I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss
our favorite albums of 1979. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Recorded via Zoom
- Jay turned 12, Phil turned 10 in '79
- "My Sharona" was the top song on the Billboard Hot 100, lots of disco
- Rod Stewart hit it big with "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy"
- New wave was getting attention
- A wealth of great albums
- Jay's favorite non-top 5 albums: The Knack,
Graham Parker and the Rumour, Supertramp, AC/DC, Joe Jackson with two
classic albums
- Phil's non-top 5 faves: Bob Marley, Blondie,
Joy Division, Pink Floyd, Gang of Four, XTC, Michael Jackson, Neil
Young, The Cars, The Police, The Kinks, Van Halen, Elvis Costello, Led
Zeppelin, David Bowie, Prince, Talking Heads
- Phil's #5: Joe Jackson's killer debut is just packed with great, punchy songs
- Jay's #5: Pink Floyd with an epic concept album, their last great record
- Phil's #4 and Jay's #2: Neil Young ends an amazing run of albums with a killer (and heavy) record
- Jay's #4: Van Halen with a powerful sophomore album that expands their sound
- Phil's #3: Tom Petty's breakthrough record
- Jay's #3: Joe Jackson's second amazing record of '79
- Phil's #2 and Jay's #1: The Clash mixed a lot of styles on their masterpiece
- Phil's #1: Phil loves the B-52s, who exploded on the scene with an amazing debut
- Favorite songs: "The Guns of Brixton" (Jay), "Dance This Mess Around" (Phil)
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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.
Editor's note: Check out my podcast discussion with Jay Breitling about our favorite music of the year on CompCon (here's parts 1 and 2).
Well, what more needs to be said about 2020? It seems every year when I do these wrap-up posts, I write about how the year sucked and hopefully the next one will be better. Uh, 2020 wasn't quite what anybody hoped for. Yep. Okay, on to the albums already. Here are my top 15.
15. Drakulas - Terminal Amusements
This was a surprise release for me because I had no idea who these guys were, but once I did a little research, I discovered they were led by Mike Wiebe, former frontman for the Riverboat Gamblers, a band I quite enjoyed in the mid-'00s. The band, which also features members of the Marked Men and Rise Against, is a self-described "concept band" wearing turtlenecks and medallions that began as an arty side project obsessed with new wave, power pop, proto punk and garage rock. What results is 30 minutes of punchy awesomeness that reminds one of an unholy combination of Devo, the Damned and the Dickies. Sign me up!
14. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
On its second full-length release, the Australian combo returned with more of the jangly guitar rock it had become known for, mostly upbeat but with some new uncertainty weaving between the sunniness. The band has three singer-guitarists who all meld together perfectly, creating a compelling sound that propels these songs beyond simple jangle pop.
Recommended: "Falling Thunder," "Cars in Space," "The Second of the First"
13. Kestrels - Dream or Don't Dream
The dream of '90s guitar rock is alive and well. Nova Scotia's Kestrels delivers a terrific set of shoegazy bangers clearly influenced by My Bloody Valentine and Dinosaur Jr. Guitar god J. Mascis of Dino even contributes a hot solo on "Grey and Blue."Led by singer-guitarist Chad Peck, Kestrels packs the album with tons of fuzz and distortion, big catchy choruses, powerhouse drumming and lyrical guitar soloing. You know, the good stuff.
Recommended: "Vanishing Point," "Grey and Blue," "Everything is New"
12. Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death
A dark, roiling set of post-punk from a Dublin act that released an excellent debut only a year earlier, which made a splash here but was huge in the U.K. The band has expanded their sound from the previous album, adding in echoes of the Stooges, Interpol and Television. Frontman Grian Chatten explores the nihilistic struggles of maintaining independence in a corporate society. Fontaines D.C. is an excellent band that's only getting better.
Recommended: "Televised Mind," "I Don't Belong," "A Hero's Death"
11. IDLES - Ultra Mono
IDLES has a formula: Righteous sloganeering + post-punk bombast = Kickass songs. It's worked twice before and it's on full display on the UK act's third album. Frontman Joe Talbot makes no bones about the band's liberal leanings and it's well-timed with the social justice protests that filled 2020. IDLES have caught some flack from critics who think they're privileged white men shouting empty platitudes, and Talbot has some fun with that on this record. Getting hit over the head with righteousness can be a little much at times, but the band overcomes that with sheer power and enthusiasm.
Recommended: "Grounds," "Mr. Motivator," "Kill Them With Kindness"
10. Destroyer - Have We Met
Dan Bejar returns with another sprawling, cinematic masterpiece. As the song notes, the vibe on the album is kinda dark, filled with existential dread, dead bodies and general mid-life dismay. Sonically, the record features more guitar than on recent Destroyer releases, but it's still more electronic than anything else.
Fourth release from the Toronto noise-rock power trio is a typically pummelling affair, but with some new flourishes. The band is locked in, echoing acts like the Jesus Lizard, Shellac and Fugazi in its precise sonic renderings. But there are new elements explored, like on the soaring "Hail Taxi" and the propulsive 7-minute closer "A Boat to Drown In," which veers into majestic shoegaze territory.
Recommended: "Hail Taxi," "Blind Youth Industrial Park," "A Boat to Drown In"
8. Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM
Catchy, punchy, vital release from one of my favorite artists of the lastseveral years. Written before the pandemic, it captures the stuck-in-limbo angst of the last nine months of COVID life. Songs made to shout along with while you're stuck in your house waiting for life to return to normal.
Recommended: "Scram!" "State Line," "Ohio Tpke"
7. Eldridge Rodriguez - Slightest of Treason
Boston alt-rock stalwarts deliver a stunning release, combining feedback-drenched guitar work with tales of sad-bastard romantic woe. Frontman Cameron Keiber's vocals perfectly fit the mood with Brit-rock aplomb, echoing the likes of Jarvis Cocker as he navigates emotional highs and lows. The band is powerful and equally adept at mid-tempo laments as it is sweeping anthems. It sucks that they released this record right before everything shut down and weren't able to play it live.
Recommended: "Your Dead Boyfriend," "Another Boy With a Broken Heart," "Psychic Darts"
6. Sad13 - Haunted Painting
Sadie Dupuis has forged quite a body of work in the last several years, with Speedy Ortiz and more recently as Sad13. While Speedy definitely mined that '90s alt-rock vein, Dupuis has embraced her electronic pop side on Sad13 releases and especially on Haunted Painting. Incorporating a wide variety of nontraditional instrumentation including sitar, theremin and glockenspiel, Dupuis expands her sonic palette while still bringing the big choruses and occasional guitar flourishes. She explores death, aging and greed while keeping the sounds bouncy and synthy for the most part. A fun and deep album.
Recommended: "Ghost (of a Good Time)," "WTD?", "The Crow"
5. Coriky - s/t
What the world needs now, among other things, is a Fugazi reunion. But since that's unlikely to ever happen, the new album from Coriky is a decent substitute. Featuring Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina teamed up with Fugazi bassist Joe Lally, Coriky sounds like the midway point between Fugazi and the Evens, the band with whom MacKaye and Farina previously released two albums. MacKaye's strident vocals are unmistakable as he rails against military drone use and our authoritarian government. But it's Farina's lead vocals on songs like "Say Yes" and "Too Many Husbands" that really shake things up and add a welcome perspective to Coriky's worldview. Musically, the band is tight and powerful. They're not Fugazi, but they don't have to be.
Recommended: "Clean Kill," "Inauguration Day," "Hard to Explain"
4. Greg Dulli - Random Desire
Since the Afghan Whigs first split up in the late '90s, Greg Dulli has been consistently producing great music, even if it wasn't always noticed. Whether as the Twilight Singers, the Gutter Twins, the reunited Whigs or solo, he's been an incisive and cinematic observer of relationships good, bad and ugly. And even though he's calling this his first true solo album, every album he's made has been driven by Dulli. Random Desire features his patented piano-driven sweeping rockers, but there's more of an R&B feel to songs like "Scorpio" and "Lockless," which even includes a little electronic vocal tweaking. But you always know this is a Dulli album, devilishly exploring the dark side of romance and sexuality. And that's never a bad thing.
Recommended: "Pantomima," "The Tide," "A Ghost"
3. Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
Bob Mould has been kicking ass since the early '80s and judging by this latest album, he's not about to start slowing down. Much was made of lead single "American Crisis" because of its all-out rage at the state of affairs in this country, even though it was recorded before the racial and class turmoil that exploded this summer. Last year's Sunshine Rock was an uncharacteristically upbeat record, but Mould returns to the dark territory that much of his earlier work embraced. He's pissed out and he doesn't care who knows it. Backed once again by the ace rhythm section of Jason Narducy and Jon Wurster, Mould tears through a decidedly angry set of songs with the energy of a man 30 years younger. He draws on the anger of his younger self back in the '80s when AIDS was decimating his community, but focuses it now on different issues that are clearly devastating the country. And when Bob Mould speaks (or shouts), you'd better listen.
Recommended: "American Crisis," "Next Generation," "Forecast of Rain"
2. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
Ever since they emerged on the national indie rock scene with their second album Under Color of Official Right in 2014, Protomartyr has made top-notch post punk music. With their third album since then, the Detroit act presciently (it was recorded in 2019) calls out fascistic government actions, predicts riots in the streets and even describes a virus causing public panic. Frontman Joe Casey's vocal style evokes Mark E. Smith at times, but this ain't no Fall cover band. Protomartyr can play mid-tempo one momentand rip into thrashing high gear the next. Nandi Rose Plunkett provides guest vocals on "June 21," offering an interesting counterpoint to Casey's ragged stylings. They've never been a party band, and they dig deep into the existential mire on this one. Sure, it's apocalyptic and foreboding, but Ultimate Success Today is still extremely entertaining.
Recommended: "Processed by the Boys," "Michigan Hammers," "Modern Business Hymns"
1. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
2020 has been a fucked up year, and Run the Jewels was prepared for it. The album was made last year, but it targets the same thing that had the country on fire this summer: Racial strife and the role of government/police in fomenting that unrest. Killer Mike and El-P have traversed this territory on their previous three albums, but RTJ4 amps it up to the next level here. "Yankee and the Brave" opens the album with a punch to the face through a fictional tale of the duoescaping from police, but it's on songs like "Walking in the Snow"(written about the death of Eric Garner at the hands of police but with clear parallels to the George Floyd killing this year) and "Goonies vs. ET" where they prove to be social critics of the highest order. There are some compelling guest appearances, including Pharrel and Zach de la Rocha on "Ju$t", 2 Chainz on "Out of Sight" and Mavis Staples and Josh Homme on the haunting "Pulling the Pin." And major props for the Gang of Four sample on "The Ground Below." But ultimately, RTJ4 comes down to Killer Mike and El-P, who just burn it all down on the most explosive album of the year. The fact that the album didn't get a single Grammy nomination illustrates how out of touch that organization is.
Recommended: "The Ground Below," "Yankee and the Brave," "Walking in the Snow"
Honorable mention: Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open; Hum - Inlet; Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters; Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher; Disheveled Cuss - s/t; Osees - Protean Threat; Throwing Muses - Sun Racket; Drive-By Truckers - The Unraveling; Drive-By Truckers - The New OK; Jason Isbell - Reunions; Bully - SUGAREGG; Lo Tom - LP2; Knot - s/t; The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers; Pearl Jam - Gigaton; Illuminati Hotties - FREE I.H.: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For; JARV IS - Beyond the Pale; Emerald Comets - Strangelands; Cloud Nothings - The Black Hole Understands; Sports Team - Deep Down Happy; No Age - Goons Be Gone; X - Alphabetland; Dogleg - Melee; Flat Worms - Antarctica; Savak - Rotting Teeth in the Horse's Mouth; EOB - Earth; Jehnny Beth - To Love is to Live; Psychedelic Furs - Made of Rain; Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques; Fuzz - III; Ty Segall - Segall Smeagol; Damaged Bug - Bug on Yonkers; The Dears - Lovers Rock; Wolf Parade - Thin Mind; Porridge Radio - Every Bad; Peel Dream Magazine - Agitprop Alterna; Melkbelly - Pith; Dead Stars - Never Not Here; PUP - This Place Sucks Ass
Well, it's been quite the hellish year, but hopefully you're having a relaxed Christmas with your nearest and dearest. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played two hours of holiday rock jams to celebrate Christmas Day.
This playlist is even for that kid who got caught shoplifting at the Try-N-Save:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Eldridge Rodriguez - Baby I'm Alone Tonight (Christmas Time)/Christmas on the Allston-Brighton Line
The Walkmen - No Christmas While I'm Talking/Bows + Arrows
Gordon Downie - Christmastime in Toronto/Battle of the Nudes
Ween - Roses Are Free/Chocolate & Cheese
The Flaming Lips - Christmas at the Zoo/Clouds Taste Metallic
Broken Social Scene - Handjobs for the Holidays/Broken Social Scene
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis/Tougher Than Leather
The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)/Brain Drain
Piebald - Do Good Stuff/Piebald Presents to You, A Musical Christmas Adventure
Spinal Tap - Christmas With the Devil/This Is Spinal Tap
Lisa Simpson Featuring the California Prunes - O Pruny Night/The Simpsons: Testify
Cheech & Chong - Santa Claus and His Old Lady/Santa Claus and His Old Lady
Sloan - December 25/Kids Come Back Again at Christmas
The Minus 5 - Your Christmas Whiskey/Dear December
Greg Dulli - Candy Cane Crawl/Live at Triple Door
Kristin Hersh - Christmas Underground/Wyatt at the Coyote Palace
Titus Andronicus - No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future/The Monitor
The Kinks - Father Christmas/Single
Uncle Salty - If Only Christmas Were Every Day/Salty Holiday Tunes
R.E.M. - Merry Xmas Everybody/Single
My Morning Jacket - Xmas Curtain/At Dawn
The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick/The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss
our favorite albums of 1978. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Recorded via Zoom
- Jay turned 11, Phil turned 9 in '78
- Big festivals, including Texxas Jam
- Lots of disco on the singles chart
- Phil's favorite non-top 5 albums: Ramones,
Blondie, The Who, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Jerry Garcia Band, Bob
Marley, Rolling Stones, The Jam, Devo, Bob Seger, AC/DC, Tom Petty,
Little Feat, Big Star, Marvin Gaye, Springsteen, Warren Zevon, Cheap
Trick
- WKRP in Cincinnati on DVD and music licensing (UPDATE: Turns out a bunch of the music was restored on a recent DVD set)
- Cheap Trick At Budokan is one of the greatest live albums ever
- Jay's favorite bubbling under albums: The Police, Rush, Dire Straits, The Who, Peter Gabriel
- Phil's #5: Neil Young revisits the laid-back sound of Harvest
- Phil's #4 and Jay's #4: Talking Heads explore a more danceable sound
- Phil's #3: Debut from The Police made a big splash
- The long journey of Andy Summers
- Jay's #3: Contrasting opinions on Some Girls, but has some great Stones songs
- Jay's #2: Elvis Costello and the Attractions with an angry classic
- Phil's #1 and Jay's #5: Debut from The Cars has no bad songs
- Phil's #2 and Jay's #1: A revolutionary debut from Van Halen
- Favorite songs: "You're All I've Got Tonight" (Phil), "Running With the Devil" (Jay)
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The opening and closing theme of Completely
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The benefits of being early are plentiful, but for a lot of us, it can be a challenge. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about being early in hour 2. It'll get you so fired up, you'll smash your alarm clock in celebration.
This playlist has got you, babe:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Mourn - This Feeling Is Disgusting/Self-Worth
Bully - Let You/SUGAREGG
Guided By Voices - Mr. Child/Styles We Paid For
Nothing - Say Less/The Great Dismal
Peel - Citizen X/Peel
Steve Hartlett - bugs in the face/molting
Eels - Baby Let's Make It Real/Earth to Dora
AP Simpson - Overcorrect/Foolproof
McLusky - 1956 and All That/Gateway Band (McLusky Live)
Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm/Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Palaces of Montezuma/Nick Cave Alone at Alexandria Palace
The Paranoyds - Hotel Celebrity/Pet Cemetery
Fever Queen - Demolition/The World of Fever Queen
Sweet Spirit - Fear Is a Lie/Trinidad
TV Priest - Decoration/Uppers
Kestrels - Feels Like the End/Dream or Don't Dream
IDLES - War/Ultra Mono
Hour 2: Early
Radiohead - Morning Bell/Kid A
Destroyer - In the Morning/ken
Jody Porter - Four in the Morning/Saving For a Custom Van
The Who - Early Morning Cold Taxi/The Who Sell Out
The Third Bardo - I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time/Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era
The Tragically Hip - Ahead By a Century/Trouble at the Henhouse
The Gap Band - Early In the Morning/Gap Band IV
Run the Jewels - Early (feat. Boots)/Run the Jewels 2
Obnox - Wake and Quake/Bang Messiah
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner/Source Tags & Codes
It's part 2 of my Zoomtastic conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of 2020. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Recorded via Zoom
- On to our top 10
- Kumar's #10: Dan Bejar with another great cinematic Destroyer album
- Breitling's #9: A hooky rock record from Bully
- Kumar's #9: METZ with an accessible yet pummeling record
- Breitling's #8: Spectres with a disconcerting release
- Kumar's #8: Jeff Rosenstock has become a reliably excellent indie rock stalwart
- Breitling's #7: Hop Along's Frances Quinlan goes solo
- Reppin' for the new movie Sound of Metal
- Kumar's #7: Boston act Eldridge Rodriguez with a sweeping, epic album
- Dog walkin' time
- Breitling's #6: The Psychedelic Furs with the superb comeback album nobody expected
- Kumar's #6 and Breitling's #4: Sadie Dupuis (aka Sad13) branches out with a pop-driven release
- Breitling's #5: A true banger from IDLES
- Kumar's #5: The Coriky album is as close to a Fugazi reunion as we're gonna get
- Kumar's #4: Greg Dulli delivers a compelling solo release
- Breitling's #3: Fiona Apple unleashes a bold and uncompromising record
- Kumar's #3: A pissed-off Bob Mould with a timely blast of angry anthems
- Breitling's #2: Happyness with a quirky collection that echoes an Elliott Smith-Teenage Fanclub mashup
- Kumar's #2: Protomartyr predicts everything and continues to get better
- Breitling's #1: Phoebe Bridgers hits the big time with a masterpiece
- Kumar's #1 and Breitling's #10: Run the Jewels with a vicious, vital hip-hop record that captures the desperate vibe of 2020
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The
opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big
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Gralian.
If there's one thing that's obvious about humans, it's that we're a violent species. Bloodthirsty, even. It started with the cavemen and it continues to this day. So it made sense that I played songs about violence in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage today. There were plenty to choose from. I'd suggest playing this episode loud. It'll blow your face off!
This playlist has you cornered:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Steve Hartlett - water weight/molting
Smashing Pumpkins - Anno Satana/Cyr
Vanderocker - Supercell/The Good Punk
NOi!SE - Price We Pay/Single
The Reverbs - Trusted Woods/Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987
Windbreakers - All That Stuff/Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987
Salem 66 - Seven Steps Down/Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987
Will Butler - Electrolite/Going to Georgia
Titus Andronicus - Closer to Fine/Going to Georgia
Superchunk (feat. William Tyler) - When I Laugh/Going to Georgia
Sloan - Rag Doll/B Sides Win Vol. 1 1992-97
Jale - Again (Frank Mix)/Brave New Waves: Jale
Rheostatics - Lyin's Wrong/Brave New Waves: Rheostatics
AC/DC - Shot In the Dark/Power Up
Fuzz - Mirror/III
METZ - Framed by the Comet's Tail/Atlas Vending
McLusky - Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues/Gateway Band (McLusky Live)
Hour 2: Violence
Parquet Courts - Violence/Wide Awake!
Lou Reed - Video Violence/Mistrial
Tin Machine - Under the God/Tin Machine
Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence/Birth of Violence
Blonde Redhead - Violent Life/Masculine Feminine
El-P - Habeas Corpses (Draconian Love)/I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Rage Against the Machine - Bullet In the Head/Rage Against the Machine
Superchunk - Punch Me Harder/No Pocky For Kitty
Rancid - Cash, Culture and Violence/Life Won't Wait
Frank Black - Kicked In the Taco/The Cult of Ray
Minor Threat - Bottled Violence/The Complete Discography
Rollins Band - Civilized/Weight
Helmet - Give It/Meantime
Dead Moon - 54-40 or Fight - Killing Me/What a Way to See the Old Girl Go
It's part 1 of my Zoomified conversation with
guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of 2020. Listen to
the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Recorded via Zoom
- This podcast is not affiliated in any with MovieFone.
- The first time in nine years that we're not talking the year in rock in the same room
- No live shows after early March
- Breitling last saw Hallelujah the Hills at
Great Scott last November, Kumar saw Drive-By Truckers at Somerville
Theater in March
- Devastating economic impact on all the non-musicians who work to put concerts together
- If approved, Save Our Stages act would aid live venues
- Many independent Boston-area venues have already closed
- Great Scott may reopen in a new location
- No touring means no income for many smaller artists
- Streaming royalties need to be updated and increased
- The Breitlings enjoyed Strange Brew recently
- Plenty of livestreams, free, for charity and for profit
- Bandcamp Friday has been a good way to help out artists
- Online radio has been fun
- Breitling is doing a show with a couple of fellow Wesleyan DJs called Parcheesi Redux
- Parcheesi Redux Thursday (along with the other shows) is on Mixcloud
- Breitling's picks from the midyear that didn't
make his top 10: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Soft Pink Truth, Gigi
Masin, Peel Dream Magazine, Mandarina Duck, Destroyer
- Kumar's midyear picks that didn't make final
top 10: Flat Worms, Dogleg, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Drakulas,
Car Seat Headrest
- More Breitling on-the-bubble picks: Susie
Derkins, Hum, Coriky, Mountain Goats, Milky Wimpshake, Somerset Thrower,
Nothing, METZ, Bob Mould, The Brother Kite, Paper Birch
- More Kumar honorable mention picks:
Psychedelic Furs, Kestrels, Fontaines D.C., Pearl Jam, Lo Tom,
Disheveled Cuss, Emerald Comets/Ex-Hyena
- Next week: We count down our top 10 albums
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The opening and closing theme of Completely
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work is courtesy of James Gralian.
Milestones are important. They denote key markers, achievements that are meaningful. Today's installment of Stuck In Thee Garage radio is episode 350, which is a substantial number. To celebrate, I played songs based on a mixtape I made way the hell back in January 1995.
This playlist has cat-like speed and reflexes:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Dick Dale & the Del-Tones - Pumpkin & Honey Bunny/Misirlou/Pulp Fiction soundtrack
Frank Black - Freedom Rock/Teenager of the Year
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Blues X Man/Orange
Bad Religion - Hooray For Me.../Stranger Than Fiction
Sonic Youth - Screaming Skull/Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Pearl Jam - Spin the Black Circle/Self Pollution Radio 1/8/95
Superchunk - Saving My Ticket/Foolish
Sugar - Gee Angel/File Under: Easy Listening
R.E.M. - Circus Envy/Monster
The Tragically Hip - Fire In the Hole/Day For Night'
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Piece of Crap/Sleeps With Angel
Big Chief - Lion's Mouth/Platinum Jive
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Having an Average Weekend/Savvy Show Stoppers
Sloan - Coax Me/Twice Removed
Velvet Crush - Hold Me Up/Teenage Symphonies to God
Guided By Voices - Gold Star for Robot Boy/Bee Thousand
Ween - What Deaner Was Talking About/Chocolate & Cheese
Beck - Nitemare Hippy Girl/Mellow Gold
Hour 2
Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin/Grace
Soundgarden - Head Down/Superunknown
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night/MTV Unplugged In New York
Alice In Chains - I Stay Away/Jar of Flies
Revels - Bring Out the Gimp-Comanche/Pulp Fiction soundtrack
Liz Phair - Supernova/Whip-Smart
Luscious Jackson - Deep Shag/Natural Ingredients
Beastie Boys - Root Down/Ill Communication
Dambuilders - Smell/Encendedor
Teenage Fanclub - Hang On/Thirteen
Pavement - Gold Soundz/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Red Red Meat - Flank/Jimmywine Majestic
Silkworm - Into the Woods/In the West
Shudder to Think - X-French Tee Shirt/Pony Express Record
The strangeness of 2020 continued this week as many folks wisely avoided the large family gatherings they usually participate in every Thanksgiving. That may or may not have been a good thing, depending on how you feel about your family. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about family in hour 2.
Hopefully you're not hallucinating over leftovers.
This playlist will have you saying, "Hey, buddy!"
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Kiwi Jr. - Cool Returns/Cool Returns
PUP - Anaphylaxis/This Place Sucks Ass
Gorillaz - The Valley of the Pagans (feat. Beck)/Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
Eels - Anything For Boo/Earth to Dora
Elvis Costello - Hetty O'Hara Confidential/Hey Clockface
Oceanator - January 21st/Things I Never Said
Antonioni - Malcomer/Single
Nilufer Yanya - Crash/Feeling Lucky?
Are We Static - The Godfather/Single
MorMor - Don't Cry/Single
Vanderocker - Cult For You/The Good Punk
Smokescreens - I Want to Know/A Strange Dream
Soft Plastics - Rope Off the Tigers/5 Dreams
NOi!SE - Base Rage on the Front Page/Single
FUZZ - Returning/III
Blinker the Star - The Band Is Back In Town/Juvenile Universe
Hour 2: Family
Jane's Addiction - Had a Dad/Nothing's Shocking
Snowball II - Meet Yr Dad/Flashes of Quincy
Soundgarden - Full On Kevin's Mom/Louder Than Love
Sly & the Family Stone - Family Affair/There's a Riot Going On
De La Soul - My Brother's a Basehead/De La Soul Is Dead
A Tribe Called Quest - Kids.../We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service
Misfits - Mommy Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight/Walk Among Us
Hot Snakes - I Hate the Kids/Suicide Invoice
Sebadoh - Sister/Bubble and Scrape
Iggy Pop - Sister Midnight/The Idiot
Queens of the Stone Age - Christian Brothers/Sick Sick Sick
Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother/Grace
Pointed Sticks - Somebody's Mom/Part of the Noise
Jesse Malin - Sister Christian Where Are You Now/Broken Radio
Mother Love Bone - Capricorn Sister/Apple
Mudhoney and Sir Mix-a-Lot - Freak Momma/Judgment Night soundtrack
I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss
our favorite albums of 1977. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Recorded via Zoom
- A startling number of great releases in '77; a lot of terrific debuts
- Singles chart was topped by disco and pop: Rod Stewart, Andy Gibb, Streisand, KC and the Sunshine Band, Engelbert Humperdinck
- Jay's non-top 5 faves: Ramones had two albums,
Sex Pistols, Johnny Thunders, the Damned, Richard Hell, Iggy Pop, Cheap
Trick had two, Bowie had two, Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, Rush,
Neil Young, The Clash, Wire, Max Webster
- Jay: My dad had disco mixtapes,
- This was recorded before Johnny Lydon said he had flea bites on his dong
- Phil's non-top 5 favorites: Grateful Dead,
Television, Jackson Browne, Billy Joel, Elvis Costello, the Kinks,
AC/DC, Dead Boys, Queen, Linda Ronstadt, Wire, Clapton
- The cover of Queen's News of the World scared young Phil; Kmart had a cleaned-up alternate cover
- Jay's #5: Peter Gabriel's solo debut went in new directions, combining art rock and new wave
- Phil's #5: A fiery, concise debut from the Clash (UK only)
- Jay's #4: Guitar rock meets post punk from Television
- Phil's #4: Bob Marley breaks through in the U.S.
- Jay's and Phil's #3: Talking Heads' debut didn't sound like anything else
-Jay's #2: Iggy Pop worked with Bowie in Berlin to produce an electronic-influenced sound
- Phil's #2: The ubiquitous Fleetwood Mac album is getting popular again
- Remains vital despite massive overplaying of certain songs
- Jay's #1: Elvis Costello burst on the scene with biting lyrics, catchy classics
- Phil's #1: The controversial Steely Dan with a jazzy, meticulous opus
- Favorite songs: "Watching the Detectives" (Jay), "Josie" (Phil)
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The opening and closing theme of Completely
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work is courtesy of James Gralian.
Friends are important. In these bizarre COVIDian times, it's tough to keep up with your friends. It's definitely an important part of life that's been lacking the last several months. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about friends in hour 2. I mean, it IS Friday...
The official "Bye Felicia" playlist:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
TV Priest - This Island/Uppers
Descendents - Hindsight 2020/Suffrage
Weep Wave - Bury the Bones/Single
Blinker the Star - Terror of the Heart/Juvenile Universe
Peel - Persona/Peel
Ex-Hyena - Instant Fires/Artificial Pulse
Doves - Carousel/The Universal Want
Satalights - Aura Lee/Little Star
A Thousand Plateaus - Even the Sun Has a Dial/A Thousand Plateaus
Eels - Are We Alright Again/Earth to Dora
Ghost of Vroom - Rona Pollona/Ghost of Vroom 2
Jeff Tweedy - Guess Again/Love Is the King
Drive-By Truckers - The Perilous Night/The New OK
Slow Pulp - Channel 2/Moveys
Plants and Animals - Get My Mind/The Jungle
Left Field Messiah - Fuzz Machine/In Praise of Bombast
Hour 2: Friends
Pavement - Best Friend's Arm/Wowee Zowee
The Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends/Hate Your Friends
Sonic Youth - My Friend Goo/Goo
The Kinks - All of My Friends Were There/The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Led Zeppelin - Friends/III
Alejandro Escovedo - Always a Friend/Real Animal
The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend/Separation Sunday
The Pursuit of Happiness - Man's Best Friend/Love Junk
Sloan - Friendship/Between the Bridges
TUNS - Back Among Friends/Tuns
Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends/No Cities to Love
Shopping - Asking For a Friend/The Official Body
Sir Babygirl - Everyone Is a Bad Friend/Crush On Me
LCD Soundsystem -All My Friends/Sound of Silver
Pugwash - Be My Friend Awhile/The Olympus Sound
Thurston Moore - Fri/end/Trees Outside the Academy
Queens of the Stone Age - Fairweather Friends/...Like Clockwork
I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss our favorite albums of 1976. Listen to the episode below or download directly.
Show notes:
- Recorded via Zoom
- America was all about the Bicentennial in 1976
- Disco was picking up steam
- Arena rock and MOR was huge
- Phil's non-top 5 favorites: Eagles, Zeppelin,
Steely Dan, Bowie, Zevon, J. Geils Band, Rolling Stones, Boz Scaggs,
Joni Mitchell, Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, Wings, AC/DC,
Aerosmith, Seger, Modern Lovers
- Like a lot of '76 records, don't love a lot of them
- AC/DC re-released Dirty Deeds five years later in the U.S.
- Bob Seger liked the double entendres
- Jay's non-top 5 faves: Max Webster, Blondie, Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, Queen, Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty
- Phil's #5: Jerry Garcia solo release spawned some Dead staples
- Jay's #5: Aerosmith continues their strong mid-70s run
- Phil's #4: Petty's stellar debut
- Jay's #4: Zeppelin releases a sprawling, epic album
- Phil's #3: Dylan's last great album for a while
- Jay's #3: Bowie releases yet another masterpiece
- Jay's #2: Rush doubles down with a sci-fi classic
- Phil's #2 and Jay's #1: The Ramones burst on the scene with an influential debut
- Phil's #1: Stevie Wonder with an epic double LP
- Favorite songs: "Beat on the Brat" (Jay), "Sir Duke" (Phil)
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The opening and closing theme of Completely
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The thing about getting older is when you look back at certain times in your life, you tend exaggerate your feelings about them, either positively or negatively. For me, 1980 was a pretty good time. I was blissfully ignorant about where life was going to take me, and when you're 12, that's not a bad place to be. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1980 in hour 2.
I also had no idea that about 15 years later, the guy on the right would be the biggest star in Hollywood.
This playlist is not living a double life:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Descendents - On You/Suffrage
Bad Religion - What Are We Standing For/Single
Bob Mould - Password to My Soul/Blue Hearts
Drive-By Truckers - The New OK/The New OK
Fever Queen - Good Mistake/The World of Fever Queen
Slow Pulp - At It Again/Moveys
Plants and Animals - House on Fire/The Jungle
METZ - Hail Taxi/Atlas Vending
Fuzz - Spit/III
PUP - Nothing Changes/This Place Sucks Ass
Jeff Tweedy - Gwendolyn/Love Is The King
Gord Downie - Traffic Is Magic/Away Is Mine
Laura Jane Grace - Hanging Tree/Stay Alive
Miranda Winters - Little Baby Dead Bird/All-Purpose
Hallelujah the Hills - Enough Blood to Bathe a Zombie/The World Is Most Certainly Haunted And I Am One of Its Best Ghosts
!!! - Feels Good/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2
Arcade Fire feat. David Byrne - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2
Hour 2: 1980
XTC - Generals and Majors/Black Sea
David Bowie - Up the Hill Backwards/Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
The Clash - One More Time/Sandinista!
Peter Gabriel - Not One of Us/Melt
AC/DC - Shake a Leg/Back In Black
Ozzy Osbourne - No Bone Movies/Blizzard of Ozz
Van Halen - Loss of Control/Women And Children First
Motorhead - Live to Win/Ace of Spades
Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless/Remain In Light
It's been a week, hasn't it? Very stressful for obvious reasons. I like to deal with stress by cranking out great music, so this week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played live songs that surpass the studio versions for the entire two hours. Definitely played more 8-minute songs than I ever have before, that's for damn sure. But it sure made the Enchantment By the Sea dance go by quickly.
This playlist tells Biff to shove it:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Radiohead - Bodysnatchers/In Rainbows - Live From the Basement
Ex Hex - Waterfall/Live at WVAU
Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers/Live at the Riviera, Chicago 6/16/05
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime/Stop Making Sense
R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion/Live at Rockpalast 10/2/85
U2 - Bad/Wide Awake In America
Lou Reed - Intro-Sweet Jane/Rock 'N' Roll Animal
David Bowie - Suffragette City/Live at Nassau Coliseum
The Tragically Hip - New Orleans Is Sinking/Live in LA 5/3/91
Nirvana - About a Girl/MTV Unplugged in New York
The White Stripes - Hello Operator-Baby Blue/Peel Session 7/25/01
Fugazi - Styrofoam/Live at Irving Plaza 4/4/95
Hour 2
Jane's Addiction - Trip Away/Live at King County Fairgrounds, Lollapalooza '91
Sloan - Lucky For Me/Live at Vermonstress 10/11/92
Sonic Youth - 100%/Live at Brixton Academy 12/14/92
Queens of the Stone Age - Avon/Live at the Melkweg 6/24/02
Sugar - A Good Idea (Live at the Cabaret Metro 1992)/Copper Blue reissue
The Who - A Quick One (While He's Away)/The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Spoon - Don't Buy the Realistic/Live at KTRU 1997
Superchunk - Slack Motherfucker/Clambakes Vol. 10: Only In My Dreams Live in Tokyo 2009
Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song/Live on WERS 9/21/80
Pixies - Caribou/Live on WERS 1/18/87
The Twilight Singers - Teenage Wristband./Live in Amsterdam 11/28/06
Mike Watt - Big Train/Live in Chicago May 1995
Neil Young and Pearl Jam - Rockin' In the Free World/Live at the MTV Music Awards 1993
Boo! Yeah, I know. Halloween is a tad anti-climactic this year. I mean, how scary are monsters and ghosts and whatnot when compared to a global pandemic and this impending election? Pardon me if I don't jump at every floor creak this year. Nevertheless, it's still an excuse to play two hours of spooky, scary and just plain weird rock jams on Stuck In Thee Garage. Crank it up while you're having a drink at your local haunted hotel.
The freaktastic playlist:
Artist - Song/Album
Ministry - Everyday Is Halloween/Twelve Inch Singles (1981-1984)
Sonic Youth & Lydia Lunch - Death Valley '69/Bad Moon Rising
Frank Black - Six Sixty Six (live)/'93-'03
The Breeders - Hellbound/Pod
clipping. - Say the Name/Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Sad13 - The Crow/Haunted Painting
Ringo Deathstarr - Chainsaw Morning/God's Dream
Alice In Chains - Them Bones/Dirt
Kyuss - Demon Cleaner/Welcome to Sky Valley
Ramones - Pet Sematary/Brain Drain
The Afghan Whigs - Big Top Halloween/Big Top Halloween
The Dead Weather - Hang You From the Heavens/Horehound
Death From Above 1979 - Right On, Frankenstein!/The Physical World
Pavement - The Hexx/Terror Twilight
Wolf Parade - Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts/Apologies to the Queen Mary
TV On the Radio - Let the Devil In/Return to Cookie Mountain
Joy Division - Dead Souls/Still
Lemonheads - Skulls/Lovey
Metallica - Last Caress-Green Hell/The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited
Misfits - Die Die My Darling/Misfits
Entrance - Grim Reaper Blues/Prayer of Death
The Tragically Hip - Inevitability of Death/Day For Night
Toadies - Possum Kingdom/Rubberneck
Alice Cooper - I Love the Dead/Billion Dollar Babies
Cheap Trick - The Ballad of T.V. Violence/Cheap Trick
Iron Maiden - Only the Good Die Young/Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
As is my wont with this show, I like to get nostalgic from time to time and play music from certain milestone years. At this point in time, 2010 feels like the very distant past to me. Things were very different in my life and the world. All we can do at this point is sidle up to the bar and order something strong. And enjoy some good rock songs.
This playlist is Boyd Crowder-approved:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
PUP - Rot/This Place Sucks Ass
Osees - Terminal Jape/Protean Threat
IDLES - Kill Them With Kindness/Ultra Mono
Fever Queen - Night Vision/The World of Fever Queen
Sad13 - Oops..!/Haunted Painting
Sweeping Promises - An Appetite/Hunger For a Way Out
Miranda Winters - Double Mirror Light/All-Purpose
Rilo Kiley - Glendora/Rilo Kiley
Laura Jane Grace - Shelter in Place/Stay Alive
Gord Downie - About Blank/Away Is Mine
Smokescreens - On and On/A Strange Dream
Kurt Vile - Speed of the Sound of Loneliness/Speed, Sound, Lonely KV
Soft Plastics - Here's Where the Sun Was/5 Dreams
Bob Mould - Baby Needs a Cookie/Blue Hearts
Future of the Left - Arming Eritrea/Live at Highbury Garage 1/12/16
Throwing Muses - St. Charles/Sun Racket
Knot - Orange/Knot
Fontaines D.C. - You Said/A Hero's Death
Hour 2: 2010
Grinderman - Evil!/Grinderman 2
Black Mountain - Old Fangs/Wilderness Heart
Neil Young - Angry World/Le Noise
LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls/This Is Happening
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Bottled In Cork/The Brutalist Bricks
Los Campesinos! - This Is a Flag. There Is No Wind/Romance Is Boring
Superchunk - Crossed Wires/Majesty Shredding
Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell/Shut Up, Dude
The 20/20 Project - Back to Work/Employees of the Year
Girl Talk - Oh No/All Day
Spoon - Written In Reverse/Transference
Les Savy Fav - Sleepless In Silverlake/Root For Ruin
Drive-By Truckers - After the Scene Dies/The Big To-Do
Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union/The Monitor
I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss
our favorite albums of 1975. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Recorded via Zoom
- RIP to EVH
- We both saw VH in 1986
- In '75, Phil turned 6, Jay turned 8
- "Love Will Keep Us Together" was the #1 song of the year
- Disco was starting to emerge
- The S.N.A.C.K. concert
- Phil's non-top 5: Parliament, Burning Spear,
Patti Smith, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Steely
Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Dylan and the Band
Vision is one of the most important senses for obvious reasons, but even if you have perfect vision, you can miss things. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about vision in hour 2. There's some good stuff in here, but I don't think it will make you see dead people.
This playlist has a twist ending:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Kiwi Jr. - Undecided Voters/Single
Laura Jane Grace - SuperNatural Possession/Stay Alive
Disheveled Cuss - She's Odd/Disheveled Cuss
METZ - Pulse/Atlas Vending
Jack White - Don't Hurt Yourself-Ball and Biscuit-Jesus Is Coming Soon/Live on SNL
Denzel Curry - Live From the Abyss/Single
Slow Pulp - Falling Apart/Moveys
Lydia Loveless - Love Is Not Enough/Daughter
The Mountain Goats - Get Famous/Getting Into Knives
Eli Gardiner - Tattered and Torn/The Fire and Medicine
Hallelujah the Hills - Are You Happy Now?/The World Is Most Certainly Haunted and I Am One of Its Best Ghosts
Sad13 - Ghost (of a Good Time)/Haunted Painting
Ex-Hyena - Shades/Artificial Pulse
Surfer Blood - New Direction/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2
Stone Gossard - Near/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2
Bob Mould Band - In a Free Land (Live in Seattle 2019)/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2
Hour 2: Vision
Soundgarden - Searching With My Good Eye Closed/Badmotorfinger
Dead Meadow - Seven Seers/Old Growth
Pedro the Lion - All Seeing Eye/Phoenix
Gary Numan - Observer/The Pleasure Principle
Low Fat Getting High - Can't See Anymore/Low Fat Getting High
Diarrhea Planet - Emmett's Vision/I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
Golden Gurls - I Can See the City/Typo Magic
Cloud Nothings - Giving Into Seeing/Here and Nowhere Else
Television - See No Evil/Marquee Moon
The Who - I Can See For Miles/The Who Sells Out
Buffalo Tom - The Seeker/Single
Minutemen - Don't Look Now/Double Nickels on the Dime
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight/I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
David Bowie - Sound and Vision/Low
Foo Fighters - See You/The Colour and the Shape
Split Single - Never Look Back/Fragmented World
Spoon - Something To Look Forward To/Kill the Moonlight
- Last spoke in late March but feels a lot longer ago
- We've been fascinated by Van Halen's career, the good and the bad
- Eddie had dealt with cancer before
- Death still came as a shock
- Plenty of musician deaths this year: Neil
Peart, Andy Gill, David Roback, Kenny Rogers, Bill Rieflin, Bill
Withers, Adam Schlesinger, John Prine, Florian Schneider, Pete Way,
Peter Green
- Eddie was iconic and eternally youthful
- Brian: First video I remember seeing was "Jump"
- Played on Letterman a few times
- Jay: Stopped listening to VH in '91 and didn't again for almost a decade
- The "Right Now" video was surprising
- Dropoff in quality after Roth left
- 2012's A Different Kind of Truth was a decent way to go out
- Hopefully there will finally be some archival VH releases
- Who buys greatest hits albums?
- Eddie's guest appearances
- Jay: First became aware of VH in 1980 when Women and Children First came out
- Eddie had been quiet for several years
- Roth was doing a Vegas residency and opening for KISS just before the pandemic shutdown
- Missing live music
- Plenty of livestreams to check out
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The opening and closing theme of Completely
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work is courtesy of James Gralian.
It's become an all-too familiar activity in the last few years, mourning the loss of a great artist. And it happened again this week with the death of Eddie Van Halen at the age of 65 to cancer. As old as that may seem for rock n' roll, he was still young in the grand scheme of things. And he'll forever be that youthful speed demon, leaping through the air as he fired off another ridiculously awesome guitar solo.
I paid tribute to EVH today on Stuck In Thee Garage in hour 2, playing a mix of Van Halen favorites you don't often hear and guest appearances he made on other artists' albums. Let remember him as he was, grinning as he blew our minds. (Or showing up in the occasional SNL skit.)
This playlist (and the cradle) will rock:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Pixies - Hear Me Out/Hear Me Out
Hoodoo Gurus - Get Out of Dodge/Get Out of Dodge
Midnight Oil - Gadigal Land/The Makarrata Project
METZ - Blind Youth Industrial Park/Atlas Vending
PUP - Edmonton/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2
Guided By Voices - Game of Prices (Live at the Teragram Ballroom, 12/31/19)/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2
Wolf Parade - ATA/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2
Sloan - Silence Trumps Lies/Silence Trumps Lies
Smokescreens - I Love Only You/A Strange Dream
Jeff Rosenstock - DONE DONE DONE/2020 Dump
Gord Downie - Useless Nights/Away Is Mine
Kurt Vile - Gone Girl/Speed, Sound, Lonely KV
Hallelujah the Hills - Lemonade Pop Rocks Candy Bar Ibogaine/The World Is Most Certainly Haunted and I am One of Its Best Ghosts
Disheveled Cuss - She Don't Want/Disheveled Cuss
Sad13 - Good Grief/Haunted Painting
IDLES - Carcinogenic/Ultra Mono
Bob Mould - Next Generation/Blue Hearts
Osees - Red Study/Protean Threat
Hour 2: EVH
Van Halen - Atomic Punk/Van Halen
Van Halen - D.O.A./Van Halen II
Brian May and Friends - Star Fleet/The Star Fleet Project
Van Halen - Women In Love/Van Halen II
Nicolette Larson - Can't Get Away From You/Nicolette
Van Halen - Secrets/Diver Down
Van Halen - Romeo Delight/Women and Children First
Brian May and Friends - Let Me Out/The Star Fleet Project
Thomas Dolby - Close But No Cigar/Astronauts & Heretics
With things so screwed up these days, there are a lot more excuses for being late to things. "Time has no meaning anymore" has become a mantra. There's a lot to be said about punctuality, but dammit, lateness is more interesting. That's why I played songs about lateness in hour 2 of today's installment of Stuck In Thee Garage (plus great songs from a ton of new releases this week).
Hey, it's the "I Didn't Do It" playlist:
Hour 1
Jeff Rosenstock - Dept of Finance/2020 Dump
Bob Mould - Siberian Rainbow/Blue Hearts
IDLES - Anxiety/Ultra Mono
Sad13 - WTD?/Haunted Painting
Bully - Hours and Hours/SUGAREGG
Dig Nitty - NYC/Reverse of Mastery
Ian Isiah - Can't Call It/AUNTIE
Smokescreens - Streets of Despair/A Strange Dream
Osees - Upbeat Ritual/Protean Threat
Disheveled Cuss - Shut Up/Disheveled Cuss
All Them Witches - Enemy of My Enemy/Nothing as the Ideal
Gather 'round, kids. Ol' man Koomdogg is gonna tell you about a time when mixtapes were actually made with tapes. I celebrated another birthday this week and it reminded me of a mix I made for my 30th birthday way the hell back in 1997. That tape kicked so much ass that I decided to recreate it for this week's installment of Stuck In Thee Garage. No new stuff, just 90 minutes of quality jams (and some additional songs of similar vintage to fill out the show).
Sit back and crank it up.
This playlist will cause furniture to move:
Hour 1: Side A
The Simpsons - Itchy & Scratchy Theme/Songs In the Key of Springfield
The Pursuit of Happiness - I'm an Adult Now/Love Junk
Sloan - G Turns to D/One Chord to Another
Kim Mitchell - Rumour Has It/Akimbo Alogo
Van Halen - Sinner's Swing!/Fair Warning
Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power/Raw Power
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams/Kick Out the Jams
New York Dolls - Looking For a Kiss/New York Dolls
Cheap Trick - He's a Whore/Cheap Trick
Led Zeppelin - Custard Pie/Physical Graffiti
The Who - Young Man's Blues/Live at Leeds
Thin Lizzy - The Rocker/Live and Dangerous
The Cult - Peace Dog/Electric
Living Colour - Elvis Is Dead/Time's Up
PJ Harvey - 50 Ft. Queenie/Rid of Me
The Pretenders - Precious/Pretenders
Hour 2: Side B
Bob and Doug McKenzie - Take Off (feat. Geddy Lee)/Great White North
The Tragically Hip - Nautical Disaster/Day For Night
Beck - Novacane/Odelay
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Flavor/Orange
The Delta 72 - It's Alright/The Soul of a New Machine
Rocket From the Crypt - Middle/Scream, Dracula, Scream!
Rocket From the Crypt - Born in '69/Scream, Dracula, Scream!
Pavement - Stereo/Brighten the Corners
Sugar - Hoover Dam/Copper Blue
Homer Simpson - It Was a Very Good Beer/Songs In the Key of Springfield
Thirty years is a long time in a car. Life was so different in 1990, it's hard to imagine where we've ended up this far down the road. Sometimes it's better just to look back and forget all the horribleness. I played songs from 1990 in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage today.
This playlist will get your ass to Mars:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Throwing Muses - Frosting/Sun Racket
Bully - What I Wanted/SUGAREGG
Sweeping Promises - Cross Me Out/Hunger for a Way Out
Ian Isiah - Princess Pouty/AUNTIE
Chicano Batman - Pink Elephant/Invisible People
Run the Jewels - Out of Sight (ft. 2 Chainz)/RTJ4
The Cribs - Run Into You/Night Network
Kestrels - Everything Is New/Dream or Don't Dream
Lo Tom - No Margin of Error/LP2
Emerald Comets - Picking Two Stars/Strangelands
No Joy - Birthmark/Motherhood
Phoebe Bridgers - Chinese Satellite/Punisher
Jehnny Beth - We Will Sin Together/To Live Is to Love
Guided By Voices - Citizen's Blitz/Mirrored Aztec
The Dears - No Place on Earth/Lovers Rock
No Age - Feeler/Goons Be Gone
Joyce Manor - Leather Jacket/Songs From Northern Torrance
Hour 2: 1990
Bell Biv Devoe - Poison/Poison
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance/Sex Packets
Public Enemy - Brothers Gonna Work It Out/Fear of a Black Planet
Living Colour - Pride/Time's Up
Jane's Addiction - No One's Leaving/Ritual De Lo Habitual
Fugazi - Sieve-Fisted Find/Repeater
Sonic Youth - Disappearer/Goo
Pixies - Dig For Fire/Bossanova
The Breeders - Iris/Pod
The Pursuit of Happiness - My Neighbourhood/Brave New Waves
Ride - Taste/Nowhere
World Party - Is It Too Late?/Goodbye Jumbo
The Replacements - When It Began/All Shook Down
Buffalo Tom - Caress/Birdbrain
Mark Lanegan - Where Did You Sleep Last Night/The Winding Sheet
