Friday, September 29, 2023

Stuck In Thee Garage #495: September 29, 2023

Ah, the '80s. Life was very different then. Technology was primitive compared to today. The California Raisins became pop stars. The Ford Escort was the top-selling car. CDs outsold vinyl for the first time. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1988 in hour 2. It's weird that they came out 35 years ago, but not as weird as the fact that OJ Simpson was considered a likeable comic actor in 1988.


 

This playlist is from the files of Police Squad:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Pile - Scaling Walls/Hot Air Balloon EP

Radar Peak - Butane Glow/Single

Blue Ocean - Elated Prose/Fertile State

The Replacements - Bastards of Young (Ed Stasium mix)/Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)

The Breeders - Divine Mascis/Last Splash (30th Anniversary Edition)

Wellwater Conspiracy - Late Night (feat. Josh Homme)/Declaration of Conformity

Eldridge Rodriguez - Casual Jesus/Atrophy

Teenage Fanclub - Foreign Land/Nothing Lasts Forever

Swansea Sound - I Don't Like Men in Uniform/Twentieth Century

Jeff Rosenstock - Will U Still U/Hellmode

Slowdive - Alife/Everything is Alive

Speedy Ortiz - Ballad of Y&S/Rabbit Rabbit

Sparklehorse - Evening Star Supercharger/Bird Machine

McLusky - The Digger You Deep / Unpopular Parts of a Pig/The Digger You Deep

Sabatta - Get Your Shit Together/How to Get Even

Genesis Owusu - Old Man/Struggler


Hour 2: 1988

The Feelies - Deep Fascination/Only Life

The Church - Reptile/Starfish

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

The Godfathers - Cause I Said So/Birth, School, Work, Death

Living Colour - Memories Can't Wait/Vivid

Eric B. & Rakim - I Ain't No Joke/Paid in Full

Public Enemy - Louder Than a Bomb/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Pixies - Break My Body/Surfer Rosa

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

Mudhoney - In 'n Out of Love/Superfuzz Bigmuff

Soundgarden - Flower/Ultramega OK

Dinosaur Jr. - Let It Ride/Bug

Soul Asylum - Sometime to Return/Hang Time

Sonic Youth - The Sprawl/Daydream Nation

Fishbone - Subliminal Fascism/Truth and Soul


Yo, crank the digital boombox HERE, holmes.

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