Friday, November 10, 2023

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.

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