Friday, August 20, 2021

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


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