Friday, July 05, 2024

Stuck In Thee Garage #535: July 5, 2024

Hopefully you've emerged from your July 4 celebrations with all your fingers intact. Things are a little iffy right now but I suppose things could always be worse. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about America in hour 2. It's not always pretty, but it's the only America we've got.


This playlist has a solution:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Guided By Voices - Dear Onion/Strut of Kings

The Folk Implosion - OK to Disconnect/Walk Thru Me

MJ Lenderman - Rudolph/Manning Fireworks

Redd Kross - Stunt Queen/Redd Kross

Johnny Foreigner - Orc Damage/The Sky and Sea Were Part of Me (Or I was Part of Them)

Ex-Hyena - Shapeshifter/A Kiss of the Mind

Ekko Astral - Head Empty Blues/Pink Balloons

Sharp Pins - Is It Better/Radio DDR

Buffalo Tom - Rifled Through/Jump Rope

Bodega - City is Taken/Our Brand Could Be Yr Life

Shellac - Scrappers/To All Trains

Cloud Nothings - The Golden Halo/Final Summer

Sonny Vincent and Rocket from the Crypt - Daily Procedure/Vintage Piss

Clone - Immutable/CL.1

Gustaf - Happiest Thought/Package, Pt. 2

Beth Gibbons - Beyond the Sun/Lives Outgrown

Mary Timony - Untame the Tiger/Untame the Tiger


Hour 2: America

Bob Mould - American Crisis/Blue Hearts

The Menzingers - America (You're Freaking Me Out)/Hello Exile

The Nation of Ulysses - The Sound of Young America/13-Point Program to Destroy America

Living Colour - Which Way to America?/Vivid

Motorhead - Stone Deaf in the USA/Rock N' Roll

Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA/Siamese Dream

Prince and the Revolution - America/Around the World in a Day

R.E.M. - Little America/Reckoning

Nick Lowe - American Squirm/Labour of Lust

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America/Boys and Girls in America

Speedy Ortiz - American Horror/Real Hair

The I Don't Cares - King of America/Wild Stab

Iggy Pop - American Valhalla/Post Pop Depression

Pointed Sticks - American Song/Part of the Noise

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Mourning in America/The Brutalist Bricks

Bad Religion - American Jesus/Recipe for Hate


Fire up the rock display HERE, patriots!


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