Friday, December 29, 2023

Stuck In Thee Garage #508: December 29, 2023

With only a few days left in the year, I'm using this week to reflect on 2023. Some highs and some really low lows, but there was definitely a lot of good music to go around. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, it's part 1 of my look back at my favorite music of the year. And in case there is any doubt, I am the eldest boy.


The playlist of succession:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Bully - Days Move Slow/Lucky For You

Screaming Females - Desert Train/Desire Pathway

Ron Gallo - Entitled Man/Foreground Music

The New Pornographers - Really Really Light/Continue as a Guest

Quasi - Nowheresville/Breaking the Balls of History

Yo La Tengo - Sinatra Drive Breakdown/This Stupid World

Sleaford Mods - UK Grim/UK Grim

Pile - Loops/All Fiction

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

Quiz Show - Almost Famous/Quiz Show

Geese - Cowboy Nudes/3D Country

Yves Tumor - God is a Circle/Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume

Eyelids - They Said So/A Colossal Waste of Light

Near Beer - Forced Perspective/Single

Washer - Threadbare/Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends


Hour 2

The Hold Steady - Sixers/The Price of Progress

The Country Westerns - Knucklen'/Forgive the City

Gord Downie and Bob Rock - In the Field/Lustre Parfait

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Death Wish/Weathervanes

Shame - Six-Pack/Food For Worms

Mudhoney - Move Under/Plastic Eternity

The Dirty Nil - Nicer Guy/Free Rein to Passions

Boygenius - $20/The Record

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

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

Blur - The Narcissist/The Ballad of Darren

Dyr Faser - Symbolized/Karmic Revenge

Cable Ties - Time For You/All Her Plans

Iguana Death Cult - Pushermen/Echo Palace

Low Praise - Gate/Dressing

Guardian Singles - Manic Attraction/Feed Me to the Doves

Fucked Up - I Think I Might Be Weird/One Day

Model/Actriz - Pure Mode/Dogsbody

Protomartyr - For Tomorrow/Formal Growth in the Desert


Put a theoretical dime in the jukebox HERE, home slice.

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