Saturday, November 06, 2021

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


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