - Range Life/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Hour 2: Death

The Clash - Death or Glory/London Calling

Iggy & the Stooges - Death Trip/Raw Power

Bullet Lavolta - Birth of Death/The Gift

Fred Wesley and the J.B.s - Doing It to Death/Doing It to Death

Violent Femmes - Country Death Song/Hallowed Ground

Silver Jews - Like Like the the the Death/American Water

Hot Snakes - Death Doula/Jericho Sirens

Parquet Courts - Death Will Bring Change/Wide Awake!

of Montreal - Death Is Not a Parallel Move/Skeletal Lamping

The Pursuit of Happiness - Glamourous Death/Where's the Bone

Speedy Ortiz - Death Note/Foiled Again EP

Mark Lanegan - Driving Death Valley Blues/Bubblegum

The Tragically Hip - Inevitability of Death/Day For Night

Motorhead - Killed By Death/No Remorse

Stuck In Thee Garage #386: August 13, 2021

In 1996, I was in a very different place in my life, as I suspect pretty much everyone was. Some people reading this may not even have been born yet. As for me, I was still in my 20s, living a pretty carefree existence. And enjoying a lot of great music, some of which I played in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage this week. So get pumped up like Big Ern McCracken.

The kingpin of all playlists:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Film School - Superperfection/We Weren't Here

Alexalone - Unpacking My Feelings/Alexaloneworld

Ty Segall - Erased/Harmonizer

Wet Leg - Chaise Lounge/Wet Leg

Stuck - Labor Leisure/Content That Makes You Feel Good

Piroshka - Wanderlust/Love Drips & Gathers

Yves Tumor - Katrina/The Asymptotical World

Sleater-Kinney - Favorite Neighbor/Path of Wellness

La Bonte - Step Out/Don't Let This Define Me

Near Beer - Some Party/Sleeping Is For Suckers

Fiddlehead - Life Notice/Between the Richness

Mudhoney - Into the Drink/Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Fake Fruit - Lying Legal Horror Lawyers/Fake Fruit

Maximo Park - Ardour/Nature Always Wins

Shame - Harsh Degrees/Drunk Tank Pink

Sweet Nobody - Little Ghost/We're Trying Our Best

Squirrel Flower - Big Beast/Planet (i)

Hour 2: 1996

Nada Surf - Popular/High/Low

Sebadoh - Worst Thing/Harmacy

Weezer - The Good Life/Pinkerton

Sloan - Autobiography/One Chord to Another

Jonny Polonsky - Love Lovely Love/Hi My Name Is Jonny

The Posies - Throwaway/Amazing Disgrace

The Afghan Whigs - Double Day/Black Love

Pearl Jam - Habit/No Code

Frank Black - You Ain't Me/The Cult of Ray

Lush - Ladykillers/Lovelife

Suede - Trash/Coming Up

Wilco - I Got You (At the End of the Century)/Being There

The Fugees - Ready Or Not/The Score

De La Soul - Big Brother Beat (feat. Mos Def)/Stakes Is High

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Chicken Dog/Now I Got Worry

Beck - High 5 (Rock the Catskills)/Odelay

Stuck In Thee Garage #385: August 6, 2021

It's no fun to be broke. Most of us have had to deal with it at some point. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about being broke in hour 2. It's fun enough to keep you from drinking a whole bottle of cough syrup.

This playlist has its back against the wall:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Ty Segall - Whisper/Harmonizer

Yves Tumor - ...And Loyalty Is a Nuisance Child/The Asymptotical World

Pardoner - Totally Evil Powers/Came Down Different

Mudhoney - Let It Slide/Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge 30th anniversary reissue

Mac McCaughan - Dawn Bends/The Sound of Yourself

Courtney Barnett - Rae Street/Things Take Time, Take Time

Islands - Gore/Islomania

The Vega Bodegas - All My Fish Are Dead/Single

Stuck - City of Police/Content That Makes You Feel Good

Descendents - Ride the Wild/9th & Walnut

Enumclaw - Fast N All/Jimbo Demo

Pom Pom Squad - Shame Reactions/Death of a Cheerleader

Piroshka - VO/Love Drips & Gathers

Split Single - Bitten by the Sound/Amplificado

Death From Above 1979 - No War/Is 4 Lovers

TUNS - Holding My Breath/Duly Noted

The Suburbs - Summertime/Poet's Party

Modest Mouse - Leave a Light On/The Golden Casket

Hour 2: Broke

Primus - My Name Is Mud/Pork Soda

Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress/Audit In Progress

Don Babylon - Ain't Got No Money/Foul!

OFF! - Man From Nowhere/OFF!

Ike Turner Presents the Family Vibes - Garbage Man/Confined to Soul

Spinal Tap - Gimme Some Money/Back From the Dead

Pulp - Common People/Live at the Melkweg 12/8/95

The White Stripes - Bone Broke/Icky Thump

Dead Moon - Poor Born/What a Way to See the Old Girl Go

Nirvana - Something In the Way/MTV Unplugged In New York

Dead Meadow - Hard Times/Hard People - Old Growth

Fridge Poetry - Hard Times/Half the Battle

Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm/Bringing It All Back Home

The Fall - Fit and Working Again/Live at St. Helen's Technical College 1981

Drive-By Truckers - This Fucking Job/Live at Daytrotter 7/6/10

 

Completely Conspicuous 572: History Never Repeats

Celebrating the show's 15th birthday with a look back at some key moments over the years. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Going the clip show route

- Episode 2: The early days

- Episode 72: The first guest, featuring Jay Breitling

- Episode 141: Talking about mixtapes, including recordings I made when I was 13-14

- Episode 146: Talking to Amanda Guest about college radio

- Episode 186: My visit to Seattle, which got off to a strange start

- Episode 253: Ric Dube and I break down "Smokin' In the Boys Room"

- Episode 315: Brian Salvatore and I torture ourselves by listening to Van Halen III

- Episode 494: Talking about drug-related concert experiences with Phil Stacey.

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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 #384: July 30, 2021

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Or so I'm told. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about enemies in hour 2. It'll make you want to text your nemesis to make sure he or she is listening. Unless it's Newman.

Hello, playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Desperate Journalist - Fault/Maximum Sorrow!

The Joy Formidable - Into the Blue/Into the Blue

Piroshka - Scratching at the Lid/Love Drips & Gathers

Pixel Grip - Pursuit/Single

Hallows - All That Is True Dies/All That Is True

Chicano Batman - Pastel Sunset/Single

Descendents - Nightage/9th and Walnut

Yves Tumor - Secrecy Is Incredibly Important to Both of Them/The Asymptotical World

Paul McCartney - Seize the Day (Phoebe Bridgers remix)/McCartney III Reimagined

Strand of Oaks - Galacticana/In Heaven

Split Single - Blood Break Ground/Amplificado

Dinosaur. Jr. - To Be Waiting/Sweep It Into Space

Jeff Rosenstock - Horn Line/Ska Dream

Proper Nouns - Terror by the Book/Feel Free

Jim Ward - King Yourself/Daggers

Hour 2: Enemies

The Afghan Whigs - My Enemy/Black Love

Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus Forever/The Monitor

*AM Stereo - Any Enemy/When You Wish Upon a Bar

Buffalo Tom - Enemy/Birdbrain

The Lemonheads - Become the Enemy/The Lemonheads

Los Campesinos! - I Warned You: Do Not Make an Enemy of Me/Romance Is Boring

Archers of Loaf - Nevermind the Enemy/Vee Vee

The Pursuit of Happiness - Hate Engine/The Wonderful World of The Pursuit of Happiness

The Posies - Hate Song/Amazing Disgrace

Superchunk - Cloud of Hate/What a Time to Be Alive

Beck - Soul Suckin' Jerk/Mellow Gold

Sebadoh - I Smell a Rat/Mellow God

Rage Against the Machine - Know Your Enemy/Rage Against the Machine

All Them Witches - Enemy of My Enemy/Nothing As the Ideal

Rollins Band - Step Back/Weight

Monster Magnet - See You In Hell/Powertrip

Soundgarden - Slaves and Bulldozers/Badmotorfinger

Fishbone - If I Were A...I'd/The Reality of My Surroundings