Stuck In Thee Garage #236: August 31, 2018

When you're driving on the open road and a great song comes on your stereo, you might notice after a minute or so that suddenly you're driving 10 mph faster. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs that make you drive faster in hour 2. It's not quite having Metallica in the back of your truck, but it's pretty great.

The pedal-to-the-metal playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Holy Esque - I Am the Truth/Television-Sweet
Baked - A Hartlett Anthem/II
Black Belt Eagle Scout - Soft Stud/Mother of My Children
Pile - Cup/Odds and Ends
Idles - I'm Scum/Joy as an Act of Resistance
Slaves - Cut and Run/Acts of Fear and Love
Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me/Million Dollars to Kill Me
Chastity - Negative With Reason to Be/Death Lust
Oh Sees - Abysmal Urn/Smote Reverser
Billy Moon - DWTBA/Punk Songs
Ty Segall & White Fence - Good Boy/Joy
Mourn - Doing It Right/Sorpresa Familia
Bodega - Bookmarks/Endless Scroll
The Rock*A*Teens - Lost in Sound/Sixth House
Haerts - New Compassion/New Compassion
Soft Science - Breaking/Maps
Spiritualized - Here It Comes/And Nothing Hurt

Hour 2: Drive faster
Beach Slang - Atom Bomb/A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings
Art Brut - Alcoholics Unanimous/Art Brut vs. Satan
Rancid - Bloodclot/Life Won't Wait
Van Halen - Unchained/Fair Warning
Motorhead - Killed by Death/No Remorse
Fu Manchu - Evil Eye/The Action is Go!
Ozzy Osbourne - Over the Mountain/Diary of a Madman
Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want/Check Your Head
Beck - High 5 (Rock the Catskills)/Odelay
PJ Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta/To Bring You My Love
The Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys/Pretenders
Smashing Pumpkins - Quiet/Siamese Dream
Sloan - Ill Placed Trust/Never Hear the End of It
The Pursuit of Happiness - Ten Fingers/Love Junk
Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows/Songs for the Deaf

Stuck In Thee Garage #235: August 24, 2018

Turn the clock back 20 years and you'll find things were very different. The Internet was still in its early stages, at least for the general public, with MP3 downloading slowly (very slowly) becoming something that would eventually change the music industry drastically. A couple of nerds launched a search engine called Google to little fanfare. Seinfeld ended its successful run with a highly-rated and somewhat controversial final episode. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1998 in hour 2. It's a quirky collection, to stay the least.

This playlist was not produced by Max Fischer:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Fucked Up - Raise Your Voice Joyce/Dose Your Dreams
Slaves - Chokehold/Acts of Fear and Love
Idles - Colossus/Joy as an Act of Resistance
Lucero - For the Lonely Ones/Among the Ghosts
Jim James - Out of Time/Uniform Distortion
Neko Case - Curse of the I-5 Corridor (feat. Mark Lanegan)/Hell-On
Thin Lips - Gaslight Anthem (The Song Not the Band)/Chosen Family
Mitski - Nobody/Be the Cowboy
Jealous of the Birds - Plastic Skeletons/The Moths of What I Want Will Eat Me in My Sleep
BC Camplight - I'm Desperate/Deportation Blues
Arthur Buck - The Wanderer/Arthur Buck
Versing - Silver Dollar/Single
Walter Lure & the Waldos - Damn Your Soul/Wacka Lacka Boom Bop a Loom Bap Boo
The Mutineers - Hard Sell/Threshold
Klammer - Baddest Blocks/You Have Been Processed

Hour 2: 1998
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic/Hello Nasty
The Afghan Whigs - Somethin' Hot/1965
Sloan - Money City Maniacs/Navy Blues
The Posies - Looking Lost/Success
Beck - Cold Brains/Mutations
Pulp - Help the Aged/This is Hardcore
Spoon - Metal Detektor/A Series of Sneaks
PJ Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise/Is This Desire?
Cat Power - Metal Heart/Moon Pix
R.E.M. - At My Most Beautiful/Up
Frank Black & the Catholics - Solid Gold/Frank Black & the Catholics
Jerry Cantrell - My Song/Boggy Depot
Queens of the Stone Age - If Only/Queens of the Stone Age
At the Drive-In - For Now...We Toast/In Casino Out
Metallica - Die Die My Darling/Garage Inc.
Rocket From the Crypt - Run Kid Run/RFTC
Spoon - Staring at the Bird/A Series of Sneaks

Stuck In Thee Garage #234: August 17, 2018

Let's face it, people like to take short cuts. Whether it's in life, school, love or during a game, cheating has become commonplace in our society. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about cheating in hour 2.

This playlist is totally not cheating:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Thin Lips - A Song for Those Who Miss You All the Time/Chosen Family
Big Ups - Fear/Two Parts Together
Dentist - Alone in the Garden/Night Swimming
Jim James - Just a Fool/Uniform Distortion
Ty Segall & White Fence - Do Your Hair/Joy
Nine Inch Nails - Shit Mirror/Bad Witch
Sink Ya Teeth - Substitutes/Sink Ya Teeth
The Beths - Future Me Hates Me/Future Me Hates Me
Snuff Redux - The French Press/Denim American
Lifted Bells - Follow Me/Minor Tantrums
Ovlov - Tru Punk/TRU
Protomartyr - Same Face in a Different Mirror/Consolation EP
Courtney Barnett - City Looks Pretty/Tell Me How You Really Feel
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Kite/Sparkle Hard
Sloan - Gone For Good/12

Hour 2: Cheats
The Clash - The Card Cheat/London Calling
Lefty's Deceiver - Cheats/Cheats
Fugazi - Cashout/The Argument
Run the Jewels - Lie, Cheat, Steal/Run the Jewels 2
David Bowie - The Jean Genie/Aladdin Sane
Squeeze - Tempted (alternate take)/Excess Moderation
Sloan - The Other Man/Pretty Together
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night/MTV Unplugged in New York
Elvis Costello - I Want You/Blood & Chocolate
Parliament - All Your Goodies Are Gone/Up for the Down Stroke
The Afghan Whigs - If I Were Going/Gentlemen
The Pursuit of Happiness - Hate Engine/The Wonderful World of...
The Who - A Quick One, While He's Away/Live at Leeds

Completely Conspicuous 495: Down the Wrong Road Both Ways

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our rock n' roll regrets. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at CompCon world HQ
- Jay: Gave away a bunch of vinyl in the '90s
- Price gouging vinyl-loving hipsters
- Looking for bargains
- Young entrepreneurship gone wrong
- Taping music off the radio
- In praise of Barooga Bandit
- Phil: Wish I'd seen shows at some historic venues
- Jay: Bands I once liked that I now regret liking
- There should be no guilty pleasures
- Coming to terms with disco
- Some early '90s radio staples now ring false
- Getting rides to concerts from parents
- Jay: Not going to club shows earlier
- Only went to hockey arenas and amphitheaters

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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.

Completely Conspicuous 494: Regrettable

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our rock n' roll regrets. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at CompCon world HQ
- Phil: Bands I never got to see
- Missing artists before they died
- Sometimes it's for budgetary reasons
- Jay: Saw Neil Young last month for the first time
- The time Phil got dosed at a Cure show
- Phil: Not being old enough to see certain artists in their prime
- Following bands on tour
- Jay: Not sticking with the guitar
- Been playing on and off for decades
- Short-lived band experiences, including Bea Arthur's Revenge
- Phil: Giving away CDs and mixtapes
- Mixtapes can tell a lot about someone's personality
- Jay: Still have all my cassettes
- To be continued

Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast 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.

Stuck In Thee Garage #233: August 3, 2018

Just like you can't always tell a book by its cover, you also can't always tell what a song is by its title. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs that don't mention their title in hour 2. It's a strong collection of music that seemingly has no connection other than being abstractly named. But it works.

This playlist would sound good on a Walkman:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Ty Segall & White Fence - Body Behavior/Joy
Klammer - Spiral Girl/You Have Been Processed
Ovlov - The Best of You/TRU
Bodega - Name Escape/Endless Scroll
Chastity - Chains/Death Lust
Restorations - The Red Door/LP5000
Dan Mangan - Troubled Mind/Single
Soft Science - Know/Maps
Gold Muse - Flower/Single
Hello June - Mars/Single
Smokescreens - The Lost Song/Used to Yesterday
Goon - Gay Rage/Dusk of Punk - Happy Omen
The Alarm - Beautiful/Equals
The Rock*A*Teens - Closest to Heaven/Sixth House
TC&I - Scatter Me/Great Aspirations


Hour 2: No title
Liz Phair - Divorce Song/Exile in Guyville
R.E.M. - Pop Song '89 (Acoustic)/In Time: The Best of R.E.M., 1988-2003
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush/After the Gold Rush
Big Star - The Ballad of El Goodo/#1 Record
Radiohead - Desert Island Disk/A Moon Shaped Pool
Interpol - Obstacle 1/Turn on the Bright Lights
Bloc Party - Helicopter/Silent Alarm
The Cure - Pornography/Pornography
Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer/Rated R
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog/Hair of the Dog
Black Sabbath - N.I.B./Black Sabbath
Toadies - Possum Kingdom/Rubberneck
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings/Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song/Nothing's Shocking