Friday, April 18, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #576: April 18, 2025

BOOM! Getting off to a good start is important in every industry, but especially in music. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played great album openers in hour 2. They'll help you figure out a way to defuse that bomb before, well, you know.


Quick, pass me that playlist!

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Pulp - Spike Island/More

Stereolab - Aerial Troubles/Instant Holograms on Metal Film

Dean Wareham - The Cloud is Coming/That's the Price of Loving Me

The Bug Club - Have U Ever Been 2 Wales/Single

Rude Television - Nuclear Dome/I Want to Believe

Mekons - Glasgow/Horror

Leatherman - Tryin' 2 4get/Turn You On

Scowl - Not Hell, Not Heaven/Are We All Angels

Bob Mould - Thread So Thin/Here We Go Crazy

The Taxpayers - I Am One Thousand/Circle Breaker

Destroyer - The Ignoramus of Love/Dan's Boogie

Art D'Ecco - Tree of Life/Serene Demon

Squid - Showtime!/Cowards

Pigeon Pit - Dear Johnny/Crazy Arms

The Men - Black Heart Blue/Buyer Beware

Dax Riggs - Even the Stars Fall/7 Songs for Spiders

Charm School - I Wanna Feel It/Debt Forever

Hunger Anthem - Sun/Lift


Hour 2: Openers

R.E.M. - Begin the Begin/Lifes Rich Pageant

The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death/Birth, School, Work, Death

Fugazi - Waiting Room/13 Songs

Mission of Burma - Secrets/Vs.

Sloan - The Good in Everyone/One Chord to Another

Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper/The Midnight Organ Fight

Public Image Ltd. - Happy/9

The Afghan Whigs - Somethin' Hot/1965

Run-DMC - Peter Piper/Raising Hell

A Tribe Called Quest - Excursions/The Low End Theory

Lush - Ladykillers/Lovelife

Elastica - Line Up/Elastica

PJ Harvey - Big Exit/Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Guardian Singles - Chad and Stacey/Feed Me to the Doves

Superchunk - Precision Auto/On the Mouth

Butthole Surfers - Who Was in My Room Last Night?/Independent Worm Saloon

Mclusky - Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues/Mclusky Do Dallas


Open up the playlist and melt yer face off!

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