Stuck In Thee Garage #397: October 29, 2021

Things aren't completely back to normal yet, but it's a good sign that Halloween seems to be back in full effect. To wit, I've got a full two hours of spooky and/or scary (or maybe just slightly creepy) songs on this week's installment of Stuck In Thee Garage. I've got it on good authority that the show is playing on repeat at the Overlook Hotel bar. So I've got that going for me, which is nice.

Jack's enjoying himself, so why don't you?

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

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

Black Mountain - Cemetery Breeding/IV

The Black Angels - Bad Vibrations/Phosphene Dream

Morphine - Buena/Cure For Pain

Beck - Devil Got My Woman/Odelay deluxe edition

R.E.M. - Ghost Riders in the Sky/Live at Rockpalast 10/2/85

Frank Black and the Catholics - Skeleton Man/Pistolero

Elvis Costello - Spooky Girlfriend/When I Was Cruel

The Fiery Furnaces - Cabaret of the Seven Devils/Widow City

The Breeders - Walking With a Killer/All Nerve

Meat Puppets - Lake of Fire/II

Mudhoney - Ghost/Tomorrow Hit Today

Sonic Youth - Ghost Bitch/Bad Moon Rising

Van Halen - Intruder/Diver Down

Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil/Shout at the Devil

Blue Oyster Cult - Hot Rails to Hell/Tyranny & Mutation

Hour 2

Radiohead - Burn the Witch/A Moon Shaped Pool

Protomartyr - The Devil In His Youth/The Agent Intellect

Alice Cooper - Ballad of Dwight Fry/Love It to Death

The Pink Mountaintops - Plastic Man, You're the Devil/Axis of Evol

The Blood Brothers - Set Fire to the Face on Fire/Young Machetes

Nine Inch Nails - Demon Seed/The Slip

Misfits - 20 Eyes/Walk Among Us

New York Dolls - Frankenstein/New York Dolls

Redd Kross - Dracula's Daughter/Researching the Blues

Teenage Fanclub - Satan/Bandwagonesque

Panthers - Goblin City/The Trick

Iron Maiden - Still Life/Piece of Mind

Ozzy Osbourne - Little Dolls/Diary of a Madman

Judas Priest - Devil's Child/Screaming for Vengeance

John Carpenter - Halloween theme/Halloween soundtrack

Completely Conspicuous 577: Hang 'Em High

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we discuss rock stars and retirement. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded recently via Skype

- David Lee Roth recently announced his retirement

- Should more aging rock stars retire?

- Robert Plant isn't trying to be the Golden God anymore

- Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford can still deliver high-energy metal performances

- Shut it down, Clapton

- Ozzy's been doing retirement tours for 30 years

- KISS keeps playing "final" tours

- DLR actually predicted his retirement in a 1991 video

- Jay: Never saw Dave play with VH

- VH changed the hard rock game

- Dave and Sammy are different kinds of clowns

- Dave only did a few solo albums after 1991

- DLR's image radically changed as his looks did

- Bands keep touring into their 70s and 80s

- Grant Hart looked pretty rough toward the end of his life, but kept touring

- Similar to athletes who don't know when to hang it up

- Ringo Starr has the right idea: Let the young guys do the heavy lifting

- Ozzy and Sharon have had issues with writing credits

- 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 #396: October 22, 2021

The wheels of justice turn slowly, or so they say. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about the law in hour 2. It can get pretty complicated at times, but even if you're an unfrozen caveman lawyer, you'll be able to figure it out.

Hopefully this playlist won't frighten and confuse you:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe - Sanctified/Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe

Amyl and the Sniffers - Choices/Comfort to Me

Gustaf - Mine/Audio Drag for Ego Slobs

Yves Tumor - Tuck feat. NAKED/The Asymptotical World

Alex Orange Drink - How High?/Everything Is Broken Maybe That's OK

Chime School - Anywhere But Here/Chime School

The Bevis Frond - Start Burning/Little Eden

Nyxy Nyx - No Worries/Death Takes a Holiday

Bad History Month - The Flight From Hell/Death Takes a Holiday

Steve Gunn - Reflection/Other You

Ducks Ltd. - 18 Cigarettes/Modern Fiction

Illuminati Hotties - Cheap Shoes/Let Me Do One More

Goodbye Honolulu - Reason to Hate You/Goodbye Honolulu

Neal Francis - Can't Stop the Rain/In Plain Sight

Modest Mouse - Walking and Running/The Golden Casket

Pom Pom Squad - Crimson + Clover/Death of a Cheerleader

Sun Atoms - Half Robot Half Butterfly/Let There Be Light

Hour 2: Law

Beck - Sexx Laws/Midnite Vultures

Spoon - Take the Fifth/Girls Can Tell

Parliament - Testify/Up for the Down Stroke

Iggy Pop and James Williamson - Beyond the Law/Kill City

The Kominas - Sharia Law in the USA/Wild Nights in Guantanamo Bay

The Dils - Before the Law/Dils Dils Dils

Stephen Malkmus - The Greatest Own in Legal History/Traditional Techniques

Atoms For Peace - Judge, Jury and Executioner/AMOK

Fake Fruit - Lying Legal Horror Lawyers/Fake Fruit

Hop Along - Somewhere a Judge/Bark Your Head Off, Dog

The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed/Electric Version

Judas Priest - Breaking the Law (live)/Defenders of the Faith 30th Anniversary Edition

Titus Andronicus - I Fought the Law (live)/Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol. 1

Pavement - Sue Me Jack/Slanted and Enchanted Luxe and Reduxe

The Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis/Stay Positive

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial/Your Funeral, My Trial

Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On the Run/Band On the Run

Stuck In Thee Garage #395: October 15, 2021

A lot can happen in 15 years. You can build a social media empire, watch your revolutionary technology become obsolete, or just marvel at the sheer political insanity that lurks around every corner. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2006 in hour 2. It was the height of MP3 blog mania, to which kids nowadays would say, "The whatnow?" Ah, to be old.

This playlist has exactly zero Dropkick Murphys songs on it:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

IDLES - The Beachland Ballroom/CRAWLER

Black Country, New Road - Chaos Space Marine/Ants From Up There

Steve Gunn - Fulton/Other You

Melkbelly - Prehistoric Worm/Single

Chime School - Wait Your Turn/Chime School

Slothrust - Waiting/Parallel Timeline

Ducks Ltd. - How Lonely Are You?/Modern Fiction

Illuminati Hotties - Knead/Let Me Do One More

Mac McCaughan - Sleep Donor/The Sound of Yourself

Absolutely Free - Epilogue/Aftertouch

The Bevis Frond - Numb in the Head/Little Eden

Low - Disappearing/Hey What

Colleen Green - I Believe In Love/Cool

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

Cub Scout Bowling Pins - Sister Slam Dance/Clang Clang Ho

Ty Segall - Feel Good/Harmonizer

Descendents - I'm Shaky/9th and Walnut

Hour 2: 2006

The Black Angels - The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven/Passover

Destroyer - 3000 Flowers/Destroyer's Rubies

TV On the Radio - Province/Return to Cookie Mountain

Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor/Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy!/Boys and Girls in America

Sloan - Another Way I Could Do It/Never Hear the End of It

The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes/Broken Boy Soldiers

Mission of Burma - Careening With Conviction/The Obliterati

The Twilight Singers - Live With Me/A Stitch In Time EP

Neko Case - Star Witness/Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

Midlake - Roscoe/The Trials of Van Occupanther

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion/Show Your Bones

Beck - Think I'm In Love/The Information

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye/Carnavas

Completely Conspicuous 576: One Tree Hill

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite music of 1987. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded in the backyard of CompCon HQ

- Jay's non-top 5 albums: Terence Trent D'Arby, Pixies, The Cure, Prince (The Black Album), Sonic Youth, Def Leppard, Guns N' Roses

- It's easier to listen to bro-country or classic rock than look for new music these days

- Phil's #5: GNR's debut took a few years to really take off

- Jay's #5:  The Cult goes for a hard rock sound

- Jay's #4 and Phil's #1: U2 with a massive mainstream breakthrough

- Phil's #3: The Cure with a killer double album

- Jay's #3: R.E.M.'s last album on IRS, embracing a big rock sound

- Phil's #2: The Grateful Dead go mainstream

- Jay's #2: The Replacements' last great album

- Jay's #1 and Phil's #4: Prince tries out many styles, makes social commentary

- Favorite songs: "One Tree Hill" (Phil), "Sign O' the Times" (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 #394: October 8, 2021

Reality, what a concept. It can be easy to lose track of reality in this crazy world we're in. Red pill or blue pill, real world or fantasy. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about reality in hour 2. Although in an interesting coincidence, the show never actually aired on BFF.fm because of a technical glitch. Does that mean it wasn't real? You be the judge.

The real-world playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Hatchie - This Enchanted/Single

Illuminati Hotties - Pool Hopping/Let Me Do One More

Ovlov - Land of Steve-O/buds

Ducks Ltd. - Under the Rolling Moon/Modern Fiction

Goodbye Honolulu - You and Me/Goodbye Honolulu

Slothrust - The Next Curse (feat. Lizzy Hale)/Parallel Timeline

Mac McCaughan - The Sound of Yourself/The Sound of Yourself

Good Morning - Depends On What I Know/Barnyard

The Bevis Frond - The Man In the Garden/Little Eden

The War On Drugs - Living Proof/I Don't Live Here Anymore

Tom Morello - Driving to Texas (feat. Phantogram)/The Atlas Underground Fire

Piroshka - We Told You/Love Drips & Gathers

The Shivas - Undone/Feels So Good, Feels So Bad

Cheekface - Reward Points/Emphatically Mo' (b-sides)

Hana Vu - Everybody's Birthday/Public Storage

Ill Peach - GUM/Excuse Us While We Find Our Minds

Hour 2: Reality

Fontaines DC - Too Real/Dogrel

Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers - Reality Bites/Bought to Rot

Lizzy Rose - Alternate Reality/Crocodile Tears

Camp Cope - Animal & Real/How to Socialise & Make Friends

Spoon - Don't Buy the Realistic/Live on KTRU 1997

Okkervil River - For Real/Black Sheep Boy

Swervedriver - Feel So Real/Raise

Eels - Baby Let's Make It Real/Earth to Dora

The Afghan Whigs - Be For Real/Now We Can Begin

Parliament - Fantasy Is Reality/Live: P-Funk Earth Tour

Metric - Dreams So Real/Synthetica

Ex-Hex - It's Real/Single

Jay Reatard - My Reality/Watch Me Fall

Jeff Buckley - So Real/Grace

Completely Conspicuous 575: Everybody Wang Chung Tonight

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite music of 1987. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded in the backyard of CompCon HQ

- In '87, Phil was 17 going on 18, Jay was 19 going on 20

- The Bangles had the #1 single of the year with "Walk Like An Egyptian"

- Another big year for movie soundtracks

- A lot of female pop artists hit big

- Jay: Concerts I saw included Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Motley Crue, Jon Butcher Axis and U2

- Phil: Saw INXS, U2 twice, Sting, Smithereens

- Bruce Willis released an album

- Starship churns out the crap

- Many bands changed their sound in the '80s to stay "relevant"

- Phil's non-top 5 albums: INXS, Hoodoo Gurus, the Smiths, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr., Jane's Addiction, Midnight Oil, 10,000 Maniacs, George Harrison, Sinead O'Connor, Bowie, The Tragically Hip

- The meteoric rise and quick decline of INXS

- That time Husker Du went on the Joan Rivers Show

- 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 #393: October 1, 2021

Life's full of questions, but not all of them have answers. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs that ask questions in hour 2. Turd Ferguson approved.

Nice try, Trebek:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Goodbye Honolulu - Cut Off/Goodbye Honolulu

The Bevis Frond - You Owe Me/Little Eden

The Violent Hearts - Everything and Nothing/Everything and Nothing

Good Morning - Matthew Newton/Barnyard

Mac McCaughan - Circling Around/The Sound of Yourself

Colleen Green - Highway/Cool

Eldridge Rodriguez - Alice Drills/Megalodon

The Haunted Youth - Coming Home/Single

Goat - Fill My Mouth/Headsoup

Joyer - Lucky/Perfect Gray

Pile - No Bone/Songs Known Together, Alone

Maxshh - Nature I Guess/Bonus Flowers

Sun Atoms - The Cat's Eye/Let There Be Light

Quicksand - Phase 90/Distant Populations

Pom Pom Squad - Red With Love/Death of a Cheerleader

Jim Ward - Safe Pair of Hands/Daggers

Hour 2: Questions

Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want/Check Your Head

Living Colour - What's Your Favorite Color?/Vivid

Talking Heads - Who Is It?/Talking Heads '77

The Beatles - Why Don't We Do It In the Road?/The White Album

Sloan - Who Taught You to Live Like That?/Never Hear the End of It

Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding/Armed Forces

Pixies - Where Is My Mind?/Surfer Rosa

The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?/Singles Going Steady

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?/Meat Is Murder

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Who Do You Love??Living With the Living

Frightened Rabbit - Who'd You Kill Now?/The Midnight Organ Fight

Matthew Sweet - What Do You Know?/Altered Beast

Protomartyr - Why Does It Shake?/The Agent Intellect

Les Savy Fav - What Would Wolves Do?/Let's Stay Friends

Hot Snakes - Why Does It Hurt?/Suicide Invoice

Weezer - Why Bother?/Pinkerton