The farther we get away from years like 1985, the more we should appreciate the music that came out back then. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from '85 in hour 2. They were full of Cold War fury.
Grab your favorite missile and a couple of paper clips and listen to this:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Melkbelly - LCR/PITH
Moaning - Ego/Uneasy Laughter
Deeper - This Heat/Auto-Pain
Eldridge Rodriguez - The Girl Who Made God/Slightest of Treason
The Wedding Present - (The Moment Before) Everything's Spoiled/Tommy 30
Jonny Polonsky - Sign In the Window/Kingdom of Sleep
Rocketship - What's the Use of Books/Thanks to You
Cartalk - Wrestling/Single
The Districts - Cheap Regrets/You Know I'm Not Going Anywhere
Wolf Parade - Under Glass/Thin Mind
Brett Newski - What'd Ya Got to Lose/Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down
Bodega - Treasures of the Ancient World/Shiny New Model
White Reaper - Might Be Right/You Deserve Love
Lies Lies - '90s Kid/Lies Lies
B Boys - Taste for Trash/Dudu
The Menzingers - Strangers Forever/Hello Exile
Hour 2: 1985
R.E.M. - Driver 8/Fables of the Reconstruction
Camper Van Beethoven - Ambiguity Song/Telephone Free Landslide Victory
Husker Du - The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill/New Day Rising
Husker Du - Makes No Sense at All/Flip Your Wig
Mick Jagger - Lonely at the Top/She's the Boss
Prince & the Revolution - Raspberry Beret/Around the World in a Day
Run DMC - King of Rock/King of Rock
Jason and the Scorchers - White Lies/Lost & Found
The Replacements - Hold My Life/Tim
Sonic Youth - Society is a Hole/Bad Moon Rising
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Never Understand/Psychocandy
The Cure - Close to Me/The Head on the Door
The Cult - Big Neon Glitter/Love
Black Flag - Paralyzed/In My Head
Minutemen - The Big Stick/3-Way Tie for Last
Dinosaur Jr. - The Leper/Dinosaur
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