Friday, February 16, 2024

Stuck In Thee Garage #515: February 16, 2024

What is cool? Who is cool? Who defines what cool is? Beats the hell out of me, but there have been plenty of songs written about coolness over the years. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played a bunch of said songs and the results are, dare I say, pretty darn good. 


This playlist died on its way back to its home planet:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Ducks Ltd. - On Our Way to the Rave/Harm's Way
Arcwelder - Lafayette/Continue
Liquid Mike - Small Giants/Paul Bunyan's Slingshot
Ride - Peace Sign/Interplay
Gustaf - Starting and Staring/Package Pt. 2
Polyrhythmics - Clydesdale/Filter System
Dehd - Mood Ring/Poetry
Shannon & the Clams - The Moon is in the Wrong Place/The Moon is in the Wrong Place
Rick Rude - Winded Whale/Laverne
Guided By Voices - Local Master Airplane/Nowhere to Go But Up
David Nance & Mowed Sound - Mock the Hours/David Nance & Mowed Sound
Waxahatchee - Right Back to It (feat. MJ Lenderman)/Tigers Blood
MJ Lenderman - Hangover Game/And the Wind (Live and Loose!)
J Mascis - Old Friends/What Do We Do Now
Dyr Faser - Two-Headed Monster/Impressions
Health - Crack Metal/Rat Wars
Hit Bargain - True Crime/A Dog A Deer A Seal

Hour 2: Cool
The Stooges - Real Cool Time/The Stooges*
Sugar - Granny Cool/File Under: Easy Listening
Dandelion - Super Cool/Dyslexicon
Lo Tom - Pretty Cool/Lo Tom
Kiwi Jr. - Cooler Returns/Cooler Returns
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The Cool Change/Sideways to New Italy
The Smithereens - Behind the Wall of Sleep/Especially for You
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!/Look Sharp!
Superchunk - Cool/Clambakes Vol. 10: Only in My Dreams - Live From Tokyo 2009
The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You/13 Tales from Urban Bohemia
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey/Psychocandy
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - We Real Cool/Push the Sky Away
Blondie - Atomic/Eat to the Beat
The Nation of Ulysses - Cool Senior High School (Fight Song)/13-Point Program to Destroy America
Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up, Look Sharp/Boy in Da Corner
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing/Goo

*Thanks to a weird MP3 gremlin, this was actually a Green Day song. Ugh.

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