Friday, April 09, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #368: April 9, 2021

Life in the 'burbs isn't all white picket fences and barbecues. There's a lot going on beneath the sleepy surface. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about suburbia in hour 2. Listen to it after you pick up the paper.


They probably wouldn't use this playlist at the Bada Bing, but you never know:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard/New Long Leg

Bachelor - Stay In the Car/Doomin' Sun

Jane Weaver - The Revolution of Super Visions/Flock

The Dirty Nil - Done With Drugs/Fuck Art

TUNS - Everybody Knows/Duly Noted

Ron Gallo - Hide (Myself Behind You)/Peacemeal

Cheekface - "Listen to Your Heart." "No."/Emphatically No.

Sorry - Cigarette Packet/Single

Cloud Nothings - Am I Something/The Shadow I Remember

Maximo Park - I Don't Know What I'm Doing/Nature Always Wins

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - The Record Player and the Damage Done/Uncommon Weather

The Hold Steady - Riptown/Open Door Policy

Lilys - Dimes Make Dollars/ The 3 Way

Fridge Poetry - Half the Battle/Half the Battle

Shame - Born In Luton/Drunk Tank Pink

Glitterer - I Made the Call/Life Is Not a Lesson

The Fall - Rowche Rumble/Live at St. Helen's Technical College '81

 

Hour 2: Suburbia

Rocket From the Crypt - Middle/Scream, Dracula, Scream!

Descendents - Suburban Home/Milo Goes to College

The Clash - Lost In the Supermarket/London Calling

Rush - Subdivisions/Signals

The Police - Synchronicity II/Synchronicity

Talking Heads - Once In a Lifetime/Stop Making Sense

Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs/Rockin' the Suburbs

Telekinesis - Suburban Streetlight Drunk/Effluxion

Mike Krol - Suburban Wasteland/Turkey

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs/The Suburbs

Big Star - In the Street/#1 Record

Superchunk - Does Your Hometown Care?/Suburbia soundtrack

Elastica and Stephen Malkmus - Unheard Music/Suburbia soundtrack

The Kinks - A Well Respected Man/Kinda Kinks

The Jam - Going Underground/Single

XTC - Respectable Street/Black Sea

  


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