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

Completely Conspicuous is available through the Apple Podcasts directory. 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 #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!