Stuck In Thee Garage #349: November 27, 2020

The strangeness of 2020 continued this week as many folks wisely avoided the large family gatherings they usually participate in every Thanksgiving. That may or may not have been a good thing, depending on how you feel about your family. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about family in hour 2. 

Hopefully you're not hallucinating over leftovers.

This playlist will have you saying, "Hey, buddy!"

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Kiwi Jr. - Cool Returns/Cool Returns

PUP - Anaphylaxis/This Place Sucks Ass

Gorillaz - The Valley of the Pagans (feat. Beck)/Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez

Eels - Anything For Boo/Earth to Dora

Elvis Costello - Hetty O'Hara Confidential/Hey Clockface

Oceanator - January 21st/Things I Never Said

Antonioni -  Malcomer/Single

Nilufer Yanya - Crash/Feeling Lucky?

Are We Static - The Godfather/Single

MorMor - Don't Cry/Single

Vanderocker - Cult For You/The Good Punk

Smokescreens - I Want to Know/A Strange Dream

Soft Plastics - Rope Off the Tigers/5 Dreams

NOi!SE - Base Rage on the Front Page/Single

FUZZ - Returning/III

Blinker the Star - The Band Is Back In Town/Juvenile Universe

Hour 2: Family

Jane's Addiction - Had a Dad/Nothing's Shocking

Snowball II - Meet Yr Dad/Flashes of Quincy

Soundgarden - Full On Kevin's Mom/Louder Than Love

Sly & the Family Stone - Family Affair/There's a Riot Going On

De La Soul - My Brother's a Basehead/De La Soul Is Dead

A Tribe Called Quest - Kids.../We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service

Misfits - Mommy Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight/Walk Among Us

Hot Snakes - I Hate the Kids/Suicide Invoice

Sebadoh - Sister/Bubble and Scrape

Iggy Pop - Sister Midnight/The Idiot

Queens of the Stone Age - Christian Brothers/Sick Sick Sick

Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother/Grace

Pointed Sticks - Somebody's Mom/Part of the Noise

Jesse Malin - Sister Christian Where Are You Now/Broken Radio

Mother Love Bone - Capricorn Sister/Apple

Mudhoney and Sir Mix-a-Lot - Freak Momma/Judgment Night soundtrack

Completely Conspicuous 546: Watching the Detectives

I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss our favorite albums of 1977. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded via Zoom

- A startling number of great releases in '77; a lot of terrific debuts

- Singles chart was topped by disco and pop: Rod Stewart, Andy Gibb, Streisand, KC and the Sunshine Band, Engelbert Humperdinck

- Jay's non-top 5 faves: Ramones had two albums, Sex Pistols, Johnny Thunders, the Damned, Richard Hell, Iggy Pop, Cheap Trick had two, Bowie had two, Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, Rush, Neil Young, The Clash, Wire, Max Webster 

- Jay: My dad had disco mixtapes,

- This was recorded before Johnny Lydon said he had flea bites on his dong

- Phil's non-top 5 favorites: Grateful Dead, Television, Jackson Browne, Billy Joel, Elvis Costello, the Kinks, AC/DC, Dead Boys, Queen, Linda Ronstadt, Wire, Clapton

- The cover of Queen's News of the World scared young Phil; Kmart had a cleaned-up alternate cover

- Jay's #5: Peter Gabriel's solo debut went in new directions, combining art rock and new wave

- Phil's #5: A fiery, concise debut from the Clash (UK only)

- Jay's  #4: Guitar rock meets post punk from Television

- Phil's #4: Bob Marley breaks through in the U.S.

- Jay's and Phil's #3: Talking Heads' debut didn't sound like anything else

- Jay's #2: Iggy Pop worked with Bowie in Berlin to produce an electronic-influenced sound

- Phil's #2: The ubiquitous Fleetwood Mac album is getting popular again

- Remains vital despite massive overplaying of certain songs

- Jay's #1: Elvis Costello burst on the scene with biting lyrics, catchy classics

- Phil's #1: The controversial Steely Dan with a jazzy, meticulous opus

- Favorite songs: "Watching the Detectives" (Jay), "Josie" (Phil)

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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 #348: November 20, 2020

Friends are important. In these bizarre COVIDian times, it's tough to keep up with your friends. It's definitely an important part of life that's been lacking the last several months. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about friends in hour 2. I mean, it IS Friday...

The official "Bye Felicia" playlist:

Hour 1 

Artist - Song/Album

TV Priest - This Island/Uppers

Descendents - Hindsight 2020/Suffrage

Weep Wave - Bury the Bones/Single

Blinker the Star - Terror of the Heart/Juvenile Universe

Peel - Persona/Peel

Ex-Hyena - Instant Fires/Artificial Pulse

Doves - Carousel/The Universal Want

Satalights - Aura Lee/Little Star

A Thousand Plateaus - Even the Sun Has a Dial/A Thousand Plateaus

Eels - Are We Alright Again/Earth to Dora

Ghost of Vroom - Rona Pollona/Ghost of Vroom 2

Jeff Tweedy - Guess Again/Love Is the King

Drive-By Truckers - The Perilous Night/The New OK

Slow Pulp - Channel 2/Moveys

Plants and Animals - Get My Mind/The Jungle

Left Field Messiah - Fuzz Machine/In Praise of Bombast

 

Hour 2: Friends

Pavement - Best Friend's Arm/Wowee Zowee

The Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends/Hate Your Friends

Sonic Youth - My Friend Goo/Goo

The Kinks - All of My Friends Were There/The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

Led Zeppelin - Friends/III

Alejandro Escovedo - Always a Friend/Real Animal 

The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend/Separation Sunday

The Pursuit of Happiness - Man's Best Friend/Love Junk

Sloan - Friendship/Between the Bridges

TUNS - Back Among Friends/Tuns

Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends/No Cities to Love

Shopping - Asking For a Friend/The Official Body

Sir Babygirl - Everyone Is a Bad Friend/Crush On Me

LCD Soundsystem -All My Friends/Sound of Silver

Pugwash - Be My Friend Awhile/The Olympus Sound

Thurston Moore - Fri/end/Trees Outside the Academy

Queens of the Stone Age - Fairweather Friends/...Like Clockwork

Completely Conspicuous 545: Beat on the Brat

I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss our favorite albums of 1976. Listen to the episode below or download directly.

Show notes:

- Recorded via Zoom

- America was all about the Bicentennial in 1976

- Disco was picking up steam

- Arena rock and MOR was huge

- Phil's non-top 5 favorites: Eagles, Zeppelin, Steely Dan, Bowie, Zevon, J. Geils Band, Rolling Stones, Boz Scaggs, Joni Mitchell, Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, Wings, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Seger, Modern Lovers  

- Like a lot of '76 records, don't love a lot of them

- AC/DC re-released Dirty Deeds five years later in the U.S.

- Bob Seger liked the double entendres

- Jay's non-top 5 faves: Max Webster, Blondie, Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, Queen, Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty

- Phil's #5: Jerry Garcia solo release spawned some Dead staples

- Jay's #5: Aerosmith continues their strong mid-70s run

- Phil's  #4: Petty's stellar debut

- Jay's #4: Zeppelin releases a sprawling, epic album

- Phil's #3: Dylan's last great album for a while

- Jay's #3: Bowie releases yet another masterpiece

- Jay's #2: Rush doubles down with a sci-fi classic

- Phil's #2 and Jay's #1: The Ramones burst on the scene with an influential debut

- Phil's #1: Stevie Wonder with an epic double LP

- Favorite songs: "Beat on the Brat" (Jay), "Sir Duke" (Phil)

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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 #347: November 13, 2020

The thing about getting older is when you look back at certain times in your life, you tend exaggerate your feelings about them, either positively or negatively. For me, 1980 was a pretty good time. I was blissfully ignorant about where life was going to take me, and when you're 12, that's not a bad place to be. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1980 in hour 2. 

I also had no idea that about 15 years later, the guy on the right would be the biggest star in Hollywood.

This playlist is not living a double life:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Descendents - On You/Suffrage

Bad Religion - What Are We Standing For/Single

Bob Mould - Password to My Soul/Blue Hearts

Drive-By Truckers - The New OK/The New OK

Fever Queen - Good Mistake/The World of Fever Queen

Slow Pulp - At It Again/Moveys

Plants and Animals - House on Fire/The Jungle

METZ - Hail Taxi/Atlas Vending

Fuzz - Spit/III

PUP - Nothing Changes/This Place Sucks Ass

Jeff Tweedy - Gwendolyn/Love Is The King

Gord Downie - Traffic Is Magic/Away Is Mine

Laura Jane Grace - Hanging Tree/Stay Alive

Miranda Winters - Little Baby Dead Bird/All-Purpose

Hallelujah the Hills - Enough Blood to Bathe a Zombie/The World Is Most Certainly Haunted And I Am One of Its Best Ghosts

!!! - Feels Good/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2

Arcade Fire feat. David Byrne - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2

 

Hour 2: 1980

XTC - Generals and Majors/Black Sea

David Bowie - Up the Hill Backwards/Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

The Clash - One More Time/Sandinista!

Peter Gabriel - Not One of Us/Melt

AC/DC - Shake a Leg/Back In Black

Ozzy Osbourne - No Bone Movies/Blizzard of Ozz

Van Halen - Loss of Control/Women And Children First 

Motorhead - Live to Win/Ace of Spades

Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless/Remain In Light

Prince - Head/Dirty Mind

Parliament - The Agony of Defeet/Trombipulation

The Cars - Gimmie Some Slack/Panorama

The Pretenders - The Wait/Pretenders

X - Johnny Hit And Run Paulene/Los Angeles

Black Flag - Revenge/Jealous Again

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #346: November 6, 2020

It's been a week, hasn't it? Very stressful for obvious reasons. I like to deal with stress by cranking out great music, so this week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played live songs that surpass the studio versions for the entire two hours. Definitely played more 8-minute songs than I ever have before, that's for damn sure. But it sure made the Enchantment By the Sea dance go by quickly.

This playlist tells Biff to shove it:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Radiohead - Bodysnatchers/In Rainbows - Live From the Basement

Ex Hex - Waterfall/Live at WVAU

Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers/Live at the Riviera, Chicago 6/16/05

Talking Heads - Life During Wartime/Stop Making Sense

R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion/Live at Rockpalast 10/2/85

U2 - Bad/Wide Awake In America

Lou Reed - Intro-Sweet Jane/Rock 'N' Roll Animal

David Bowie - Suffragette City/Live at Nassau Coliseum 

The Tragically Hip - New Orleans Is Sinking/Live in LA 5/3/91

Nirvana - About a Girl/MTV Unplugged in New York

The White Stripes - Hello Operator-Baby Blue/Peel Session 7/25/01

Fugazi - Styrofoam/Live at Irving Plaza 4/4/95

Hour 2

Jane's Addiction - Trip Away/Live at King County Fairgrounds, Lollapalooza '91

Sloan - Lucky For Me/Live at Vermonstress 10/11/92

Sonic Youth - 100%/Live at Brixton Academy 12/14/92

Queens of the Stone Age - Avon/Live at the Melkweg 6/24/02

Sugar - A Good Idea (Live at the Cabaret Metro 1992)/Copper Blue reissue

The Who - A Quick One (While He's Away)/The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus

Spoon - Don't Buy the Realistic/Live at KTRU 1997

Superchunk - Slack Motherfucker/Clambakes Vol. 10: Only In My Dreams Live in Tokyo 2009

Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song/Live on WERS 9/21/80

Pixies - Caribou/Live on WERS 1/18/87

The Twilight Singers - Teenage Wristband./Live in Amsterdam 11/28/06

Mike Watt - Big Train/Live in Chicago May 1995

Neil Young and Pearl Jam - Rockin' In the Free World/Live at the MTV Music Awards 1993

Pavement - Debris Slide/Live in Hamburg 3/7/94