Friday, May 28, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #375: May 28, 2021

After over a year in lockdown, many people are ready to travel, whether it's across town, the state, the country or the world. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about travel in hour 2.


Get ready to hit the slots:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Lou Barlow - In My Arms/Reason to Live

Split Single - (Nothing You Can Do) To End This Love/Amplificado

Proper Nouns - Situation Undone/Feel Free

Iceage - The Wider Powder Blue/Seek Shelter

The Tragically Hip - Ouch/Saskadelphia

Mdou Moctar - Chismiten/Afrique Victime

St. Vincent - Down/Daddy's Home

Dry Cleaning - Strong Feelings/New Long Leg

Bachelor - Moon/Doomin' Sun

Juliana Hatfield - Suck It Up/Blood

Adult Books - Receiver/Grecian Urn

Sons of Raphael - Yeah Yeah Yeah/Full-Throated Messianic Homage

Guardian Singles - Can't Stop Moving/Guardian Singles

Lucero - Have You Lost Your Way/When You Found Me

Jeff Rosenstock - Checkerboard Ashtray/Ska Dream

Ex-Hyena - Fortress Supreme/Artificial Pulse


Hour 2: Travel

The Police - Man In a Suitcase/Zenyatta Mondatta

Cornershop - Good to Be On the Road Back Home/When I Was Born For the 7th Time

Iggy Pop - The Passenger/Lust For Life

Balms - Plane/Mirror

Torche - Solitary Traveler/Harmonicraft

Husker Du - Travel In the Opposite Car/Savage Young Du

Motorhead - (We Are) The Road Crew/Ace of Spades

Screaming Trees - Traveler/Dust

Mr. Airplane Man - Travelin'/C'mon DJ

Pavement - Hit the Plane Down/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

The Black Keys - Have Love Will Travel/The Moan

Hindu Love Gods - Travelin' Riverside Blues/Hindu Love Gods

Tenacious D - The Road/Tenacious D

Arctic Monkeys - One For the Road/AM

Mark Lanegan Band - Driving Death Valley Blues/Bubblegum

Sloan - On the Road Again-Transona Five/Recorded Live at a Sloan Party!


Friday, May 21, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #374: May 21, 2021

Money changes everything, or so they say. I wouldn't know. ANYHOO, this week I played songs about money in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage. Plenty of songs about greed, avarice and plain ol' cash. Let's face it, money will get you a seat at the table.


Well, we're waiting...for the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Bachelor - Back of My Hand/Doomin' Sun

St. Vincent - At the Holiday Party/Daddy's Home

Juliana Hatfield - The Shame of Love/Blood

Shannon and the Clams - Midnight Wine/Year of the Spider

Sports - The Look/Get a Good Look Pt. 1

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New Fragility/New Fragility

Teenage Fanclub - Living With You/Endless Arcade

Proper Nouns - Known Unknowns/I Feel Free

Iceage - Dear Saint Cecilia/Seek Shelter

Guardian Singles - Gold Plated Cars/Guardian Singles

Guided By Voices - Free Agents/Earth Man Blues

TV Priest - Leg Room/Uppers

Pavement - Unfair/Live at Hamburg 3/7/94

Sloan - Pillow Fight/"Is That All I Get?" Live 9/20/93

The Fall - Fit and Working Again/Live at St. Helen's Technical College '81

McLusky - Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues/Gateway Band


Hour 2: Cash

Beck - Get Real Paid/Midnite Vultures

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full/Paid In Full

Sleaford Mods - Rich List/All That Glue

Rage Against the Machine - Darkness of Greed/Rage Against the Machine XX

Gories - Give Me Some Money/Sub Pop Singles Club

Funkadelic - Funky Dollar Bill/Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow

Living Colour - Money Talks/Biscuits

David Bowie - Red Money/Lodger

Black Francis - She Took All the Money/Bluefinger

Rancid - Cash, Culture and Violence/Life Won't Wait

A.C. Newman - There's Money In New Wave/Shut Down the Streets

The Beatles - Baby You're a Rich Man/Magical Mystery Tour

Spoon - Who Makes Your Money/Transference

Fugazi - Greed/Repeater

Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole/Pretty Hate Machine

Motorhead - Eat the Rich/Rock 'N Roll

Lubec - Cosmic Debt/Cosmic Debt


Friday, May 14, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #373: May 14, 2021

Let there be light. Even in these dark times, light is important to our well-being. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about light in hour 2. Play it loud and proud, and break out the flashlights.



The enlightening playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Courting - Popshop!/Grand National

St. Vincent - Down/Daddy's Home

Billy Nomates - Petrol Fumes/Emergency Telephone

Guardian Singles - Being Alone/Guardian Singles

Iceage - High & Hurt/Seek Shelter

Juliana Hatfield - Had a Dream/Blood

Death From Above 1979 - Totally Wiped/Is 4 Lovers

Paul Jacobs - Cherry/Pink Dogs on the Green Grass

Dinosaur Jr. - I Met the Stones/Sweep It Into Space

Guided By Voices - Sunshine Hello Girl/Earth Man Blues

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Thousand Oaks/New Fragility

Ryan H. Walsh - Direct Address/Single

Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade/Endless Arcade

Big Mother Gig - My Unveiling/Gusto

Rick White - Pretty Voice/Rick Covers Sloan's Peppermint EP

Nero Kane - I Believe/Tales of Faith and Lunacy

Fridge Poetry - I Try/Half the Battle

 

Hour 2: Light

Parliament - Flash Light/Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome

Arctic Monkeys - Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured/Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

The Hold Steady - Hot Soft Light/Boys and Girls In America

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat  White Light/White Heat

Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight/I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

Haywood - A Light at the End/As Long As There is Track, I Will Not Go Back

Tom Vek - Nothing But Green Lights/We Have Sound

Sleater-Kinney - Night Light/The Woods

Hot Snakes - Light Up the Stars/Automatic Midnight

Fucked Up - Lights Go Up/David Comes to Life

O Positive - In the Light/Cloud Factory

U2 - Ultraviolet (Light My Way)/Achtung Baby

Destroyer - A Light Travels Down the Catwalk/ken

The Posies - Lights Out/Frosting On the Beater

Pavement - You Are a Light/Terror Twilight

 

 


Friday, May 07, 2021

Stuck In Thee Garage #372: May 7, 2021

In this crazy, fast-paced world, it can be easy to forget that you need to blow off some steam every so often. That's been a little tougher to do for the last 14 months, but hopefully things are easing up as we move into the summer and we can actually have a little fun for once. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about good times in hour 2. Crank it up, and don't forget the secret handshake.

Troy and Abed in the morning...approve this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Juliana Hatfield - Mouthful of Blood/Blood

Teenage Fanclub - Warm Embrace/Endless Arcade

Maximo Park - Placeholder/Nature Always Wins

Fake Fruit - Miscommunication/Fake Fruit

Dinosaur Jr. - Garden/Sweep It Into Space

Flock of Dimes - Price of Blue/Head of Roses

Guided By Voices - Trust Them Now/Earth Man Blues

Bedroom - Too Bad/Stray

TUNS - Holding My Breath/Duly Noted

Paul McCartney - Slidin' (EOB Remix)/McCartney III Reimagined

Jeff Rosenstock - SKrAm!/Ska Dream

Proper Nouns - Feel Free/Feel Free

Goat Girl - P.T.S.Tea/On All Fours

Magic Castle - Lost Dimension/Sun Reign

Ian Sweet - Power/Show Me How You Disappear

Dry Cleaning - John Wick/New Long Leg

Shame - March Day/Drunk Tank Pink

Kiwi Jr. - Guilty Party/Cooler Returns


Hour 2: Good times

Joe Jackson - Friday/I'm the Man

Squeeze - Slap and Tickle/Cool For Cats

Kaiser Chiefs - Saturday Night/Employment

James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine/Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang

Chic - Good Times/Risque

Funkadelic - Hit It and Quit It/Maggot Brain

halfsour - Pleasantly Whelmed/Tuesday Night Live

Ex Hex - Good Times/It's Real

Speedy Ortiz - Fun/Major Arcana

The Kinks - Where Have All the Good Times Gone/The Kink Kontroversy

Modest Mouse - The Good Times Are Killing Me/Good News For People Who Love Bad News

Fred Thomas - Good Times Are Gone Again/Aftering

Swervedriver - Good Times Are Hard to Follow/Future Ruins

Van Halen - Dancing In the Street/Diver Down

Eagles of Death Metal - Cherry Cola/Death By Sexy

The Stooges - Real Cool Time/The Stooges

Mother Love Bone - This Is Shangrila/Apple



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