Stuck In Thee Garage #392: September 24, 2021

Sometimes you just need a kick in the pants to get going. Life can wear you down, so motivation is important. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs that will make you want to run through a wall in hour 2. Nothing's over until we decide it is!

Don't stop the playlist, it's on a roll:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Bevis Frond - And Away We Go/Little Eden

Eldridge Rodriguez - Megalodon/Single

Low - More/Hey What

Colleen Green - You Don't Exist/Cool 

Ex-Hyena - Nightmare Pills/Single

The Psychedelic Furs - Evergreen/Single

Dry Cleaning - Tony Speaks!/Bug Eggs

Geese - Low Era/Projector

Joyer - Crows/Perfect Gray

Absolutely Free - Interface/Aftertouch

Prince - 1010 (Rin Tin Tin)/Welcome 2 America

Ducks Ltd. - It's Easy/Get Bleak

Chubby and the Gang - Beat That Drum/The Mutt's Nuts

Split Single - Mangled Tusk/Amplificado

Near Beer - A Randy Newman Song/Sleeping Is For Suckers

 

Hour 2: Run through wall

Helmet - Unsung/Meantime

Rollins Band - Low Self Opinion/The End of Silence

New Bomb Turks - Id Slips In/Information Highway Revisitied

Run DMC - It's Tricky/Raising Hell

Run the Jewels - Close Your Eyes (and Count to Fuck) (feat. Zach de la Rocha)/RTJ2

Living Colour - Who Shot Ya/Shade

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Dang/Orange

Mr. Airplane Man - Make You Mine/C'mon DJ

The Hives - Die, All Right!/Veni Vidi Vicious

AC/DC - High Voltage/T.N.T.

Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks/L.A.M.F. - the lost '77 tapes

Mark Lanegan Band - Sideways In Reverse/Bubblegum

Sleater-Kinney - The Fox/The Woods

My Bloody Valentine - (When You Wake) You're Still In a Dream/Isn't Anything

The Saints - (I'm) Stranded/(I'm) Stranded

The Replacements - Lay It Down Clown/Tim

Husker Du - Celebrated Summer/New Day Rising

 

Completely Conspicuous 574: Bigmouth Strikes Again

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite music of 1986. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded in the backyard of CompCon HQ

- Phil's #5: Solid effort from the Pretenders, which was basically just Chrissie Hynde at this point

- Jay's #5: Metallica hits their high point

- Neighborhood dogs start chiming in

- Phil is a big fan of Ratt n' Roll

- Phil's #4: The debut of the Van Hagar era

- Eddie fully embraces synths, poppier sound

- Didn't realize until recently that the riff of "Best of Both Worlds" is identical to Kool and the Gang's "Celebration"

- Jay's #4: David Lee Roth's out VH's VH

- The best Dave solo album

- Phil's #3 and Jay's #2: R.E.M. starts embracing power chords

- Jay's #3: John Lydon teams up with studio musicians to create a classic

- Steve Vai, Ginger Baker and others show up

- Phil's #1: The Smiths in the middle of a strong run of albums

- Johnny Marr elevates this album

- Phil's #2 and Jay's #1: Husker Du's last great record

- First major label album featured more pop hooks

- Grant Hart and Bob Mould each bringing in great songs

- Favorite songs: "Bigmouth Strikes Again" (Phil), "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" (Jay)

- Check out my Spotify playlist "Hits of the Year," which collects all the favorite songs we picked from 1970 onward

Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and write a review!

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 #391: September 17, 2021

The '90s were a tumultuous and amazing time for music and not just in this country. While we were focused on grunge, hip hop and later bubblegum pop, the Brits had their own thing going on. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played '90s Britpop songs in hour 2. It's enough to get you slackers fired up.

Oi, 'ere's the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Colleen Green - Someone Else/Cool

Dry Cleaning - Bug Eggs/Single

Low - I Can Wait/Hey What

Prince - Same Page,  Different Book/Welcome 2 America

Pile - Mama's Lipstick/Songs Known Together, Alone

Lou Barlow - Reason to Live/Reason to Live

Sweet Nobody - Young In Love/We're Trying Our Best

Bachelor - Sick of Spiraling/Doomin' Sun

St. Vincent - The Melting of the Sun/Daddy's Home

Gang of Youths - The Angel of 8th Ave./Total Serene

Quicksand - Missile Command/Distant Populations

Ty Segall - Waxman/Harmonizer

Stuck - Playpen of Dissent/Content That Makes You Feel Good

Cub Scout Bowling Pins - Nova Mona/Clang Clang Ho

Near Beer - Card Shark Kids/Sleeping is for Suckers

Hour 2: Britpop

Elastica - Line Up/Elastica

Pulp - Party Hard/This Is Hardcore

Ride - Vapour Trail/Nowhere

The Charlatans - The Only One I Know/Some Friendly

Blur - Parklife/Parklife

The Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums/The Stone Roses

Cornershop - Brimful of Asha/When I Was Born for the 7th Time

Ash - Girl From Mars/1977

Suede - Animal Nitrate/Suede

Kula Shaker - Hey Dude/K

The Lightning Seeds - Change/Jollification

Mansun - She Makes My Nose Bleed/Attack of the Grey Lantern

Ocean Colour Scene - Hundred Mile High City/Marchin' Already

Supergrass - Alright/I Should Coco

Oasis - Live Forever (Live at Glastonbury)/Single

Completely Conspicuous 573: It's Tricky

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1986. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded in the backyard of CompCon HQ

- Jay was 18 going on 19 in '86, Phil was 16 going on 17

- Nine of the top 10 selling albums of '86 came out the year before

- Older artists make comebacks

- Pop and hair metal were big

- Boston finally released its third album

- Phil's non-top 5s: Talking Heads, Smithereens, Prince, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, XTC, Bad Brains, Gene Loves Jezebel, Love and Rockets, World Party, Dead Milkmen, B-52s, Luka Bloom, Feelies, Joe Jackson, Pet Shop Boys, Sonic Youth, Rolling Stones, Dylan, Steve Earle, DLR

- Jay's non-top 5s: David & David, Peter Gabriel, Iron Maiden

- To be continued

Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and write a review!

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 #390: September 10, 2021

The older you get, the more it seems like you misplace the years that have gone by, like forgetting where you left your car in a parking garage. You wander around for a while aimlessly before you eventually reconnect with what was going on that year, and all is good again for a while. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I connected with music from 1991 in hour 2 and it was a blast.

Now where did I put that darn playlist?

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Prince - Check the Record/Welcome 2 America

Slothrust - Once More for the Ocean/Single

Sleigh Bells - Locust Laced/Texis

Quicksand - The Philosopher/Distant Populations

Chubby and the Gang - Overachiever/The Mutt's Nuts

Danko Jones - Ship of Lies/Power Trio

METZ - Sugar Pill/Live at the Opera House

Ducks Ltd. - Gleaming Spires/Get Bleak

Alan Vega - Hi Speed Roller/After Dark

Black Country, New Road - Athens, France/For the first time

Ty Segall - Play/Harmonizer

Enumclaw - Cinderella/Jimbo Demo

Modest Mouse - The Sun Hasn't Left/The Golden Casket

Smile Machine - Snail S(h)ell/Bye For Now

Fiddlehead - Heart to Heart/Between the Richness

Pardoner - Hammer Factory/Came Down Different

Hour 2: 1991

Matthew Sweet - Divine Intervention/Girlfriend

Dinosaur Jr. - Muck/Green Mind

Teenage Fanclub - Metal Baby/Bandwagonesque

Mudhoney - Who You Drivin' Now?/Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Smashing Pumpkins - Bury Me/Gish

Soundgarden - Room a Thousand Years Wide/Badmotorfinger

De La Soul - Pass the Plugs/De La Soul Is Dead

A Tribe Called Quest - What?/The Low End Theory

Living Colour - Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothin'/Biscuits

Fishbone - Fight the Youth/The Reality of My Surroundings

Slowdive - Catch the Breeze/Just for a Day

The Ocean Blue - Mercury/Cerulean

The Feelies - Real Cool Time/Time for a Witness

R.E.M. - Texarkana/Out of Time

Stuck In Thee Garage #389: September 3, 2021

Eight years is a long time to do anything, let alone host a radio show. And yet, that's where we are: Eight years into Stuck In Thee Garage...and the station that hosts it, BFF.fm. That's 778 hours of radio goodness, home slice. It's hotter than a fire at a birthday party.

Eric the clown approves:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Quicksand - Lightning Field/Distant Populations

Chubby and the Gang - On the Meter/The Mutt's Nuts

Danko Jones - I Want Out/Power Trio

METZ - Draw Us In/Live at the Opera House

The Marias - Hush/Cinema

La Luz - In the Country/In the Country

Occurrence - Flies Dead Midair/I Have So Much Love to Give

Maxshh - The Stone and I and Everybody/Bonus Flowers

Yves Tumor - Crushed Velvet/The Asymptotical World

Split Single - Belly of Lead/Amplificado

Ducks Ltd. - Anhedonia/Get Bleak

Cub Scout Bowling Pins - Magic Taxi/Clang Clang Ho

Sleater-Kinney - Down the Line/Path of Wellness

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - A Kick in the Face That's Life/Uncommon Weather

Adult Books - Sparrows on the Razor Wire/Grecian Urn

Guardian Singles - Midnight Swim/Guardian Singles

Shame - Alphabet/Drunk Tank Pink

Hour 2: Doors

The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking?/Sticky Fingers

The White Stripes - My Doorbell/Get Behind Me Satan

The Hives - Knock Knock/Veni Vidi Vicious

Hop Along - The Knock/Painted Shut

Enon - Knock That Door/Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence

The New Pornographers - The Surprise Knock/In the Morse Code of Brake Lights

Redd Kross - Beyond the Door/Beyond the Door

White Reaper - Party Next Door/The World's Best American Band

The Posies - Definite Door/Frosting On the Beater

Spoon - Knock Knock Knock/They Want My Soul

Arctic Monkeys - Secret Door/Humbug

Savak - We Lead Them to Our Doors/Beg Your Pardon

Sloan - Suppose They Close the Doors/Navy Blues

Fugazi - Shut the Door/Repeater

Soul Asylum - Standing in the Door/Hang Time

Van Halen - One Foot Out the Door/Fair Warning