Stuck In Thee Garage #608: November 28, 2025

Getting together with the family for Thanksgiving can be difficult for some folks. The travel, the food, the emotions, it can all be a bit much. But that's also what makes it great. And then the day after has its own vibe, involving leftovers, drowsiness, TV and general digestion. Today on Stuck In Thee Garage, I celebrated the whole messy holiday with an hour of music about eating and an hour about the aftermath. Listen to it after sharing a meal with the Green Goblin.

The playlist is taking a quick nap:

Hour 1: Eat

Artist - Song/Album

Ovlov - Eat More (demo)/Buds Demos

Getdown Services - Eat Quiche, Sleep, Repeat/Primordial Slot Machine

Bloodshot Bill and King Khan - Nibble the Pie/Tandoori Knights

A. Savage - Thanksgiving Prayer/Several Songs About Fire

They Are Gutting a Body of Water - American Food/Lotto

Titus Andronicus - Food Fight!/Local Business

Stove - Wet Food/Is Stupider

Electric Six - Talking Turkey/Zodiac

Odds - Eat My Brain/Kids in the Hall Brain Candy soundtrack

Thunderbirds Are Now! - Eat This City/Justamoustache

Mexican Slang - Eating Fettucine with Steve Albini/Blush

Destroyer - Eat the Wine, Drink the Bread/Labyrinthitis

Medium Medium - Hungry, So Angry/The Glitterhouse

The Godfathers - Cold Turkey (Live at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago)/Birth, School, Work, Death (bonus track)

The Upper Crust - Let Them Eat Rock (live)/Entitled

Future of the Left - Eating for None/The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left

Motorhead - Eat the Rich/Rock 'n' Roll

Hour 2: The aftermath

Beck - Pay No Mind (Snoozer)/Mellow Gold

Eels - In My Dreams/Hombre Loco

Sloan - I Dream of Sleep/Steady

Broken Social Scene - Big Couches/Let's Try the After

Bethlehem Steel - Couches/Bethlehem Steel

Grand Archives - Torn Blue Foam Couch/The Grand Archives

Franz Ferdinand - Lazy Boy/Always Ascending

Kiwi Jr. - Football Money/Football Money

Colleen Green - TV/I Want to Grow Up

Sports - Reality TV/All of Something

Country Westerns - TV Light/Country Westerns

Jeff Rosenstock - TV Stars/POST-

Black Flag - TV Party/Damaged

Minutemen - There Ain't Shit on TV Tonight/Double Nickels on the Dime

Cheap Trick - The Ballad of TV Violence (I'm Not the Only Boy)/Cheap Trick

Steely Dan - Black Friday/Katy Lied

Faith No More - Black Friday/Sol Invictus

Palehound - Black Friday/Black Friday

Crank up the leftover rock HERE!

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #607: November 21, 2025

There are plenty of things in this world that are overrated, overhyped, oversold. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played a bunch of songs that I feel don't get their due (after playing new music from Big Bill, Curious Volume and Shudder to Think in hour 1). It's pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Larry knows what's up:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Big Bill - The Money Store/Sick Myth

Curious Volume - Try/Nothing is Good

Shudder to Think - Playback/Single

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Manny's Ready to Roll/Pogo Rodeo

The Lemonheads - Marauders/Love Chant

The Dears - Dead Contacts/Life is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful!

Middle Mass - The Room Next to Her/Songs for the Sapphire Hare

Snocaps - Cherry Hard Candy/Snocaps

Wednesday - Candy Breath/Bleeds

Guided By Voices - Replay/Thick Rich and Delicious

Tiberius - Felt/Troubadour

Guerilla Toss - Deep Sight/You're Weird Now

Shame - To and Fro/Cutthroat

Algernon Cadwallader - Revelation 420/Trying Not to Have a Thought

Pile - Holds/Sunshine and Balance Beams

Superchunk - Cue/Songs in the Key of Yikes

Hour 2: Underrated

Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me/International Pop Overthrow

Gigolo Aunts - C'mon C'mon/Minor Chords and Major Themes

Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out/Happiness in Magazines

Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation/Blank Generation

The Buzzcocks - Just Lust/Singles Going Steady

X - We're Desperate/Wild Gift

Thin Lizzy - Waiting for an Alibi/Black Rose: A Rock Legend

Judas Priest - The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)/Hell Bent for Leather

Motley Crue - Take Me to the Top/Too Fast for Love

Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot/Employment

Maritime - Paraphernalia/Human Hearts

The Fiery Furnaces - Restorative Beer/Widow City

Johnny Foreigner - Ghost the Festivals/Grace and the Bigger Picture

The Boomtown Rats - Up All Night/Mondo Bongo

The Cars - Cruiser/Shake It Up

Joe Jackson - Kinda Kute/I'm the Man

Graham Parker - Local Girls/Squeezing Out Sparks

Get yer ya-yas out with the playlist, yo!

Stuck In Thee Garage #606: November 14, 2025

The future ain't all it's cracked up to be. When I was a kid, we were told things would be wondrous and utopian by now, but we're still slogging through the mud, as it were. Oh well, at least we've got cool music. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played hot new jammers from Kiwi Jr., Shudder to Think and The Dears in hour 1 and music about the future in hour 2. It'll make you want to watch a Joe Don Baker movie from 50 years ago. Wait, is that a good thing?

This playlist is as loud as Mitchell's blazer:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Kiwi Jr. - Hard Drive, Ontario/Single

Shudder to Think - Thirst Walk/Single

The Dears - Doom Pays/Life is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful!

Husker Du - Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely (11-3 SLC)/1985: The Miracle Year

Rousers - Party Boy/1979 Sire Session

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Born in the ADs/Pogo Rodeo

White Reaper - Eraser/Only Slightly Empty

Snocaps - Coast/Snocaps

The Belair Lip Bombs - Don't Let Them/Again

Spanish Love Songs - Heavenhead ft. Illuminati Hotties/A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time

Guided By Voices - Phantasmagoric Upstarts/Thick Rich and Delicious

They Are Gutting a Body of Water - RL Stine/Lotto

Jeff Tweedy - No One's Moving/Twilight Override

Militarie Gun - Wake Up and Smile/God Save the Gun

Just Mustard - Silver/We Were Just Here

Ex-Hyena - Details Fade/XX Your Love

Snooper - Pom Pom/Worldwide

Hour 2: The future

John Davis - The Future/Jinx

Jeff Rosenstock - Future is Dumb/Hellmode

Health - Future of Hell/Rat Wars

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Futurephobic/Data Doom

The Bug Club - Living in the Future/Very Human Features

FACS - You Future/Wish Defense

Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien/OK Computer

Telekinesis - In a Future World/Ad Infinitum

Matthew Sweet - Future Shock/In Reverse

Wolf Parade - Fall Into the Future/Thin Mind

The Black Angels - History of the Future/Wilderness of Mirrors

Kal Marks - The Future/My Name is Hell

Future of the Left - Future Child Embarrassment Matrix/How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident

St. Vincent - Fear the Future/Masseduction

Wild Flag - Future Crimes/Wild Flag

Swearin' - Future Hell/Fall Into the Sun

The Beths - Future Me Hates Me/Future Me Hates Me

This playlist is beamin' from the Satellite of Love!

Completely Conspicuous 666: Playing Favorites

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we pick our favorite songs by randomly selected artists. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as"). [NOTE: Something weird is going on with the Libsyn player but the episode definitely exists. You can still download it and it's in all the podcast catchers of choice.]

Show notes:

• More of our favorites from artists picked out of a hat
• Phil: Pretenders
• Overcoming the deaths of half the band
• Jay: James Brown
• Love the '70s funk era
• Prince was able to replicate JB's dance moves in concert
• Phil: Parquet Courts
• Built a great catalog over the last 13 years or so
• Influenced by the late '70s NYC CBGB sound
• Jay: Beatles
• How do you pick a single Beatles song?
• Phil: Sleater-Kinney
• Powerful band
• Janet Weiss is a powerhouse drummer
• Jay: Led Zeppelin
• Favorite song depends on the day
• Phil: Prince
• He could play any style
• Jay: Hoodoo Gurus
• Saw them for the first time last year
• Caught the mid-80s college rock wave
• Phil: The Police
• Ghost in the Machine was one of the first albums Phil ever bought
• Early Police is untouchable
• Jay: The Clash
• Political rock that still holds true today
• Covered a lot of musical ground
• Phil: R.E.M.
• Was introduced to the band by his uncle
• People who jumped off the bandwagon after they went to a major are missing out
• Jay: Elvis Costello
• EC has been all over the map musically, but his lyrics are always on point
• Phil: Squeeze
• Difford and Tilbrook were great songwriters
• Amazing string of classic songs
• Jay: Joe Jackson
• Easy choice 
• The first few albums were outstanding
• Musical chameleon

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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 #605: November 7, 2025

Nobody wants to get old. It just happens. The key is not to act like you're old, or so they tell me. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about getting older in hour 2 (after an hour of new music) and I swear they'll clear up your diabeetus in no time.

This playlist is the right thing to do, and a tasty way to do it:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Middle Mass - Unsettled/Songs for the Sapphire Hare

Courtney Barnett - Stay In Your Lane/Single

Snocaps - Over Our Heads/Snocaps

Sleaford Mods - The Good Life (feat. Gwendoline Christie and Big Special)/The Demise of Planet X

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Salsa Verde/Pogo Rodeo

The Lemonheads - In the Margin/Love Chant

Guided By Voices - (You Can't Go Back to) Oxford Talawanda/Thick Rich and Delicious

Melody's Echo Chamber - Eyes Closed/Unclouded

The Belair Lip Bombs - Hey You/Again

Just Mustard - That I Might Not See/We Were Just Here

Ex-Hyena - Vanishing Edge/XX Your Love

Phantom Wave - Splashed/Echoes Unknown

They Are Gutting a Body of Water - Sour Diesel/Lotto

Militarie Gun - Throw Me Away/God Save the Gun

The Telephone Numbers - Telephone Numbers Theme/Scarecrow II

Steel Beans - Full-Flavored Vibrations/Steel Beans

Sprints - Rage/All That is Over

The Hives - O.C.D.O.D./The Hives Forever Forever the Hives

Hour 2: Older

Genesis Owusu - Old Man/Struggler

The Fall - An Older Lover, Etc./Slates (Live)

Nosferatu D2 - Older, Wiser, Sadder/Older, Wiser, Sadder

Guided By Voices - The Old Grunt/Mag Earwhig!

Catholic Action - Yr Old Dad/Celebrated by Strangers

Boygenius - Letter to an Old Poet/The Record

La Fille - Everyday Feels Like I'm Getting Older/Alright Already

The Clean - Getting Older/Compilation

Spider Bags - My Old Lady/Live on WFMU 6/13/15

Stephen Malkmus - Old Jerry/Pig Lib bonus track

Eels - In My Younger Days/End Times

Wilco - When You Wake Up Feeling Old/Summerteeth

Pulp - Help the Aged/This is Hardcore

Sloan - Dignified and Old/Recorded Live at a Sloan Party

Teenage Fanclub - Older Guys/Thirteen

Bob Mould - Silver Age/Silver Age

Take yer Metamucil and crank up the playlist HERE! 

Completely Conspicuous 665: Choose Your Fighter

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we pick our favorite songs by randomly selected artists. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Phil's idea: Blind rankings
• We each pick 10 artist names out of a hat and name a favorite song for each
• Phil picks names from N-Z, Jay gets A-M
• No prep time for our answers
• Phil: Velvet Underground
• Plenty to choose from
• Trying not to choose popular songs
• Jay: B-52s
• They made the "no play list" at Jay's wedding
• Great catalog of bangers
• Phil: Talking Heads
• Band had different phases
• Mixed Afro rhythms, funk and skronky guitar from Adrian Belew
• New David Byrne album is good
• Jay: Living Colour
• Band played many different styles well
• They still bring the heat
• Phil: Neil Young
• A musical chameleon
• Amazing solo or with Crazy Horse (or other backing bands)
• Jay: Grateful Dead
• Easy choice
• Always had a favorite song by them
• 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.