Stuck In Thee Garage #447: October 28, 2022

Halloween is almost here, and that means playing all sorts of weird and creepy and spooky songs on Stuck In Thee Garage. There are the obvious Halloween songs and then there are songs that are less noticeable. Kick start your candy gathering with two hours of the good stuff.

This playlist was picked up at S-Mart:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Cure - Lullaby/Disintegration 

True Widow - Creeper/Circumambulation

Dead Moon - Demona/What a Way to See the Old Girl Gog

The Black Angels - Haunting at 1300 McKinley/Phosphene Dream

Hallelujah the Hills - Enough Blood to Bathe a Zombie/The World Is Most Certainly Haunted and I Am One of Its Best Ghosts

Gord Downie - Haunt Them, Haunt Them, Haunt Them/Secret Path

Moon Duo - Creepin/Occult Architecture Vol. 1

Six Finger Satellite - Crippled Monster Bearing Malice/Live at Vermonstress 1992 

High Rise - Monster a Go Go/High Rise II

Queens of the Stone Age - Monsters in the Parasol/Rated R

The Von Bondies - Only to Haunt You/Love, Hate and Then There's You

Jay Reatard - Haunting You/Singles '06-'07

The Night Marchers - Total Bloodbath/See You In Magic

The Rolling Stones - Too Much Blood/Undercover

 

Hour 2

Beastie Boys - Egg Man/Paul's Boutique

Frank Black and the Catholics - All My Ghosts/Frank Black and the Catholics

Jeff Rosenstock - To Be a Ghost/WORRY.

Pile - Raised By Ghosts/Jerk Routine

Morphine - Buena/Cure For Pain

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Crow Jane/Murder Ballads

Big Chief - John's Scared/Platinum Jive

Mad Season - Lifeless Dead/Live at the Moore 4/29/95

Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral/Paranoid

Motorhead - Killed By Death/No Remorse

Monster Magnet - See You in Hell/Powertrip

Radiohead - Bodysnatchers/In Rainbows

Matthew Sweet - Superdeformed/No Alternative

Sonic Youth & Lydia Lunch - Death Valley '69/Bad Moon Rising

John Carpenter - Halloween theme/Halloween soundtrack

 

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #446: October 21, 2022

Villains are crucial elements of entertainment. We love to hate a good villain. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about villains in hour 2. They're roguish and somewhat charming, but don't turn your back on them.

The justified playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Room at the Top/Room at the Top

Courting - Loaded/Guitar Music

Alvvays - After the Earthquake/Blue Rev

Pixies - Get Stimulated/Doggerel

Ted Leo - More Hard Times (remix)/For Colt and Killie EP

Disq - Mtn Dew/Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All

The Afghan Whigs - A Line of Shots/How Do You Burn?

Built to Spill - Never Alright/When the Wind Forgets Your Name

Titus Andronicus - Dead Meat/The Will to Live

Kal Marks - Ovation/My Name Is Hell

The Black Angels - Icon/Wilderness of Mirrors

Guided By Voices - Puzzle Two/Tremblers and Goggles By Rank

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

Peel Dream Magazine - Self Actualization Center/Pad

Sharon Van Etten - Mistakes/We've Been Going About This All Wrong

Ex-Hyena - At the Moondial (Gothsickles remix)/At the Moondial

Hour 2: Villains

Speedy Ortiz - Villain/Twerp Verse

Bethlehem Steel - Bad Girl/Bethlehem Steel

Elvis Costello and the Imposters - The Man You Love to Hate/The Boy Named If

Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance/Villains

The Cult - Outlaw/Electric

Bad Brains - The Big Take Over/Bad Brains

Living Colour - Who Shot Ya (Andre Betts remix feat. Prodigal Sunn, Black Thought, Chuck D, Pharoahe Monch, Kyle Mansa and Sandy Starr)/Who Shot Ya

Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do/Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Melvins - Evil New War God/The Bride Screamed Murder

Fu Manchu - Evil Eye/The Action Is Go!

Metallica - Am I Evil?/Garage Inc.

Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One/All Hands on the Bad One

Pardoner - Totally Evil Powers/Came Down Different

Grinderman - Evil!/Grinderman 2

Completely Conspicuous 597: Ill Communication

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1994. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Back after a two-month summer break

- In 1994, Jay turned 27, Phil turned 25

- Steely Dan was touring again

- Jay: Life improved in '94 on job and home front

- Jay: Saw a ton of shows including Pearl Jam, Afghan Whigs, Rollins Band, Cracker, Soundgarden, Buffalo Tom, Blues Explosion, Tragically Hip, Sugar

- Debating the merits of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones

- Phil's kids love the pop music

- Phil went to the infamous Green Day show at the Hatch Shell

- Top singles were all pop and hip hop, lots of ballads

- Big year for indie rock

- Grunge peaked and major labels started signing bands from non-Seattle locations like Chicago, San Diego, etc.

- Pearl Jam sued TicketMaster and tried to do a tour of non-TM venues, but it fizzled

- Cobain's death was a pivotal moment

- Woodstock '94 didn't get as much press as '99

- Other newsy events: Baseball strike, OJ Simpson chase, Eagles started charging $100 for concert tickets

- Phil's non-top 5 albums: Alice in Chains, R.E.M., Hole, Beastie Boys, Weezer, Phish, Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, Sugar, Dinosaur Jr., Luscious Jackson, Beck, Liz Phair, Veruca Salt, Stone Roses, Jesus and Mary Chain, Portishead, Stone Temple Pilots, Dave Matthews Band, Tom Petty, Neil Young & Crazy Horse

- What is emo? Also, what is internet?

- Weezer started out strong, but now they're a parody of themselves

- To be continued

Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts. 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 #445: October 14, 2022

Most of us don't go looking for trouble, but somehow it manages to find us. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about trouble in hour 2. They'll start a rage in the cage.

 This playlist is a national treasure (whoops, wrong movie):

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Bully - Labor of Love/Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All

Sleater-Kinney - Free Time/Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All

Ty Segall - Glowing/Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All

Ted Leo - Too Bright Window/For Coit and Killie EP

Titus Andronicus - All Through the Night/The Will to Live

Eric's Trip - Follow/Live in Montreal 1993

Tony Molina - Burn Everyone/In the Fade

ON - Gator/ON

Pink Turns Blue - We Still Could Make It/Tainted Tour 2022 EP

Preoccupations - Death of Melody/Arrangements

OFF! - Worst Is Yet to Come/Free LSD

Pilot to Gunner - Escape Season/Hail Hallucinator

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Water Tower/XI: Bleed Here Now

Kal Marks - Everybody Hertz/My Name Is Hell

Dendrons - High in the Circle K/5-3-8

The Beths - Best Left/Expert in a Dying Field

 

Hour 2: Trouble

The Replacements - I'm in Trouble/For Sale: The Replacements Live at Maxwell's 1986

Material Issue - Trouble/International Pop Overthrow

Chubby and the Gang - Trouble (You Were Always On My Mind)/Speed Kills

Mexican Slang - Double Trouble/Twerp EP

Mourn - I'm in Trouble/Self Worth

The Liminanas - (I've Got) Trouble in Mind/7" and Rare Stuff

Titus Andronicus - Troubleman Unlimited/An Obelisk 

Soundgarden - Mood For Trouble/Ultramega OK

Temple of the Dog - Times of Trouble/Temple of the Dog

Ethan Eubanks - Troubled Times/Saving For a Custom Van

Dan Mangan - Troubled Mind/More or Less

Romero - Troublemaker/Single

Spoon - Trouble Comes Running/Transference

David Lee Roth - Big Trouble/Eat 'Em and Smile

Van Halen - The Trouble With Never/A Different Kind of Truth

Rollins Band - Wrong Man/Weight

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #444: October 7, 2022

Pickup lines are typically considered to be over the top or cringeworthy, but they can also be subtle or clever. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs with pickup lines or similar sentiments in hour 2. Just crank it up and enjoy; you don't even need to hit a water buffalo.

Put this playlist on the Underhills' tab:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Titus Andronicus - I Can Not Be Satisfied/The Will to Live

Kal Marks - Shit Town/My Name Is Hell

OFF! - Slice Up the Pie/Free LSD

Courting - Famous/Guitar Head

METZ - Heaven's Gate/Come On Down

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

Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Saltwater (feat. Conway the Machine)/Cheat Codes

The Mountain Goats - Make You Suffer/Bleed Out

Peel Dream Magazine - Wanting and Waiting/Pad

Tony Molina - All I've Known/In the Fade

Kiwi Jr. - Contract Killers/Chopper

Peter Matthew Bauer - Skulls/Flowers

The Black Angels - Empires Falling/Wilderness of Mirrors

The Beths - Head in the Clouds/Expert in a Dying Field

Big Joanie - In My Arms/Back Home

Karate, Guns and Tanning - Enchanter/Single

Hour 2: Pickup lines

Wet Leg - Chaise Longue/Wet Leg

Dream Wife - Let's Make Out/Dream Wife

PJ Harvey - This Is Love/Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

The Afghan Whigs - Somethin' Hot/1965

Pixies - Hey/Doolittle

Grinderman - Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)/Grinderman

Billy Squier - My Kinda Lover/Don't Say No

Cheap Trick - Hot Love/Cheap Trick

Judas Priest - Turbo Lover/Turbo

David Bowie - Let's Spend the Night Together/Aladdin Sane

The Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend/Ramones

T. Rex - Jeepster/Electric Warrior

Commodores - Brick House/Commodores

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer/So

Prince - Let's Pretend We're Married/1999