Friday, May 31, 2019

Stuck In Thee Garage #273: May 31, 2019

Healthcare is a big part of our lives. With any luck, you can avoid going to the hospital or seeing a doctor, but at some point, you'll probably need to. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played healthcare-related songs in hour 2.


The high-five worthy playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
CJ Ramone - Blue Skies/The Holy Spell...
Amyl and the Sniffers - Gacked on Anger/Amyl and the Sniffers
Versing - Violeta/10000
Sebadoh - Phantom/Act Surprised
Teenage Wrist - Believe in the Wrong Things/Counting Flies EP
Helms Alee - Interachnid/Noctiluca
Black Mountain - Licensed to Drive/Destroyer
Silversun Pickups - Freakazoid/Widow's Weeds
The Dream Syndicate - Black Light/These Times
Elva - Ghost Writer/Winter Sun
Mike Adams at His Honest Weight - So Faded/There Is No Feeling Better
Greys - Arc Light/Age Hasn't Spoiled You
Tacocat -  The Problem/This Mess Is a Place
Guided By Voices - The Pipers, the Vipers, the Snakes!/Warp & Woof
Wand - XOXO/Laughing Matter
The 1865 - Right Now/Don't Tread on We
Fontaines D.C. - Liberty Belle/Dogrel
PUP - Closure/Morbid Stuff

Hour 2: Healthcare
The Rolling Stones - Dear Doctor/Beggars Banquet
The White Stripes - The Nurse/Get Behind Me Satan
Thee Oh Sees - Palace Doctor/Mutilator Defeated at Last
The Fiery Furnaces - Navy Nurse/Widow City
Van Halen - Somebody Get Me a Doctor!/Women and Children First
UFO - Doctor Doctor/Strangers in the Night
The Who - Dr. Jimmy/Quadrophenia
Destroyer - Saw You at the Hospital/Ken
Holy Wave - The Nurse's Tale/Adult Fear
The Pursuit of Happiness - I'm an Adult Now/Love Junk
Hot Snakes - I Need a Doctor/Jericho Sirens
The Replacements - Take Me Down to the Hospital/Hootenanny
Spitzz - Take Me to the Hospital/Single

Friday, May 24, 2019

Stuck In Thee Garage #272: May 24, 2019

Movies and music go hand in hand. Selecting the right music to accompany your film is a crucial part of the process. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from movie soundtracks in hour 2. Obviously, I tried to stick with more left-of-the-dial selections as opposed to "The Heat Is On" or some shit like that. This collection of songs is more like brain candy.



The cinematic playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
IDLES - Mercedes Marxist/Single
Imperial Teen - We Do What We Do Best/Single
Versing - Offering/10000
Skyjelly - Terra Nostra/We Pull the Stars Over Our Heads Like Covers
Greys - Kill Appeal/Age Hasn't Spoiled You
Mini Mansions (feat. Alison Mossheart) - Hey Lover/Guy Walks Into a Bar...
Titus Andronicus - Tumult Around the World/An Obelisk
Teenage Wrist - Mary/Counting Flies EP
Hash Redactor - Good Sense/Drecksound
WIVES - Waving Past Nirvana/Single
Middle Kids - Real Thing/New Songs for Old Problems
Sebadoh - Celebrate the Void/Act Surprised
Pile - Your Performance/Green and Gray
Mike Adams at His Honest Weight - Pressing Mesh/There Is No Feeling Better
Just Mustard - Frank/Single
Matt Surfin' & Friends - VibroChamp/Matt Surfin' & Friends
Cosmonauts - Faces for Radio/Star 69

Hour 2: Soundtracks
The Folk Implosion - Natural One/Kids soundtrack
The Replacements - Unsatisfied/Adventureland
Dave Grohl - How Do You Do/Touch
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Bellbottoms/Baby Driver
Pavement - Painted Soldiers/Kids In the Hall: Brain Candy
Thurston Moore - Psychic Hearts/Suburbia
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Hold Tight/Grindhouse: Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof
Revels - Bring Out the Gimp/Comanche - Music From the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights/Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
Mudhoney - Overblown/Singles
Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight/This Is Spinal Tap 
Max Webster - Diamonds Diamonds/High Life
Sloan - Everything You've Done Wrong/The Virgin Suicides
The Tragically Hip - Courage (For Hugh MacLennan)/The Sweet Hereafter
Split Enz - I Got You/Beautiful Girls
The Cure - In Between Days/Grosse Pointe Blank
Pulp - We Are the Boys/Velvet Goldmine

 

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Stuck In Thee Garage #271: May 17, 2019

If you weren't there, Y2K anxiety was real. Twenty years ago, there was much hype and hullabaloo about the impending crisis that would ensue on Jan. 1, 2000 when all the computers would go haywire. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1999 in hour 2. It was the end of the century and the millennium and everybody was bracing for impact. When in reality, the biggest menace was Shasta McNasty.



The Napster-proof playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Hash Redactor - Step 2: Success/Drecksound
Sebadoh - Raging River/Act Surprised
Black Mountain - Boogie Lover/Destroyer
The Mountain Goats - Doc Gooden/In League With Dragons
Weyes Blood - Andromeda/Titanic Rising
Tacocat - Little Friend/This Mess is a Place
Remo Drive - The Grind/Natural, Everyday Degradation
Slow Pulp - New Media/Big Day EP
Cosmonauts - Medio Litro/Star 69
Craig Finn - Something to Hope For/I Need a New War
Jenny Lewis - Do Si Do/On the Line
Jeff Tweedy - Empty Head/WARMER
Wand - Thin Air/Laughing Matter
White Denim - Head Spinning/Side Effects
Silkworm - Dust My Broom/In the West reissue

Hour 2: 1999
The Sheila Divine - Hum/New Parade
Built to Spill - The Plan/Keep It Like a Secret
The Flaming Lips - Waitin' for a Superman/The Soft Bulletin
Sloan - Friendship/Between the Bridges
Gigolo Aunts - The Big Lie/Minor Chords and Major Themes
Sebadoh - Flame/The Sebadoh
Beck - Get Real Paid/Midnite Vultures
Chris Cornell - Flutter Girl/Euphoria Morning
Ben Folds Five - Army/The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Songs: Ohia - Hot Black Silk/Axxess & Ace
My Morning Jacket - O is the One That is Real/MMJ-Songs:Ohia Split EP
Wilco - Can't Stand It/Summerteeth
Piebald - Giddy Like a Schoolgirl/If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds, It Would Be Curtains For Us All
Frank Black & the Catholics - I Love Your Brain/Pistolero
Fu Manchu - Godzilla/Eatin' Dust


Friday, May 10, 2019

Stuck In Thee Garage #270: May 10, 2019

Selling out was once considered a no-no for rock musicians. But now it's one of the few ways for them to make a living. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs that were used in commercials in hour 2.



The commercialized playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Ride - Future Love/This Is Not a Safe Place
Fontaines D.C. - Television Screen/Dogrel
Wand - Walkie Talkie/Laughing Matter
Sebadoh - Stunned/Act Surprised
Dead Bars - Lucky/Regulars
Outtacontroller - Trash On (alt. version)/TRASH ON!!! A Tribute to P. Trash Records
Diat - W.I.G.T.D.W.M.?/Positive Disintegration
Squid - Houseplants/Single
Graveyard Club - It Hurts/Goodnight Paradise
Deep State - Under the Gun/The Path to Fast Oblivion
Broken Social Scene - All I Want/Let's Try the After (Vol. 1)
Tacocat - Hologram/This Mess is a Place
Weyes - Everyday/Titanic Rising
Night Beats - Eyes on Me/Myth of a Man
Pile - A Bug On Its Back/Green and Gray
L7 - Uppin' the Ice/Scatter the Rats
Guided By Voices - Blue Jay House/Warp and Woof

Hour 2: Sellouts
Gary Numan - Cars/The Pleasure Principle
Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Rush - Fly By Night/Fly By Night
The Kinks - Picture Book/Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Pixies - Gigantic/Surfer Rosa
Metric - Help I'm Alive/Fantasies
The Heavy - How You Like Me Now/The House That Dirt Built
Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)/Mothership Connection
Run-D.M.C. - It's Tricky/Raising Hell
Beastie Boys - Sabotage/Ill Communication
Queens of the Stone Age - Smooth Sailing/...Like Clockwork
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary/Love
Jane's Addiction - Stop/Ritual De Lo Habitual
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?/Singles Going Steady
Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy/Raw Power


Friday, May 03, 2019

Stuck In Thee Garage #269: May 3, 2019

As long as there's been music, there's been other people doing cover versions of it. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played great covers in hour 2. They're hotter than a Steven Seagal guitar solo.



The coverlicioius playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Courtney Barnett - Everybody Here Hates You/Single
L7 - Burn Baby/Scatter the Rats
Black Mountain - Future Shade/Destroyer
Matt Surfin' and Friends - Life of Luxury lol/Matt Surfin' and Friends
Cosmonauts - Seven Sisters/Star 69
OCnotes - Better Days/Single
Quivers - You're Not Always On My Mind/Single
Craig Finn - Magic Marker/I Need a New War
Jeff Tweedy - Family Ghost/WARMER
Slow Pulp - High/Big Day EP
Elva - Tailwind/Winter Sun
Uranium Club - Grease Monkey/The Cosmo Cleaners
Fitness Womxn - Easy/American Idylls
PUP - Morbid Stuff/Morbid Stuff
Ex Hex - No Reflection/It's Real
Kiwi Jr. - Murder in the Cathedral/Football Money
Silkworm - Into the Woods/In the West reissue

Hour 2: Covers
The Clash - Police On My Back (The Equals)/Sandinista!
Minutemen - Dr. Wu (Steely Dan)/Double Nickels on the Dime
Ty Segall - St. Stephen (Grateful Dead)/Fudge Sandwich
Zwan - Number of the Beast (Iron Maiden)/Honestly
Eagles of Death Metal - Save a Prayer (Duran Duran)/Zipper Down
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Dirty Old Town (Pogues)/Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead
Fred Schneider - Coconut (Harry Nilsson)/Just Fred
Telekinesis - On a Plain (Nirvana)/SPIN Presents Newermind: A Tribute Album
The Wildhearts - Waiting Room (Fugazi)/Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before, Vol. 1
Superchunk - Mad World (Corrosion of Conformity)/Break the Glass
Rollins Band - Are You Ready? (Thin Lizzy)/Get Some Go Again
Sugar - Armenia City in the Sky (The Who)/Copper Blue reissue
Soundgarden - Stray Cat Blues (Rolling Stones)/Jesus Christ Pose
Van Halen - You're No Good (Clint Ballard)/II
R.E.M. - Toys in the Attic/Live at Rockpalast 10/2/85
The Feelies - Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)/Crazy Rhythms
Sloan - On the Road Again/Transona Five (Canned Heat/Stereolab)/Recorded Live at a Sloan Party!






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