Stuck In Thee Garage #503: November 24, 2023

There has always been a dual nature of mankind, a balancing act between good and evil. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about good in hour 1 and songs about evil in hour 2. Crank it up as you become one with couch, digesting all that food you just inhaled in a gluttonous frenzy. 

R.I.P., Good Homer:

Hour 1: Good

Artist - Song/Album

Sloan - The Good in Everyone/One Chord to Another

Antarctigo Vespucci - Another Good Thing/Love in the Time of E-mail

Weezer - The Good Life/Pinkerton

PJ Harvey - Good Fortune/Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

Paul Westerberg - Good as the Cat/PW & the Ghost Gloves Cat Wing Joy Boys

Ty Segall - Feel Good/Harmonizer

Mission of Burma - Good Cheer/The Sound, the Speed, the Light

Sugar - A Good Idea/Copper Blue

Mudhoney - Good Enough/Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer/Rated R

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc./Demon Days

Beastie Boys - Finger Lickin' Good/Check Your Head

The Feelies - The Good Earth/The Good Earth

David Lee Roth - Damn Good/Skyscraper

Triumph - Fight the Good Fight/Allied Forces

Hour 2: Evil

Grinderman - Evil!/Grinderman 2

Pardoner - Totally Evil Powers/Came Down Different

Savages - Evil/Adore Life

Palehound - My Evil/Eye on the Bat

Jonny Polonsky - Evil Scurvy Love/Hi My Name is Jonny

Brendan Benson - Evil Eyes/Dear Life

Black Sabbath - Evil Woman/Black Sabbath

Fu Manchu - Evil Eye/The Action is Go!

Metallica - Am I Evil?/Garage Days Re-Revisited

Japandroids - Evil's Sway/Celebration Rock

My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges/Evil Urges

The Dirty Nil - Evil Side/Master Volume

Yves Tumor - Fear Evil Like Fire/Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume

Lightouts - Evil Hearted/Wake

Television - See No Evil/Marquee Moon

C'mon, you know you want to crank up the show RIGHT HERE.

Stuck In Thee Garage #502: November 17, 2023

What comes up must go down. The law of gravity is simple and real. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about gravity in hour 2. Yippie-ky-yay, motherfarmers. 

 The swingin' playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Hotline TNT - History Channel/Cartwheel

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Dilemma Us From Evil/Fronzoli

Marnie Stern - Til It's Over/The Comeback Kid

Wire Spine - Safe/Single

Ian Sweet - Your Spit/Single

Swamp Wife - Spit/Swamp Wife

Sheer Mag - All Lined Up/Single

It Thing - P.C.H./ Constant State/P.C.H.

The Kills - Bullet Sound/God Games

Ill Peach - Hush/This Is Not an Exit

Juliana Hatfield - Telephone Line/Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO

Lightheaded - Orange Creamsicle Head/Good Good Great

Drop Nineteens - A Hatch/Hard Light

Teenage Fanclub - Foreign Land/Nothing Lasts Forever

Slow Pulp - Worm/Yard

Kurt Vile - Another Good Year For the Roses/Back to Moon Beach

Hour 2: Gravity

R.E.M. - Feeling Gravitys Pull/Fables of the Reconstruction

Pylon - Gravity/Live

Versus - Gravity/Ex Voto

Frank Black - Two Spaces/Frank Black

Max Webster - Gravity/High Class in Borrowed Shoes

Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything/The Moon and Antarctica

Husker Du - Gravity/Savage Young Du

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Gravity/X: The Godless Void and Other Stories

Queens of the Stone Age - The Sky is Fallin'/Songs For the Deaf

Quasi - Gravity/Breaking the Balls of History

Drive-By Truckers - Gravity's Gone/A Blessing and a Curse

Yo La Tengo - Center of Gravity/I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

Radiohead - High and Dry/The Bends

Protomartyr - Tarpeian Rock/Under Color of Official Right

Black Sabbath - Falling Off the Edge of the World/The Mob Rules

Drop the digital needle on the show RIGHT HERE!

Stuck In Thee Garage #501: November 10, 2023

Big cities get all the glory, but small towns can be pretty interesting. You know, in a Twin Peaks or Blue Velvet kinda way. You never know what's going on underneath that small-town exterior. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about towns in hour 2. Grab a lemonade and listen in.

I was cranking up the playlist the other day...

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Drop Nineteens - Tarantula/Hard Light

It Thing - Constant State/ Constant State/PCH

Slothurst - Pony/I Promise EP

Marnie Stern - Plain Speak/The Comeback Kid

The Kills - Wasterpiece/God Games

Superchunk - Oh Oh I Love Her So (live) (feat. Eleanor Friedberger)/Misfits & Mistakes: Singles, B-sides & Strays 2007-2023

Mannequin Pussy - I Don't Know You/I Got Heaven

The Mountain Goats - Only One Way/Jenny From Thebes

Boygenius - Powers/The Rest EP

The Menzingers - Try/Some of It Was True

Genesis Owusu - Balthazar/Struggler

Daiistar - Parallel/Good Time

Spiral Dub - Hang From the Line/Spiral Dub

The Feelies - White Light/White Heat /Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground

Eldridge Rodriguez - Take Yr Time/Atrophy

Lightheaded - Patti Girl/Good Good Great

Juliana Hatfield - Don't Bring Me Down/Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO

Hour 2: Townie

The Jam - Town Called Malice/The Gift

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Dirty Old Town/Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead

Daniel Romano - Animals Above Our Town/Cobra Poems

Velocity Girl - Crazy Town/Live at Vermonstress October 1992

Japandroids - The Boys Are Leaving Town/Post-Nothing

Firehose - O'er the Town of Pedro/Flyin' the Flannel

Palehound - In Town/Black Friday

Elliott Smith - Alphabet Town/Elliott Smith

Ty Segall & White Fence - Please Don't Leave This Town/Joy

Cursive - Black Hole Town/Get Fixed

Piebald - Small Town Outside of Boston/When Life Hands You Lemons

The Afghan Whigs - Going to Town/Black Love

April Wine - All Over Town/Nature of the Beast

Motley Crue - Toast of the Town/Too Fast For Love

Ween - Chocolate Town/Quebec

A.C. Newman - The Town Halo/The Slow Wonder

Talking Heads - Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town/Talking Heads '77

Put another dime in the jukebox and CRANK IT UP.

Completely Conspicuous 626: Entertain

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 2005. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Jay's #5 and Phil's #4: New Pornographers with another all-star power pop classic
• Phil's #5: Early '70s singer-songwriter jams from Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
• Still in the era of artists putting out overlong albums
• Jay's #3: Spoon expands their sound, grows their popularity
• Phil's #3: A powerful R&B belter from Sharon Jones
• Jay's #2: Queens of the Stone Age with a punchy follow-up to a monster hit
• Phil's #2: Beck with an Odelay-esque release with a nod to Latin music
• Phil's #1 and Jay's #4: Sleater-Kinney drops a monster rock album 
• Jay's #1: Another winner from The Hold Steady, blending big riffs and nerdy scenester tales
• Jay makes a Rush joke
• Favorite songs: "Jumpers" (Phil), "Your Little Hoodrat Friend" (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 #500: November 3, 2023

Confidence isn't easy. Not everyone has it, and not everyone can pull it off. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I celebrated 500 episodes with songs about confidence in hour 2. 

The wicked good playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

IDLES - Dancer/Tankg

Sabatta - Get Over Yourself/How to Get Even

Slothrust - Maybe Maybe/Promise EP

Superchunk - White Screen/Misfits & Mistakes: Singles, B-Sides and Strays 2007-2023

Ducks Ltd. - The Main Thing/Single

The Mountain Goats - Murder at the 18th St. Garage/Jenny From Thebes

Hallelujah the Hills - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight/Puritan Garage Howlers - Covers 2022-23

Sleaford Mods - My 18-Hr Girdle/More UK Grim

The Kills - 103/God Games

Wellwater Conspiracy - Trowerchord/Declaration of Conformity

A Beacon School - Down the Pyramid/Yoyo

A Savage - My My My Dear/Several Songs About Fire

Cherry Glazerr - Sugar/I Don't Want You Anymore

Slow Pulp - Mud/Yard

Kristin Hersh - Thank You, Corner Blight/Clear Pond Road

Wilco - Levee/Cousin

Hour 2: Confident

Run DMC - King of Rock/King of Rock

Run the Jewels - Get It/Run the Jewels

Prince - Baby I'm a Star/Purple Rain

Bobby Brown - My Prerogative/Don't Be Cruel

James Brown - Get Up I Feel Like a Sex Machine Part 1/In Yo Face! The History of Funk, Part 1

The Afghan Whigs - My Enemy/Black Love

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

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Blues X Man/Orange

Boss Hog - Winn Coma/Boss Hog

Van Halen - Unchained/Fair Warning

The Pursuit of Happiness - Nobody But Me/The Downward Road

Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution/Yield

Iggy & the Stooges - Search and Destroy/Raw Power

The Pretenders - Precious/Pretenders

Rancid - Time Bomb/...And Out Come the Wolves

PJ Harvey - 50Ft Queenie/Rid of Me

Crank up the 500th episode of the show RIGHT HERE.

Completely Conspicuous 625: Road to Joy

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 2005. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• In 2005, Jay was dealing with tiny children while Phil was newly married
• Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Pink Floyd briefly reunited
• Jay: Listened to a lot of songs via MP3 blogs
• Jay's non-top 5s: White Stripes, Black Mountain, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Wolf Parade, Against Me!
• Phil's non-top 5s: Sufjan Stevens, Son Volt, Bright Eyes, Neil Young, Trey Anastasio, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Southern Culture on the Skids, North Mississippi All-Stars
• Random cocaine references 
• Wilco with a good live album
• 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.