Stuck In Thee Garage #595: August 29, 2025

Lights, camera, action! This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Absolute Losers, Superchunk and Yawn Mower and a tribute to the late Brent Hinds in hour 1, followed by songs from an imaginary movie soundtrack in hour 2. Even sounds good when you watch it on TV.

Watch out for hippies:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Mastodon - March of the Fire Ants/Remission

Mastodon - Oblivion/Crack the Skye

Mastodon - The Motherload/Once More 'Round the Sun

Absolute Losers - At the Same Time/In the Crowd

Superchunk - No Hope/Songs in the Key of Yikes

The K's - Rat Poison/Pretty on the Internet

Yawn Mower - New Years at the Airport/I Just Can't Wait to Die

Chemical - Ritual Protocol/Chemical

Getdown Services - James Bay's Hat/Primordial Slot Machine

Humour - Plagiarist/Learning Greek

Shaki Tavi - Trees/Minor Slip

The Warlocks - Stars on Sunset/The Manic Excessive Sounds of

Pile - An Opening/Sunshine and Balance Beams

Osees - Coffin Wax/Abomination Revealed at Last

Titus Andronicus - Fatal Flaw/The Worst of My Birthdays: Live in Brooklyn 7/28/15

Hour 2: Soundtrack to an imaginary movie

Van Halen - D.O.A./Van Halen II

Halford - The One You Love to Hate (feat. Bruce Dickinson)/Resurrection

Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules/Mob Rules

Tony Molina - The Way Things Are/Dissed and Dismissed

Frank Black and Teenage Fanclub - The Man Who Was Too Loud/The John Peel Session EP

Silkworm - Dust My Broom/In the West

Lene Lovich - New Toy/New Toy EP

Uncle Tupelo - Gun/Still Feel Gone

Urge Overkill - The Break/Exit the Dragon

Gerry Rafferty - Right Down the Line/City to City

Elliott Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing/ Either/Or

Magnolia Electric Co. - The Dark Don't Hide It/What Comes After the Blues

Silver Jews - Send in The Clouds/American Water

Oceanator - The Last Summer/Nothing's Ever Fine

Pere Ubu - Street Waves/The Modern Dance

Coaches - That Not This/Shush

Let's all go to the lobby and crank up the playlist!

Stuck In Thee Garage #594: August 22, 2025

Memory can be a tricky thing. Sometimes you can trust it, sometimes you can't. One thing you can trust is that this week's installment of Stuck In Thee Garage, featuring songs about memory in hour 2, is pretty kickass. This is the case even if you're an Innie carrying balloons down an endless corporate hallway.

 

This playlist has been severed:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

IDLES - Rabbit Run/Caught Stealing soundtrack

Osees - Sneaker/Abomination Revealed at Last

Pile - Deep Clay/Sunshine and Balance Beams

Getdown Services - Dog Dribble/Primordial Slot Machines

Humour - Neighbours/Learning Greek

Chemical - Subliminal Arrow/Chemical

The K's - The Bends (Here We Go Again)/Pretty on the Internet

Shaki Tavi - Lip/Minor Slip

Dead Tooth - Jack Dawson/Dead Tooth

Mal Blum - I'm So Bored/The Villain

Tiberius - It Has to Be True/Troubadour

The Warlocks - We Are All Lost/The Manic Excessive Sounds of

Daniel Romano - (Gone Is) All But a Quarry of Stone/Live in Oslo

Titus Andronicus - Bastards of Young (feat. Craig Finn)/The Worst of My Birthdays: Live in Brooklyn 7/28/15

Hour 2: Memory

Public Image Ltd. - Memories/Second Edition

Restorations - This Guy Does Not Remember You/Restorations

Hallelujah the Hills - I Remember This (King of Clubs)/DECK: Clubs

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Memory Lane/Primary Colours

Yo La Tengo - Can't Forget/Fakebook

Mission of Burma - Forget/Vs.

Green River - Baby, Help Me Forget/Live at Sunset Tavern, Seattle 7/10/08

Mini Mansions - Forget Your Name/Guy Walks Into a Bar...

Mike Krol - Wasted Memory/Power Chords

Washer - Forget Everything/All Aboard

TUNS - My Memories/Duly Noted

The Flashing Lights - The Patient You Forgot to See/Where the Change Is

The Dambuilders - I Forget Myself/Ruby Red

Dinosaur Jr. - Forget the Swan/Dinosaur

Soundgarden - Tears to Forget/Screaming Life

Hot Snakes - Gar Forgets His Insulin/Suicide Invoice

Iron Maiden - Remember Tomorrow (live)/Best of the B-Sides

Marnie Stern - Working Memory/The Comeback Kid

Get on that elevator and crank up the rock!

Stuck In Thee Garage #593: August 15, 2025

Radio shows are all about programming, picking just the right music to go together in a cohesive package. But sometimes it's fun to let chaos reign. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played two hours of songs picked at random and if I do say so myself, it's a pretty great and varied show. Kinda like that time Conan whipped up some meth for the Breaking Bad folks.

Mix it up good:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Black Halos - Disbelief/We Are Not Alone

Protomartyr - You Always Win (feat. Kelley Deal)/Consolation EP

The Heavy - No Time/The House That Dirt Built

Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather (live 5/5/84)/Defenders of the Faith 30th Anniversary Edition

Fu Manchu - Moving in Stereo/We Must Obey

The Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me/Time Won't Let Me

The Breeders - Sinister Foxx/Title TK

Blues Magoos - (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet/Psychedelic Lollipop

Bob Mould - Little Glass Pill/Beauty & Ruin

The Faces - You're So Rude/A Nod is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse

Thalia Zedek - Cranes/Perfect Vision

The Comfies - That's What She Gets/Close to Me

The Afghan Whigs - Algiers/Live at the Barby 2/24/15

Husker Du - She Floated Away/Warehouse Rehearsals 8/5/86

Courtney Barnett - Aqua Profunda!/Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit

Tricky Woo - Sad Eyed Woman/Sometimes I Cry

Hour 2

Solids - Wait It Out/Else

Ty Segall - Lone Cowboys/First Taste

The Gun Club - She's Like Heroin to Me/Fire of Love

Palm - You Are What Eats You/Trading Basics

Deer Tick - Forgiving Ties/Emotional Contracts

Mark Lanegan - Down in the Dark/The Winding Sheet

The Harbinger Complex - I Think I'm Down/Single

Spoon vs. Adrian Sherwood - The Devil & Mister Jones (Adrian Sherwood Reconstruction)/Lucifer on the Moon vs. On-U-Sound

Andrew Bird - Yawny and the Apocalypse/Armchair Apocrypha

Sports Team - Margate/Making Hay EP

Gordon Downie - Chancellor/Coke Machine Glow

Savak - Christo's Peers (Soon We'll Be Floating)/Cut Ups

Jay-Z - Politics as Usual/Reasonable Doubt

King Khan and the Shrines - No Regrets/The Supreme Genius of...

Minutemen - Political Nightmare/3-Way Tie for Last

Beck - Gamma Ray/Modern Guilt

Shuffle your way to rock glory with the playlist, dood!

Stuck In Thee Garage #592: August 8, 2025

Disasters happen. Here, there and everywhere. Whether it's insane weather events or unimaginable accidents, disasters are lurking around every corner. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about disasters in hour 2. It'll sink your cruise ship!

The playlist won't sink:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Tiberius - Tag/Troubadour

Autocamper - Again/What Do You Do All Day?

Stereolab - Electrified Teenybop!/Instant Holograms on Metal Film

Dead Tooth - Minds Eye/Dead Tooth

Rye Coalition - Wingwalker/Paid in Full

Lifeguard - Like You'll Lose/Ripped and Torn

Jeff Tweedy - Enough/Twilight Override

Kurt Vile and Luke Roberts - Slow Talkers '22/Classic Love EP

Hallelujah the Hills - Too High to Say Hello (7 of Diamonds)/DECK: Diamonds

Ecce Shnak - Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy (live)/Backroom Sessions

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Out of the Flesh/Trash Classic

Shark? - Skelaeton (Big Opinions)/A Simple Life

Civic - Poison/Chrome Dipped

Wet Leg - Jennifer's Body/Moisturizer

Hotline TNT - Break Right/Raspberry Moon

The Bug Club - The Sound of Communism/Very Human Features

Hour 2: Disasters

The Go Team - T.O.R.N.A.D.O./Rolling Blackouts

Run the Jewels - Holy Calamafuck/RTJ4

Girl Friday - Earthquake/Androgynous Mary

Sebadoh - Fantastic Disaster/Bubble and Scrape

Ben Kweller - Ann Disaster/On My Way

The Von Bondies - Earthquake/Love, Hate and Then There's You

Shudder to Think - Earthquakes Come Home/Pony Express Record

The Besnard Lakes - Disaster/The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse

The Tragically Hip - Nautical Disaster/Day For Night

Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood/Live in Athens 1987

Drive-By Truckers - Tornadoes/The Dirty South

The Smile - Open the Floodgates/A Light for Attracting Attention

Kim Gordon - Earthquake/No Home Record

Alvvays - After the Earthquake/Blue Rev

Diet Cig - Flash Flood/Do You Wonder About Me?

The Dirtbombs - Earthquake Heart/Dangerous Magical Noise

The playlist might just blow up!

 

Completely Conspicuous 661: Shakin' All Over

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Jay: Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust tour in 1973
• Never saw Bowie
• Phil: Grateful Dead's famous Cornell show 5/8/77
• The Holy Grail for Deadheads
• Jay: Canadian art rock weirdos Max Webster in southern Ontario 8/9/79
• Band split up in 1981 as singer-guitarist Kim Mitchell went solo
• Opened for Rush in the U.S. in the mid- to late '70s
• Phil: The Stones at the Boston Garden, 1972
• Jagger and Richards were arrested in Providence and Boston mayor bailed them out in time for the Garden show
• Mick Taylor era was notable
• Jay: Van Halen at Oakland Arena in June 1981
• A few songs were captured on video; VH fans have hoped for more
• Phil: Zeppelin at Berkeley, Calif., September 1971
• Touring before their fourth album was released
• Playing some of their acoustic songs
• Jay: SST legends Husker Du at the Channel in Boston 9/30/84
• In the middle of a killer stretch of albums; this one was for Zen Arcade
• Two classic albums were released the next year
• Phil: Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East in 1971 
• Original lineup including Duane Allman
• Jay and Phil: The Who live at University of Leeds on Valentine's Day 1970
• Played a show at Hull the following night
• We're going to see the Who at Fenway later this month
• Band was at the literal peak of their powers
• First release of Live at Leeds was only six songs
• Longer versions have come out; full set was 33 songs
• No video of this show unfortunately

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #591: August 1, 2025

Things were interesting in 1980. Coming out of the '70s, everything seemed so shiny and new and exciting, even if they really weren't. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I've got songs from 1980 in hour 2 (following an hour of new music from Nine Inch Nails, Dead Tooth, Tiberius and Autocamper, among others). It'll make you hear things, if you know what I mean.

Danny isn't here, but the playlist is:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me to Be/Tron: Ares soundtrack

Dead Tooth - You Never Do Shit/Dead Tooth

Rye Coalition - Bullet Train to Vegas/Paid in Full

Tiberius - Sag/Troubadour

Autocamper - Map Like a Leaf/What Do You Do All Day?

Daniel Romano - Long Mirror of Time/Live in Oslo

Turnstile - Dull/Never Enough

Kurt Vile & Luke Roberts - Hit of the Highlife/Classic Love EP

Sly & the Family Stone - I Ain't Got Nobody/The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967

Mal Blum - Cool Guy/The Villain

Wet Leg - Don't Speak/Moisturizer

Subsonic Eye - My iPhone Screen/Singapore Dreaming

Momma - Ohio All the Time/Welcome to My Blue Sky

(T-T)b - The Kick/Beautiful Extension Cord

The Convenience - Cafe Style/Like Cartoon Vampires

TVOD - Wells Fargo/Party Time

Pretty Rude - Call Me, Ishmael/Ripe

Hour 2: 1980

Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song/Signals, Calls and Marches

X - The Unheard Music/Los Angeles

The Feelies - Moscow Nights/Crazy Rhythms

Joy Division - Twenty-Four Hours/Closer

David Bowie - When You're Young/Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

The Clash - Somebody Got Murdered/Sandinista!

The Police - Voices Inside My Head/Zenyatta Mondatta

Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers/Melt

XTC - Respectable Street/Black Sea

Adam and the Ants - Antmusic/Kings of the Wild Frontier

The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom/I Just Can't Stop It

The Cars - Down Boys/Panorama

AC/DC - Shake a Leg/Back in Black

Motorhead - Shoot You in the Back/Ace of Spades

Van Halen - Tora! Tora!/Women and Children First

Van Halen - Loss of Control/Women and Children First

Tony's busy cranking up the playlist, Mrs. Torrance.