Stuck In Thee Garage #464: February 24, 2023

To quote noted philosophers Cheech and Chong, things are tough all over. More people than ever are working side jobs. This concept is nothing new to the rock world, although side projects are typically done for artistic as opposed to financial reasons. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from side projects in hour 2. You'll enjoy it, especially if you're a college professor who moonlights as a swashbuckling adventurer looking for the Holy Grail.

There are no snakes hiding in this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Cable Ties - Perfect Client/Single

Quiz Show - Almost Famous/Quiz Show

Screaming Females - Desert Train/Desire Pathway

Pile - Gardening Hours/All Fiction

Beat Awfuls - Ego Death Kult/PAWS

Yo La Tengo - Brain Capers/This Stupid World

Blues Lawyer - Wrong Time/All In Good Time

Fight Milk - ICU/Fight Milk

Billy Nomates - Cacti/Cacti

Wet Leg - Loving You (Demo)/Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All

Ron Gallo - Yucca Valley Marshalls/Foreground Music

S.C.A.B. - Myrtle-Wyckoff/S.C.A.B.

Hammered Hulls - Sounding the Sea/Careening

Weird Nightmare - Darkroom/Weird Nightmare

De La Soul - Eye Know/3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"/De La Soul Is Dead

De La Soul and Teenage Fanclub - Fallin'/Judgment Night soundtrack

Hour 2: Side hustles

The Folk Implosion - Natural One/Kids soundtrack

Boss Hog - I Dig You/Boss Hog

The Amps - I Am Decided/Pacer

The Dead Weather - Hang You From the Heavens/Horehound

The Gutter Twins - Bete Noire/Saturnalia

Desert Sessions - Crawl Home/The Desert Sessions Vol. 9 & 10

Ex Hex - Waste Your Time/Rips

Wild Flag - Future Crimes/Wild Flag

Burning Airlines - Paper Crowns/Identikit

Divine Fits - Like Ice Cream/A Thing Called Divine Fits

The Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll/Stop Drop and Roll!!!

Grinderman - Worm Tamer/Grinderman 2

Future of the Left - Throwing Bricks at Trains/Travels With Myself and Another

Drive Like Jehu - Human Interest/Yank Crime

The Both - Pay For It/The Both

The I Don't Cares - King of America/Wild Stab

The Good, the Bad & the Queen - Kingdom of Doom/The Good, the Bad & the Queen

Consonant - Post-Pathetic/Consonant

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Stuck In Thee Garage #463: February 17, 2023

Life in the big city isn't for everyone. Take me, for example. I spent the first seven years of my life living in high-rise apartment buildings. After that, it's been nothing but the 'burbs for me. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy doing fun stuff in the city. At any rate, I played songs about city life this week in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage. Listen to it while you contemplate what the hell you're doing in a hotel in Tokyo.

This playlist is not lost in translation:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Yo La Tengo - Sinatra Drive Breakdown/This Stupid World

Beat Awfuls - Narc/PAWS

Fucked Up - Broken Little Boys/One Day

Ron Gallo - Anything But This/Foreground Music

Gord Downie and Bob Rock - Something More/Lustre Parfait

Palm - Mirror Mirror/Nicks and Grazes

Megadose - Hey 911/Heating Up

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Spitting Off the Edge of the World (feat. Perfume Genius)/Cool It Down

Enumclaw - Blue Iris/Save the Baby

Osees - Funeral Solution/A Foul Form

Viagra Boys - The Cognitive Trade-Off Hypothesis/Cave World

ON - Break You/ON

Archers of Loaf - Mama Was a War Profiteer/Reason In Decline

Sloan - Nice Work If You Can Get It/Steady

Widows Gold - Tell Me/Love Drops

Hour 2: City life

Kiwi Jr. - Downtown Area Blues/Chopper

Woolen Men - Alien City/Temporary Monument

Thunderbirds Are Now! - Eat This City/Justamustache

Savages - City's Full/Silence Yourself

PUP - City/Morbid Stuff

The Twilight Singers - Fat City (Slight Return)/Blackberry Belle

Mark Lanegan Band - Hit the City/Bubblegum

Courtney Barnett - City Looks Pretty/Tell Me How You Really Feel

Wilco - Capitol City/The Whole Love

Palehound - The City/Black Friday

Prince - Erotic City / The Hits/The B-Sides

The Nation of Ulysses - Hot Chocolate City/13-Point Program to Destroy America

Tim Armstrong - Inner City Violence/A Poet's Life

Iggy Pop and James Williamson - Kill City/Kill City

Frank Black - Punk Rock City/The Cult of Ray

Titus Andronicus - In a Big City/Local Business

Ted Leo - Run to the City/The Hanged Man

Hot Snakes - Salton City/Automatic Midnight

 

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Completely Conspicuous 607: My Poor Brain

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1997. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Jay's non-top 5 albums: Cornershop, Yo La Tengo, Elliott Smith, Chris Whitley, Portishead, Ween
• Phil's #5 and Jay's #4: Ben Folds Five's breakthrough with piano-driven snark
• Phil's #4: Third album from Sleater-Kinney features Janet Weiss' debut on drums
• Phil's #3: Elliott Smith's lo-fi folk got a boost from Good Will Hunting
• Jay's #3: Built to Spill with another of their epic '90s releases
• Phil's #2: Dylan makes a triumphant return
• When artists stop writing new material 
• Jay's #2: A masterful release from Pavement
• Phil's #1 and Jay's #5; Second Foo Fighters album establishes Grohl and his band as a musical force
• Jay's #1: Radiohead reaches new heights on its third album
• How Jay learned to love Radiohead
• Favorite songs: "My Poor Brain" (Phil), "Karma Police" (Jay)

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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 #462: February 10, 2023

A wise man once said, "Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future." Okay, maybe he wasn't that wise, but he wasn't wrong, either. Time marches on and here we are in 20-freakin'-23, wondering how we got here. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played music from 35 years ago in hour 2 and I'm still not sure how so much time has passed. I'm too old for this shit.

This playlist has a million dollar arm but a five-cent head:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Blues Lawyer - Someone Else/All In Good Time

Beat Awfuls - College Ring/PAWS

The Nude Party - Ride On/Rides On

Geese - Cowboy Nudes/Single

Gord Downie & Bob Rock - The Raven and the Red-Tailed Hawk/Lustre Parfait

Palm - On the Sly/Nicks and Grazes

Lowertown - Antibiotics/I Love to Lie

Fucked Up - I Think I Might Be Weird/One Day

Ron Gallo - Foreground Music/Foreground Music

Baby; Baby: Explores the Reason Why That Gum Is Still On the Sidewalk - Pants/Food Near Me, Weather Tomorrow

Widows Gold - I Can't Help You/Love Drops

Hammered Hulls - Bog People/Careening

Emerald Comets - Smoke From the Ships/Single

Dry Cleaning - Gary Ashby/Stumpwork

Fazerdaze - Overthink It/Break!

Screaming Females - Brass Bell/Desire Pathway

Ian Blurton's Future Now - When the Storm Comes Home/Second Skin

 

Hour 2: 1988

The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death/Birth, School, Work, Death

Jane's Addiction - Pigs In Zen/Nothing's Shocking

Dinosaur Jr. - Keep the Glove/Bug

The Church - Under the Milky Way/Starfish

The Pursuit of Happiness - When the Sky Comes Falling Down/Love Junk

Soul Asylum - Marionette/Hang Time

Pixies - Gigantic/Surfer Rosa

Sonic Youth - Eric's Trip/Daydream Nation

Soundgarden - All Your Lies/Ultramega OK

Living Colour - Middle Man/Vivid

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

Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd./New York

Public Enemy - Don't Believe the Hype/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

R.E.M. - Orange Crush/Green

 

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Completely Conspicuous 606: Brighten the Corners

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1997. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• In '97, Jay hit the big 3-0, Phil turned 28
• Big year for partying
  
• Alt-rock one-hit wonders abounded: Marcy Playground, Third Eye Blind, Smash Mouth
  
• Boy bands, hip hop, female singer-songwriters
• Phil's "bubbling under" albums: U2, Led Zeppelin, Bjork, Bowie, Dinosaur Jr., Pavement, Guided By Voices, Whiskeytown, Steve Earle, Prodigy, Radiohead, David Byrne 
  
• U2 lost the plot with "Pop"
• The interesting career of David Byrne
• 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 #461: February 3, 2023

People tend to get hung up on numbers, reading more into them than they probably should. For example, today is 2/3/23, so it makes perfect to sense to play songs with numbers in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage. It was perfectly respectable.

There's zero chance you won't like this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Fucked Up - Lord of Kensington/One Day

Ron Gallo - Entitled Man/Foreground Music

Mudhoney - Almost Everything/Plastic Eternity

Deerhoof - My Lovely Cat!/Miracle Level

Billy Nomates - Vertigo/Cacti

Death of the High Street - Chancer/Single

Palm - Touch and Go/Nicks and Grazes

Megadose - Pig/Heating Up

Peak Park - Need Your Love/Single

S.C.A.B. - Small Talk/S.C.A.B.

Country Westerns - Money On the Table/Forgive the City

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - High and Lonesome/Raise the Roof

David Bowie - Kingdom Come/Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Television - See No Evil/Marquee Moon

Television - Elevation/Marquee Moon

Hour 2: Numbers

David Bowie - Five Years/The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Joy Division - Twenty-Four Hours/Closer

Frank Black - Ten Percenter/Frank Black

R.E.M. - Star 69/Monster

PUP - A.M. 180/This Place Sucks Ass

Los Campesinos! - Straight In at 101/Romance Is Boring

Lush - 500/Lovelife

Oceanator - January 21st/Things I Never Said

Pavement - Two States/Slanted and Enchanted

Jon Spencer and the Hitmakers - Strike 3/Spencer Gets It Lit!

Lump - Thirteen/Live on Pipeline 3/2/93

The Hives - Inspection Wise 1999/Veni Vidi Vicious

Mike Watt - Against the '70s/Ball-Hog or Tugboat?

Aerosmith - Three Mile Smile/Night in the Ruts

Mission of Burma - Trem Two/Vs.

Phylums - IC3D/Phylum Phyloid

Hash Redactor - Step 2: Success/Drecksound

 

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