Stuck In Thee Garage #221: April 27, 2018

A little knowledge can be a powerful thing. It can also be dangerous. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about knowledge in hour 2. You'd be wise to check it out.

This playlist is the one who knocks:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Rat Scabies - Chew On You/P.H.D. (Prison, Hospital, Debt)
Guided By Voices - See My Field/Space Gun
Painted Doll - Dressing Room/Painted Doll
MIEN - Black Habit/MIEN
Sloan - Year Zero/12
Shopping - My Dad's a Dancer/The Official Body
Franz Ferdinand - Lazy Boy/Always Ascending
Shame - Gold Hole/Songs of Praise
MGMT - When You Die/Little Dark Age
Hop Along - The Fox in Motion/Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Dream Wife - Fire/Dream Wife
Screaming Females - Agnes Martin/All at Once
Lefty's Deceiver - Civvies/Lefty's Deceiver
Buffalo Tom - Freckles/Quiet and Peace
Destroyer - Cover From the Sun/ken

Hour 2: Knowledge
Matthew Sweet - Knowing People/Altered Beast
Ty Segall - Don't You Want to Know (Sue)/Manipulator
The Pursuit of Happiness - Tree of Knowledge/Love Junk
Screaming Trees - All I Know/Dust
Queens of the Stone Age -  Everybody Knows You Are Insane/Lullabies to Analyze
Ozzy Osbourne - I Don't Know/Blizzard of Ozz
Los Colognes - All That You Know/Dos
Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?/AM
De La Soul - Eye Know/3 Feet High and Rising
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere/Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Ladyhawk - I Don't Always Know What You're Saying/Shots
Chris Whitley - Know/Din of Ecstasy
Pavement - Secret Knowledge of Back Roads (Peel Session)/Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe
Dinosaur Jr. - Good to Know/Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
Teenage Fanclub - God Knows It's True/God Knows It's True EP

Stuck In Thee Garage #220: April 20, 2018

Sometimes it's better to get to the point. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs that start with the chorus in hour 2. In other words, don't bore us, get to the chorus.

This playlist is sending its love down the well:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
King Tuff - Infinite Mile/The Other
Painted Doll - Together Alone/Painted Doll
Superchunk - Black Thread/What a Time to Be Alive
Belly - Shiny One/Dove
The Spook School - Alright (sometimes)/Could It Be Different?
Eleanor Friedberger - Make Me a Song/Rebound
Hop Along - How Simple/Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Camp Cope - Animal & Real/How to Socialise & Make Friends
The Breeders - Spacewoman/All Nerve
Preoccupations - Manipulation/New Material
Wye Oak - Over and Over/The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs
Ty Segall - Fanny Dog/Freedom's Goblin
Wet Trident - Slow Tires/Double Exposure
The Shins - Half a Million/Heartworms
Pugwash - Easier Done Than Said/Silverlake

Hour 2: Chorus first
Run DMC - It's Tricky/Raising Hell
Commodores - Brick House/Commodore
Chic - Le Freak/C'est Chic
Brendan Benson - What I'm Looking For/Alternative to Love
The Hold Steady - Southtown Girls/Boys and Girls in America
Modest Mouse - Dance Hall/Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Van Halen - You Really Got Me/Van Halen
T. Rex - Telegram Sam/The Slider
April Wine - You Could Have Been a Lady/On Record
The Beatles - Why Don't We Do It In the Road?/The White Album
Bob Dylan - Tambourine Man/Bringing It All Back Home
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night/Tonight's the Night
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel/Drums and Wires
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!/Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Smashing Pumpkins - Today/Siamese Dream
Pearl Jam (live in Auckland with Neil and Tim Finn) - History Never Repeats/1995 Christmas single

Stuck In Thee Garage #219: April 13, 2018

Down on the street, there's a lot going on. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played street songs in hour 2. It's all good, but make sure you can keep an eye out for cars.

This playlist is endorsed by Baberaham Lincoln:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Preoccupations - Disarray/New Material
Nostalgist - Pendulums/Disaffection
Japan Suicide - Circle/Santa Sangre
Kristin Hersh - Lax (Rough Version)/Possible Dust Clouds
The Afghan Whigs - Toy Automatic (Demo)/Unreleased
Timothy Dark - That Look (The Skin I'm In) feat. Nellie MacKay/Dark Day Afternoon
MIEN - You Dreamt/MIEN
Autumn - The Fall/Chandelier
Shopping - Suddenly Gone/The Official Body
Modern Time Machines - High Noon/MTM
Holy Wave - Adult Fear/Adult Fear
Moaning - Misheard/Moaning
Sloan - The Day Will Be Mine/12
Hot Snakes - Death Doula/Jericho Sirens
Screaming Females - My Body/All at Once

Hour 2: Street
The Stooges - Down on the Street/Fun House
The Saints - One Way Street/(I'm) Stranded
The So So Glos - Fool on the Street/Kamikaze
Rancid - Hoover Street/Life Won't Wait
Joe Strummer - Highway One Zero Street/Earthquake Weather
The Gutter Twins - Front Street/Saturnalia
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Independence Street/Wig Out at Jagbags
Mean Creek - Forgotten Streets/"Best of" Mean Creek
Lifter Puller - Lake Street is for Lovers/Fiestas + Fiascos
Krill - Street Level/Lucky Leaves
The Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man/Beggars Banquet
Thin Lizzy - Toughest Street in Town/Black Rose: A Rock Legend
Van Halen - Mean Street/Fair Warning
The Dears - Degeneration Street/Degeneration Street
XTC - Respectable Street/Black Sea
Big Star - In the Street/#1 Record

Stuck In Thee Garage #218: April 6, 2018

The '80s were a strange time: Big hair, big colors and big shoulders. Technology was very different; computers were still seen as big, bulky mainframes kept in government buildings. But the music was great. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1988 in hour 2.

The torture-free playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Sloan - Spin Our Wheels/12
Franz Ferdinand - Lois Lane/Always Ascending
King Tuff - Raindrop Blue/The Other
Beach House - Lemon Glow/7
La Luz - Cicada/Floating Features
Moaning - Tired/Moaning
Shame - Dust on Trial/Songs of Praise
MIEN - (I'm Tired of) Western Shouting/MIEN
MGMT - One Thing Left to Try/Little Dark Age
Of Montreal - Paranoiac Intervals/Body Dysmorphia - White is Relic/Irrealis Mood
David Byrne - Everybody's Coming to My House/American Utopia
The Shins - Painting a Hole/Heartworms
Shannon & the Clams - The Boy/Onion
The National - Day I Die/Sleep Well Beast

Hour 2: 1988
The Pixies - Bone Machine/Surfer Rosa
Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene/Bug
Jane's Addiction - Had a Dad/Nothing's Shocking
Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot/Daydream Nation
The Pursuit of Happiness - I'm an Adult Now/Love Junk
Bobby Brown - My Prerogative/Don't Be Cruel
Living Colour - Funny Vibe/Vivid
Public Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero?!/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues/Fisherman's Blues
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God/If I Should Fall From Grace With God
U2 - God Part II/Rattle and Hum
Soul Asylum - Beggars and Choosers/Hang Time
Mudhoney - In 'n Out of Grace/Superfuzz Bigmuff
Soundgarden - Flower/Ultramega OK
Public Enemy - Mind Terrorist/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back