Stuck In Thee Garage #276: June 28, 2019

It's easy to get nostalgic about the past, especially when the present can be so, uh, not good. Of course, there are bad things about every point in time. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1994 in hour2. It wasn't a perfect year, but it had some pretty kickass music.

The cleaned-up playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Floored Faces - Birdwatching/Alright All Night
Skating Polly - Play House/Single
Sacred Paws - The Conversation/Run Around the Sun
Rose Dorn - Shaking/Days You Were Leaving
Purple Mountains - All My Happiness Is Gone/Purple Mountains
Palehound - Aaron/Black Friday
Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - Datsun Dashes/There Is No Feeling Better
Silversun Pickups - Neon Wounds/Widow's Weeds
Philary - Yay, Let's All Go/I Complain
All the Saints - Feeders/Look Like You're Going Somewhere
Greys - These Things Happen/Age Hasn't Spoiled You Yet
CJ Ramone - Crawling From the Wreckage/The Holy Spell...
La Neve - Maximum Wage/Single
Honeyblood - She's a Nightmare/In Plain Sight
Operators - Faithless/Radiant Dawn

Hour 2: 1994
Sugar - Gift/File Under: Easy Listening
Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather/Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Bad Religion - Infected/Stranger Than Fiction
Beck - Pay No Mind (Snoozer)/Mellow Gold
Guided By Voices - Echos Myron/Bee Thousand
Velvet Crush - My Blank Pages/Teenage Symphonies to God
Blur - Parklife/Parklife
Beastie Boys - Tough Guy/Ill Communication
The Sons of Hercules - Piece of Mine/Sons of Hercules
The Tragically Hip - Fire in the Hole/Day For Night
Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven/Diary
Ween - Voodoo Lady/Chocolate & Cheese
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand/Let Love In
Shudder to Think - Hit Liquor/Pony Express Record
Velocity Record - Sorry Again/Simpatico
Liz Phair - Supernova/Whip-Smart
Luscious Jackson - Deep Shag/Natural Ingredients

Completely Conspicuous 508: Ten Spot

It's part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of the year so far. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ
- Breitling's bubbling under albums: Purple Mountains, Katie Dey, Ava Luna, Coaches, Fennesz, William Basinski
- Kumar's not-quite top 10: Swervedriver, Piroshka, Cherry Glazerr, L7, Jenny Lewis, Flat Worms, Hash Redactor, Versing, Kiwi Jr., Business of Dreams
- Breitling's #10
- Veteran indie pop act from Seattle
- Kumar's #10
- Fuzzy power pop that's short and sweet
- Breitling's #9
- Shout out to Matt Graves
- Glittery guitar pop from Austin
- Kumar's #9
- Vital post-punk noise straight outta Dublin
- Breitling's #8
- Shoegaze from prolific LA band
- Kumar's #8
- Welcome return from indie rock veterans
- Breitling's #7
- Blistering EP from great Boston indie act
- Perry Farrell's face
- Kumar's #7
- Western Canadian stoner rock
- Next week: Our top 6 albums of the year so far

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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 #275: June 21, 2019

There's something to be said for perseverance. That quality of never giving up, no matter the obstacles that are thrown in your way. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about perseverance in hour 2. They'll keep you pushing toward your goal, no matter how unrealistic it is.

The ACME-brand playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Palehound - Stick N Poke/Black Friday
Girl Friday - Decoration/Currency - Fashion Conman
Pip Blom - Daddy Issues/Boat
Ex Hex - Want It to Be True/It's Real
Philary - Old Leg/I Complain
Dumb - Beef Hits/Club Nites
Trinary System - Modular Life/Lights in the Center of Your Head
Clinic - Rejoice!/Wheeltappers and Shunters
Versing - Long Chord/10000
Hash Redactor - Open Invite (to the Caves)/Drecksound
The Minus 5 - Well In Fact She Said/Stroke Manor
The Reconstructed - Swing the Hammer, Free/Great North Wind
The Mountain Goats - Sicilian Crest/In League With Dragons
PUP - Bare Hands/Morbid Stuff
Nanami Ozone - On the Ground/NO
Frankie & the Witch Fingers - Purple Velvet/ZAM
Kiwi Jr. - Wicked Witches/Football Money

Hour 2: Perseverance
Bleached - Keep On Keepin' On/Welcome the Worms
Modern Time Machines - Freefall (Can't Stop)/MTM
Sloan - Don't Stop (If It Feels Good Do It)/12
Pugwash - Keep Movin' On/Almanac
The Stone Roses - Don't Stop/The Stone Roses
Wilco - Nothingsevergonnastandinmy way (Again)/Summerteeth
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Can't Stop/Now I Got Worry
Velvet Crush - Keep on Lingerin'/Teenage Symphonies to God
Husker Du - Keep Hanging On/Flip Your Wig
Sheer Mag - Can't Stop Fighting/III
The Night Marchers - And I Keep Hanging On/See You in Magic
Motley Crue - Stick to Your Guns/Too Fast For Love bonus track
Led Zeppelin - I Can't Quit You Baby/Led Zeppelin
Queens of the Stone Age - You Can't Quit Me Baby/Queens of the Stone Age

Completely Conspicuous 507: Half and Half

I'm joined by guest Jay Breitling as we discuss the year in rock music so far. Listen to the episode below or download directly.


Show notes:
- Recorded at Clicky Clicky world HQ
- Back for the attack
- Kumar: Just back from Philly
- Coming up in December: We pick our favorite music of the decade
- Apple is doing away with iTunes, but it's not that big a deal
- Some people are freaking out, but there are other options
- It was good for making playlists
- Kumar: Still need downloads to build radio show playlist
- People don't need to own music anymore
- Kumar: Use free versions of Spotify and YouTube to stream
- Somebody stole a bunch of Radiohead outtakes, band responds by putting it up for sale on Bandcamp
 - Breitling's curb vinyl haul
- The Dio hologram tour is ongoing
- Our verdict: Stay home
- The festivals keep going
- The Woodstock 50 debacle
- Our verdict: Festivals suck
- Breitling may want to choke you
- Reality show people are annoying
- Ja Rule explains it all
- Both of us have gone to fewer concerts this year
- We like watching the rock videos on the YouTubes
- Whither Arsenio?
- Next week: Our favorite albums of the year so far

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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 #274: June 7, 2019

What's in a name? That which we call a playlist by any other name would sound as good. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs with guys' names in the title in hour 2. It's a good collection of songs, although there aren't any that mention Heisenberg.

This playlist will make you say its name:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Redd Kross - Beyond the Door/Beyond the Door
Clinic - Laughing Cavalier/Wheeltappers and Shunters
Dumb - Knot in My Gut/Club Nites
Trinary System - When the Dust Settles/Lights in the Center of Your Head
The Minus 5 - My Collection/Stroke Manor
Skyjelly - Hello My Friend/We Pull the Stars Over Our Heads Like Covers
Telekinesis - Running Like a River/Effluxion
Jeff Tweedy - Ten Sentence/WARMER
Dude York - Falling/Falling
Sass - Spoiled by Rotten/Chew Toy
Where We Sleep - The Desert/Experiments in the Dark
CJ Ramone - One High One Low/The Holy Spell...
L7 - Proto Prototype/Scatter the Rats
Black Mountain - Pretty Little Lazies/Destroyer
Circa Waves - Times Won't Change Me/What's It Like Over There?
Bleached - Hard to Kill/Don't You Think You've Had Enough?
La Fille - Alright Already/Alright Already

Hour 2: Names
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel/Drums and Wires
Pixies - Ed Is Dead/Come On Pilgrim
The Replacements - Alex Chilton/Pleased to Meet Me
Mission of Burma - The Ballad of Johnny Burma/Vs.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Albert Goes West/Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Butthole Surfers - Edgar/Independent Worm Saloon
Swirlies - Jeremy Parker/Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
Frank Black & the Catholics - Billy Radcliffe/Pistolero
David Bowie - John I'm Only Dancing/The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Sonic Youth - Eric's Trip/Daydream Nation
Speedy Ortiz - Gary/Major Arcana
Krill - Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts Into Tears/Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts Into Tears
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Calvin/Acme
Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead (Theme from Superfly)/Superfly soundtrack
Beastie Boys - Johnny Ryall/Paul's Boutique
Run DMC - Peter Piper/Raising Hell
Brainiac - Vincent Come On Down/Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Paw - Max the Silent/Death to Traitors