Stuck In Thee Garage #599: September 26, 2025

You have questions? On Stuck In Thee Garage this week, we have songs that ask questions in hour 2, in addition to new music from GANS, Bass Drum of Death, Wednesday and Guerilla Toss in hour 1. As for answers, well, you're on your own.

Actually, the playlist has all the answers you need:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

GANS - A Fool/Good for the Soul

Bass Drum of Death - Phantom Drip/Six

Geese - 100 Horses/Getting Killed

Wednesday - Townies/Bleeds

Guerilla Toss - Krystal Ball/You're Weird Now

Selve - Strange Romance/Breaking Into Heaven

Bloom Effect - Hide/Oscilon

Halloween - Crown/Shadow House

Gouwzee - I Teach Frankenstein/Gouwzee

Shame - After Party/Cutthroat

The Hives - Paint a Picture/The Hives Forever Forever the Hives

Algernon Cadwallader - Shameless Faces (Even the Guy That Made the Thing Was a Piece of Shit)/Trying Not to Have a Thought

The Beths - Ark of the Covenant/Straight Line Was a Lie

Superchunk - Care Less/Songs in the Key of Yikes

Emerald Comets - Queen of Waves/Dreamnight

Chemical - T.A.O./Chemical

Hour 2: Questions

Living Colour - Who Shot Ya/Shade

PJ Harvey - Who the Fuck?/Uh Huh Her

Mudhoney - Who You Drivin' Now?/Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Flaming Lips - Are You a Hypnotist??/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

The Big Sleep - Are You Ready (For Love)?/Son of the Tiger

The Dears - Who Are You, Defenders of the Universe/No Cities Left

Talking Heads - Who Is It?/Talking Heads '77

Bodega - How Did This Happen?/Endless Scroll

Fishbone - ? (Modern Industry)/Fishbone

Wolf Parade - Who Are Ya/Cry Cry Cry

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Who Do You Love?/Living With the Living

Sloan - Who Loves Life More?/Action Pact

Mannequin Pussy - Who Are You/Patience

Diet Cig - Who Are You/Do You Wonder About Me?

Black Sabbath - Who Are You?/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

David Lee Roth - Ladies' Nite in Buffalo?/Eat 'Em and Smile

Perhaps you can crank up the rock here? 

Completely Conspicuous 662: Songs We Hate to Love

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about songs we hate to love. Listen to the episode below (download directly or right click and "save as"). 

Show notes:

• Surprised at how good the Who were in concert despite their advanced age
• Songs we hate to love, not necessarily guilty pleasures
• Things we were embarrassed to say we liked when we were in school
• Most of our picks were from when we were kids
• Jay: I liked hard rock and metal and would never admit I liked poppier stuff like Duran Duran
• Jay: In doing research, I discovered there was a "rock" version of the Lord's Prayer that was a minor hit in 1973
• Phil: ABBA wrote some pop classics
• When REO Speedwagon had that one huge album
• AOR was huge in the early '80s
• Jay: I loved KISS's disco song, but never got into the band
• Phil: Listened to a lot of Manilow as a kid
• Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" captured that swinging '60s vibe
• The pop goodness of the Association
• Phil: The band Boston has been played to death in these parts, but they had their moment
• Controversial choice: Phil likes the worst Genesis song
• Dumb song, dumb video
• When Eddie Murphy became a pop star
• Phil also likes Crazytown's hit
• Released at the height of nu metal/rap rock
• Jay: Begrudgingly liked Animotion's big hit
• First album Jay had as a kid was by Glen Campbell
• Campbell wasn't a typical country singer
• Jay: Got into some of Paul Simon's mid-70s solo work
• Getting into early Loverboy deep cuts
• Billy Joel wrote a lot of bad songs, but a few good ones
• Jay: Always a big fan of "Rump Shaker"
• ABC was good at the foppish synth pop
• Jay: I hate everything about Smash Mouth except their first single
• Totally dig one George Michael song above all others
• Late '70s pop blast from M
• Foreigner struck gold with catchy rock jams
• To be continued

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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 #598: September 19, 2025

The world is full of trickery. Liars, con artists, people trying to pull one over on someone else. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Gouwzee, Tigersin Cairo and Yawn Mower in hour 1 and songs about trickery in hour 2. It's going for the long con.

This playlist is on the grift:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Gouwzee - Rude Student/Gouwzee

Shame - Cowards Around/Cutthroat

The Hives - Legalize Living/The Hives Forever Forever the Hives

Algernon Cadwallader - noitanitsarcorP/Trying Not to Have a Thought

Duncan Lloyd - Lightning Bottle/Unwound

Yawn Mower - Rascal/Just Can't Wait to Die

Tigers in Cairo - My Saving Face/Single

Chemical - Rookie of the Year/Chemical

Dead Tooth - Bare Bones/Dead Tooth

Viagra Boys - The Bog Body/Viagr Aboys

PUP - Shut Up/Who Will Look After the Dogs?

Mclusky - Juan Party System/The World is Still Here and So Are We

Civic - Amissus/Chrome Dipped

Coffin Prick - Shortly Forgotten Pleasure/Lost Enchantment

Hallelujah the Hills - Hits Get Hard (9 of Spades)/DECK: Spades

Pulp - Slow Jam/More

Hour 2: Trickery

Helium - Pat's Trick/The Dirt of Luck

King Khan - Fool Like Me/Three Hairs and You're Mine

Superchunk - Like a Fool/Foolish

Nadine Shah - Fool/Fast Food

Ozzy Osbourne - Fool Like You/The Ultimate Sin

Judas Priest - Deceiver/Sad Wings of Destiny

Van Halen - Fools/Women and Children First

Rollins Band - Fool/Weight

The Jesus Lizard - Monkey Trick/Goat

Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster/The Eternal

Run DMC - It's Tricky/Raising Hell

Jack White - What's the Trick?/Fear of the Dawn

Dead Meadow - The Great Deceiver/Old Growth

Mad Season - River of Deceit/Live at the Moore, Seattle 4/29/95

No fooling: Here's the playlist!

Stuck In Thee Garage #597: September 12, 2025

The further we get away from the '90s, the quainter they seem. But there was a lot of cool stuff going on. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I kept things modern in hour 1 with new music from Shame, Algernon Cadwallader and Emerald Comets and then went retro with songs from 1995 in hour 2. It brings the heat!

This playlist is over the top like Pacino:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Shame - Cutthroat/Cutthroat

Algernon Cadwallader - Hawk/Trying Not to Have a Thought

Emerald Comets - Dreamnight/Dreamnight

Coffin Prick - Spy vs. Spy/Loose Enchantment

Duncan Lloyd - Gothic Pill/Unwound

The Hives - Enough is Enough/The Hives Forever Forever the Hives

Spoon - Guess I'm Fallin' in Love/Single

The Beths - Take/Straight Line Was a Lie

Humour - Die Rich/Learning Greek

Yawn Mower - Speedboat!/I Just Can't Wait to Die

Superchunk - Climb the Walls/Songs in the Key of Yikes

Lifeguard - Under Your Reach/Ripped and Torn

Ty Segall - The Big Day/Possession

Tropical Fuck Storm - Dunning Kruger's Loser Cruiser/Fairyland Codex

Subsonic Eye - Why Am I Here/Singapore Dreaming

Illuminati Hotties - 777/Nickel on the Fountain Floor

Hour 2: 1995

The Amps - Tipp City/Pacer

Boss Hog - Punkture/Boss Hog

PJ Harvey - C'mon Billy/To Bring You My Love

Jawbreaker - I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both/Dear You

Foo Fighters - Alone + Easy Target/Foo Fighters

Rocket From the Crypt - Burnt Alive/Scream, Dracula, Scream!

Pavement - Fight This Generation/Wowee Zowee

Radiohead - (Nice Dream)/The Bends

Mike Watt - Chinese Firedrill/Ball-Hog or Tugboat?

Matthew Sweet - Walk Out/100% Fun

Rancid - You Don't Care Nothin'/...And Out Come the Wolves

The Pursuit of Happiness - Save the Whales/Where's the Bone

Neil Young - I'm the Ocean/Mirror Ball

Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay/Electr-o-Pura

Railroad Jerk - Bang the Drum/One Track Mind

Guided By Voices - Motor Away/Alien Lanes

Heat things up by cranking the playlist RIGHT HERE, holmes.

Stuck In Thee Garage #596: September 5, 2025

When you become an adult, you tend not to get too excited about birthdays because they signify getting a year older. But dammit, they're still a big deal. This week, I celebrated Stuck In Thee Garage's 12th birthday (along with the station, BFF.fm) with two hours of rock goodies, including new music from Spoon, the Hives, the Beths and Sloan in hour 1 and songs about buildings and architecture in hour 2. It's enough to make you want to call the Ghostbusters (in a good way).

Unwrap the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Spoon - Chateau Blues/Single

Sloan - No Damn Fears/Based on the Best Seller

The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever the Hives/The Hives Forever Forever the Hives

The Beths - No Joy/Straight Line Was a Lie

Duncan Lloyd - Laugh So Loud/Unwound

Absolute Losers - In the Crowd/In the Crowd

Superchunk - Everybody Dies/Songs in the Key of Yikes

The Warlocks - A Duel Between You and I/The Manic Excessive Sounds of

Pile - A Loosened Knot/Sunshine and Balance Beams

Chemical - Eurotrash/Chemical

Shaki Tavi - Peeler/Minor Slip

Osees - Infected Chrome/Abomination Revealed at Last

Alexei Shishkin - Ode to Carl Dennis/Good Times

Coffin Prick - Follow You Where You're Talking/Loose Enchantment

Autocamper - Linnean/What Do You Do All Day?

Dead Tooth - Hollywood Carradine/Dead Tooth

Hour 2: Buildings and architecture

Los Campesinos! - There Are Listed Buildings/Romance is Boring

Kids On a Crime Spree - Karl Kardel Building/Fall in Love Not in Line

Generationals - Beggars in the House of Plenty/State Dogs: Singles (2017-18)

Redd Kross - Bubblegum Factory/Third Eye

The Dead Weather - Bone House/Horehound

Michael Penn - Big House/March

Commodores - Brick House/Commodores

Gang of Four - It's Her Factory/At Home He's a Tourist

LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk is Playing at My House/LCD Soundsystem

The Rolling Stones - Factory Girl/Beggars Banquet

Drive-By Truckers - Life in the Factory/Southern Rock Opera

Pardoner - Hammer Factory/Came Down Different

The Stooges - Fun House/Fun House

R.E.M. - Disturbance at the Heron House/Document

The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers/Brill Bruisers

Talking Heads - Don't Worry About the Government/Talking Heads '77

Blow out the candles and crank up the playlist here!