Stuck In Thee Garage #490: August 25, 2023

Hey man, things are tough all over. There's a lot of negativity out there, and while I don't like to dwell on it, sometimes it needs to be addressed. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about negativity in hour 2 (and great new songs from the Hives, Bedroom Eyes, Osees and Slowdive in hour 1). Listen to them after you get yelled at by your boss.

This playlist doesn't negotiate with terrorists.

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Hives - Bogus Operandi/The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons

Bedroom Eyes - Planted/Turned Away

Osees - Unusual & Cruel/Intercepted Message

Slowdive - Skin in the Game/Everything is Alive

The Natvral - Lucifer's Glory/Summer of No Light

Superchunk - Sunny Brixton/Misfits & Mistakes: Singles, B-Sides & Strays 2007-2023

Fiddlehead - Sleepyhead/Death is Nothing to Us

Turnstile & BadBadNoGood - Mystery/New Heart Designs

Teenage Wrist - Wax Poetic (feat. Sister Void)/Still Love

Bad History Month - Over the Hills/True Delusion

Crossed Wires - Safe and Sound/Ellipsis

Spiral Dub - Top of the World/Spiral Dub

Guided By Voices - Seedling/Welshpool Frillies

Low Praise - Hollow Ego/Dressing

Protomartyr - The Author/Formal Growth in the Desert

Guardian Singles - Metal Fingers/Feed Me to the Doves

Bully - A Wonderful Life/Lucky For You

M.A.G.S. - Sins/Destroyer

Hour 2: Negative

Nirvana - Negative Creep/Bleach

Hash Redactor - Down the Tubes/Drecksound

METZ - Negative Space/METZ

Nine Inch Nails - Down In It/Pretty Hate Machine

Exit Group - Negative/Adverse Habitat

Queens of the Stone Age - Negative Space/In Times New Roman...

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Don't Bring Me Down (live)/Bootleg

The So-So Glos - Down the Tubes/Kamikaze

World Party - Way Down Now/Goodbye Jumbo

The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together/Picaresque

Courtney Barnett - Debbie Downer/Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit

Ride - Dreams Burn Down/Nowhere

LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down/Sound of Silver

Spoon - All the Negatives/Live on KTRU 1997

Chastity - Negative With Reason to Be/Death Lust

Golden Gurls - Double Negatives/Typo Magic

Look, things may suck out there but LISTEN TO THIS NOW.

Stuck In Thee Garage #489: August 18, 2023

When you look back at your childhood, there's a tendency to think that it was a simpler time. Maybe so, but for a lot of people, being a kid was no picnic. Childhood can be difficult and painful, and it can also contain many good memories. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about kids in hour 2 (in addition to some great new songs in hour 1). Sadly, nothing by Coal Chamber, though.

This playlist slaps:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Drop Nineteens - Scapa Flow/Hard Light

Film School - Tape Rewind/Field

Ghost of Vroom - Still Getting It Done/Ghost of Vroom 3

The 3 Clubmen - Aviatrix/The 3 Clubmen

Upper Wilds - Short Centuries/Jupiter

Spiral Dub - Switch Your Head Off/Spiral Dub

Crossed Wires - Good Guy/Ellipsis

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Clearing of the Land/August 2023 Bandcamp EP

Chris Farren - Screensaver/Doom Singer

M.A.G.S. - Red Sky/Destroyer

Ex-Hyena & Control I'm Here - Narciss/ Tangled/Narciss/Afterhours

My Heart, An Inverted Flame - The Ever-Expansion/Zum Audio, Vol. 5

Teenage Wrist - Cold Case/Still Love

Mutoid Man - Siren Song/Mutants

Hour 2: Kids

Jarvis Cocker - Fat Children/Jarvis

Grinderman - Heathen Child/Grinderman 2

Ride - The Kids Are Alright/Daytripping in Brighton 3/12/93 (bootleg)

PUP - Kids/Morbid Stuff

Dream Wife - Kids/Dream Wife

Ron Gallo - Put the Kids to Bed/Heavy Meta

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

Aerosmith - Last Child/Rocks

Run the Jewels - Hey Kids (Bumaye) (feat. Danny Brown)/RTJ3

The Gutter Twins - God's Children/Saturnalia

Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave/Master of Reality

Buffalo Tom - The Kids Just Sleep/Skins

Near Beer - Card Shark Kids/Sleeping is for Suckers

Hot Snakes - I Hate the Kids/Suicide Invoice

Superchunk - Staying Home/I Hate Music

Hey man, is that Stuck In Thee Garage? Well, TURN IT UP, MAN.

Completely Conspicuous 620: No One Knows

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 2002. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Phil's #5: Coldplay's second album turned them into superstars
• Jay's #5: Spoon returns to an indie and begins a long stretch of excellence
• Phil's and Jay's #4: Strong release from the Tragically Hip highlights their varied strengths
• Phil's #2: The last great Foo Fighters album caused a lot of turmoil for the band
• Jay's #3 and Phil's #1: Beck with another sad bastard folk-rock masterpiece
• Jay's #2: Killer debut from Interpol was part of the hot NYC scene of the early '00s
• It's hard for some bands to live up to a great first album
• Phil's #3 and Jay's #1: Queens of the Stone Age reaches new heights with help from Dave Grohl on drums
• Favorite songs: "No One Knows" (Jay), "End of the Day" (Phil)

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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 #488: August 11, 2023

Once you get to a certain point in your life, it's common to think that something that happened a long time ago feels like it took place much more recently. The years tend to blur together after a while. Fortunately, the music of the time is a great way to bring you right back. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1993 in hour 2 (as well as a ton of great new music in hour 1).

This playlist is so cool:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

M.A.G.S. - Elephant/Destroyer

Chris Farren - Cosmic Leash/Doom Singer

Spiral Dub - And More and More Again/Spiral Dub

Pardoner - Cruel Gun/Peace Loving People

Bad History Month - Breakdown Lane/True Delusion

Ex-Hyena & Control I'm Here - Tangled Up/Single

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Inwards/August 2023 Bandcamp EP

Crossed Wires - Looped/Ellipsis

Teenage Wrist - Dark Sky (feat. SA Martinez)/Still Love

Mutoid Man - Call of the Void/Mutants

Palehound - Independence Day/Eye On the Bat

Courtney Barnett - Different Now/Single

PJ Harvey - Harder/B-Sides, Demos & Rarities

Snooper - Defect/Super Snooper

Sweeping Promises - Can't Hide It/Good Living is Coming For You

Guided By Voices - Awake Man/Welshpool Frillies

Mac Krol - What Would You Say?/For Some Other Reason

Hour 2: 1993

Urge Overkill - Positive Bleeding/Saturation

Frank Black - Don't Ya Rile 'Em/Frank Black

The Pursuit of Happiness - Bored of You/The Downward Road

Morphine - Buena/Cure For Pain

Soul Asylum - Summer of Drugs/Sweet Relief

Pavement - Unseen Power of the Picket Fence/No Alternative

PJ Harvey - Me-Jane/Rid of Me

Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA/Siamese Dream

Living Colour - Ignorance is Bliss/Stain

Dinosaur Jr. - Start Choppin'/Where You Been

Dinosaur Jr. and Del the Funkee Homosapien - Missing Link/Judgment Night soundtrack

Matthew Sweet - Dinosaur Jr./Altered Beast

The Afghan Whigs - Fountain and Fairfax/Gentlemen

Sugar - Tilted/Beaster

Nirvana - Verse Chorus Verse/No Alternative

Pop the show into yer Walkman RIGHT HEAH!

Completely Conspicuous 619: Do You Realize?

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 2002. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• In 2002, Jay became a first-time dad and didn't get much sleep
  
• Jay turned 35, Phil turned 33
• Phil was newly single, met his current wife
• John Entwistle died the classic rock star death
• Napster officially called it quits after lawsuits
• Owning music is an outdated concept now
• Nickelback had the top song of the year
• Charts had a mixture of nu metal, hip hop and pop
• Phil's non-top 5 albums: Doves, Sleater-Kinney, Flaming Lips, Spoon, Trey Anastasio, Dave Matthews Band, Interpol, Black Keys, Sonic Youth, GBV, Tom Petty, Bowie
• Jay's non-top 5s: McLusky, Hot Snakes, Trail of Dead, Elvis Costello, Broken Social Scene  
• We never saw a lot of the rock videos of this era
• This was the age of the MP3 blog    
• 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 #487: August 4, 2023

James Brown once sang, "It's a man's man's world," but that was 57 years ago. Things have changed, certainly in the world of music. The charts are ruled by women now: Taylor, Beyonce, Adele, etc. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played music by female artists in hour 2, starting off with a tribute to the late great Sinead O'Connor. It's explosive, much like a cherry bomb, I suppose.

This playlist evens it up:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee - Los Angeles (feat. James Murphy)/Los Angeles

The Kills - LA Hex/New York

Code Industry - Crimes Against the People/Structure

Mac Krol - Fair Warning/For Some Other Reason

Guided By Voices - Romeo Surgeon/Welshpool Frillies

Low Praise - Angela/Dressing

Geese - Mysterious Love/3D Country

Squid - Green Light/O Monolith

A. Savage - Thanksgiving Parade/Single

Annie Hart - Stop Staring at You/The Weight of a Wave

Palehound - My Evil/Eye On the Bat

Rancid - New American/Tomorrow Never Comes

Militarie Gun - Big Disappointment/Life Under the Gun

Snooper - Microbe/Super Snooper

The Pink Spiders - Stoned to the Bone/Freakazoid

Sweeping Promises - Petit Four/Good Living is Coming for You

Protomartyr - Graft vs. Host/Formal Growth in the Desert

Hour 2: Women

The The - Kingdom of Rain (feat. Sinead O'Connor)/Mind Bomb

Sinead O'Connor - I Am Stretched On Your Grave/I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes/I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

PJ Harvey - One Time Too Many/B-Sides, Demos and Rarities

Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener/The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas

Ex Hex - No Reflection/It's Real

Speedy Ortiz - Raising the Skate/Foil Deer

The Breeders - Iris/Pod

St. Vincent - Cheerleader/Strange Mercy

Savages - She Will/Silence Yourself

Sleater-Kinney - You're No Rock 'n Roll Fun/All Hands On the Bad One

Metric - Youth Against Youth/Synthetica

Tracy Bonham - Mother Mother/The Burdens of Being Upright

Kim Gordon - Air Bnb/No Home Record

The things get loud when you CLICK HERE, kids!

Completely Conspicuous 618: You Say It's Your Birthday

Celebrating the podcast's 17th birthday by talking to Amanda Guest about the 10th birthday of the radio station she founded, BFF.fm. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Amanda was last on the podcast 10 years ago talking about moving to SF and launching BFF.fm
• Plenty of surprises along the way
• She was a DJ at the Salem State College (now University) station for 18 years
• Commercial radio was already being automated in the mid-'90s
• Built a studio in the Secret Alley in SF
• A lot of the DJs at BFF now weren't alive when Amanda was DJing in the '90s
• Shorter attention spans: Newer DJs are doing one-hour shows
• Jay has been doing a show for BFF since the station started
• "Where's Koomdogg?"
• Building exposure through a crazy boat DJing gig
• Became a nonprofit in 2015
• Amanda was hired as the GM of the station, now doing it full-time
• Went from dues-based organization to nonprofit
• Allows BFF to fundraise and get grants
• Celebrating the station's 10th birthday with events throughout the city
• Amanda plans to stay involved but wants to retire at some point
• SF went into COVID lockdown early and stayed in it the longest
• Studio had to shut down so BFF enabled DJs to broadcast from home
• Found free space in the SF Ferry Building so were able to broadcast from there
• The future of radio won't get less corporate
• Not a lot of commercial stations for indie music, except for college stations
• Amanda: Big electronic music movement happening in SF
• Looking for new music
• The DJ as curator
• BFF has 120 shows on the schedule, most done live in the studio
• Different approaches to show construction
• Great achievements in song segues
• Jay: Coming up on 500 episodes of the radio show

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.