Stuck In Thee Garage #388: August 27, 2021

Scumbags are an unfortunate reality of life. Like many other unpleasant things, we have to deal with them from time to time.This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about scumbags in hour 2. The songs are much more enjoyable than having to encounter a rich d-bag from an '80s teen movie.

Unlike Steff there, this playlist is very cool:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Parquet Courts - Walking at a Downtown Pace/Sympathy For Life

Pardoner - Broadway/Came Down Different

Ducks Ltd. - Oblivion/Get Bleak

Alan Vega - Nothing Left/After Dark

Ty Segall - Harmonizer/Harmonizer

Alexalone - Electric Sickness/Alexaloneworld

La Bonte - Francis Right/Don't Let This Define Me

Enumclaw - Eat/Jimbo Demo

Stuck - Serf the Web/Content That Makes You Feel Good

Descendents - To Remember/9th and Walnut

Cub Scout Bowling Pins - She Cannot Know/Clang Clang Ho

Occurrence - The Preferred One/I Have So Much Love to Give

Tycho & Benjamin Gibbard - Only Love/Single

Nox Novacula - Victim/Ascension

Ash Code - Fear (Forever Grey remix)/Fear EP

Piroshka - Echo Loco/Love Drips & Gathers

Hour 2: Scumbags

The Young Leaves - Scumbag/Life Underneath

Thin Lips - I Know I'm the Asshole/Chosen Family

Beck - Mutherfucker/Mellow Gold

Them Crooked Vultures - Scumbag Blues/Them Crooked Vultures

Peeping Tom - Sucker (feat. Norah Jones)/Peeping Tom

Against Me - Osama Bin Laden as the Crucified Christ/Transgender Dysphoria Blues

Living Colour - Asshole/The Chair in the Doorway

Rilo Kiley - Asshole/Rilo Kiley

Dios Malos - Asshole/Starting Five

PJ Harvey - Who the Fuck?/Uh Huh Her

Arctic Monkeys - Red Right Hand/Crying Lightning

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee/Murder Ballads

Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do/Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap/Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Paw - Death to Traitors/Death to Traitors

Mudhoney - Douchebags on Parade/Vanishing Point

Stuck In Thee Garage #387: August 20, 2021

We spend a lot of time over our lifetimes obsessing about two things: life and death. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I did something a little different and played songs about life in hour 1 and songs about death in hour 2. It's a duality thing, yo.

This playlist is suitable for all occasions:

Hour 1: Life

Prince and the Revolution - Pop Life/Around the World in a Day

Run the Jewels - All My Life/Run the Jewels 2

Talking Heads - Life During Wartime/Stop Making Sense

Spoon - Back to the Life/Kill the Moonlight

Woolen Men - Life in Hell/Temporary Monument

Cloud Nothings - Another Way of Life/Last Building Burning

Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life/Grace

Peter Gabriel - Kiss of Life/Security

Wolf Parade - Artificial Life/Cry Cry Cry

The Replacements - Hold My Life/Time

PUP - My Life Is Over and I Couldn't Be Happier/The Dream Is Over

Sloan - The Best Part of Your Life/B-Sides Win: extras, bonus tracks and b-sides 1992-2008

The Feelies - It's Only Life/Only Life

R.E.M. - Imitation of Life/Reveal

Pavement - Range Life/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Hour 2: Death

The Clash - Death or Glory/London Calling

Iggy & the Stooges - Death Trip/Raw Power

Bullet Lavolta - Birth of Death/The Gift

Fred Wesley and the J.B.s - Doing It to Death/Doing It to Death

Violent Femmes - Country Death Song/Hallowed Ground

Silver Jews - Like Like the the the Death/American Water

Hot Snakes - Death Doula/Jericho Sirens

Parquet Courts - Death Will Bring Change/Wide Awake!

of Montreal - Death Is Not a Parallel Move/Skeletal Lamping

The Pursuit of Happiness - Glamourous Death/Where's the Bone

Speedy Ortiz - Death Note/Foiled Again EP

Mark Lanegan - Driving Death Valley Blues/Bubblegum

The Tragically Hip - Inevitability of Death/Day For Night

Motorhead - Killed By Death/No Remorse

Stuck In Thee Garage #386: August 13, 2021

In 1996, I was in a very different place in my life, as I suspect pretty much everyone was. Some people reading this may not even have been born yet. As for me, I was still in my 20s, living a pretty carefree existence. And enjoying a lot of great music, some of which I played in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage this week. So get pumped up like Big Ern McCracken.

The kingpin of all playlists:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Film School - Superperfection/We Weren't Here

Alexalone - Unpacking My Feelings/Alexaloneworld

Ty Segall - Erased/Harmonizer

Wet Leg - Chaise Lounge/Wet Leg

Stuck - Labor Leisure/Content That Makes You Feel Good

Piroshka - Wanderlust/Love Drips & Gathers

Yves Tumor - Katrina/The Asymptotical World

Sleater-Kinney - Favorite Neighbor/Path of Wellness

La Bonte - Step Out/Don't Let This Define Me

Near Beer - Some Party/Sleeping Is For Suckers

Fiddlehead - Life Notice/Between the Richness

Mudhoney - Into the Drink/Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Fake Fruit - Lying Legal Horror Lawyers/Fake Fruit

Maximo Park - Ardour/Nature Always Wins

Shame - Harsh Degrees/Drunk Tank Pink

Sweet Nobody - Little Ghost/We're Trying Our Best

Squirrel Flower - Big Beast/Planet (i)

Hour 2: 1996

Nada Surf - Popular/High/Low

Sebadoh - Worst Thing/Harmacy

Weezer - The Good Life/Pinkerton

Sloan - Autobiography/One Chord to Another

Jonny Polonsky - Love Lovely Love/Hi My Name Is Jonny

The Posies - Throwaway/Amazing Disgrace

The Afghan Whigs - Double Day/Black Love

Pearl Jam - Habit/No Code

Frank Black - You Ain't Me/The Cult of Ray

Lush - Ladykillers/Lovelife

Suede - Trash/Coming Up

Wilco - I Got You (At the End of the Century)/Being There

The Fugees - Ready Or Not/The Score

De La Soul - Big Brother Beat (feat. Mos Def)/Stakes Is High

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Chicken Dog/Now I Got Worry

Beck - High 5 (Rock the Catskills)/Odelay

Stuck In Thee Garage #385: August 6, 2021

It's no fun to be broke. Most of us have had to deal with it at some point. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about being broke in hour 2. It's fun enough to keep you from drinking a whole bottle of cough syrup.

This playlist has its back against the wall:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Ty Segall - Whisper/Harmonizer

Yves Tumor - ...And Loyalty Is a Nuisance Child/The Asymptotical World

Pardoner - Totally Evil Powers/Came Down Different

Mudhoney - Let It Slide/Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge 30th anniversary reissue

Mac McCaughan - Dawn Bends/The Sound of Yourself

Courtney Barnett - Rae Street/Things Take Time, Take Time

Islands - Gore/Islomania

The Vega Bodegas - All My Fish Are Dead/Single

Stuck - City of Police/Content That Makes You Feel Good

Descendents - Ride the Wild/9th & Walnut

Enumclaw - Fast N All/Jimbo Demo

Pom Pom Squad - Shame Reactions/Death of a Cheerleader

Piroshka - VO/Love Drips & Gathers

Split Single - Bitten by the Sound/Amplificado

Death From Above 1979 - No War/Is 4 Lovers

TUNS - Holding My Breath/Duly Noted

The Suburbs - Summertime/Poet's Party

Modest Mouse - Leave a Light On/The Golden Casket

Hour 2: Broke

Primus - My Name Is Mud/Pork Soda

Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress/Audit In Progress

Don Babylon - Ain't Got No Money/Foul!

OFF! - Man From Nowhere/OFF!

Ike Turner Presents the Family Vibes - Garbage Man/Confined to Soul

Spinal Tap - Gimme Some Money/Back From the Dead

Pulp - Common People/Live at the Melkweg 12/8/95

The White Stripes - Bone Broke/Icky Thump

Dead Moon - Poor Born/What a Way to See the Old Girl Go

Nirvana - Something In the Way/MTV Unplugged In New York

Dead Meadow - Hard Times/Hard People - Old Growth

Fridge Poetry - Hard Times/Half the Battle

Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm/Bringing It All Back Home

The Fall - Fit and Working Again/Live at St. Helen's Technical College 1981

Drive-By Truckers - This Fucking Job/Live at Daytrotter 7/6/10

 

Completely Conspicuous 572: History Never Repeats

Celebrating the show's 15th birthday with a look back at some key moments over the years. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Going the clip show route

- Episode 2: The early days

- Episode 72: The first guest, featuring Jay Breitling

- Episode 141: Talking about mixtapes, including recordings I made when I was 13-14

- Episode 146: Talking to Amanda Guest about college radio

- Episode 186: My visit to Seattle, which got off to a strange start

- Episode 253: Ric Dube and I break down "Smokin' In the Boys Room"

- Episode 315: Brian Salvatore and I torture ourselves by listening to Van Halen III

- Episode 494: Talking about drug-related concert experiences with Phil Stacey.

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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.