Saturday, February 22, 2020

Stuck In Thee Garage #309: February 21, 2020

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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