Stuck In Thee Garage #340: September 25, 2020

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

Cracker - Happy Birthday to Me/Cracker

Max Webster - Hangover/Live Magnetic Air

The Afghan Whigs - Miles Iz Ded/Congregation

Helium - Pat's Trick/The Dirt of Luck

Luscious Jackson - Surprise/Natural Ingredients

The Amps - Tipp City/Pacer

The Muffs - End It All/Blonder and Blonder

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #339: September 18, 2020

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

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #338: September 11, 2020

Your heroes tend to evolve over the years. They may start out as comic book or movie superheroes, turn into athletes or musicians, maybe become politicians or other public figures, and then end up back as superheroes. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about heroes in hour 2.

None of these songs was written by George Costanza:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Hot Snakes - Not In Time/Single

Throwing Muses - Bo Diddley Bridge/Sun Racket

Sweeping Promises - Hunger For a Way Out/Hunger For a Way Out

Hallelujah the Hills - Popular Anti-Depressants of the 21st Century/Single

Eels - Baby Let's Make It Real/Single

Land of Talk - Footnotes/Indistinct Conversations

Kestrels - Vanishing Point/Dream or Don't Dream

Lo Tom - Start Payin'/LP2

Jonny Polonsky - You Turn Me On (Jim Sclavunos remix)/You Turn Me On (Jim Sclavunos remix)

Chicano Batman - The Prophet/Invisible People

Illuminati Hotties - superiority complex (big noise)/FREE I.H.: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For

 Bully - Where to Start/SUGAREGG

Alice Bag - Risk It/Sister Dynamite

Happyness - Undone/floatr

X - Water & Wine/Alphabetland

Knot - I Live in Fear/Knot

Cloud Nothings - A Weird Interaction/The Black Hole Understands

The Pursuit of Happiness - On & On & On/Brave New Waves

Hour 2: Heroic

Dambuilders - Colin's Heroes/Encendedor

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Even Heroes Have to Die/The Brutalist Bricks

Tin Machine - Working Class Hero/Tin Machine

Black Grape - Kelly's Heroes/It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah

The Libertines - Time For Heroes/Up the Bracket

A Giant Dog - Hero For the Weekend/Toy

Foo Fighters - My Hero/The Colour and the Shape

The Hellacopters - Throw Away Heroes/High Visibility

Rollins Band - Shine/Weight

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Western Hero/Sleeps With Angels

The Flaming Lips - Waitin' For a Superman/The Soft Bulletin

Pixies - Tony's Theme/Surfer Rosa

Husker Du - Sunshine Superman/Savage Young Du

Pylon - Batman/Live

Prince - Batdance/Batman: Motion Picture Soundtrack

Completely Conspicuous 541: The Great Gig in the Sky

I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss our favorite albums of 1973. Listen to the episode below or download directly.

Show notes:

- Recorded via Zoom

- "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" was big in '73

- Dark Side of the Moon spent 741 weeks on the Billboard albums chart

- Big singles from Jim Croce, Paul Simon, Roberta Flack, Stories, Joe Walsh, Stealers Wheel

- Jay's bubbling under albums: Wings, Queen, Lou Reed, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, John Lennon, Sabbath

- Marvin Gaye: Not a subtle man

- Phil's bubbling under: Bob Marley and the Wailers, ZZ Top, Grateful Dead, Gram Parsons, Rolling Stones, ELP, Iggy and the Stooges

- Jay's top albums: NY Dolls, Bowie, Pink Floyd, The Who, Led Zep

- Dark Side of the Moon has been so overplayed over the years, but still a great album

- Phil's top albums: Allman Brothers, Elton John, Bowie, The Who, Led Zep

- The ridiculous coincidences of HBO's Vinyl

- Quadrophenia is the last great Who album

- The underrated John Paul Jones

- Jay's favorite: Iggy and the Stooges with a blistering comeback

- Full of snarl and punk attitude

- Phil's favorite: Pink Floyd

- Favorite songs: Jay - "Search and Destroy"; Phil - "The Great Gig in the Sky"

- R.I.P., Chadwick Boseman, who was amazing in Get On Up, a 2014 biopic about James Brown

Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and write a review!

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 #337: September 4, 2020

Birthdays can be tough for some people, but I tend to enjoy them. They mark a certain place in your life and it's an achievement just to get there in my opinion. My actual birthday is in a few weeks, but this week marks the seventh birthday of Stuck In Thee Garage and the radio station that hosts it, BFF.fm. Pretty incredible to think that I've created 674 hours of radio programming over the last seven years, but here you go. I've missed a few weeks because of vacations or technical issues, but all in all, I've been fairly consistent in getting these done every week. As always, thanks and kudos to Amanda and Forrest Guest for launching BFF.fm out of their apartment and turning it into a vital part of the San Francisco music scene, and for including me right from the start.

To commemorate the occasion this week, I played songs featuring the number seven in hour 2.

Have some cake and dig the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Kestrels - Grey and Blue (ft. J. Mascis)/Dream or Don't Dream

Knot - Foam/Knot

Lo Tom - Suck It Up/LP2

Bully - Add It On/SUGAREGG

Happyness - Ouch (yup)/Floatr

No Joy - Dream Rats/Motherhood

Pure X - Angel of Love/Pure X

Girl Friday - Earthquake/Androgynous Mary

Guided By Voices - Party Rages/Mirrored Aztec

Fontaines D.C. - Living in America/A Hero's Death

Sports Team - The Races/Deep Down Happy

TARA - Oceans/Single

Jonny Polonsky - The Weeping Souls (Alain Johannes remix)/The Weeping Souls (Alain Johannes remix)

Peel Dream Magazine - Life at the Movies/Moral Panics EP

The Psychedelic Furs - No-One/Made of Rain

 

Hour 2: SEVEN

The Clash - The Magnificent Seven/Sandinista!

Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven/Diary

The Waldos - Seven Day Weekend/Rent Party

The Tragically Hip - Seven Days/Live at Hengelo 5/24/91

Black Francis - Seven Fingers/Svn Fingers

Dead Meadow - Seven Seers/Old Growth

The Gutter Twins - Seven Stories Underground/Saturnalia

Queens of the Stone Age - 3's & 7's/Era Vulgaris

Golden Gurls - 7 of 10/Typo Magic

Firehose - Number Seven/Mr. Machinery Operator

Cosmonauts - Seven Sisters/Star 69

The Fiery Furnaces - Cabaret of the Seven Devils/Widow City

Blondie - Seven Rooms of Gloom/Eat to the Beat bonus track (live at the BBC 12/31/79)

Velocity Girl - Seven Seas/Single

Varsity Drag - 7 Powers/Live Owls: Varsity Drag Live on WMFO

Mission of Burma - 7s/Unsound

David Bowie - Seven Years in Tibet (feat. Dave Grohl)/Live at Bowie's 50th birthday concert, MSG, 1/9/97 

 

Completely Conspicuous 540: Freak Out in a Moonage Daydream

I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss our favorite albums of 1972. Listen to the episode below or download directly.

Show notes:

- Recorded via Zoom

- Re-recording because of audio issues

- Missed the podcast's 14th birthday on Aug. 3

- In '72, Phil turned 3, Jay turned 5

- Big tours going on: Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, McCartney

- Different concept of band longevity back then

- A lot of soft rock on the singles chart

- Phil's faves: Neil Young, Bowie, Elton, Stones, Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead, War, Jackson Browne, Van Morrison, Lou Reed, Big Star, Stevie Wonder, Little Feat

- Pete Townshend's solo debut

- Jay's faves: Sabbath, Steely Dan, Stones, NY, Lou Reed, Big Star, T. Rex, Alice Cooper, Roxy Music, Bowie

- Favorite song from favorite album:  "Jack Straw (live)" (Phil) and "Moonage Daydream" (Jay)

- Did audiences appreciate what they were seeing back then?

- Sometimes people have too much fun at shows

- Next time: 1973

Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and write a review!

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.