Stuck In Thee Garage #401: November 26, 2021

Let's face it, Thanksgiving is built up as this big family holiday, but another big part of it is strapping the ol' feed bag on and going to town. Even the most diet conscious of us seem to relinquish all self-control for a day or two every November. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I celebrated Black Friday with songs about eating in hour 2. Bon appetit!

Make room for the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Ovlov - Feel the Pain/Buds

My Morning Jacket - Complex/My Morning Jacket

Geese - Fantasies/Survival /Projector

Snail Mail - Valentine/Valentine

Courtney Barnett - Sunfair Sundown/Things Take Time, Take Time

Spiritualized - Always Together With You/Everything Was Beautiful

IDLES - The New Sensation/Crawler

Ty Segall - Waxman/Harmonizer

Amyl and the Sniffers - No More Tears/Comfort to Me

Ament - I Hear Ya/I Should Be Outside

Blonder - Ice Cream Girl/Knoxville House

Bad History Month - Ritual Condo Immolation Center/Death Takes a Holiday

Low - I Can Wait/Hey What

Guided By Voices - I Share a Rhythm/It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!

Chubby and the Gang - I Hate the Radio/The Mutt's Nuts

Goodbye Honolulu - Stray Dog/Goodbye Honolulu

METZ - Draw Us In/Live at the Opera House

 

Hour 2: Eat

Beastie Boys - Egg Man/Paul's Boutique

Frank Zappa - Don't Eat the Yellow Snow/Apostrophe

Ween - Don't Shit Where You Eat/Chocolate & Cheese

Enumclaw - Eat/Jimbo Demo

Deep State - Heavy Lunch/Thought Garden

U-Men - Last Lunch/U-Men

Naked Giants - Easy Eating/Easy Eating EP

The Pursuit of Happiness - Food/One Sided Story

Paul McCartney - Eat at Home/RAM

Palehound - Dry Food/Dry Food

The Hold Steady - Unpleasant Breakfast/Open Door Policy

Twin Peaks - Making Breakfast/Mind Frames

Future of the Left - Eating For None/The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left

Bullet Lavolta - Every Hungry Rabbit/Gimme Danger

Nadine Shah - Fast Food/Fast Food

Kim Gordon - Hungry Baby/No Home Record

Diet Cig - Dinner Date/Sleep Talk

Stove - Wet Food/Is Stupider

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #400: November 19, 2021

Milestones are cool. You do something long enough and you hit some good milestones, like I did this week with the 400th episode of Stuck In Thee Garage. Hour 2 featured songs about memory. Sometimes you need a few reminders.

The unforgettable playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

IDLES - Car Crash/Crawler

Blonder - Heavy/Knoxville House

Ament - Passion Denied/I Should Be Outside

Courtney Barnett - Take It Day By Day/Things Take Time, Take Time

Geese - Bottle/Projector

Beach House - Once Twice Melody/Once Twice Melody

The Dodos - Eyes Open/Grizzly Peak

Generationals - Lost Cities/Ileana

Chime School - Gone Too Fast/Chime School

Ducks Ltd. - Fit to Burst/Modern Fiction

Parquet Courts - Zoom Out/Sympathy for Life

Turnstile - New Heart Design/Glow On

Quicksand - Rodan/Distant Populations

Gustaf - Cruel/Audio Drag for Ego Slobs

Pom Pom Squad - Cake/Death of a Cheerleader

Alex Orange Drink - Clickbait, Click Me/Everything Is Broken Maybe That's OK

Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe - Turning in Reverse/Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe

 

Hour 2: Memory

Superchunk - I Guess I Remembered It Wrong/On the Mouth

Firehose - Choose Any Memory/Ragin', Full On

We Are Scientists - Selective Memory/In Action

The Kinks - Do You Remember Walter?/The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

Rush - Making Memories/Fly By Night

Talking Heads - Memories Can't Wait/Fear of Music 

Cloud Nothings - Memory of Regret/The Black Hole Understands

Radiator Hospital - Do You Remember?/Something Wild

Bully - I Remember/Feels Like

Broken Social Scene - Memory Lover/Let's Try the After

Pavement - Speak, See, Remember/Terror Twilight

The Roots - I Remember/Undun

De La Soul - Memory of (Us) (feat. Estelle and Pete Rock)/And the Anonymous Nobody...

Aerosmith - Remember (Walking in the Sand)/Night in the Ruts

Husker Du - Do You Remember? (live)/Savage Young Du

Mudhoney - I Don't Remember You/Vanishing Point

Bloc Party - I Still Remember/A Weekend in the City

Queens of the Stone Age - The Vampyre of Time and Memory/...Like Clockwork

Peter Gabriel - I Don't Remember/Melt

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #399: November 12, 2021

Ah, 1981. It was a busy year. There were failed assassination attempts on the president and the pope, MTV made its debut, Post-It Notes were invented, and people (myself included) got all excited by a new portable cassette player called the Walkman. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1981 in hour 2, and if you crank it up loud, it'll be a hell of a day in the neighborhood.

Mister Robinson personally approves of this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Breeze - Come Around (feat. Cadence Weapon)/Only Up

The Dodos - Pale Horizon/Grizzly Peak

Generationals - I Was a Tunnel/Ileana

Geese - Rain Dance/Projector

MAITA - Pastel Concrete/I Want to Be Wild For You

Parquet Courts - Homo Sapien/Sympathy For Life

Guided By Voices - Dance of Gurus/It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!

The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore/I Don't Live Here Anymore

Nyxy Nyx - It's In the Past/Death Takes a Holiday

Joyer - Two Times/Perfect Gray

Turnstile - Don't Play/Glow On

Chubby and the Gang - It'll Be Me Who Pays/The Mutt's Nuts

Colleen Green - It's Nice to Be Nice/Cool

Stuck - White Lie/Content That Makes You Feel Good

The Bevis Frond - Brain Fatigue/Little Eden

Alan Vega - River of No Shame/After Dark

Hour 2: 1981

Black Flag - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie/Damaged

Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song/Signals, Calls and Marches

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Bad Reputation/Bad Reputation

Motley Crue - Live Wire/Too Fast For Love

Black Sabbath - Turn Up the Night/Mob Rules

Ozzy Osbourne - You Can't Kill Rock 'N Roll/Diary of a Madman

The Kinks - Destroyer/Give the People What They Want

Van Halen - Hear About It Later/Fair Warning

April Wine - Just Between You and Me/Nature of the Beast

Kool and the Gang - Get Down On It/Something Special

Rick James - Super Freak/Street Songs

Prince - Let's Work/Controversy

Gang of Four - A Hole in the Wallet/Solid Gold

R.E.M. - Sitting Still/Radio Free Europe

Joy Division - The Only Mistake/Still

Stuck In Thee Garage #398: November 5, 2021

A lot is made of stories having a defined plot, a driving force that compels the reader or viewer to keep following the action. But sometimes, it's fine to just have a story about nothing. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about nothing in hour 2, and it still rocked most steadfastly.

This playlist is alright, alright, alright:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Spoon - The Hardest Cut/Lucifer on the Sofa

Yard Act - The Overload/The Overload

Parquet Courts - Black Widow Spider/Sympathy for Life

Guided By Voices - High In the Rain/It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It is Them!

Turnstile - Blackout/Glow On

Amyl and the Sniffers - Guided By Angels/Comfort to Me

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

Bad History Month - Deep Bright Future/Death Takes a Holiday

Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe - Living Dead/Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe

Gustaf - Best Behavior/Audio Drag for Ego Slobs

Alex Orange Drink - Brooklyn, Central Booking/Everything Is Broken Maybe That's OK

Makthaverskan - This Time/For Allting

Chime School - Fixing Motorcycles/Chime School

Illuminati Hotties - Cheap Shoes/Let Me Do One More

Slothrust - White Rabbits/Parallel Timeline

Ducks Ltd. - Sullen Leering Hope/Modern Fiction

Goodbye Honolulu - How Are You Doing/Goodbye Honolulu

Hour 2: Nothing

Sloan - Nothing Left to Make Me Want to Stay/One Chord to Another

Pugwash - Better Than Nothing at All/Silverlake

Elliott Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing/Either/Or

Telekinesis - Like Nothing/Effluxion

Tony Molina - Nothing I Can Say/Kill the Lights

Jennifer Trynin - Better Than Nothing/Cockamamie

Frank Black and the Catholics - Do Nothing/Snake Oil

The Sons of Hercules - IOU Nothing/The Sons of Hercules

The Police - Nothing Achieving/Fall Out

Sebadoh - Nothing Like You/Harmacy

Tom Vek - Nothing But Green Lights/We Have Sound

Living Colour - Nothingness/Stain

Kiwi Jr. - Nothing Changes/Football Money

PUP - Nothing Changes/This Place Sucks Ass

Mike Krol - Nothing to Yell About/Power Chords

Brainiac - Nothing Ever Changes/Hissing Prigs in Static Couture

Pavement - Nothing Ever Happens/Slanted and Enchanted Luxe and Reduxe

Priests - Nothing Feels Natural/Nothing Feels Natural

Soundgarden - Nothing to Say/Screaming Life

Completely Conspicuous 578: Playing Out the String

Part 2 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

- Will we see KISS JR.?

- Will bands bring in replacements after the original members are all retired/dead?

- Plenty of good cover bands out there who can probably outperform the originals

- The "officially licensed cover band"

- Hologram concerts are still trying to get off the ground

- Fan base is also getting older

- The big money these days is in hip hop, pop and country

- Meanwhile, revered indie artists like Lou Barlow are playing living room/backyard shows

- Who's going to stadium shows?

- We don't like large venues

- Bands like VH should release archival live shows like Neil Young

- Sammy Hagar's living the good life

- Bands that are outstaying their welcome

- When bands you like are disappointing

- Checking out Canadian classic rock radio

- Nobody in 1991 would have predicted Dave Grohl would be the face of rock n' roll 30 years later

- Will rock ever make a comeback?

- Might end up like jazz, blues, bluegrass

- Lots of interesting new rock coming out all the time

- Commercial rock radio is pointless

- It's easy to release albums, but tough to find an audience

- Brian: Spotify's new music algorithm works well

- Singers have a tougher time replicating their heyday

- Iggy Pop has aged gracefully, believe it or not

- We should take better care of artists

- So hard to make a living as a musician these days

- Jay: As a journalism major, I feel their pain

- The band Sloan has carved out a nice niche in Canada

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