Stuck In Thee Garage #473: April 28, 2023

In a lot of bands, the bassist is the forgotten member. Keeping it down with the drummer, standing in the background while the singer and the lead guitarist get all the attention. Well, on Stuck In Thee Garage this week, I played songs featuring bassists who most decidedly don't blend into the scenery. Nobody's faking the funk (or prog or whatever) here.

This playlist is positively basstastic:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Washer - Fail Big/Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends

Acid Tongue - Consumerism/Single

Tramhaus - Make It Happen/Single

Killer Mike - Don't Let the Devil (feat. El-P and thankugoodsir)/Michael

Sleaford Mods - Pit 2 Pit/UK Grim

Yves Tumor - Purified By the Fire/Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume

Skinny Pelembe - Like a Heart Won't Beat/Hardly the Same Snake

Tanlines - The Big Mess/The Big Mess

Boygenius - Satanist/The Record

Dyr Faser - Ghastly Vicious Acts/Karmic Revenge

The Bellwether Syndicate - Noir Thing/Vestige & Vigil 

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Shape of Things to Come/Heaven's Off

Mudhoney - Cascades of Crap/Plastic Eternity

Shame - Adderall/Food For Worms

The C.I.A. - Bubble/Surgery Channel

Lucero - Nothing's Alright/Should've Learned By Now

Hour 2: Bass

Joe Jackson - Got the Time/I'm the Man

Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives/My Aim Is True

The Jam - Town Called Malice/The Gift

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

Pixies - Debaser/Doolittle

Fugazi - Public Witness Program/In On the Kill Taker

Chic - Good Times/Risque

Parliament - Ride On/Chocolate City

Talking Heads - Cities/Fear of Music

Primus - My Name Is Mud/Pork Soda

Rush - Cinderella Man/A Farewell to Kings

The Who - Young Man Blues/Live at Leeds

Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty!/Another Day, Another Dollar EP

Mike Watt - Big Train/Ball-Hog or Tugboat?

Interpol - Obstacle 2/Turn On the Bright Lights

R.E.M. - Texarkana/Out of Time

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Stuck In Thee Garage #472: April 21, 2023

We are in a state of rapid advancement. Ten years can flash by in an instant, and yet feel like it was forever ago. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2013 in hour 2. It was delicious yet somehow disturbing.

Try this playlist with a nice Chianti and some fava beans:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Speedy Ortiz - Scabs/Single

Cable Ties - Time For You/All Her Plans

Es - Swallowed Whole/Fantasy

The Dirty Nil - Nicer Guy/Free Rein to Passions

Girlhouse - You Don't Think About Me/Single

Boygenius - Not Strong Enough/The Record

Dyr Faser - Fun in the Sun/Karmic Revenge

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Anonymous @ 1:34/Heaven's Off

Washer - The Itch/Improved Means to Deteriorated Means

The Hold Steady - City at Eleven/The Price of Progress

Mudhoney - Here Comes the Flood/Plastic Eternity

White Reaper - Pink Slip/Asking For a Ride

Quasi - Nowheresville/Breaking the Balls of History

The C.I.A. - The Wait/Surgery Channel

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Life in the Void/The Town That Cursed Your Name

The New Pornographers - Bottle Episodes/Continue as a Guest

Eyelids - Runaway, Yeah/A Colossal Waste of Light

Quiz Show - The Construct/Quiz Show

Hour 2: 2013

Savages - I Am Here/Silence Yourself

Speedy Ortiz - Tiger Tank/Major Arcana

Swearin' - Dust in the Gold Sack/Surfing Strange

Queens of the Stone Age - I Sat By the Ocean/...Like Clockwork

Future of the Left - Donny of the Decks/How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident

Diarrhea Planet - Separations/I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams

Ovlov - Nu Punk/am

Idiot Genes - Soaked Pillow/Lousey

Mikal Cronin - Weight/MCII

Arctic Monkeys - RU Mine?/AM

Kurt Vile - KV Crimes/Wakin' on a Pretty Daze

Mudhoney - I Don't Remember You/Vanishing Point

Barrence Whitfield and the Savages - The Corner Man/Dig Thy Savage Soul

Iceage - Ecstasy/You're Nothing

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - We Real Cool/Push the Sky Away

David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight)/The Next Day

Superchunk - FOH/I Hate Music

Carve yourself up some quality rock!

Completely Conspicuous 611: Climb to Safety

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1999. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Jay's non-top 5s: Frank Black and the Catholics, Sebadoh, Matthew Sweet, Piebald, Fu Manchu, Superchunk, Songs: Ohia, GBV
  
• Phil's #5: Third release from Rage Against the Machine continues their anti-capitalist bent
• Jay's #5: Flaming Lips complete their transformation into a different sound
• Phil's #4: Dave Grohl continues to fight Foo and get more commercial-sounding
• Jay's #4 and Phil's #3: Built to Spill with the triumphant peak of their terrific '90s run 
• Jay's #3: The final Pavement album has only gotten better with age
• Phil's #2: Debut of Rilo Kiley was financed by Dave Foley of Kids in the Hall
• Jay's #2: Beck gets funky, continuing extreme genre shifts from album to album
• Phil's #1: Widespread Panic melds a lot of styles in a listener-friendly jam album
• Jay's #1: Back-to-back #1s from Sloan with a semi-autobiographical masterpiece
  
• Favorite songs: "Climb to Safety" (Phil); "Friendship" (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 #471: April 14, 2023

The world is a vampire, or so I'm told. Getting through life these days requires a certain resilience. You need to pound the fools all around you, both literally and figuratively. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs to pound fools by in hour 2. So crank it up, and don't forget the swan.

The hot playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Heaven's Off/Heaven's Off

The Beths - Watching the Credits/Single

Dyr Faser - Symbolized/Karmic Revenge

Spill Tab - Window/Single

Momma - Bang Bang/Single

Boygenius - $20/The Record

The New Pornographers - Cat and Mouse With the Light/Continue as a Guest

Washer - Threadbare/Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends

White Reaper - Getting Into Trouble With the Boss/Asking For a Ride

Mudhoney - Little Dogs/Plastic Eternity

Shame - The Fall of Paul/Food For Worms

Yves Tumor - Heaven Surrounds Us Like a Hood/Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume

Sleaford Mods - Right Wing Beast/UK Grim

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Mistakes (Too Many to Name)/The Town That Cursed Your Name

Eyelids - Everything That I See You See Better/A Colossal Waste of Light

Lucero - Buy a Little Time/Should've Learned By Now

Sparta - Slip Away/Sparta

Hour 2: Pound fools

The Stooges - Loose/Fun House

Stiv Bators - Make Up Your Mind/Disconnected

Bad Religion - American Jesus/Recipe For Hate

Faith No More - From Out of Nowhere/The Real Thing

Superchunk - Skip Steps 1 and 3/No Pocky For Kitty

Ty Segall - The Loner/Fudge Sandwich

Turnstile - Dance-Off/Glow On

Against Me! - Don't Lose Touch/Searching For a Former Clarity

Ween - It's Gonna Be a Long Night/Quebec

Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights/You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

Stove - Plastic/Is Stupider

Archers of Loaf - Nevermind the Enemy/Vee Vee

Ex Hex - Waste Your Time/Rips

Frank Black - Old Black Dawning/Frank Black

Les Savy Fav - Rage in the Plague Age/Let's Stay Friends

Jawbreaker - Chemistry/Dear You

Helmet - Tic/Betty

New Bomb Turks - I Got Your Bitter End/Information Highway Revisited

Motorhead - (We Are the) Road Crew/Ace of Spades

Get thee to the rock show!

Completely Conspicuous 610: End of the Century

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1999. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click or "save as").

Show notes:

• In '99, Jay turned 32, Phil turned 30
• Y2K was looming
• Phil got married, Jay got engaged
• Ireland on New Year's Eve
• Pop was on the upswing
• Nu metal and Woodstock 99
• Music sales were high, but MP3s were about to take a big bite
• Santana made a huge comeback
• Phil's non top 5 albums: Magnolia soundtrack, Sleater-Kinney, White Stripes, Wilco, Sheila Divine, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Moby, Red Hot Chili Peppers, 
• The pickings were slim overall in '99
• To be continued

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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 #470: April 7, 2023

Rock is considered a guitar-driven genre, but there are plenty of other instruments that contribute to the overall vibe. Horns can play many different roles in a song, as is evidenced by hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage this week when I played songs with horn parts. Just watch out for Sergio!

This playlist just burst through the wall:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

White Reaper - Asking for a Ride/Asking for a Ride

Shame - Alibis/Food for Worms

The Hold Steady - Sixers/The Price of Progress

Caution - To Decide/Single

Bully - Lose You (feat. Soccer Mommy)/Lucky for You

Who Is She? - My My Orca Card/Single

Model/Actriz - Crossing Guard/Dogsbody

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Waiting on a Ghost to Haunt You/The Town That Cursed Your Name

Los Bitchos - Tequila/Pah!

The New Pornographers - Marie and the Undersea/Continue as a Guest

Black Country, New Road - Dancers/Live at Bush Hall

Eyelids - Pink Chair/A Colossal Waste of Light

Blues Lawyer - Elusive Eden/All in Good Time

TV Star - In-Between/Hallucinate Me

Screaming Females - Titan/Desire Pathway

Beat Awfuls - Heavy Mental Spirit/PAWS

Hour 2: Horns

Radiohead - The National Anthem/Kid A

Morphine - A Head With Wings/Cure for Pain

Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945/In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea

Rocket From the Crypt - Come See, Come Saw/Scream, Dracula, Scream!

Jane's Addiction - Idiots Rule/Nothing's Shocking

Soundgarden - Drawing Flies/Badmotorfinger

James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine/Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang

Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke/Songs in the Key of Life

Genesis - Paperlate/3 x 3

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart/Kick

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

Spoon - You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait/Pleased to Meet Me

Jeff Rosenstock - Checkerboard Ashtray/Ska Dream

The Nation of Ulysses - Last Train to Cool/Plays Pretty for Baby

The Clash - The Right Profile/London Calling

Get your rock fix here, hepcats!