Friday, August 14, 2020

Stuck In Thee Garage #334: August 14, 2020

 First impressions are important. So it makes sense that the first song on an album should be a grabber. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played great album openers in hour 2. They'll get you pumped up. And remember, there's always money in the banana stand. Not really relevant to the point at hand, but important to note regardless.

This playlist is like cash money:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Psychedelic Furs - The Boy Who Invented Rock & Roll/Made of Rain

Wye Oak - AEIOU/No Horizon EP

Emerald Comets - Swoon/Strangelands

Pillow Queens - Handsome Wife/In Waiting

Crack Cloud - Tunnel Vision/Pain Olympics

The Beths - Acrid/Jump Rope Gazers

Illuminati Hotties - free ppls/FREE I.H.: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For

Alice Bag - Breadcrumbs/Sister Dynamite

Cloud Nothings - The Mess Is Permanent/The Black Hole Understands

Blitzen Trapper - Masonic Temple Microdose #1/Holy Smokes Future Jokes

My Morning Jacket - Wasted/The Waterfall II

Fontaines D.C. - I Was Not Born/A Hero's Death

The Budos Band - Long In the Tooth/Long In the Tooth

Richard Dawson - Two Halves/2020


Hour 2: Album openers

Living Colour - Time's Up/Time's Up

Drive Like Jehu - Here Come the Rome Plows/Yank Crime

Helmet - Wilma's Rainbow/Betty

The Stooges - Down On the Street/Fun House

Pavement - Stereo/Brighten the Corners

Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces/Whatever and Ever Amen

The Cure - In Between Days/The Head on the Door

Metric - Help I'm Alive/Fantasies

The Pretenders - Precious/Pretenders

Dinosaur Jr. - The Wagon/Green Mind

The Posies - Dream All Day/Frosting On the Beater

Girls Against Boys - Park Avenue/Freak*On*Ica

Rocket From the Crypt - Middle/Scream, Dracula, Scream!

New Bomb Turks - Id Slips In/Information Highway Revisited

Queens of the Stone Age - You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar But I Feel Like a Millionaire/Songs For the Deaf

Rancid - Maxwell Murder/...And Out Come the Wolves

Masters of Reality - The Candy Song/Masters of Reality



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