Stuck In Thee Garage #264: March 29, 2019

If there's one thing you learn with age, it's that life moves faster than you think. Before you know it, 15 years can fly by in the blink of an eye. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2004 in hour 2.

The zombie apocalyptic playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Ex Hex - Good Times/It's Real
The Black Keys - Lo/Hi - Single
Nanami Ozone - Affection/NO
Blessed - Thought/Salt
Pile - Bruxist Grin/Green and Gray
Elizabeth Colour Wheel - 23/Nocebo
Kevin Morby - No Halo/Oh My God
Business of Dreams - I Never Could Tell You/Ripe for Anarchy
Tanya Donelly - White Belly (demo)/Demos with Joe Harvard
David J - Too Clever by Half/Crocodile Tears and the Velvet Cosh
Stella Donnelly - Old Man/Beware of the Dogs
Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Hole/On the Line
The Mountain Goats - Younger/In League With Dragons
The English Beat - Save It For Later/Special Beat Service
The English Beat - I Confess/Special Beat Service
The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom/I Just Can't Stop It

Hour 2: 2004
Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty/Good News for People Who Love Bad News
The Walkmen - Little House of Savages/Bows and Arrows
The Hold Steady - Most People Are DJs/Almost Killed Me
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Little Dawn/Shake the Sheets
Mission of Burma - Hunt Again/ONoffON
The Futureheads - First Day/The Futureheads
Wilco - At Least That's What You Said/A Ghost is Born
The Tragically Hip - The Heart of the Melt/In Between Evolution
Drive-By Truckers - Where the Devil Don't Stay/The Dirty South
A.C. Newman - Drink to Me Babe Then/The Slow Wonder
The Twilight Singers - Too Tough to Die/She Loves You
Mark Lanegan Band - Methamphetamine Blues/Bubblegum
Sonic Youth - Unmade Bed/Sonic Nurse
Hot Snakes - Kreative Kontrol/Audit in Progress
Probot - Shake Your Blood (feat. Lemmy)/Probot

Stuck In Thee Garage #263: March 22, 2019

Windows are pretty useful. Without them, we'd always wonder what was on the other side of a wall. Today on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about windows in hour 2. Sometimes, they're good for smashing, too.

Yippie-ky-ay, playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
La Fille - I'm Movin' On/Alright Already
Beach Slang - AAA/MPLS
Iguana Death Cult - Femme Fatale/Single
Mirrorball - This Time/Single
Drahla - Stimulus for Living/Useless Coordinates
Elizabeth Colour Wheel - 34th/Nocebo
Sharkmuffin - Fate/Gamma Gardening
Leathers - Phantom Heart/Single
Kiwi Jr. - Gimme More/Football Money
Bellows - The Tower/The Rose Gardener
The Mountain Goats - Cadaver Sniffing Dog/In League With Dragons
Piroshka - Blameless/Brickbat
Telekinesis - Like Nothing/Effluxion
FEELS - Anyways/Post-Earth
Frankie & the Witch Fingers - Dark Sorcerer/ZAM
Flat Worms - Shouting at the Wall/Into the Iris
The C.I.A. - Harm Joy/The C.I.A.

Hour 2: Windows
Jeff Rosenstock - Staring Out the Window at Your Old Apartment/WORRY.
Band Aparte - Into the Window/Memory on Trial
Froth - Shut the Windows/outside (briefly)
Jay Bennett - Another Town Another Ride Another Window/Whatever Happened I Apologize
The Hold Steady - Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?/I'm Not There soundtrack
Arcade Fire - Windowsill/Neon Bible
The Weakerthans - Night Windows/Reunion Tour
Elvis Costello - My Little Blue Window/When I Was Cruel
Buffalo Tom - Scottish Windows/Smitten
Stars - Window Bird/In Our Bedroom After the War
Guided By Voices - Window of My World/Half Smiles of the Decomposed
Goon - A Window Outside/Dusk of Punk - Happy Omen
Cliff of Dooneen - Through an Open Window/The Dog Went East and God Went West
Geddy Lee - Window to the World/My Favourite Headache
Smashing Pumpkins - Window Paine/Gish

Completely Conspicuous 506: Wake of the Flood

I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss the Grateful Dead's album Wake of the Flood. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at CompCon world HQ
- Jay: Knew nothing about this album until recently
- First album on the Dead's own label
- New phase for the Dead: No Mickey Hart, the Godchauxs arrive, Pigpen had died
- Shades of jazz fusion
- Three years after their last studio album, American Beauty
- Material was well-honed in concert before making it to studio recording
- Horns featured throughout
- Phil: Live versions of these songs are better
- Two big shows with Allman Brothers and the Band that summer
- The rise of Frampton
- Nobody cares about live albums anymore
- "Stella Blue" is a standout track
- On the merits and demerits of Rush
- Back when AOR stations would play album sides
- Pulled back on the country influence of previous two albums
- No immediate "hits"
- Touring is one of the few ways bands can make money nowadays
- Ultimately, not one of their best, but a piece of the puzzle

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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.

Stuck In Thee Garage #262: March 15, 2019

Science! It's all around us, even though we tend to take it for granted. But not this week on Stuck In Thee Garage, where I played songs about science in hour 2.

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The timely playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Filthy Friends - Last Chance County/Emerald Valley
Telekinesis - Feel It In Your Bones/Effluxion
Stephen Malkmus - Ocean of Revenge/Groove Denied
Kiwi Jr. - Leslie/Football Money
Sharkmuffin - Serpentina/Gamma Gardening
FEWS - More Than Ever/Into Red
Pottery - Lady Solinas/Single
Holiday Ghosts - Slipstream/West Bay Playroom
Sasami - Not the Time/Sasami
Black Dresses - Death-Bad Girl/Thank You
Good Fuck - Shadows/Good Fuck
Jonny Kosmo - Come Down to Get Down/Jonny Kosmo
Herzog - Amps II Eleven/Me Vs. You
Guided By Voices - Questions of the Test/Zeppelin Over China
Bob Mould - Thirty Dozen Roses/Sunshine Rock
Mike Krol - Wasted Memory/Power Chords
Cherry Glazerr - That's Not My Real Life (feat. Delicate Steve)/Stuffed & Ready
Business of Dreams - La La La La/Ripe for Anarchy
Sharon Van Etten - Hands/Remind Me Tomorrow

Hour 2: Science
Beastie Boys - The Sounds of Science/Paul's Boutique
Oingo Boingo - Weird Science/Dead Man's Party
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science/The Golden Age of Wireless
The Big Troubles - Softer Than Science/Romantic Comedy
Rilo Kiley - Science Vs. Romance/Take Offs and Landings
Paul Weller - Science/Heavy Soul
Art Brut - Weird Science/Art Brut Vs. Satan
UNKLE - Chemical (feat. Josh Homme)/End Titles...Stories for Film
Dictators - Science Gone Too Far/So Indie It Hurts...ROIR Rocks Vol. 1
Guided By Voices - I am a Scientist/Live at Threadwaxing Space NYC 6/25/94
We Are Scientists - Mothra Vs. We Are Scientists/Safety, Fun and Learning (In That Order)
David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday/Aladdin Sane
The Black Angels - Science Killer/Directions to a Ghost
Living Colour - Type/Time's Up

Stuck In Thee Garage #261: March 8, 2019

First impressions are very important, in life, movies and even music. An opening riff can grab your attention, but so can an opening line. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs with great opening lines in hour 2.

Lemme tell you what this playlist is about:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Beach Slang - I Hate Alternative Rock/MPLS
Telekinesis - Cut the Quick/Effluxion
Frankie & the Witch Fingers - Work/ZAM
Night Beats - Her Cold Cold Heart/Myth of a Man
Pottery - Hank Williams/Single
Strand of Oaks - Weird Ways/Eraserland
Hand Habits - Placeholder/Placeholder
Better Oblivion Community Center - Dylan Thomas/Better Oblivion Community Center
Flamingods - Marigold/Levitation
FEELS - Find a Way/Post Earth
Royal Trux - Suburban Junkie Lady/White Stuff
Deep State - Dozer/The Path to Fast Oblivion
Lowin - Sake/Heavy as the Sun
Piroshka - What's Next?/Brickbat
White Lies - Denial/FIVE

Hour 2: Opening lines
Beck - Sexx Laws/Midnite Vultures
Prince - Sign O' the Times/Sign O' the Times
The Clash - The Guns of Brixton/London Calling
Public Enemy - Bring the Noise/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Eels - Novocaine for the Soul/Beautiful Freak
The Tragically Hip - Twist My Arm/Road Apples
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues/Bringing It All Back
Boss Hog - Winn Coma/Boss Hog
Rocket From the Crypt - Middle/Scream Dracula Scream!
Iggy & the Stooges - Search and Destroy/Raw Power
X - The Unheard Music/Los Angeles
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Oliver's Army/Armed Forces
David Bowie - Panic in Detroit/Aladdin Sane
Joe Jackson - I'm the Man/I'm the Man
Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent/Favourite Worst Nightmare
The Pretenders - Precious/Pretenders
The Buzzocks - Ever Fallen in Love/Singles Going Steady


 

Completely Conspicuous 505: Europe '72

I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss the Grateful Dead's live triple album Europe '72. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at CompCon world HQ
- Triple album documenting the Dead's European tour
- Displays new Americana sound
- Mickey Hart's gone, Keith and Donna Godchaux join
- Full tour was documented on a 73-CD box set
- Letting it all hang out at an Oregon show
- Garcia and Weir released solo albums this year
- The Dead's influenced ranged wide, eventually including members of punk/indie acts like Black Flag and Meat Puppets
- Greg Ginn, noted Deadhead
- The greatness of "Jack Straw"
- Later covered by eventual guest keyboardist Bruce Hornsby
- Grateful Dead keyboardists : Spinal Tap drummers
- "A long f-ing album"
- Unrelated: The Dirtbombs rule
- "China Cat Sunflower" sounds very different here than the original
- This is Peak Dead
- The band captured the communal live experience and attracted a huge following
- When you party too hard before the show
- Pigpen's last hurrah
- "Morning Dew" is stretched out to 10+ minutes of apocalyptic jam
- Tangent: Janelle Monae is great
- Variety is important
- No more guilty pleasures
- Waaaaaaay off topic
- The strange career of Robert Palmer
- Phil: Europe '72 is like comfort food
- Next up: Wake of the Flood

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 #260: March 1, 2019

It's strange to think that kids today view the '80s the way I viewed the '50s when I was teenager: Weird, improbable and a crazy long time ago. But here we are. The world in 1984 was a very different place than it is 35 years later, and not just because of the technological advancements. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1984 in hour 2.

Here's the litigious playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Royal Trux - Year of the Dog/White Stuff
FEELS - Car/Post Earth
Herzog - Music Was the Language From When I Mattered/Me Vs. You
Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Realization/ZAM
Flat Worms - At the Citadel/Into the Iris
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Cyboogie/Single
Piroshka - Never Enough/Brickbat
Julia Jacklin - Pressure to Party/Crushing
Sir Babygirl - Everyone is a Bad Friend/Crush on Me
GRiZ - Can't Get Enough/Ride Waves
The Faint - Alien Angel/Egowerk
Cherry Glazerr - Distressor/Stuffed & Ready
Guided By Voices - Holy Rhythm/Zeppelin Over China
Balms - Nothing In/Mirror
White Lies - Never Alone/FIVE
Business of Dreams - I Feel Dread/Ripe for Anarchy
Jeff Tweedy - The Red Brick/WARM

Hour 2: 1984
Husker Du - Pink Turns to Blue/Zen Arcade
Minutemen - This Ain't No Picnic/Double Nickels on the Dime
R.E.M. - (Don't Go Back to) Rockville/Reckoning
Meat Puppets - New Gods/II
Van Halen - House of Pain/1984
Judas Priest - Some Heads Are Gonna Roll/Defenders of the Faith
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight/Powerslave
Motorhead - Killed by Death/No Remorse
Hoodoo Gurus - Tojo/Stone Age Romeos
The Replacements - Unsatisfied/Let It Be
Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon/Ocean Rain
U2 - Wire/The Unforgettable Fire
Howard Jones - New Song/Human's Lib
INXS - Original Sin/The Swing
Prince and the Revolution - I Would Die 4 U/Purple Rain