Friday, September 30, 2022

Stuck In Thee Garage #443: September 30, 2022

Humans are creatures of habit. We tend to settle into patterns to get through the drudgery of everyday life. Lather, rinse, repeat. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about repetition in hour 2. It's like getting stuck in an infinite loop, but not really.


The time-tested playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

METZ - Come On Down (feat. Joe Talbot)/Single

Kal Marks - My Life Is a Freak Show/My Name Is Hell

Dendrons - People Scare Me/5-3-8

The Afghan Whigs - Domino and Jimmy (feat. Marcy Mays)/How Do You Burn?

Peel Dream Magazine - Pictionary/Pad

Hallelujah the Hills - God Is So Lonely Tonight/Single

The Black Angels - History of the Future/Wilderness of Mirrors

The Beths - I Told You That I Was Afraid/Expert in a Dying Field

ON - Take a Shot/ON

Preoccupations - Slowly/Arrangements

Night Moves - Feel Another Day/The Redaction EP

Santigold - Fall First/Spirituals

The Mountain Goats - Need More Bandages/Bleed Out

Guided By Voices - Focus On the Flock/Tremblers and Goggles By Rank

PUP - Matilda (live in Toronto)/PUP Unravels Live in Front of Everyone They Know


Hour 2: Repeat

Fugazi - Repeater/Repeater

Mission of Burma - Hunt Again/ONoffON

Beastie Boys - Lee Majors Come Again/Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

Matthew Sweet - Do It Again/Altered Beast

The Feelies - Doin' It Again/Time For a Witness

Steely Dan - Do It Again/Can't Buy a Thrill

Mikal Cronin - Again and Again/Mikal Cronin

Jeff Rosenstock - Beers Again Alone/We Cool?

Sloan - Flying High Again/Never Hear the End of It

The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again/The Queen Is Dead

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over and Over Again (Lost & Found)/Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Wye Oak - Over and Over/The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs

Jarvis Cocker - I Will Kill Again/Jarvis

Antarctigo Vespucci - Do It Over/Love in the Time of E-mail

B Boys - On Repeat/Dudu

Van Halen - Outta Love Again/Van Halen II

Fu Manchu - Godzilla/Eatin' Dust


Friday, September 23, 2022

Stuck In Thee Garage #442: September 23, 2022

Life is full of duality. Yin and yang, black and white, up and down, right and wrong. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about right in hour 1 and wrong in hour 2. The scales of justice were balanced with a deft selection of rock and/or roll.


Order in the court:

Hour 1: Right

Artist - Song/Album

Jane's Addiction - Ain't No Right/Ritual De Lo Habitual

Frank Black - Jesus Was Right/The Cult of Ray

Mourn - Doing It Right/Sopresa Familia

Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place/Kid A

David Bowie - Right /Young Americans

David Byrne - Doing the Right Thing/American Utopia

Elliott Smith - Half Right/New Moon

Radiator Hospital - I'm All Right/Torch Song

Lee Ranaldo - Circular (Right as Rain)/Electric Rain

Fiddlehead - Get My Mind Right/Between the Richness

Eels - I Know You're Right/Extreme Witchcraft

The Coathangers - Make It Right/Nosebleed Weekend

Cloud Nothings - So Right, So Clean/Last Building Burning

Diamond Youth - Thought I Had It Right/Nothing Matters.

Sloan - Right or Wrong/Never Hear the End of It

The Feelies - Time Is Right/Here Before

R.E.M. - All the Right Friends/In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003


Hour 2: Wrong

Bullet Lavolta - Dead Wrong/The Gift

Husker Du - Afraid of Being Wrong/Savage Young Du

The Buzzcocks - Something's Gone Wrong Again/Singles Going Steady

The Clash - Wrong 'Em Boyo/London Calling

Alice In Chains - Got Me Wrong/Sap

Morphine - All Wrong/Cure For Pain

Sloan - Everything You've Done Wrong/One Chord to Another

Dead Meadow - Ain't Got Nothing (to Go Wrong)/Old Growth

Living Colour - Always Wrong/Shade

Rollins Band - Wrong Man/Weight

OFF! - Wrong/OFF!

Lilys - Everything Wrong Is Imaginary/Everything Wrong Is Imaginary

Mikal Wrong - Am I Wrong/MCII

AM Stereo - Done Wrong/When You Wish Upon a Bar

Superchunk - I Guess I Remembered It Wrong/Kid A

Gigolo Aunts - Everything Is Wrong/Minor Chords and Major Themes

 

Friday, September 16, 2022

Stuck In Thee Garage #441: September 16, 2022

Two decades in the blink of an eye. Much has changed, and much hasn't changed. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2002 in hour 2. Sometimes, you've just gotta say what the honorable Sen. Clay Davis says.


The playlist is definitely worth some sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-it:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Afghan Whigs - Jyja/How Do You Burn?

Built to Spill - Understood/When the Wind Forgets Your Name

Preoccupations - Fix Bayonet/Arrangements

Eldridge Rodriguez - Scars In the Vein (feat. Thalia Zedek)/Single

Dendrons - New Outlook/5-3-8

Franklin Gothic - Mr. Hangman/Into the Light

The Besnard Lakes - She's an Icicle/The Besnard Lakes Are the Prayers for the Death of Fame

Beverly Crusher - Vacuum/Waste of Waves

ON - Blackmail/ON

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Salt In Your Eyes/XI: Bleed Here Now

Candy Coffins - Every Day a Fresh Atrocity/Single

Pink Turns Blue - Not Gonna Take It/Tainted Tour 2022 EP

Black Market Karma - Dead Trajectory/Single


Hour 2: 2002

Elvis Costello - Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution)/When I Was Cruel

Consonant - Post-Pathetic/Consonant

Spoon - Jonathon Fisk/Kill the Moonlight

Interpol - PDA/Turn On the Bright Lights

Mudhoney - The Straight Life/When We've Become Translucent

Hot Snakes - I Hate the Kids/Suicide Invoice

McLusky - Alan is a Cowboy Killer/McLusky Do Dallas

Queens of the Stone Age - Do It Again/Songs For the Deaf

Mastodon - Burning Man/Remission

The Tragically Hip - It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken/In Violet Life

Ben Kweller - Wasted & Ready/Sha Sha

Brendan Benson - Good to Me/Lapalco

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

The Walkmen - Wake Up/Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone

David Bowie - Slow Burn/Heathen

The Kickovers - Regeneration/Osaka



Friday, September 09, 2022

Stuck In Thee Garage #440: September 9, 2022

First impressions are important. They tell you a lot about a person. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played great debut songs from debut albums in hour 2. Sometimes what you get is different from how it first appears.


This playlist is not necessarily what it seems...or is it?

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Gorillaz - New Gold/Cracker Island

Santigold - High Priestess/Spirituals

!!! - Crazy Talk/Let It Be Blue

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - No Confidence/XI: Bleed Here Now

Guided By Voices - Unproductive Funk/Tremblers and Goggles by Rank

Dendrons - Vain Repeating/5-3-8

Illiterate Light - Light Me Up/Single

The Murdocs - Compos Mentis/Rapscallion

Fanclubwallet - National TV/You Have Got to Be Kidding Me

Coco - Rough Water/Single

The Mountain Goats - Make You Suffer/Bleed Out

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - My Echo/Endless Rooms

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Writing Songs/Still Clouds at Noon

Kiwi Jr. -  Kennedy Curse/Chopper

Near Beer - Thursday/Near Beer

Pilot to Gunner - Razor Drop/Hail Hallucinator


Hour 2: Debut songs from debut albums

The Pretenders - Precious/Pretenders

Joe Jackson - One More Time/Look Sharp!

The Jam - Art School/In the City

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels/Run the Jewels

Bad Brains - Sailin' On/Bad Brains

New York Dolls - Personality Crisis/New York Dolls

The Stooges - 1969/The Stooges

Big Star - Feel/#1 Record

Talking Heads - Uh Oh, Love Comes to Town/Talking Heads '77

Arctic Monkeys - The View From the Afternoon/Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

The White Stripes - Jimmy the Exploder/The White Stripes

Courtney Barnett - Elevator Operator/Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit

The Breeders - Glorious/Pod

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored/The Stone Roses

The Hold Steady - Positive Jam/Almost Killed Me

The Pursuit of Happiness - Hard to Laugh/Love Junk

Smashing Pumpkins - I Am One/Gish


Friday, September 02, 2022

Stuck In Thee Garage #439: September 2, 2022

Nine years is a long time, man. Think about what the world was like in 2013. Very different. This week, I celebrated 9 years of Stuck In Thee Garage radio and the station it airs on, BFF.fm, with two hours of hot jammers, including songs about predictions in hour 2. Get your knives out!


The celebratory playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Beths - Silence Is Golden/Expert in a Dying Field

Pixies - Vault of Heaven/Doggerel

Dendrons - Double Ending/5-3-8

Slang - Chipped Tooth/Cockroach in a Ghost Town

Momma - Lucky/Household Name

Grand Courriers - Coin Toss/Doesn't Come Easy

The Mountain Goats - First Blood/Bleed Out

Elk City - That Someone/Above the Water

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Walk Through Any Wall/Still Clouds at Noon

Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Belize (feat. MF Doom)/Cheat Codes

The Sadies - Cut Up High and Dry/Colder Streams

Tony Molina - Leave This Town/In the Fade

Ty Segall - Saturday, Part 2/Hello, Hi

Sloan - Scratch the Surface/Steady

Jack White - That Was Then, This Is Now/Fear of the Dawn

Glove - Modern Toy/Boom Nights

Pet Fox - Undeserving You/A Face In Your Life


Hour 2: Predictions

David Bowie - 1984/Diamond Dogs

Paul McCartney and Wings - Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five/Band On the Run

Flaming Lips - All We Have Is Now/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood/Peter Gabriel (1977)

Public Enemy - Prophets of Rage/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

The Clash - London Calling/London Calling

Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a  Riot/Employment

Matthew Sweet - Future Shock/In Reverse

Savak - Bad Omen/Beg Your Pardon

Camp Cope - The Omen/How to Socialise & Make Friends

Kurt Vile - Bad Omens/b'lieve i'm goin down

The Black Angels - Bad Vibrations/Phosphene Dream

Rush - Red Sector A/Grace Under Pressure

Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon/Ocean Rain



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