Friday, October 09, 2020

Stuck In Thee Garage #342: October 9, 2020

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

Thomas Dolby - Eastern Bloc/Astronauts & Heretics

Van Halen - House of Pain/1984

LL Cool J - We're the Greatest/Authentic

Van Halen - Bullethead/A Different Kind of Truth

Van Halen - Unchained/Fair Warning

 

 

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