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.