Day After Day is an ambitious attempt to write about a song every day in 2024 (starting on Jan. 4).
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Monday, October 14, 2024
Day After Day #275: Ruby Soho
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Day After Day #274: Girls Talk
Day After Day is an ambitious attempt to write about a song every day in 2024 (starting on Jan. 4).
Girls Talk (1979)
Friday, October 11, 2024
Stuck In Thee Garage #549: October 11, 2024
When it comes to transportation, walking is an underrated way to get around. There are so many more flashy and faster ways to get from one place to another, but walking is a dependable option. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about walking in hour 2. Today's gonna be a great day!
This playlist walks the walk:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
The Hard Quartet - Chrome Mess/The Hard Quartet
Kim Deal - A Good Time Pushed/Nobody Loves Me More
Dinosaur Jr. - Brooklyn/Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin
Maximo Park - Favourite Songs/Stream of Life
Bleeding Star - Don't Want Your Sympathy/Sympathy
Geordie Greep - Holy, Holy/The New Sound
The Cure - Alone/Songs of a Lost World
John Davis - Free to Fall/Jinx
Dale Crover - Spoiled Daisies (feat. Ty Segall)/Glossolalia
Nada Surf - X is You/Moon Mirror
Chime School - Desperate Days/The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel
Fake Fruit - Gotta Meet You/Mucho Mistrust
The Bug Club - Cold. Hard. Love./On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
Osees - Blimp/SORCS 80
Fucked Up - More/Another Day
Hour 2: Walking
Run the Jewels - Walking in the Snow/RTJ4
Fugazi - Margin Walker/13 Songs
Stove - I'd Walk a Mile for a Camel/Is the Meat That Fell Out
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Walk Into the Mirror/Real Emotional Trash
King Khan - Don't Walk Away Mad/Three Hairs and You're Mine
Dumptruck - Walk Into Mirrors/Live at CBGBs '86 and '88
Boss Hog - Walk In/Boss Hog
The Jesus & Mary Chain - The Hardest Walk/Psychocandy
Torche - Walk It Off/Harmonicraft
Neil Young - Walk On/On the Beach
Aerosmith - Remember (Walking in the Sand)/Night in the Ruts
Dead Meadow - Keep On Walking/Old Growth
The Pursuit of Happiness - Walking in the Woods/Love Junk
The Breeders - Walk It Off/Mountain Battles
Courtney Barnett - Walkin' on Eggshells/Tell Me How You Really Feel
Missing Persons - Walking in L.A./Spring Session M
Spoon - Take a Walk/Girls Can Tell
Matthew Sweet - Walk Out/100% Fun
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Day After Day #273: Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Day After Day is an ambitious attempt to write about a song every day in 2024 (starting on Jan. 4).
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (1973)
Wednesday, October 09, 2024
Day After Day #272: Punk Rock Girl
Day After Day is an ambitious attempt to write about a song every day in 2024 (starting on Jan. 4).
Punk Rock Girl (1988)
Tuesday, October 08, 2024
Day After Day #271: (I'm) Stranded
Day After Day is an ambitious attempt to write about a song every day in 2024 (starting on Jan. 4).
(I'm) Stranded (1976)
Monday, October 07, 2024
Day After Day #270: Teenage Kicks
Day After Day is an ambitious attempt to write about a song every day in 2024 (starting on Jan. 4).
Teenage Kicks (1978)
Sunday, October 06, 2024
Day After Day #269: Another Morning Stoner
Day After Day is an ambitious attempt to write about a song every day in 2024 (starting on Jan. 4).
Another Morning Stoner (2002)
Saturday, October 05, 2024
Day After Day #268: White Punks on Dope
Day After Day is an ambitious attempt to write about a song every day in 2024 (starting on Jan. 4).
White Punks on Dope (1975)
Friday, October 04, 2024
Day After Day #267: Baby's on Fire
Day After Day is an ambitious attempt to write about a song every day in 2024 (starting on Jan. 4).
Baby's on Fire (1974)
Stuck In Thee Garage #548: October 4, 2024
Forty years ago, the Cold War was still going strong, the drinking age went up to 21 in the U.S. and everybody was saying, "Where's the beef?" This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1984 in hour 2, in addition to new music from John Davis, Bleeding Star, Franz Ferdinand and Lucius. It'll rock you like a hurricane, or even like Gene Simmons playing the bad guy in a Tom Selleck movie.
That ain't no love gun, hon:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
John Davis - Please Be My Love/Jinx
Bleeding Star - Disintegrate/Sympathy
The Bug Club - Actual Pain/On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
Franz Ferdinand - Audacious/The Human Fear
Dale Crover - I Waited Forever (feat. Ty Segall and Rob Crow)/Glossolalia
Johnny Foreigner - This is a Joke/How to Be Hopeful
Nada Surf - Losing/Moon Mirror
The The - Zen and the Art of Dating/Ensoulment
Lucius - Old Tape (feat. Adam Granduciel)/Single
Phantom Handshakes - Apart/Sirens at Golden Hour
Kal Marks - Motherfuckers/Wasteland Baby
X - Struggle is Surreal/Smoke & Fiction
The Jesus Lizard - Moto(R)/Rack
Oceanator - All the Same/Everything is Life and Death
Fake Fruit - Venetian Blinds/Mucho Mistrust
Emerald Comets - Stuck on the Moment/Single
Hour 2: 1984
Husker Du - Something I Learned Today/Zen Arcade
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Cabin Fever!/From Her to Eternity
The Cult - Spiritwalker/Dreamtime
Hoodoo Gurus - Tojo/Stoneage Romeos
Prince - Darling Nikki/Purple Rain
INXS - I Send a Message/The Swing
Joe Jackson - You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)/Body and Soul
Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon/Ocean Rain
U2 - Wire/The Unforgettable Fire
Meat Puppets - Plateau/II
R.E.M. - (Don't Go Back to) Rockville/Reckoning
Van Halen - House of Pain/1984
Iron Maiden - Flash of the Blade/Powerslave
Judas Priest - Freewheel Burning/Defenders of the Faith
Day After Day #275: Ruby Soho
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