Friday, August 02, 2024

Stuck In Thee Garage #539: August 2, 2024

Your mom always told you never to talk to strangers and it was good advice. But that didn't stop artists from writing songs about them. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about strangers in hour 2. Of course, sometimes you have to talk to strangers.


This playlist won't make you drive it around L.A. while it kills people:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

John Davis - The Future/Jinx

Art Brut - Good Weekend/Good Weekend

Chime School - Wandering Song/The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel

Fucked Up - Divining Gods/Another Day

Swervedriver - These Times/Doremi Faso Latido

Jerry Cantrell - Vilified/I Want Blood

Oneida - Here It Comes/Expensive Air

Crack Cloud - The Medium/Red Mile

Los Campesinos! - Holy Smoke (2005)/All Hell

ORB - You Do/Tailem Bend

Redd Kross - Stuff/Redd Kross

The Folk Implosion - Crepuscular/Walk Thru Me

Clone - Triage/CL.1

E - Null/Living Waters

Buffalo Tom - The Belle of Borderline Dismay/Jump Rope

Sharp Pins - Lorelei/Radio DDR

Lunchbox - Is This Real?/Pop and Circumstance


Hour 2: Strangers

Pavement - Spit on a Stranger/Terror Twilight

The National - Mistaken for Strangers/Boxer

Bob Mould - Heartbreak a Stranger/Workbook

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Kindness of Strangers/Murder Ballads

Moaning - Stranger/Uneasy Laughter

STRFKR - Dear Stranger/Future Past Life

The Raconteurs - Help Me Stranger/Help Us Stranger

Cheap Trick - Perfect Stranger/Rockford

Japandroids - Lovers/Strangers / No Singles

Dio - Don't Talk to Strangers/Holy Diver

Iron Maiden - Stranger in a Strange Land/Somewhere in Time

St. Vincent - The Strangers/Actor

Albert Hammond Jr. - Stranger/Francis Trouble

The Smithereens - Strangers When We Meet/Especially for You


Stranger danger! Get the rock show HERE, kids!

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