Stuck In Thee Garage #358: January 29, 2021

There's a whole lot of dumbness in the world. We know this because society tends to look down on being smart like it's something to be embarrassed about. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about intelligence in hour 2. Because smartness needs to be celebrated. After all, those proton packs didn't invent themselves.

This playlist never crosses the streams, but it is streamable:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Kiwi Jr. - Maid Marian's Toast/Cooler Returns

Editrix - Chelsea/Tell Me I'm Bad

Sleaford Mods - Nudge It/Spare Ribs

Cub Scout Bowling Pins - Funnel Cake Museum/Heaven Beats Iowa

Matthew Sweet - Challenge the Gods/Catspaw

Paul McCartney - Slidin'/McCartney III

Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death (Soulwax remix)/A Hero's Death (Soulwax remix)

Oceanator - Goodbye, Goodnight/Things I Never Said

PUP - A.M. 180/This Place Sucks Ass

The Kills - Night Train/Little Bastards

Blinker the Star - Way Off Wave/Juvenile Universe

Peel - Rom-Com/Peel

The Besnard Lakes - Feuds With Guns/The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings

Eels - Are You Fucking Your Ex/Earth to Dora

Mark Lanegan - Skeleton Key/Songs of Straight Sorrow

Hour 2: Intelligence

A.C. Newman - Encyclopedia of Classic Takedowns/Shut Down the Streets

Teenage Fanclub - Genius Envy/Thirteen

Frank Black & the Catholics - I Love Your Brain/Pistolero

Dead Stars - Smarter/Perfect Patterns

Nosferatu D2 - Older, Wiser, Sadder/Older, Wiser, Sadder

of Montreal - Wicked Wisdom/Skeletal Lamping

Slaves - Artificial Intelligence/Acts of Fear and Love

Hot Snakes - Braintrust/Audit in Progress

Spoon - Stroke Their Brains/Got Nuffin

David J - Too Clever By Half/Crocodile Tears and the Velvet Cosh

Buffalo Tom - Wiser/Smitten

Blue Oyster Cult - E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)/Agents of Fortune

Fu Manchu - Intelligent Worship/Clone of the Universe

Melvins - The War on Wisdom/The Bulls & the Bees

Husker Du - The Wit and the Wisdom/Flip Your Wig

Fred Schneider - Stroke of Genius/Just Fred

Guided By Voices - I Am a Scientist/Live at Thread Waxing Space, NYC 6/25/94

Completely Conspicuous 552: Out of Control

 Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we discuss our favorite albums of 1980. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded via Zoom

- Jay turned 13, Phil turned 11 in '80

- Phil's #5: The (English) Beat with a fun release

- Jay's #5: Ozzy comes back from the dead (career-wise, anyway)

- Album was later re-recorded to replace rhythm section's parts to avoid paying royalties; original version was restored

- Jay reps for the NWOBHM

- Phil's #4: Rush tempers its prog leanings with newer influences

- Jay's #4: Bowie wraps up a brilliant decade with another classic

- Phil's #3 and Jay's #2: Talking Heads embrace African sounds

- Adrian Belew boosts the sound with sick guitar work

- Jay's #3: Peter Gabriel continues with his impressive solo career

- Phil Collins debuts his gated drum sound on this album

- Phil's #1: U2's debut is filled with youthful exuberance, mistakes and great songs

- Immersing yourself in albums with your Walkman

- Jay's #1 and Phil's #2: Pretenders debut with a perfect combination of pop, punk and attitude

- Chrissie Hynde was a veteran of multiple scenes over decades before the Pretenders

- Pretenders peaked early

- Favorite songs: "A Day Without Me" (Phil), "Mystery Achievement" (Jay)

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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 #357: January 22, 2021

Often when you think of acoustic guitars, you think of campfire singalongs or earnest folk singers. That's not always an accurate portrayal. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played acoustic songs that rock in hour 2. It's just the cure for what ails ya.

The healing playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Matthew Sweet - Blown Away/Catspaw

Paul McCartney - Find My Way/McCartney III

Mourn - House Hold/Self Worth

Illuminati Hotties - content/bedtime//superiority complex (big noise) (Live at BetaWave)/Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2

The Besnard Lakes - Our Heads, Our Hearts Are On Fire/The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings

Drive-By Truckers - The Unraveling/The New OK

Arctic Monkeys - From the Ritz to the Rubble/Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Ex-Hyena - Motorfreaks/Artificial Pulse

The Kills - Superpowerless/Little Bastards

Fleeting Joys - Satellite/Despondent Transponder

Romero - Troublemaker/Single

Glass - Mosie's Mood/Glass EP

Slow Pulp - Idaho/Moveys

Smokescreens - Working Title/A Strange Dream

Hour 2: Acoustic

Alice In Chains - Right Turn/Sap

Beck - Nitemare Hippy Girl/Mellow Gold

Chris Cornell - Seasons/Singles soundtrack

The Kinks -  Picture Book/The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

J. Mascis - See You at the Movies/Elastic Days

Black Mountain - Stay Free/In the Future

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood/Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!

Jawbreaker - Unlisted Track/Dear You

Morphine - In Spite of Me/Cure For Pain

Van Halen - Could This Be Magic?/Women and Children First

David Lee Roth - Damn Good/Skyscraper

Tenacious D - Tribute/Tenacious D

Motorhead - Ace of Spades (slow)/Kronenbourg ad

Ted Leo - Timorous Me/Live at WSUW 12/6/02

Ty Segall - Mr. Face/Mr. Face

Helmet - Sam Hell/Betty

 

Completely Conspicuous 551: Touch and Go

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we discuss our favorite albums of 1980. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded via Zoom

- Jay turned 13, Phil turned 11 in '80

- U.S. boycotted the Summer Olympics

- Major deaths: Lennon, Bonham, Bon Scott, Ian Curtis, Darby Crash

- Sony Walkman went on sale in the U.S.

- Solid Gold made its debut

- Blondie had the #1 single of the year with "Call Me"

- Disco was fading, new wave and hard rock was gaining prominence

- The never-opened Christopher Cross album

- A lot of good albums came out this year

- Phil's favorite non-top 5 albums: The Feelies, The Jam, Soft Boys, Elvis Costello, X, B-52s, The Clash, Joe Jackson, Devo, Dire Straits, Blondie, Loverboy (!), UB40, Genesis, Prince, Pete Townshend, J. Geils Band, Steely Dan, Bowie, VH,  

- Jay was out of the music loop for 6 weeks in early '80 while in India

- "Have you seen Kumar's grades?"

- Jay's favorite non-top 5 albums: The Police, VH, X, Prince, Townshend, Feelies, Joy Division, Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Rush, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, The Beat, Squeeze, The Cure, Teenage Head, The Cars, John Lennon

- To be continued

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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 #356: January 15, 2021

Around this time in 1991, the U.S. was getting ready to begin Operation Desert Storm by bombing Iraq and Kuwait. It was a memorable and stress-inducing time, to say the least. Thirty years later, we've still got crazy stuff going on, unfortunately. But this week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1991 in hour 2. And I'm confident that it's good enough, it's smart enough, and doggone it, people like it.

The daily affirmation playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Hold Steady - Family Farm/Open Door Policy

Mourn - Men/Self Worth

Pom Poko - Like a Lady/Cheater

Maxband - Cut It Loose/Top of the Stairs

Nothing - Just a Story/The Great Dismal

Fleeting Joys - Lovely Crawl/Despondent Transponder

Sweet Spirit - Llorando/Trinidad

Guided By Voices - Slaughterhouse/Styles We Paid For

Brandi Carlile - Searching With My Good Eye Closed/A Rooster Says

Steve Hartlett - heart speed/molting

Jeff Rosenstock - Caring/2020 Dump

Jeff Tweedy - Bad Day Lately/Love Is the King

Shady Bug - Peapod (Part Time Punks session)/EIS Records Sampler 2020

Wye Oak - Crazy/Going to Georgia

Sloan - Underwhelmed (Original Hear and Now version)/B Sides Win: Vol. 1 1992-1997

Hour 2: 1991

Superchunk - Skip Steps 1 and 3/No Pocky For Kitty

Dinosaur Jr. - Puke + Cry/Green Mind

Material Issue - Chance of a Lifetime/International Pop Overthrow

Swervedriver - Rave Down/Raise

A Tribe Called Quest - Jazz (We've Got)/The Low End Theory

Living Colour - Love and Happiness/Biscuits

Fishbone - Sunless Saturday/The Reality of My Surroundings

Teenage Fanclub - What You Do to Me/Bandwagonesque

The Feelies - Sooner or Later/Time For a Witness

Matthew Sweet - Don't Go/Girlfriend

R.E.M. - Fretless/Until the End of the World soundtrack

The Tragically Hip - The Last of the Unplucked Gems/Road Apples

Pearl Jam - Deep/Ten

Screaming Trees - Change Has Come/Change Has Come

Smashing Pumpkins - Tristessa/Gish

Stuck In Thee Garage #355: January 8, 2021

Okay, 2021 isn't off to a great start, so let's continue with my look back at the best music of 2020. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played two hours of kickass songs from last year. So applaud already!

The crowd-pleasing playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto/Punisher

Fiona Apple - Heavy Balloon/Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Jehnny Beth - I'm the Man/To Love Is to Live

Protomartyr - I Am You Now/Ultimate Success Today

IDLES - Mr. Motivator/Ultra Mono

Flat Worms - Market Success/Antarctica

Peel Dream Magazine - Emotional Devotion Creator/Agitprop Alterna

Eyelids - Starlight Limelight Machine/The Accidental Falls

The Psychedelic Furs - Don't Believe/Made of Rain

Car Seat Headrest - Hollywood/Making a Door Less Open

The Dears - Instant Nightmare!/Lovers Rock

X - Free/Alphabetland

Dig Nitty - Lomita/Reverse of Mastery

Hum - Step Into You/Inlet

No Age - War Dance/Goons Be Gone

Fontaines D.C. - Televised Mind/A Hero's Death

The Beths - I'm Not Getting Excited/Jump Rope Gazers

Hour 2

Run the Jewels (feat. Gangsta Boo) - Walking In the Snow/RTJ4

Bob Mould - American Crisis/Blue Hearts

Coriky - Clean Kill/Coriky

Elvis Costello - No Flag/Hey Clockface

Gord Downie - Hotel Worth/Away Is Mine

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Be Afraid/Reunions

Knot - Foam/Knot

Happyness - Vegetable/Floatr

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

Laura Jane Grace - SuperNatural Possession/Stay Alive

Emerald Comets - Insects/Strangelands

Bully - What I Wanted/SUGAREGG

Sad13 - WTD?/Haunted Painting

Fever Queen - Night Vision/The World of Fever Queen

Lo Tom - Suck It Up/LP2

Disheveled Cuss - Shut Up/Disheveled Cuss

Kestrels - Grey and Blue/Dream or Don't Dream

METZ - Blind Youth Industrial Park/Atlas Vending

PUP - Edmonton/This Place Sucks Ass

Stuck In Thee Garage #354: January 1, 2021

We're all in a hurry to get on with 2021, but it's worth remembering that there was a lot of great music released in 2020. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played some of my favorite songs from the first half of 2020. 

The masked and distanced playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Greg Dulli - Pantomima/Random Desire

Eldridge Rodriguez - Your Dead Boyfriend/Slightest of Treason

Wolf Parade - Fall Into the Future/Thin Mind

Destroyer - Cue Synthesizer/Have We Met

Shell of a Shell - My Wildfire/Away Team

Moaning - Ego/Uneasy Laughter

Deeper - This Heat/Auto-Pain

Dogleg - Fox/Melee

Beach Slang - Kicking Over Bottles/The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City

Melkbelly - LCR/Pith

Drakulas - Level Up/Terminal Amusements

Pearl Jam - Dance of the Clairvoyants/Gigaton

Bambara - Serafina/Stray

Hanni El Khatib - Stressy/Flight

Porridge Radio - Sweet/Every Bad

Chastity Belt - The Process/Single

Waxahatchee - Fire/Saint Cloud

Hour 2

Archers of Loaf - Raleigh Days/Single

Drive-By Truckers - Heroin Again/The Unraveling

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Cars In Space/Sideways to New Italy

Nada Surf - Ride In the Unknown/Never Not Together

Stephen Malkmus - Xian Man/Traditional Techniques

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Something Like This/X: The Godless Void and Other Stories

FACS - Teenage Hive/Void Moments

Caspian - Collapser/On Circles

Throwing Muses - Dark Blue/Sun Racket

Savak - Listening/Rotting Teeth in the Horse's Mouth

Ty Segall - Gotta Get Up/Segall Smeagol

Cornershop - St. Marie Under Canon/England Is a Garden

Childish Gambino - 53.49/03.15.20

 of Montreal - Peace to All Freaks/UR FUN

Blonder - Island/Crystal Ball