We typically steer clear of religious talk in these here parts, but this week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about religion in hour 2 (after playing new hotness from the likes of Weird Nightmare, Dread Spectre Council and Sub*T in hour 1). It's good stuff! Take it from Uncle Baby Billy.
He's not asking for the world here:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Weird Nightmare - Headful of Rain/Hoopla
Dread Spectre Council - Summon the Sparks/Thetans
Pope - No One (Kiss for a Treat)/BFM
Sub*T - Overcomplicate/How My Own Voice Sounds
Body Shop - Limits/Sex Body
The Orielles - Wasp/Only You Left
Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize - Parasite (Nine Inch Noize version)/Nine Inch Noize
Brother Ali - Another Country/Single
Gottlieb - Pipe Bomb/The Far Fallen Fruit
The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Heaven of Love/Acknowledge Kindness
The Bevis Frond - Romany Blue/Horrorful of Heights
Motorists - Scattered White Horses/Never Sing Alone
Metric - As If You're Here/Romanticize the Dive
Snail Mail - Butterfly/Ricochet
Gladie - Talk Past Each Other/No Need to Be Lonely
Courtney Barnett - Another Beautiful Day/Creature of Habit
Hour 2: Religion
Guided By Voices - Fly Religion/Universe Room
Fucked Up - Divining Gods/Another Day
Jesse Malin - God is Dead (feat. Agnostic Front)/Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin
Tunde Adebimpe - God Knows/Thee Black Boltz
Militarie Gun - God Owes Me Money/God Save the Gun
Bad History Month - God is Luck/God is Luck
The Kills - God Games/God Games
Los Campesinos! - Holy Smoke (2005)/All Hell
Beach Boys - Our Prayer/The Smile Sessions
The Afghan Whigs - I'll Make You See God/How Do You Burn?
Sugar - Tilted/Beaster
Motorhead - (Don't Need) Religion (live)/Another Perfect Day
The Flaming Lips - God Walks Among Us Now/In a Priest Driven Ambulance
Eldridge Rodriguez - The Girl Who Made God/Slightest of Treason
Yves Tumor - God is a Circle/Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Simply Consume
Hallelujah the Hills - God is So Lonely Tonight/Single
Videodrone is a weekly feature looking at music videos from the last half century.
Everything's Ruined (1992)
Last week, I wrote about one of the most expensive (and ridiculous) music videos ever made, MC Hammer's 14-minute magnum dopus, "2 Legit 2 Quit." But what happens when you don't have much of a budget to make a video?
In 1992, Faith No More was at an interesting spot. The Bay Area band had been around since 1983 (under that name; previously the group was called Sharp Young Men and Faith No Man). They scored a rock radio hit in 1987 with "We Care a Lot," but things blew up for FNM after the addition of new singer Mike Patton and the release of their 1989 album The Real Thing. Specifically, it was the single "Epic," a Chili Peppers-esque hybrid of funk and metal that took off, especially thanks to the video getting popular on MTV.
The band rode that album for nearly two years, touring extensively, playing Saturday Night Live and the MTV Video Music Awards, and maintaining popularity in both the alternative and metal scenes. For their follow-up, Patton was more involved in the writing process and the results were unexpected, as the band completely moved away from the funk-metal sound of the previous albums and into weird and wonderful territory. Released in June 1992, Angel Dust sold well, but fans of The Real Thing weren't quite sure what to make of it.
The first two singles, "Midlife Crisis" and "A Small Victory," received expensive, high concept video treatments, and by the time the band wanted to release "Everything's Ruined" as the third single, their video budget from Warner Bros. didn't have much left. So FNM and director Kevin Kerslake, decided to make the cheapest video possible.
The song itself is pretty straightforward by Angel Dust standards, a catchy ripper of a song. But the video is something else. It features the band (and some kids) performing in front of random B-roll footage of a couple getting married, wildlife, explosions and some graphic surgery. The extras in the video were found through a competition on MTV's Most Wanted, an MTV Europe show.In one scene, the band pretends to run away from footage of a giant tortoise. It's simultaneously ridiculous and awesome.
"It was our idea to take this further and make a video as cheap as humanly possible, in one of those video booths like they had at county fairs, where you sing and dance in front of a blue screen," keyboardist Billy Gould wrote in response to a question on the FNM blog. "We didn't quite get to do that, but we got it as close as possible."
I never saw "Everything's Ruined" on MTV back when it came out, as it likely got played infrequently and late at night. But thanks to YouTube, you can now watch it for yourself and see how, like one commenter noted, it's both the worst and greatest rock video ever.
I get the appeal of nostalgia, especially when things appear so bleak at times in the present. But while I reject the unimaginative claim that there's no good new music anymore, I nonetheless enjoy taking a ride in the ol' time machine every so often. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs in reverse chronological order from 2026 to 1992. Hail to the king, baby.
Awright, you primitive screwheads:
Hour 1: 2026-2010
Artist - Song/Album
The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Is It You, or Is It Them?/Acknowledge Kindness
Shame - After Party/Cutthroat
Mannequin Pussy - Loud Bark/I Got Heaven
Pardoner - Dreaming's Free/Peace Loving People
Oceanator - From the Van/Nothing's Ever Fine
Ovlov - Land of Steve-O/buds
Coriky - Too Many Husbands/Coriky
Ex Hex - Tough Enough/It's Real
Albert Hammond Jr. - Far Away Truths/Francis Trouble
St. Vincent - Sugar Boy/Masseduction
Jeff Rosenstock - Festival Song/WORRY.
Speedy Ortiz - Puffer/Foil Deer
Death From Above 1979 - Always On/The Physical World
Savages - No Face/Silence Yourself
METZ - Wasted/METZ
Wild Flag - Electric Band/Wild Flag
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Mighty Sparrow/The Brutalist Bricks
Hour 2: 2009-1992
Art Brut - Slap Dash for No Cash/Art Brut vs. Satan
The Raveonettes - Dead Sound/Lust Lust Lust
Les Savy Fav - Rage in the Plague Age/Let's Stay Friends
Destroyer - Your Blood/Destroyer's Rubies
Bloc Party - Helicopter/Silent Alarm
The Futureheads - First Day/The Futureheads
Ween - It's Gonna Be a Long Night/Quebec
Spoon - Something to Look Forward to/Kill the Moonlight
Stephen Malkmus - The Hook/Stephen Malkmus
Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One/All Hands on the Bad One
Piebald - Mess With the Bulls/If It Weren't for Venetian Blinds It Would Be Curtains for Us All
Cat Power - Cross Bones Style/Moon Pix
Elliott Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing/ Either/Or
Sebadoh - Worst Thing/Harmacy
Jawbreaker - Sluttering (May 4th)/Dear You
Luscious Jackson - Energy Sucker/Natural Ingredients
Videodrone is a weekly feature looking at music videos from the last half century.
2 Legit 2 Quit (1991)
The early '90s were a wild time. While rock audiences were starting to embrace more alternative sounds, hip hop was making a huge move for the mainstream. Sure, artists like Public Enemy, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and N.W.A. were getting the critical praise, but it was performers like MC Hammer who were topping the charts.
As an 11-year-old in the early '70s, Stanley Burrell would set up in the Oakland Coliseum parking lot, selling stray baseballs and dancing along to a beatboxer. He was noticed by Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley, who hired Burrell as a batboy from 1973 to 1980, although Burrell later explained his brother was the actual batboy while he took calls and described game action to Finley, who lived in Chicago. He got the nickname Hammer because of his resemblance to baseball legend Hank "The Hammer" Aaron.
After he graduated from high school, Burrell joined the Navy and served in Mountain View, California, as an aviation storekeeper for three years. He started a rap career in the mid-'80s, borrowing $20,000 each from former A's players Mike Davis and Dwayne Murphy to start his own independent record label, Bustin' Records. He sold records from his basement and car, with his first album Feel My Power released in 1986.
Going by the handle MC Hammer, his songs started getting played in nightclubs in the San Francisco Bay area and then the radio. In 1988, he signed a deal with Capitol Records and then re-released his first album with additional songs and it sold over 2 million copies. He installed a mobile recording studio in the back of his tour bus and recorded much of his second album, Let's Get It Started, there. But it was his 1990 album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em that made Hammer a household name. Relying on a sample from Rick James' "Super Freak," Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" was all over the radio and MTV, thanks to Hammer's dance moves and iconic "Hammer pants." The song hit #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the album reached #1 for 21 weeks. Follow-up hits included "Have You Seen Her" and "Pray," which sampled Prince's "When Doves Cry" and Faith No More's "We Care a Lot."
Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em was the first hip hop album to earn diamond status, selling more than 18 million units to date. Sponsored by Pepsi, Hammer toured in Europe extensively in 1991.
MC Hammer took full advantage of his popularity, placing songs on the soundtracks of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and Rocky V, appearing on two songs on Earth, Wind and Fire's 1990 album and signing other artists to his label. There was a Saturday morning cartoon called Hammerman and he was featured on lunchboxes, Mattel dolls and other merchandise.
There was backlash, of course. Hammer relied heavily on sampling entire hooks from other songs for his hit singles, and other artists like 3rd Bass, Digital Underground, LL Cool J and Ice Cube mocked his family-friendly image and simplistic lyrics.
How to follow this success up? Burrell dropped the "MC" from his stage name and then unleashed a nearly 15-minute video for the title track of his new album 2 Legit 2 Quit. The video was one of the most expensive ever made, costing $2.5 million (adjusting for inflation, that's over $6 million in 2026 dollars). It was directed by Rupert Wainwright, who had previously directed Hammer videos from the last album.
The video is epically ridiculous. It starts off with the most 1991 of celebrities, Jim--excuse me, James--Belushi as a newscaster reporting that Hammer is quitting the music business, followed by reaction from celebrities including Danny Glover, Henry Winkler, Freedom Williams of C&C Music Factory, David "Bud Bundy" Faustino, Barry Sobel, Ralph Tresvant, Mark and Donnie Wahlberg, Eazy-E and the Cubeless N.W.A., Tony Danza, Queen Latifah and Milli Vanilli.
The video shows an impatient crowd waiting for Hammer to show up before cutting to Hammer meeting with James Brown. The Godfather of Soul had been in prison serving a six-year sentence for aggravated assault after leading police on a high-speed chase while high on PCP in 1988 and indeed, he was released the day video production was scheduled to start in February 1991. Hammer hired a private jet to pick up Brown and bring him to Los Angeles. Brown filmed his scenes and was supposed to fly back commercial, but he asked if he could use the jet to stop in Vegas for a few days and then go home to Atlanta. The jet ended up waiting for Brown for two extra days in Vegas, adding to the expense.
Back to the video: Brown, who apparently has supernatural powers, asks Hammer to bring him Michael Jackson's glove and blasts Hammer with energy to give him power. About 8 minutes into the video, Hammer shows up at the concert and begins the song with a cadre of backup singers and dancers.
In addition to all this action, the video includes a ton of cameos from pro athletes and celebs, doing the "2 Legit 2 Quit" hand gesture that was expected to become all the rage. Wainwright sent a production crew all over the country to film anyone who would agree to participate. This list includes: Jose Canseco, Isiah Thomas, Kirby Puckett, Jerry Rice, Rickey Henderson, Deion Sanders, Andre Rison, Chris Mullin, Roger Clemens, Roger Craig, Ronnie Lott, Lynette Woodard, the Dallas Cowboys and Atlanta Falcons cheerleaders, David Robinson and Falcons coach Jerry Glanville. Wayne Gretzky was reportedly filmed for this as well, but he's not in the videos that are posted on YouTube.
At the end of the performance, the video ends with "Michael Jackson" shown from behind after viewing Hammer's dancing and doing the "2 Legit 2 Quit" hand gesture.
The song hit #5 on the Hot 100 and the album went multi-platinum, but it only sold one third of Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em's sales. It was also featured in the Addams Family movie.
Things started going downhill for Hammer. He tried to adopt a more gangsta image on his next album, 1994's The Funky Headhunter, releasing a video for "Pumps and a Bump" that featured him in a Speedo (it was banned from MTV for, uh, revealing too much Hammer). But his overexposure, no pun intended, led to a drop in popularity and by 1996, he filed for bankruptcy. He has since released seven more albums, a reality show (because who hasn't by this point?) and still shows up in commercials. But in 1991, he was briefly on top of the world.
Delivering the mail is a thankless job, but somebody's got to do it. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Body Shop, Blood Wizard and Swapmeet in hour 1 and songs about mail in hour 2. It gets there on time!
Hello, playlist:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Body Shop - Repulsion/Sex Body
Blood Wizard - Scared of the Dark/Lucky Life
Motorists - Next Blue Kings/Never Sing Alone
Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night/HELP (2)
Jack White - Derecho Demonico/G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs
The Bevis Frond - That's Your Lot/Horrorful Heights
Swapmeet - I Know!/Mount Zero
King Tuff - Delusions/MOO
Gladie - I Want That for You/No Need to Be Lonely
Gardenia - I Miss You, Alexa/Gardenia
Heavenly - The Neverseen/Highway to Heavenly
Gorillaz - The Happy Dictator feat. Sparks/The Mountain
The New Pornographers - Calligraphy/The Former Site Of
Damaged Bug - Rare Lights/ZUZAX
Fugazi - Public Witness Program (Albini Session)/Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity)
Nothing - A Short History of Decay/A Short History of Decay
Hour 2: Mail
The White Stripes - Death Letter/De Stijl
Soundgarden - Mailman/Superunknown
Living Colour - Postman/Stain
Rick Rude - Area Woman Yells at Junk Mail/Laverne
Antarctigo Vespucci - E-mail/Love in the Time of E-mail
Yo La Tengo - Apology Letter/This Stupid World
Pugwash - Answers on a Postcard/A Rose in a Garden of Weeds: A Preamble Through the History of Pugwash
Bedbug - Postcard/Pack Your Bags the Sun is Growing
The Walkmen - Postcards from Tiny Islands/You & Me
Buffalo Tom - Postcard/Smitten
R.E.M. - Letter Never Sent/Reckoning
Eleanor Friedberger - The Letter/Rebound
The New Pornographers - Letter from an Occupant/Mass Romantic
Material Issue - This Letter/International Pop Overthrow
Videodrone is a weekly feature looking at music videos from the last half century.
Well, Did You Evah! (1990)
There have always been tribute albums, where various artists pay homage to their favorite influences, but it wasn't until the late '80s/early '90s that tribute albums were also used as fundraisers. One of the early ones was Red Hot + Blue, the first compilation in the Red Hot Organization's Benefit Series, which raised nearly $1 million for AIDS activist group ACT UP.
The album featured contemporary artists covering the work of composer Cole Porter. Released in September 1990, the album was accompanied by an ABC special featuring videos for each of the song. In my alt-rock-centric world, U2's moody electronic cover of "Night and Day" got plenty of radio airplay but there were plenty of other interesting takes on the album.
One notable cover was "Well, Did You Evah!," a whimsical number originally written for the 1939 musical DuBarry Was a Lady and later performed by Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby in the 1956 movie High Society. On Red Hot + Blue, it was performed by Deborah Harry and Iggy Pop. The video was directed by Alex Cox, who helmed '80s punk-influenced movies Repo Man and Sid and Nancy.
The video is a hoot, with Harry and Iggy clearly having a blast as they cavort through various NYC locales, bringing punk attitude to a petting zoo, shopping at a bodega, robbing a bank and hanging out around a garbage can fire. Both were in their early 40s and still fairly young at the time, although both artists still record and tour to this day. They're clearly enjoying each other's company and that attitude comes across on screen.
It was an interesting time for Iggy. He was riding a renewed wave of popularity due to his recently released album Brick by Brick, which featured another duet, this time on "Candy" with Kate Pierson of the B-52's. Normally long-haired and shirtless in videos and performance, Iggy sports shorter hair and suits in this video.
As great as "Well, Did You Evah!" was, it was only released as a single in the U.K., where it reached #42 on the U.K. singles chart. I don't recall ever seeing the video on MTV or hearing it on the radio, but damn, it's a great version.
If you don't pay attention, time slips by you pretty quickly. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Lambrini Girls, Lifeguard and Gang of Four in hour 1 and songs from 2006 in hour 2. Don't forget to take your meds!
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we celebrate the return of the MLB season by counting down our favorite baseball hats. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
On to our top 10
Phil's #10: Reaching back to the '50s with the Phillies
Jay's #10: Mid-90s Mariners
Good use of seafoam green
'90s uniforms had a lot of bold colors: Teal, purple
Phil's #9: The simplicity of the SF Giants hat
Hat designs got pretty weird over the years
Corduroy hats were a thing for a while
Jay's #9: Classic A's green and yellow look
Phil's #8: Dodgers' classic blue and white is another look that hasn't changed
Bandwagon jumpers are inevitable
Jay's #8: St. Louis Cardinals navy blue with red logo
Had one that got ruined at Lollapallooza '93
Phil's #7: The mid-70s Angels hat with the halo
Lots of different looks for the Angels over the years
Jay's #7: Phillies' hat from late '70s/early '80s
Phil's #6: Sticking with Philly with the A's from the '30s
Some hats are instant conversation pieces for middle-aged guys
Jay's #6 and Phil's #4: Another classic look with the Tigers
Ruining hats by working out in them
Phil's #5: Kansas City A's with the kelly green
Jay's #5: Brooklyn Dodgers with the classic B
Jackie Robinson era
Jay's #4: Can't go wrong with the Cubs "C" hat
Some cool Cubs hats over the years
Phil's #3: Iconic Red Sox blue hat
Jay's #3: White Orioles hat with the cartoon bird
Tried a more realistic bird in the '90s
Phil's #2: The Braves' 70s hat with the lower case A
Jay's #2: The Blue Jays' all-blue hat introduced in the late '80s
Are middle-aged guys more likely to wear hats?
Phil's #1: Orioles' mid-60s to mid-70s black hat with orange bill
Jay's #1: Original Expos hat
In Canada, Toronto fans hate the Canadiens but love the Expos
Defunct but beloved team
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Videodrone is a weekly feature looking at music videos from the last half century.
Down In It (1989)
It's not often when a young band's video shoot turns into a murder investigation, but that's exactly what happened when Nine Inch Nails filmed the 1989 clip for their first single, "Down In It."
Trent Reznor was (and is) the mastermind behind NIN, recording the majority of the instruments on the band's debut album Pretty Hate Machine. Based in Cleveland, the band's sound was electronic, featuring tons of synths but also incorporating heavy industrial and rock elements. It was angry, visceral and exciting.
Reznor was recording a video for "Down In It" in the warehouse district of Chicago. It was low budget, but full of trippy effects, with Reznor being chased by band members Chris Vrenna and Richard Patrick through various locations. The climax features Reznor falling off the top of a building, with the final scene showing his lifeless body on the ground as Vrenna and Patrick stood over him.
In this pre-drone era, the band used a camera attached by a rope to helium balloons to fil the final scene, but the rope snapped and the camera floated away. The camera eventually ended up in a cornfield in eastern Michigan, where a farmer found it and handed it over to local police. They turned it over to Chicago police after noticing the city's distinctive L trains in the background. Chicago authorities couldn't find any evidence of a murder matching that location and turned the case over to the FBI. After watching the footage, FBI agents began investigating whether it was evidence of a cult killing or a snuff film, noting that the "body" appeared to be rotting in the video.
Flyers were distributed looking for leads and an art student who worked for H-Gun Productions, the company that filmed the video, recognized the "victim" as Reznor and informed the FBI that he was very much alive. This was in September 1990, a year after the video was filmed.
Chicago police announced that there was no body, after all, and in March 1991, the tabloid "news" show Hard Copy aired a sensationalistic report about the whole thing (see below). It's really a classic of the era, with reporter Rafael Abramovitz editorializing about Reznor's nose rings, interviewing the Michigan cop who initially investigated the footage, and talking to Reznor and the production crew about it. Reznor found the whole thing amusing, which seemed to annoy Abramovitz, who chided him for wasting a year's worth of police work that could have gone into solving real crimes. The band's label, TVT Records, took full advantage of the publicity, including clips from the Hard Copy report in the press kit for the UK release of the album. Some British journalists wondered if the whole thing was a publicity stunt, but Reznor insisted it was a just a stupid accident.
As it turned out, when the video was aired on MTV, the network refused to air the final shot of Reznor's body, which was covered in corn starch to give it that "freshly dead" look.
Pretty Hate Machine was eventually a huge success, going triple platinum, but it had a slow build. Released in October 1989, it entered the Billboard 200 in February 1990 but continued to gain momentum over the next few years. NIN was part of the first Lollapalooza lineup in 1991, which is when I started seeing quick late-night TV ads for it.
The band's rise coincided with the alternative rock explosion of the early '90s. NIN's videos for songs like "Closer," "Hurt" and "The Perfect Drug" were in constant rotation and often pushed the boundaries of what censors would allow. But it was that first video that put NIN on the map in more ways than one.
Emergencies happen all the time. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from the Dambuilders, Jack White and the Bevis Frond in hour 1 and songs about emergencies in hour 2.
The urgent playlist:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
The Dambuilders - I Hope We're Not Too Late/Shrine 2026
Jack White - G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs/Single
The Bevis Frond - A Mess of Stress/Horrorful Heights
Courtney Barnett - Great Advice/Creature of Habit
Snail Mail - Agony Freak/Ricochet
King Tuff - Stairway to Nowhere
Gladie - Car Alarm/No Need to Be Lonely
Heavenly - Portland Town/Highway to Heavenly
Motorists - Anomaniacs/Never Sing Alone
The New Pornographers - Ballad of the Last Payphone/The Former Site Of
Squeeze - What More Can I Say?/Trixies
Gardenia - Therapy Sessions/Gardenia
Damaged Bug - Sike Witch/ZUZAX
Mclusky - Hi We're on Strike/I Sure Am Getting Sick of This Bowling Alley
Gee Whiz! - Cocktail Umbrellas/How to Manage a Crisis
Cardinals - Anhedonia/Masquerade
Remember Sports - Roadkill/The Refrigerator
Hour 2: Emergencies
Hot Snakes - I Need a Doctor/Jericho Sirens
Thin Lizzy - Heart Attack/Thunder and Lightning
Beastie Boys - Heart Attack Man/Ill Communication
Speedy Ortiz - Emergency & Me/Rabbit Rabbit
Billy Nomates - Emergency Phone/Emergency Phone
The Tragically Hip - Emergency (feat. Sarah McLachlan)/Unreleased
Sloan - Emergency 911/Parallel Play
Van Halen - Somebody Get Me a Doctor/II
Motorhead - Emergency/Ace of Spades
Metallica - Crash Course in Brain Surgery/The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited
Mike Krol - An Ambulance/Power Chords
Soccer Mom - Open Heart Surgery/Soccer Mom
TV On the Radio - Ambulance/Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Destroyer - Saw You at the Hospital/ken
Spitzz - Take Me to the Hospital/Single
Turtlenecked - Meeting You in the Hospital/Vulture
The Replacements - Take Me Down to the Hospital/For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we celebrate the return of the MLB season by discussing our favorite baseball hats. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
We've both purchased many hats over the years
Back in the '70s and '80s, you didn't have a lot of viewing choices for baseball games
Baseball cards were a big factor in figuring out the hats and logos you liked
Hats can fade, especially the dark blue ones
When you just can't wear a Yankees hat
Now there are so many alternate jerseys, hats, logos
You can get hats in different colors and styles
Old guys like us don't like flat-bill caps
Other sports don't wear hats as part of the uniform, but you can get hats for their teams
We often get hats of teams we have no affinity for
Phil's honorable mentions: Black Sox-era White Sox, Boston/Milwaukee Braves, Cardinals from the '40s, Pirates pillbox hat from the '70s, Cleveland Chief Wahoo hat from the '50s
Jay's honorable mentions: Reds, Brewers '70s hat with the glove logo, Royals, Expos all-blue hats in the '90s, Mariners '70s hat, Blue Jays original hat
Phil: Seattle Pilots had a bad hat, with a touch of stolen valor
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.
