Stuck In Thee Garage #451: November 25, 2022

Black Friday is typically known for shopping, but I prefer to think of it as more of a relaxing day. Eating leftovers, lounging on the couch, and listening to some good rock songs. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about guns in hour 2. Sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures.

The startling playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Fucked Up - Found/One Day

Viagra Boys - Troglodyte/Cave World

The Cool Greenhouse - Hard Rock Potato/Sod's Toastie

Sparta - It Goes/Sparta

Weird Nightmare - I Think You Know/Split Single With Ancient Shapes

Ancient Shapes - (I'm) Against the Wind/Split Single With Weird Nightmare

OFF! - Ignored/Free LSD

Ian Blurton's Future Now - Like a Ghost/Second Skin

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

Hammered Hulls - Boilermaker's Notch/Careening

Archers of Loaf - Screaming Undercover/Reason In Decline

Blacklisters - No Not At All/Leisure Centre

Young Fathers - I Saw/Heavy Heavy

Puppy Angst - Perpetual/Scorpio Season

The Afghan Whigs - Take Me There/How Do You Burn?

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Workers of the World/They Only Wanted Your Soul

Sloan - Keep Your Name Alive/Steady

 

Hour 2: Guns

The Clash - The Guns of Brixton/London Calling

Beastie Boys - Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun/Paul's Boutique

INXS - Guns in the Sky/Kick

Red Red Meat - Gun/Bunny Gets Paid

Pavement - Drunks With Guns/Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe

Michael Penn - Cupid's Got a Brand New Gun/March

The Besnard Lakes - Feuds With Guns/The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings

The Breeders - Happiness Is a Warm Gun/Pod

Metric - Gold Guns Girls/Fantasies

Pixies - There Goes My Gun/Doolittle

Lou Reed - The Gun/The Blue Mask

Chris Whitley - Guns & Dolls/Din of Ecstasy

The Twilight Singers - Gunshots/Dynamite Steps

Adrian Belew - Gunman/Young Lions

David Lee Roth - Elephant Gun/Eat 'Em and Smile

Bad Brains - Hired Gun/I Against I

Soundgarden - Gun/Louder Than Love

 

Listen to the episode here.

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #450: November 18, 2022

 

Milestones come and go. Here's another one: This week marked the 450th episode of Stuck In Thee Garage, featuring songs about colors in hour 2. That's 900 hours of the rock over the last nine-plus years. Talk about volume!

The colorful playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Cuffed Up - 10 for 10/Single

Hammered Hulls - Pilot Light/Careering

Miss Grit - Follow the Cyborg/Follow the Cyborg

Yves Tumor - God Is a Circle/Single

Genesis Owusu - Get Inspired/Single

Spoon vs. Adrian Greenwood - The Devil & Mister Jones/Lucifer on the Moon

Ovens - Abduction/Ovens

Courting - PDA/Guitar Music

S.C.A.B. - Six Songs Into Your Spotify Playlist/S.C.A.B.

Dry Cleaning - Hot Penny Day/Stumpwork

Alvvays - Pressed/Blue Rev

Sloan - Panic on Runnymede/Steady

Titus Andronicus - An Anomaly/The Will to Live

Low - Rome (Always in the Dark)/Double Negative

Public Image Ltd. - Public Image/Public Image: First Issue

Dead Kennedys - We've Got a Bigger Problem Now/In God We Trust, Inc.

Hour 2: Colors

Living Colour - What's Your Favorite Color?/Vivid

Prince - Computer Blue/Purple Rain

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Blue Green Olga/Acme

Ween - Happy Colored Marbles/Quebec

Ty Segall -  Orange Color Queen/Ty Segall

Matthew Sweet - Devil With the Green Eyes/Altered Beast

Pom Pom Squad - Crimson + Clover/Death of a Cheerleader

The Replacements - Color Me Impressed/Hootenanny

Jesse Malin and the St. Marks Social - Black Boombox/Love It to Life

Chubby and the Gang - Blue Ain't My Colour/Speed Kills

Smashing Pumpkins - Blue/Pisces Iscariot

Minutemen - The Red and the Black/3-Way Tie (For Last)

Judas Priest - The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)/Hell Bent For Leather

METZ - Soft Whiteout/Automat

Mission of Burma - Red/Signals, Calls and Marches

Fugazi - Blueprint/Repeater

Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat  White Light/White Heat

Listen to the show here.

Stuck In Thee Garage #449: November 11, 2022

The '80s were a magical time. Magically stupid, but magical nonetheless. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1987 in hour 2 and they were a blast. Much like the movie Raising Arizona, but for different reasons.

This playlist will drag you away kicking and screaming:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Yo La Tengo - Fallout/This Stupid World

Archers of Loaf - Misinformation Age/Reason In Decline

Ron Gallo - Anything But This/Single

Alvvays - Lottery Noises/Blue Rev

Dry Cleaning - Driver's Story/Stumpwork

Fazerdaze - Overthink It/Break!

S.C.A.B. - MTA LUX/S.C.A.B.

Hammered Hulls - Needlepoint Tiger/Careening

Blacklisters - Leisure Centre/Leisure Centre

Philip Selway - Check For Signs of Life/Strange Dance

Puppy Angst - Bedhead/Scorpio Season

Gord Downie and Bob Rock - Lustre Parfait/Single

Sloan - Dream It All Over Again/Steady

Metric - Oh Please/Formentera

Kal Marks - The Future/My Name Is Hell

GA-20 - Fairweather Friend/Crackdown

Ovens - Losin' Touch/Ovens

Hour 2: 1987

INXS - Mystify/Kick

The Cure - Why Can't I Be You?/Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

Echo & the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar/Echo & the Bunnymen

Dinosaur Jr. - The Lung/You're Living All Over Me

Pixies - Levitate Me/Come On Pilgrim

Jane's Addiction - 1%/Jane's Addiction

R.E.M. - Welcome to the Occupation/Document

The Replacements - Alex Chilton/Pleased to Meet Me

U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky/The Joshua Tree

Midnight Oil - Dream World/Diesel and Dust

The Cult - King Contrary Man/Electric

Soundgarden - Hunted Down/Screaming Life

Screaming Trees - Cold Rain/Even If and Especially When

Eric B. and Rakim - I Ain't No Joke/Paid In Full

Prince - Housequake/Sign O' the Times

Terence Trent D'Arby - Dance Little Sister/The Hardline According to...

Stuck In Thee Garage #448: November 4, 2022

Celebrities...they're just like us! Well, except for all the fame and money and monkey butlers and whatnot. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about famous people in hour 2. It's enough to make you want to form a supergroup.

Dave Grohl's afraid of this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Fazerdaze - Break!/Break!

Puppy Angst - Yellow Paint/Scorpio Season

Horsegirl - History Lesson, Part 2/Single

Hammered Hulls - Rights and Reproduction/Careening

Courting - Jumper/Guitar Music

Enumclaw - Jimmy Neutron/Save the Baby

Sloan - Magical Thinking/Steady

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Keep Your Secrets Close/They Only Wanted Your Soul

Ted Leo - Leaving River Road/Of Coit and Killie EP

Archers of Loaf - Saturation and Light/Reason In Decline

Titus Andronicus - Baby Crazy/The Will to Live

Country Westerns - It's Not Easy/Country Westerns

Blacklisters - The Wrong Way Home/Leisure Centre

OFF! - Smoking Gun/Free LSD

Alvvays - Easy On Your Own?/Blue Rev

PVA - Untethered/BLUSH

Cheekface - I Feel So Weird!/Too Much to Ask

Hour 2: Famous

Jon Spencer and the Hitmakers - Get It Right Now/Spencer Gets It Lit!

Liz Phair - Hey Lou/Soberish

Pink Mountaintops - Nikki Go Sudden/Peacock Pools

Interpol - Leif Erikson/Turn On the Bright Lights

R.E.M. - Exhuming McCarthy/Document

Pixies - Alec Eiffel/Live in LA 12/22/91

Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around/Live in Manchester UK 5/25/97

The Cult - Edie (Ciao Baby)/Sonic Temple

Piebald - Grace Kelly With Wings/If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds It Would Be Curtains For Us All

The Mountain Goats - The Legend of Chavo Guerrero/Beat the Champ

Paul McCartney and Wings - Picasso's Last Words/Band On the Run

Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr./Come On Feel the Illinoise!

The Clash - The Right Profile/London Calling

Stephen Malkmus - Jo Jo's Jacket/Stephen Malkmus

Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay/Electr-O-Pura

 

Completely Conspicuous 598: Basket Case

Part 2 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:

- Jay's non-top 5s: Superchunk, Jeff Buckley, Drive Like Jehu, Rollins Band, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Helmet, Pulp Fiction soundtrack, Mark Lanegan, Nirvana

- Phil's #5: Pearl Jam's third album gets a little adventurous and rough-edged

- Jay's #5: The Tragically Hip gets more atmospheric after more straight-ahead rockers

- Phil's #4: Debut album from Jeff Buckley showcases his vocal range and a flair for different styles

- Jay's #4: The super-prolific Guided By Voices brings lo-fi rock into the forefront

- Phil's #3: Nirvana reinvented the Unplugged format in a historic recording

- Jay's #3: No sophomore jinx for Pavement, who broke through in an indie rock way

- Phil's #2: Soundgarden breaks through to the mainstream

- Jay's #2: Frank Black does a Bob Pollard impression with a lot of short bursts of awesomeness on his second solo album

- Phil's #1: Green Day explodes into popular culture with a classic blast of snotty pop-punk

- Jay's #1: An abrupt shift in sound from Sloan that led to them getting dumped by Geffen and briefly breaking up...but it's amazing

- This was the peak of the '90s indie rock scene

- Favorite songs: "Longview" (Phil), "Coax Me" (Sloan)

 

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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.