Friday, December 31, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #406: December 31, 2021

Another year has come and gone. They go by quickly the older you get, trust me on that one. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played two hours of my favorite songs of 2021; I'll have two more next week. But as sketchy as this year was at times, there was a lot of good music to enjoy. If you doubt me, just ask ol' Buck here.


Crank this playlist up on your brand new hifi system:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Kiwi Jr. - Domino/Cooler Returns

Mogwai - Richie Sacramento/As the Love Continues

Fuzzed Out - My Own Worst Enemy/Fuzzed Out

Sleaford Mods - Short Cummings/Spare Ribs

Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard/New Long Leg

Sorry - Cigarette Packet/Twixtustwain

Shame - March Day/Drunk Tank Pink

Ex-Hyena - Ultraviolet/Artificial Pulse

Mister Goblin - The Elevator/Four People in an Elevator and One of Them is the Devil

St. Vincent - Pay Your Way in Pain/Daddy's Home

Bachelor - Stay In the Car/Doomin' Sun

Goat Girl - The Crack/On All Fours

Glitterer - Didn't Want It/Life is Not a Lesson

Teenage Wrist - Yellowbelly/Earth is a Black Hole

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - I Hope I Never Fall in Love/Uncommon Weather

The Natvral - New Year's Night/Tethers

Ian Sweet - Dumb Driver/Show Me How You Disappear


Hour 2

The Hold Steady - The Prior Procedure/Open Door Policy

Paul Jacobs - Day to Day/Pink Dogs on the Green Grass

TUNS - We Stand United/Duly Noted

Cloud Nothings - Sound of Alarm/The Shadow I Remember

Dale Crover - Untrue Crime/Rat-a-Tat-Tat!

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - White Elephant/Carnage

Prince - Welcome 2 America/Welcome 2 America

Matthew Sweet - Coming Soon/Catspaw

Fridge Poetry - Lights O&O/Half the Battle

Iceage - Vendetta/Seek Shelter

Squid - Narrator (feat. Martha Skye Murphy)/Bright Green Field

Billy Nomates - Heels/Emergency Telephone

Hand Habits - 4th of July/Dirt

The Dirty Nil - Done With Drugs/Fuck Art

Quicksand - Inversion/Distant Populations

Death From Above 1979 - Mean Streets/Is 4 Lovers


Friday, December 24, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #405: December 24, 2021

Even if you're not big on the religious or commercial parts of the holiday, Christmas is still a pretty huge deal in Western society. After all, hopefully you at least get a few days off from work. Anyhoo, we here at Stuck In Thee Garage like to celebrate each year with two full hours of holiday-themed rock jammers, and this year is no exception. From a gaggle of Boston indie rockers to a mournful classic from LCD Soundsystem to EIGHT glorious minutes of Kurtis Blow ripping it up, this show's got it all. Gather by the tree and crank it up already! Oh, and don't mind Paulie, he's drunk.


What does Paulie get? How about this playlist?

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Sad13 - Shit for Christmas/Simply Having a Wonderful Compilation

Maneka - Santa is a Neocon/Simply Having a Wonderful Compilation

Melkbelly - Hating You for Christmas/Simply Having a Wonderful Compilation

Diet Cig - Happy Holiday/Simply Having a Wonderful Compilation

Turnstile - Holiday/Glow On

The White Stripes - Candy Cane Children/Merry Christmas From the White Stripes

Jesse Malin and the St. Marks Social - All the Way From Moscow/Love It to Life

St. Vincent - At the Holiday Party/Daddy's Home

Thurl Ravenscroft - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch/How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Apples in Stereo - Holiday Mood/Redeye 2008 Holiday Sampler

Sloan - Kids Come Back Again at Christmas/Single

James Brown - Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto/Soulful Christmas

Donny Hathaway - This Christmas/Donny Hathaway

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects/It's a Holiday Soul Party

Freddie Jackson - Christmas Forever/The Greatest Hits of Freddie Jackson

Eldridge Rodriquez - Christmas Eve (At Old Country Buffet)/Christmas on the Allston-Brighton Line

Birdwatching - 2,000 Miles/A Very Allston Christmas Vol. 3

Lilith - That Was the Worst Christmas Ever/A Very Allston Christmas Vol. 2

Garbage Time - Eggnog/A Very Allston Christmas Vol. 2  

Moist Boy - You Don't Gotta Be a Good Boy Tonight/A Very Allston Christmas Vol. 4

Jake & Derek From Fucko - Father Christmas/A Very Allston Christmas Vol. 3

 

Hour 2

Morphine - Sexy Baby Christmas Mine/Live on WMBR 1993

Los Campesinos! - Kindle a Flame in Her Heart/Single

Low - Just Like Christmas/Christmas

Julian Casablancas - I Wish It Was Christmas Today/Phrazes For the Young

Run the Jewels - A Christmas Fucking Miracle/Run the Jewels

Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin'/Kurtis Blow bonus track

LCD Soundsystem - Christmas Will Break Your Heart/Single

Courtney Barnett - Boxing Day Blues/Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Greg Dulli - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas/Single 

The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song/Maybe This Christmas Tree

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home on Ice/Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

The Vandals - Oi to the World/Oi to the World

Descendents - Christmas Vacation/I Don't Want to Grow Up

The Celibate Rifles - Merry Xmas Blues/Single

  

 

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Completely Conspicuous 580: The Dream of the '90s is Alive

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our top albums of 2021. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded at Clicky Clicky World HQ

- On to the top 10

- Breitling's #10: The Reds, Pinks and Purples with an ephemeral pop release on Slumberland

- Kumar's #10: Raw collection of rippers from Juliana Hatfield

- Breitling's #9 and Kumar's #8: Instant classic from Ovlov

- Kumar's #9: IDLES shifts gears with some stylistic changes

- Breitling's #8: Chime School with a quality jangle-rock album

- Breitling's #7: More Slumberland goodness from the Umbrellas

- Kumar's #7: St. Vincent digs into a late '70s vibe

- Breitling's #6: Toronto's Ducks Ltd. with an excellent Feelies-esque record

- Kumar's #5: Baltimore hardcore screamers Turnstile explores different sounds

- Breitling's #4 and Kumar's #2: Dino Jr. continues to kick ass

- Kumar's #4: Kiwi Jr. is another Toronto act working the '90s slacker rock vibe

- Breitling's #3: MBV-esque shoegaze from Fleeting Joys

- Kumar's #3: Parquet Courts moves into danceable Talking Heads territory

- Breitling's #2 and Kumar's #6: The War on Drugs fully embraces a mid-80s FM radio sound

- Breitling's #1: Blue Ocean with a shoegaze/post punk compilation of two EPs

- Kumar's #1 and Breitling's #5: More Bay Area-based slack-rock awesomeness with Pardoner

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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.

Friday, December 17, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #404: December 17, 2021

Sometimes, you've gotta look out for number 1. Carve out a little Me Time. Focus on your inner child. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about self in hour 2. Maybe you can dedicate an entire season to yourself.


I proclaim that this playlist kicks ass:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Superchunk - Endless Summer/Wild Loneliness

Kim Gordon and J Mascis - Abstract Blues/Single

Artsick - Despise/Fingers Crossed

Ombiigizi - Residential Military/Sewn Back Together

Boy Harsher - Give Me a Reason/The Runner (Official Soundtrack)

Reptaliens - Like a Dog/Multiverse

La Luz - The Pines/La Luz 

Hand Habits - More Than Love/Fun House

Snail Mail - Madonna/Valentine

Goodbye Honolulu - Ultraviolet Stone/Goodbye Honolulu

Geese - First World Warrior/Projector

Chime School - Radical Leisure/Chime School

Black Country, New Road - Concorde/Ants From Up There

Courtney Barnett - Write a List of Things to Look Forward to/Things Take Time, Take Time

Steve Gunn - Circuit Rider/Other You

Good Morning - Wahlberg/Barnyard


Hour 2: Self

The Beatles - I Me Mine/Let It Be

Frank Black - Hang On to Your Ego/Frank Black

Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself/100% Fun

Peter Gabriel - No Self Control/Melt

Sonic Youth - Self-Obsessed and Sexee/Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

Spoon - Let Me Be Mine/They Want My Soul

A Tribe Called Quest - Ego/We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service

Courtney Barnett - Crippling Self-Doubt and a General Lack of Confidence/Tell Me How You Really Feel

Sebadoh - Defend Yr Self/Defend Your Self

Motorhead - I Got Mine/Another Perfect Day

Moaning - Ego/Uneasy Laughter

Big Ups - Atheist Self-Help/Eighteen Hours of Static

Black Beach - Ego Death Ritual/Shallow Creatures

Fake Fruit - Stroke My Ego/Fake Fruit

Flaming Lips - Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Guided By Voices - Ego Central High/Sweating the Plague

Infinity Girl - Around Me/Harm


Monday, December 13, 2021

Completely Conspicuous 579: On the Bubble

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of 2021. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click or "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded at Clicky Clicky World HQ

- Fully boostered podcast

- We've been to concerts

- Some shows have been postponed or canceled

- Physical media is disappearing

- Vinyl shortage

- We're still doing our Internet radio shows (Parcheesi Radio, Stuck In Thee Garage)

- Tiktok is becoming a way to break music

- What the f are NFTs?

- Our favorite music, starting with the ones that didn't make our top 5

- Breitling: Mogwai, Lilys reissue, Fievel Is Glauque, Spirit of the Beehive

- Kumar: Ducks Ltd., Courtney Barnett, Jeff Rosenstock, Black Country New Road, Dry Cleaning, Fiddlehead

- Breitling: Stomp Talk Modstone, Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders/London Sympathy Orchestra, Palberta, Kiwi Jr., Colleen, Fog Lake

- Kumar: Chubby and the Nuts, Mdou Moctar, The Bevis Frond, Sleaford Mods, Colleen Green, TV Priest, Bachelor, Shame

- To be continued

Completely Conspicuous is available through the Apple Podcasts directory. Subscribe and write a review!

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.

Friday, December 10, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #403: December 10, 2021

Twenty years ago at this time, I was listening to music on my 64MB Diamond Rio MP3 player, using a crappy flip phone and getting ready for my first child to arrive in a few months. People were just starting to use planes again after 9/11. It was a weird time, to be sure. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2001 in hour 2. Sometimes people shared a jacket to save money.


Four out of five doctors approve this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Smokey Brights - Honey Eye/Single

Mattiel - Jeff Goldblum/Georgia Gothic 

Fine Place - Cover Blind/This New Heaven

Papercuts - Try Baxter's Bliss/Baxter's Bliss

La Luz - Goodbye Ghost/La Luz

Black Country, New Road - Bread Song/Ants From Up There

IDLES - Meds/Crawler

Ovlov - Strokes/Buds

Blonder - D.C.T./Knoxville House

Ament - O.O.F./I Should Be Outside

Gustaf - Dog/Audio Drag For Ego Slobs

Amyl & the Sniffers - Maggot/Comfort to Me

Illuminati Hotties - MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA/Let Me Do One More

Turnstile - New Heart Design/Glow On

The Bevis Frond - Find the Mole/Little Eden

Quicksand - Katakana/Distant Populations


Hour 2: 2001

Radiohead - Knives Out/Amnesiac

Fugazi - Full Disclosure/The Argument

Built to Spill - Strange/Ancient Melodies of the Future

The New Pornographers - The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism/Mass Romantic

Ben Folds - Fired/Rockin' the Suburbs

The Strokes - Take It Or Leave It/Is This It

Sloan - If It Feels Good Do It/Pretty Together

Tenacious D - Tribute/Tenacious D

Fu Manchu - Squash That Fly/California Crossing

The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground/White Blood Cells

Gorillaz - M1 A1/Gorillaz

Stephen Malkmus - The Hook/Stephen Malkmus

Drive-By Truckers - Road Cases/Southern Rock Opera

Spoon - Me and the Bean/Girls Can Tell

Circulatory System - Yesterday's World/Circulatory System

Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer/Yankee Hotel Foxtrot


Friday, December 03, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #402: December 3, 2021

It's important to get off on the right foot. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played great album openers in hour 2. They get you in the mood to get in the cage. Right, guys?

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This playlist will lead to high praise:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Just Mustard - I Am You/Single

Papercuts - A Dull Boy/Baxter's Bliss

Ovlov - Cheer Up, Chihiro!/Buds

Generationals - Mercy/Ileana

Snail Mail - Ben Franklin/Valentine

My Morning Jacket - Love Love Love/My Morning Jacket

The War On Drugs - I Don't Wanna Wait/I Don't Live Here Anymore

Sun Atoms - Two Wolves and a Lamb Voted on What's For Dinner/Let There Be Light

Beach House - Pink Funeral/Once Twice Melody

Courtney Barnett - Turning Green/Things Take Time, Take Time

The Dodos - The Surface/Grizzly Peak

Parquet Courts - Marathon of Anger/Sympathy For Life

Alex Orange Drink - It's Only Drugs (Limerence)/Everything Is Broken Maybe That's OK

Chime School - Dead Saturdays/Chime School


Hour 2: Album openers

Dinosaur Jr. - Out There/Where You Been

New York Dolls - Personality Crisis/New York Dolls

Nirvana - Serve the Servants/In Utero

Television - See No Evil/Marquee Moon

The Gun Club - Sex Beat/Fire of Love

The Twilight Singers - Martin Eden/Blackberry Belle

Elliott Smith - Speed Trials/ Either/Or

Interpol - Untitled/Turn On the Bright Lights

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love/To Bring You My Love

Elvis Costello - Welcome to the Working Week/My Aim Is True

Joe Jackson - On Your Radio/I'm the Man

Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)/Slanted and Enchanted

Prince - Sign O' the Times/Sign O' the Times

Run the Jewels - Yankee and the Brave/RTJ4

The Clash - The Magnificent Seven/Sandinista!


Friday, November 26, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #401: November 26, 2021

Let's face it, Thanksgiving is built up as this big family holiday, but another big part of it is strapping the ol' feed bag on and going to town. Even the most diet conscious of us seem to relinquish all self-control for a day or two every November. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I celebrated Black Friday with songs about eating in hour 2. Bon appetit!


Make room for the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Ovlov - Feel the Pain/Buds

My Morning Jacket - Complex/My Morning Jacket

Geese - Fantasies/Survival /Projector

Snail Mail - Valentine/Valentine

Courtney Barnett - Sunfair Sundown/Things Take Time, Take Time

Spiritualized - Always Together With You/Everything Was Beautiful

IDLES - The New Sensation/Crawler

Ty Segall - Waxman/Harmonizer

Amyl and the Sniffers - No More Tears/Comfort to Me

Ament - I Hear Ya/I Should Be Outside

Blonder - Ice Cream Girl/Knoxville House

Bad History Month - Ritual Condo Immolation Center/Death Takes a Holiday

Low - I Can Wait/Hey What

Guided By Voices - I Share a Rhythm/It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!

Chubby and the Gang - I Hate the Radio/The Mutt's Nuts

Goodbye Honolulu - Stray Dog/Goodbye Honolulu

METZ - Draw Us In/Live at the Opera House

 

Hour 2: Eat

Beastie Boys - Egg Man/Paul's Boutique

Frank Zappa - Don't Eat the Yellow Snow/Apostrophe

Ween - Don't Shit Where You Eat/Chocolate & Cheese

Enumclaw - Eat/Jimbo Demo

Deep State - Heavy Lunch/Thought Garden

U-Men - Last Lunch/U-Men

Naked Giants - Easy Eating/Easy Eating EP

The Pursuit of Happiness - Food/One Sided Story

Paul McCartney - Eat at Home/RAM

Palehound - Dry Food/Dry Food

The Hold Steady - Unpleasant Breakfast/Open Door Policy

Twin Peaks - Making Breakfast/Mind Frames

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

Bullet Lavolta - Every Hungry Rabbit/Gimme Danger

Nadine Shah - Fast Food/Fast Food

Kim Gordon - Hungry Baby/No Home Record

Diet Cig - Dinner Date/Sleep Talk

Stove - Wet Food/Is Stupider


 

Friday, November 19, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #400: November 19, 2021

Milestones are cool. You do something long enough and you hit some good milestones, like I did this week with the 400th episode of Stuck In Thee Garage. Hour 2 featured songs about memory. Sometimes you need a few reminders.


The unforgettable playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

IDLES - Car Crash/Crawler

Blonder - Heavy/Knoxville House

Ament - Passion Denied/I Should Be Outside

Courtney Barnett - Take It Day By Day/Things Take Time, Take Time

Geese - Bottle/Projector

Beach House - Once Twice Melody/Once Twice Melody

The Dodos - Eyes Open/Grizzly Peak

Generationals - Lost Cities/Ileana

Chime School - Gone Too Fast/Chime School

Ducks Ltd. - Fit to Burst/Modern Fiction

Parquet Courts - Zoom Out/Sympathy for Life

Turnstile - New Heart Design/Glow On

Quicksand - Rodan/Distant Populations

Gustaf - Cruel/Audio Drag for Ego Slobs

Pom Pom Squad - Cake/Death of a Cheerleader

Alex Orange Drink - Clickbait, Click Me/Everything Is Broken Maybe That's OK

Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe - Turning in Reverse/Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe

 

Hour 2: Memory

Superchunk - I Guess I Remembered It Wrong/On the Mouth

Firehose - Choose Any Memory/Ragin', Full On

We Are Scientists - Selective Memory/In Action

The Kinks - Do You Remember Walter?/The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

Rush - Making Memories/Fly By Night

Talking Heads - Memories Can't Wait/Fear of Music 

Cloud Nothings - Memory of Regret/The Black Hole Understands

Radiator Hospital - Do You Remember?/Something Wild

Bully - I Remember/Feels Like

Broken Social Scene - Memory Lover/Let's Try the After

Pavement - Speak, See, Remember/Terror Twilight

The Roots - I Remember/Undun

De La Soul - Memory of (Us) (feat. Estelle and Pete Rock)/And the Anonymous Nobody...

Aerosmith - Remember (Walking in the Sand)/Night in the Ruts

Husker Du - Do You Remember? (live)/Savage Young Du

Mudhoney - I Don't Remember You/Vanishing Point

Bloc Party - I Still Remember/A Weekend in the City

Queens of the Stone Age - The Vampyre of Time and Memory/...Like Clockwork

Peter Gabriel - I Don't Remember/Melt

 


Friday, November 12, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #399: November 12, 2021

Ah, 1981. It was a busy year. There were failed assassination attempts on the president and the pope, MTV made its debut, Post-It Notes were invented, and people (myself included) got all excited by a new portable cassette player called the Walkman. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1981 in hour 2, and if you crank it up loud, it'll be a hell of a day in the neighborhood.


Mister Robinson personally approves of this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Breeze - Come Around (feat. Cadence Weapon)/Only Up

The Dodos - Pale Horizon/Grizzly Peak

Generationals - I Was a Tunnel/Ileana

Geese - Rain Dance/Projector

MAITA - Pastel Concrete/I Want to Be Wild For You

Parquet Courts - Homo Sapien/Sympathy For Life

Guided By Voices - Dance of Gurus/It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!

The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore/I Don't Live Here Anymore

Nyxy Nyx - It's In the Past/Death Takes a Holiday

Joyer - Two Times/Perfect Gray

Turnstile - Don't Play/Glow On

Chubby and the Gang - It'll Be Me Who Pays/The Mutt's Nuts

Colleen Green - It's Nice to Be Nice/Cool

Stuck - White Lie/Content That Makes You Feel Good

The Bevis Frond - Brain Fatigue/Little Eden

Alan Vega - River of No Shame/After Dark


Hour 2: 1981

Black Flag - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie/Damaged

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

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Bad Reputation/Bad Reputation

Motley Crue - Live Wire/Too Fast For Love

Black Sabbath - Turn Up the Night/Mob Rules

Ozzy Osbourne - You Can't Kill Rock 'N Roll/Diary of a Madman

The Kinks - Destroyer/Give the People What They Want

Van Halen - Hear About It Later/Fair Warning

April Wine - Just Between You and Me/Nature of the Beast

Kool and the Gang - Get Down On It/Something Special

Rick James - Super Freak/Street Songs

Prince - Let's Work/Controversy

Gang of Four - A Hole in the Wallet/Solid Gold

R.E.M. - Sitting Still/Radio Free Europe

Joy Division - The Only Mistake/Still



Saturday, November 06, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #398: November 5, 2021

A lot is made of stories having a defined plot, a driving force that compels the reader or viewer to keep following the action. But sometimes, it's fine to just have a story about nothing. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about nothing in hour 2, and it still rocked most steadfastly.


This playlist is alright, alright, alright:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Spoon - The Hardest Cut/Lucifer on the Sofa

Yard Act - The Overload/The Overload

Parquet Courts - Black Widow Spider/Sympathy for Life

Guided By Voices - High In the Rain/It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It is Them!

Turnstile - Blackout/Glow On

Amyl and the Sniffers - Guided By Angels/Comfort to Me

The War On Drugs - Wasted/I Don't Live Here Anymore

Bad History Month - Deep Bright Future/Death Takes a Holiday

Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe - Living Dead/Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe

Gustaf - Best Behavior/Audio Drag for Ego Slobs

Alex Orange Drink - Brooklyn, Central Booking/Everything Is Broken Maybe That's OK

Makthaverskan - This Time/For Allting

Chime School - Fixing Motorcycles/Chime School

Illuminati Hotties - Cheap Shoes/Let Me Do One More

Slothrust - White Rabbits/Parallel Timeline

Ducks Ltd. - Sullen Leering Hope/Modern Fiction

Goodbye Honolulu - How Are You Doing/Goodbye Honolulu


Hour 2: Nothing

Sloan - Nothing Left to Make Me Want to Stay/One Chord to Another

Pugwash - Better Than Nothing at All/Silverlake

Elliott Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing/Either/Or

Telekinesis - Like Nothing/Effluxion

Tony Molina - Nothing I Can Say/Kill the Lights

Jennifer Trynin - Better Than Nothing/Cockamamie

Frank Black and the Catholics - Do Nothing/Snake Oil

The Sons of Hercules - IOU Nothing/The Sons of Hercules

The Police - Nothing Achieving/Fall Out

Sebadoh - Nothing Like You/Harmacy

Tom Vek - Nothing But Green Lights/We Have Sound

Living Colour - Nothingness/Stain

Kiwi Jr. - Nothing Changes/Football Money

PUP - Nothing Changes/This Place Sucks Ass

Mike Krol - Nothing to Yell About/Power Chords

Brainiac - Nothing Ever Changes/Hissing Prigs in Static Couture

Pavement - Nothing Ever Happens/Slanted and Enchanted Luxe and Reduxe

Priests - Nothing Feels Natural/Nothing Feels Natural

Soundgarden - Nothing to Say/Screaming Life


Stuck In Thee Garage #653: October 9, 2026

Writers are often advised to write what they know. The same could apply for songwriters, and sometimes what they write about is music itself...