Stuck In Thee Garage #384: July 30, 2021

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Or so I'm told. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about enemies in hour 2. It'll make you want to text your nemesis to make sure he or she is listening. Unless it's Newman.

Hello, playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Desperate Journalist - Fault/Maximum Sorrow!

The Joy Formidable - Into the Blue/Into the Blue

Piroshka - Scratching at the Lid/Love Drips & Gathers

Pixel Grip - Pursuit/Single

Hallows - All That Is True Dies/All That Is True

Chicano Batman - Pastel Sunset/Single

Descendents - Nightage/9th and Walnut

Yves Tumor - Secrecy Is Incredibly Important to Both of Them/The Asymptotical World

Paul McCartney - Seize the Day (Phoebe Bridgers remix)/McCartney III Reimagined

Strand of Oaks - Galacticana/In Heaven

Split Single - Blood Break Ground/Amplificado

Dinosaur. Jr. - To Be Waiting/Sweep It Into Space

Jeff Rosenstock - Horn Line/Ska Dream

Proper Nouns - Terror by the Book/Feel Free

Jim Ward - King Yourself/Daggers

Hour 2: Enemies

The Afghan Whigs - My Enemy/Black Love

Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus Forever/The Monitor

*AM Stereo - Any Enemy/When You Wish Upon a Bar

Buffalo Tom - Enemy/Birdbrain

The Lemonheads - Become the Enemy/The Lemonheads

Los Campesinos! - I Warned You: Do Not Make an Enemy of Me/Romance Is Boring

Archers of Loaf - Nevermind the Enemy/Vee Vee

The Pursuit of Happiness - Hate Engine/The Wonderful World of The Pursuit of Happiness

The Posies - Hate Song/Amazing Disgrace

Superchunk - Cloud of Hate/What a Time to Be Alive

Beck - Soul Suckin' Jerk/Mellow Gold

Sebadoh - I Smell a Rat/Mellow God

Rage Against the Machine - Know Your Enemy/Rage Against the Machine

All Them Witches - Enemy of My Enemy/Nothing As the Ideal

Rollins Band - Step Back/Weight

Monster Magnet - See You In Hell/Powertrip

Soundgarden - Slaves and Bulldozers/Badmotorfinger

Fishbone - If I Were A...I'd/The Reality of My Surroundings

Completely Conspicuous #571: Come On, Sporto

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about growing up as sports fans. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded on the way home from Tree House Brewing

- We still don't get esports

- Bands who sing songs about sports

- Weezer at the Winter Classic

- Short attention spans and sports

- Sports gambling is big business

- Super Bowl prop bets are popular

- Shohei Ohtani is the greatest baseball player we've seen in a long time

- Luck is a big factor in fantasy baseball

- The occasional Toronto championships

- Some people don't like sports

- Getting blown off by Rickey Henderson

- Jay: Both daughters played competitive sports

- Younger daughter is a Leafs fan

- Watching your team lose sucks, but it's not the end of the world

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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 #383: July 23, 2021

Forty years is a long period of time. It's hard to think about what things were like in 1981, but I still remember. It was a strangely scuzzy, yet innocent age. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from '81 in hour 2. That's the fact, Jack!

The "Big Toe" of playlists:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Split Single - 95 Percent/Amplificado

Pardoner - Bunny's Taxi/Came Down Different

Mannequin Pussy - Pigs Is Pigs EP/Perfect

Islands - Natural Law Party/Isomania

Pom Pom Squad - Crying/Death of a Cheerleader

Sleater-Kinney - Complex Female Characters/Path of Wellness

Smile Machine - Stars/Bye For Now

Sweet Nobody - White Lies/We're Trying Our Best

Modest Mouse - Walking and Running/The Golden Casket

Lou Barlow - Privatize/Reason to Live

Juliana Hatfield - Dead Weight/Blood

Yves Tumor - Jackie/The Asymptotical World EP

Near Beer - The Alarmists/Sleeping Is For Suckers

Adult Books - Adriatic/Grecian Urn

Mdou Moctar - Taliat/Afrique Victime

Fiddlehead - Get My Mind Right/Between the Richness

Guardian Singles - Roll Undead/Guardian Signles

Fake Fruit - No Space For Residence/Fake Fruit

 

Hour 2: 1981

The Gun Club - Sex Beat/Fire of Love

Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver/Signals, Calls and Marches

X - We're Desperate/Wild Gift

Rush - Vital Signs/Moving Pictures

Billy Squier - In the Dark/Don't Say No

Van Halen - Sinner's Swing!/Fair Warning

Ozzy Osbourne - Over the Mountain/Diary of a Madman

Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules/Mob Rules

The Kinks - Give the People What They Want/Give the People What They Want

Neil Young - Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze/Re-ac-tor

The Rolling Stones - Slave/Tattoo You

The Cars - Since You're Gone/Shake It Up

Gang of Four - Cheeseburger/Solid Gold

Prince - Controversy/Controversy

 

 

Completely Conspicuous 570: Rooting Interests

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about growing up as sports fans. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded on the way to Tree House Brewing

- Phil: Grew up watching sports with his dad, playing sports with his brothers

- Watched a lot of tennis in the late '70s/early /80s

- Both read the sports page of the local paper

- Collecting sports cards was a big hobby

- Jay: Began watching hockey with dad, quickly became obsessed

- Played street hockey with the neighborhood kids

- Phil: We played outside with no supervision all day

- Now we don't let our kids go anywhere on their own

- Imagining you're a pro athlete

- Memories of church league hoops

- Jay: We played "foot hockey" (aka soccer with a tennis ball) every day at recess

- Street hockey got serious, playing teams from across town

- No fun playing sports against your boss

- Jay: Parents wouldn't let me play organized youth hockey

- Didn't play sports the first two years of high school because of multiple moves

- Good way to make friends

- Jay: Played a lot of sports after college

- Played soccer, hockey, golf, tennis

- It's no fun when people start acting like jerks

- Started getting involved with coaching youth sports when kids started playing

- Some parents take their kids' sports way too seriously

- Let your kids enjoy themselves

- Sports fans can be really dumb

- Going to games as a kid

- Baseball is a major sport, but it's getting tough to watch a whole game on TV

- The kids love the e-sports

- 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 #382: July 16, 2021

In space, no one can hear you rock. But this week on Stuck In Thee Garage, the rock was loud and clear, especially since I played two hours of songs about space. 

This playlist is brought to you by [insert sponsor here]:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Frank Black - Space Is Gonna Do Me Good/Teenager of the Year

T. Rex - Spaceball Ricochet/The Slider

Smashing Pumpkins - Spaceboy/Siamese Dream

Duran Duran - New Moon On Monday/Seven and the Ragged Tiger

Yves Tumor - Asteroid Blues/Heaven to a Tortured Mind

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

LVL Up - Angel From Space/Hoodwink'd

Divisionists - Colours (Song For a Spaceman)/Daybreak

David Bowie - I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spacecraft/Heathen

Horse Jumper of Love - Spaceman/Horse Jumper of Love

Ween - Eye 2 the Sky/B-sides, Demos & Rarities

Kurt Vile - Space Dad/Wakin' On a Pretty Daze 

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

The Breeders - Spacewoman/All Nerve

Fate Lions - Astronaut/Good Enough For You

The National - Looking For Astronauts/Alligator

Iceage - Against the Moon/Plowing Into the Field of Love 

Hour 2

Sugar - Man On the Moon/Copper Blue

Grinderman - Man In the Moon/Grinderman

Reeves Gabrels - Bad Moon Rising/The Sacred Squall of Now

Ted Leo - Moon Out of Phase/The Hanged Man

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Rocketship/Now I Got Worry

Orbit - Rockets/Libido Speedway

Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket/Daydream Nation

Rollins Band - Alien Blueprint/Weight

Fu Manchu - Saturn III/The Action Is Go!

Stephen Malkmus - Alien Boy/Jenny and the Ess-Dog

The Dambuilders - Rocket to the Moon/Ruby Red

Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien/OK Computer

Stuck In Thee Garage #381: July 9, 2021

Everybody likes stories. Of course, some stories can get long and/or boring, but by and large, stories are usually great. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs that tell stories in hour 2. It was pretty darn excellent, if you ask me, full of grandeur and whatnot. Now where were we? Oh yeah! The important thing was I hung an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time...

 This playlist lasts two hours, about the same length as Grandpa's story:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Pom Pom Squad - Lux/Death of a Cheerleader

Sleater-Kinney - Worry With You/Path of Wellness

Pardoner - Came Down Different/Came Down Different

Shine - Stare Into the Sun/Stare Into the Sun

Quivers - Hold You Back/Golden Doubt

Cold Cave - Psalm 23/Fate In Seven Lessons

The Murlocs - Bittersweet Demons/Bittersweet Demons

Sweet Nobody - Five Star Diary/We're Trying Our Best

Squirrel Flower - Hurt a Fly/Planet (i)

The Bruce Lee Band - You Said You Hated Impressions/Division in the Heartland

Near Beer - Teenage Shit/Sleeping Is For Suckers

Modest Mouse - Japanese Trees/The Golden Casket

Jim Ward - Polygraph (Attack)/Daggers

Fiddlehead - Down University/Between the Richness

Smile Machine - Bone to Pick/Bye For Now

Black Country, New Road - Opus/For the first time

Squid - Paddling/Bright Green Field

Hour 2: Stories

Peter Gabriel - Intruder/Melt

David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes/Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

Public Enemy - Black Steel In the Hour of Chaos/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

The Clash - Bankrobber/Black Market Clash

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Henry Lee (feat. PJ Harvey)/Murder Ballads

The Tragically Hip - 38 Years Old/Up to Here

Frank Black and Teenage Fanclub - The Man Who Was Too Loud/The John Peel Session

Nirvana - Sliver/Incesticide

Van Halen - Atomic Punk/Van Halen

Fu Manchu - Godzilla/Eatin' Dust

Iron Maiden - The Trooper/Piece of Mind

The Kinks - A Well Respected Man/Kinda Kinks

Joe Jackson - Geraldine and John/I'm the Man

The Hold Steady - Stevie Nix/Separation Sunday

Completely Conspicuous 569: Smash Your Head on the Post-Punk

Part 3 of my in-person conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of 2021 so far. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded at CompCon World HQ

- Still with the fan noise

- Kumar's #7: Sleaford Mods with perennially pissed off minimalist post-punk

- Breitling's #6: Multi-instrumentalist Colleen with hypnotic ambient album

- Kumar's #6: More IDLES-y post-punk from across the pond with TV Priest

- Breitling's #4: More Slumberland bedroom pop goodness from the Reds, Pinks and Purples

- Kumar's #5: St. Vincent goes for a late '70s Bowie vibe

- Kumar's #4: Jeff Rosenstock revisits his ska-punk roots with a remake of his 2020 album No Dream

- Breitling's #3: Blue Ocean with release combining two EPs of shoegaze

- Kumar's #3: Excellent guitar-heavy ripper from Juliana Hatfield

- Breitling's #2: Pardoner with a hot rock release reminiscent of Pavement and Parquet Courts

- Kumar's #1 and Breitling's #5: Kiwi Jr.'s second release of sardonic slacker rock

- Breitling's #1 and Kumar's #2: Dinosaur Jr. with a great collection of songs

- Let's go see rock shows!

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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 #380: July 2, 2021

Oh, Canada. There's a lot to love about our neighbors to the North. Admittedly, I'm a little biased because I was born there. Nevertheless, yesterday was Canada Day and in honor of that, I played songs by Canadian artists in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage this week. Alas, nothing by Death Lurks, however. (I also played a ton of great new music in hour 1, including songs from Colleen Green, Pom Pom Squad, Modest Mouse, Pardoner and Near Beer.)

Some days it's dark:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Colleen Green - I Wanna Be a Dog/Cool

Pom Pom Squad - Drunk Voicemail/Death of a Cheerleader

Sweet Nobody - Rhoda/We're Trying Our Best

Modest Mouse - We Are Between/The Golden Casket

Pardoner - Donna Said/Came Down Different

Smile Machine - Pretty Today/Bye For Now

Mannequin Pussy - Perfect/Perfect

Islands - Set the Fairlight/Islomania

Squid - 2010/Bright Green Field

Geese - Disco/Single

Sleater-Kinney - Tomorrow's Grave/Path of Wellness

Squirrel Flower - Flames and Flat Tires/Planet (i)

Jim Ward - I Got a Secret/Daggers

Near Beer - Sleeping Is For Suckers/Sleeping Is  For Suckers

The Bruce Lee Band - Say Goodbye to Yesterday/Division In the Heartland

Hour 2: O Canada

Sloan - She Says What She Means/Navy Blues

Thrush Hermit - From the Back of the Film/Clayton Park

Jale - Not Happy/Dreamcake

The Dears - Death Or Life We Want You/Gang of Losers

Chixdiggit - (I Feel Like) (Gerry) Cheevers (Stitch Marks On My Heart)/Chixdiggit

Teenage Head - Somethin' Else/Frantic City

Kiwi Jr. - Leslie/Football Money

Constantines - Draw Us Lines/Tournament of Hearts

The Weakerthans - Night Windows/Reunion Tour

Destroyer - Your Blood/Destroyer's Rubies

Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)/Broken Social Scene

Metric - Satellite Mind/Fantasies

The Pursuit of Happiness - Consciousness Raising as a Social Tool/Love Junk

A.C. Newman - Miracle Drug/The Slow Wonder

King Khan & the Shrines - Born to Die/Idle No More

Land of Talk - Speak to Me Bones/Applause, Cheer, Boo, Hiss

PUP - Edmonton/This Place Sucks Ass

Fucked Up - Neat Parts/Couple Tracks

METZ - Get Off/METZ