Stuck In Thee Garage #456: December 30, 2022

Another year has come and gone, filled with moments of splendor and total WTAF confusion. As is my wont, I'm taking a look back at my favorite music from the past year. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played music from the first half of 2022. It's the perfect soundtrack if you're being chased by a homicidal motorcycle gang on the LA freeway.

The pedal-to-the-metal playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Fontaines D.C. - Jackie Down the Line/Skinty Fia

Yard Act - Dead Horse/The Overload

Superchunk - Refracting/Wild Loneliness

The Smile - You Will Never Work In Television Again/A Light For Attracting Attention

Destroyer - Tintoretto, It's For You/Labyrinthitis

Eldridge Rodriguez - Have I Gone Too Far/Single

PUP - Waiting/The Unraveling of PUPtheBand

Kids On a Crime Spree - When Can I See You Again?/Fall In Love Not In Line

Reptaliens - Do You Know You Are Sleeping?/Multiverse

Grave Flowers Bongo Band - Tomorrow/Strength of Spring

Elvis Costello and the Imposters - Magnificent Hurt/The Boy Named If

Eels - Amateur Hour/Extreme Witchcraft

Pedro the Lion - First Drum Set/Havasu

Savak - Trashing the Ghost/ Human Error/Human Delight

Pink Mountaintops - Lights of the City/Peacock Pools

Sasami - Make It Right/Squeeze

Hour 2

Wet Leg - Ur Mum/Wet Leg

Oceanator - The Last Summer/Nothing's Ever Fine

Just Mustard - Still/Heart Under

Spoon - The Hardest Cut/Lucifer on the Sofa

The Afghan Whigs - I'll Make You See God/How Do You Burn?

50 Foot Wave - Staring Into the Sun/Black Pearl

METZ - Demolition Row/ METZ/Adulkt Life

Adulkt Life - Book of Curses/ METZ/Adulkt Life

Howless - Fade Out/To Repel Ghosts

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Runes of Abandonment/Andy, Come Out EP

Papercuts - I Want My Jacket Back/Past Life Regression

Guided By Voices - Never Mind the List/Crystal Nuns Cathedral

Jon Spencer and the HITmakers - Junk Man/Spencer Gets It Lit!

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The Way It Shatters/Endless Rooms

Eddie Vedder - Rose of Jericho/Earthling

Listen to the big show HERE, mofo.

Completely Conspicuous 601: Your Favorite Thing

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling as we discuss our favorite music of 2022. Listen to the episode or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded at Clicky Clicky/Parcheesi Redux East HQ

- We've been doing this for 13 years!

- Kumar: Went to some more shows this year

- Breitling went to zero shows in 2022

- Things to look forward to in '23: The Cure returns, Drop Nineteens, Hallelujah the Hills' DECK project, Johnny Foreigner, Fucked Up, Blue Ocean, Peter Gabriel

- Kate Hudson is supposed to be releasing an album

- The varied talents of Fred Armisen

- In '22, the music industry continued to struggle

- Fewer revenue streams, fragmented audiences, content glut

- Diaper payola

- Even established acts can't sell new albums anymore

- Artists are selling directly to their audiences through Patreon, etc.

- Breitling's honorable mentions: Photon Band, Flyying Colours, Bitchin' Bajas, Kal Marks, Sun Airway, S.C.A.B., They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Kiwi Jr.

- Kumar's HMs: Kal Marks, Built to Spill, Wet Leg, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Alvvays, Superchunk, Spoon, Jon Spencer and the HitMakers, Archers of Loaf, Black Angels, OFF!

- Albums that came out early in the year feel like they came out much longer ago

- 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 #455: December 23, 2022

 

It's that time of year again. You know, where the lines are long and the weather is cold and people are annoying. And the music is Christmas-themed, as it was for the entire two hours of this week's installment of Stuck In Thee Garage on BFF.fm. So dress up like a Christmas tree and crank it up, won't you?

The joyful playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Chaki - Christmas Funk/Single

Titus Andronicus - Drummer Boy/Single

Chubby and the Gang - Violent Night (A Christmas Tale)/Single

Zip-Tie Handcuffs - Santa's a Creep/A Very Allston Christmas, Vol. 5

Halfsour - Child's Christmas in Wales/A Very Allston Christmas, Vol. 5

Future Teens - Wonderful Christmastime/A Very Allston Christmas, Vol. 5

Beeef & GIFT - I Wish It Was Christmas Today/A Very Allston Christmas, Vol. 5

Pronoun - 12.23.95/Simply Having a Wonderful Compilation

Routine - Wait/Simply Having a Wonderful Compilation

Bacchae - This Will Be Our Year/Simply Having a Wonderful Compilation

The Ramones - (Merry Christmas) I Don't Want to Fight Tonight/Brain Drain

Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody/Single

The Kinks - Father Christmas/Single

The Minus 5 - Your Christmas Whiskey/Dear December

Sloan - December 25/Kids Come Back Again at Christmas

Greg Dulli - Candy Cane Crawl/Live at Triple Door

The White Stripes - Candy Cane Children/Merry Christmas From the White Stripes

 

Hour 2

David Byrne - The Fat Man's Comin'/Single

James Brown - Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto/Soulful Christmas

The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick/The Beach Boys Christmas Album

Chaki - How to Hanukkah/Christmas Funk

Thurl Ravenscroft - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch/How the Grinch Stole Christmas

George S. Irving - Heat Miser/The Year Without a Santa Claus

Letters to Cleo - It Sure Don't Feel Like Xmas Time/OK Christmas

Dirty Sidewalks - It's Xmas (and Everyone is Miserable)/Single

The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song/Maybe This Christmas Tree

The Flaming Lips - Christmas at the Zoo/Clouds Taste Metallic

Calexico - Gift X-change/Aerocalexico

R.E.M. - Christmas Time is Here/Single

Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis/Tougher Than Leather

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Annunciation Day/Born on Christmas Day / Living With the Living

T. Rex - Christmas Bop/T. Rexmas!

The Pursuit of Happiness - All That You Got Me For Christmas/Love Junk Deluxe

The Hives & Cyndi Lauper - A Christmas Duel/Single

LCD Soundsystem - Christmas Will Break Your Heart/Single

Spinal Tap - Christmas With the Devil/This Is Spinal Tap

 

Ho ho ho, listen to the SHOW! 

Completely Conspicuous 600: Meet Ze Monsta

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1995. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Jay's non-top 5s: Mike Watt, Bjork, Guided By Voices, Boss Hog, Rancid, The Amps

- Phil's #5: Bjork's second album embraces the quirkiness

- Jay's #4: Jawbreaker's major label debut was a total bust, but it's really good

- "Selling out" was a big deal back then

- Phil's #3: The debut of Elastica was fully formed, but band disappeared a few years later

- Jay's #3: Pavement's followup to their big break was dismissed as too weird, but now is considered a classic

- Phil's #2: Neil Young teams up with Pearl Jam for strong release at the peak of PJ's fame

- Jay's #2: Horn-powered kickass blast of an album from Rocket From the Crypt

- Phil's #1 and Jay's #5: Dave Grohl emerges from Nirvana's shadow with first Foo Fighters album

- Jay's #1 and Phil's #4: PJ Harvey changes up her sound and goes theatrical and atmospheric

- Favorite songs: "Meet Ze Monsta" (Jay), "Alone + Easy Target" (Jay)

- Next: Best of 2022 with Jay Breitling

 

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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 #454: December 16, 2023

 

Selling out doesn't have the same negative connotations it once did for musicians. Now it's one of the few decent revenue streams available to artists, so it's not surprising you're hearing rock songs advertising everything from soda to banking to Cadillacs. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs that have appeared in commercials in hour 2. It's so good, you can spread it on your toast.

The delicious playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Bellwether Syndicate - Beacons/Single

Osees - Funeral Solution/A Foul Form

Sparta - Kill the Man Eat the Man/Sparta

Field School - Jennifer Valentine/When Summer Comes

The Mountain Goats - Guys On Every Corner/Bleed Out

TV Priest - It Was a Gift/My Other People

Dry Cleaning - Conservative Hell/Stumpwork

OFF! - Murder Corporation/Free LSD

Dead Meadow - Valmont's Pad/Force Form Free

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Field Song/XI: Bleed Here Now

S.C.A.B. - Beige and Green/S.C.A.B.

Built to Spill - Fool's Gold/When the Wind Forgets Your Name

Dendrons - Wait In Line/5-3-8

Preoccupations - Recalibrate/Arrangements

Ovens - Everything's the Same/Ovens

PUP -  PUPtheBandInc. is Filing For Bankruptcy/PUP Unravels Live in Front of Everyone They Know

Hour 2: Ads

Sloan - Money City Maniacs/Navy Blues

The Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So/Veni Vidi Vicious

The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop/Ramones

The Walkmen - We've Been Had/Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone

Brendan Benson - What I'm Looking For/Alternative to Love

Spoon - The Underdog/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart/Kick

The Rolling Stones - She's a Rainbow/Their Satanic Majesties Request

The Faces - Ooh La La/Ooh La La

Pixies - Here Comes Your Man/Doolittle

The Cure - In Between Days/The Head on the Door

Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot/Daydream Nation

Gang of Four - Natural's Not In It/Entertainment!

Funkadelic - Can You Get to That?/Maggot Brain

Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)/Mothership Connection

Listen to the rock show HERE.

Completely Conspicuous 599: Army of Me

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1995. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- First show in quite a while

- In '95, Phil turned 26, Jay turned 28

- We both saw a lot of concerts that year

- Big deaths: Jerry Garcia, Eazy E, Shannon Hoon

- Musings on Cleveland, where the Rock Hall of Fame opened in '95

- Jay saw a doubleheader of a Bruins game and a Chris Whitley show

- Singles charts were leaning toward pop and lighter fare

- Is band loyalty still a thing?

- It's okay to not listen to every album in a band's catalog

- Phil's non-top 5 albums: Belly, Garbage, Alice in Chains, Mad Season, Phish, Elliott Smith, Radiohead, RHCP, Sonic Youth, Matthew Sweet, Pavement, Ben Folds Five, Morphine, No Doubt, Throwing Muses, Green Day, Natalie Merchant, Son Volt, Smashing Pumpkins

- It's a rare double album that can't be cut down to a single album

- 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 #453: December 9, 2022

Nostalgia is ubiquitous. Everywhere you turn, there's a reboot or a remake or a retread of something that came before. The danger of looking back so much is you can forget to look ahead. All that said, it's fun every so often to explore the past. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1997 in hour 2. It's a fun trip through what I was listening to the year I hit the big 3-0 (!). It's devilishly fun!

The scenery-chewing playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Martha - Hope Gets Harder/Please Don't Take Me Back

Hammered Hulls - Written Word/Careening

Blacklisters - Why Deny It?/Leisure Centre

Osees - Perm Act/A Foul Form

Mission of Burma - Get Off/Split Single With METZ

METZ - Good, Not Great/Split Single With Mission of Burma

TV Priest - The Breakers/My Other People

Alvvays - Belinda Says/Blue Rev

Fever Ray - Carbon Dioxide/Radical Romantics

Rob Munk - Slumber/Phased Out

Sloan - She Put Up With What She Put Down/Steady

Quasi - Queen of Ears/Breaking the Balls of History

King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust/Smalltown Stardust

Viagra Boys - Baby Criminal/Cave World

Ian Blurton's Future Now - The Power of No/Second Skin

Teen Idles - Sneakers/Four Old Seven Inches

S.O.A. - Gate Crashers/Four Old Seven Inches

Government Issue - Sheer Terror/Four Old Seven Inches

Youth Brigade - Barbed Wire/Four Old Seven Inches

 

Hour 2: 1997

Guided By Voices - I Am a Tree/Mag Earwhig!

Ben Folds Five - Battle of Who Could Care Less/Whatever and Ever Amen

Superchunk - Nu Bruises/Indoor Living

Radiohead - Lucky/OK Computer

Elliott Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing/ Either/Or

Pavement - Shady Lane/Brighten the Corners

Yo La Tengo - Little Honda/I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

Built to Spill - I Would Hurt a Fly/Perfect From Now On

Sleater-Kinney - Dance Song '97/Dig Me Out

Cornershop - Sleep On the Left Side/When I Was Born For the 7th Time

Cheap Trick - Baby No More/Cheap Trick (1997)

The Hellacopters - Where the Action Is/Payin' the Dues

Foo Fighters - Hey, Johnny Park!/The Colour and the Shape

Paul Weller - Peacock Suit/Heavy Soul

Ween - Buckingham Green/The Mollusk

Faith No More - Last Cup of Sorrow/Album of the Year

 

In case you hadn't noticed the last few weeks, I'm not posting shows to Mixcloud; they're pushing people to pony up for the premium level and I'm not doing that. So just put putting the link here to the archived shows on BFF.fm. Alas, the player isn't embeddable, so there's just the URL. Go listen to the show here.

  

Stuck In Thee Garage #452: December 2, 2022

 

The brain is a powerful organ. It controls so many functions and impulses. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about the brain in hour 2. They're enough to keep your cranium crackling.

The eye-opening playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Weird Nightmare - So Far Gone/Single

Osees - Too Late For Suicide/A Foul Form

Fucked Up - One Day/One Day

TV Priest - I Have Learnt Nothing/My Other People

Viagra Boys - Punk Rock Loser/Cave World

Dry Cleaning - Kwenchy Kups/Stumpwork

Alvvays - Tom Verlaine/Blue Rev

Archers of Loaf - In the Surface Noise/Reason In Decline

Sparta - Mind Over Matter/Sparta

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Gondii/Changes

Ancient Shapes - Bird With an Iron Hand/Split Single with Weird Nightmare

Ovens - Cows/Ovens

Kal Marks - Who Waits/My Name Is Hell

Rob Munk - Heavy Shoes (to Kill the Blues)/Phased Out

The Beths - Expert In a Dying Field/Expert In a Dying Field

Kiwi Jr. - Downtown Area Blues/Chopper

Hour 2: Brains

New Bomb Turks - Id Slips In/Information Highway Revisited

King's X - Human Behavior/Dogman

Superchunk - Lost My Brain/What a Time to Be Alive

Oceanator - Bad Brain Daze/Nothing's Ever Fine

Bully - Brainfreeze/Feels Like

Tracy Bonham - Brain Crack/The Burdens of Being Upright

Beck - Cold Brains/Mutations

The Pursuit of Happiness - Back of My Mind/The Wonderful World of...

The Bevis Frond - Brain Fatigue/Little Eden

Joanna Gruesome - Psykick Espionage/Peanut Butter

Talking Heads - Mind/Fear of Music

Krill - Brain Problem/A Distant Fist Unclenching

Titus Andronicus - I Lost My Mind/The Most Lamentable Tragedy

Fiddlehead - Get My Mind Right/Between the Richness 

Alice In Chains - Check My Brain/Black Gives Way to Blue

Soundgarden - Mind Riot/Badmotorfinger

Listen to the episode here.

Stuck In Thee Garage #451: November 25, 2022

Black Friday is typically known for shopping, but I prefer to think of it as more of a relaxing day. Eating leftovers, lounging on the couch, and listening to some good rock songs. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about guns in hour 2. Sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures.

The startling playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Fucked Up - Found/One Day

Viagra Boys - Troglodyte/Cave World

The Cool Greenhouse - Hard Rock Potato/Sod's Toastie

Sparta - It Goes/Sparta

Weird Nightmare - I Think You Know/Split Single With Ancient Shapes

Ancient Shapes - (I'm) Against the Wind/Split Single With Weird Nightmare

OFF! - Ignored/Free LSD

Ian Blurton's Future Now - Like a Ghost/Second Skin

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Golden Sail/XI: Bleed Here Now

Hammered Hulls - Boilermaker's Notch/Careening

Archers of Loaf - Screaming Undercover/Reason In Decline

Blacklisters - No Not At All/Leisure Centre

Young Fathers - I Saw/Heavy Heavy

Puppy Angst - Perpetual/Scorpio Season

The Afghan Whigs - Take Me There/How Do You Burn?

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Workers of the World/They Only Wanted Your Soul

Sloan - Keep Your Name Alive/Steady

 

Hour 2: Guns

The Clash - The Guns of Brixton/London Calling

Beastie Boys - Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun/Paul's Boutique

INXS - Guns in the Sky/Kick

Red Red Meat - Gun/Bunny Gets Paid

Pavement - Drunks With Guns/Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe

Michael Penn - Cupid's Got a Brand New Gun/March

The Besnard Lakes - Feuds With Guns/The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings

The Breeders - Happiness Is a Warm Gun/Pod

Metric - Gold Guns Girls/Fantasies

Pixies - There Goes My Gun/Doolittle

Lou Reed - The Gun/The Blue Mask

Chris Whitley - Guns & Dolls/Din of Ecstasy

The Twilight Singers - Gunshots/Dynamite Steps

Adrian Belew - Gunman/Young Lions

David Lee Roth - Elephant Gun/Eat 'Em and Smile

Bad Brains - Hired Gun/I Against I

Soundgarden - Gun/Louder Than Love

 

Listen to the episode here.

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #450: November 18, 2022

 

Milestones come and go. Here's another one: This week marked the 450th episode of Stuck In Thee Garage, featuring songs about colors in hour 2. That's 900 hours of the rock over the last nine-plus years. Talk about volume!

The colorful playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Cuffed Up - 10 for 10/Single

Hammered Hulls - Pilot Light/Careering

Miss Grit - Follow the Cyborg/Follow the Cyborg

Yves Tumor - God Is a Circle/Single

Genesis Owusu - Get Inspired/Single

Spoon vs. Adrian Greenwood - The Devil & Mister Jones/Lucifer on the Moon

Ovens - Abduction/Ovens

Courting - PDA/Guitar Music

S.C.A.B. - Six Songs Into Your Spotify Playlist/S.C.A.B.

Dry Cleaning - Hot Penny Day/Stumpwork

Alvvays - Pressed/Blue Rev

Sloan - Panic on Runnymede/Steady

Titus Andronicus - An Anomaly/The Will to Live

Low - Rome (Always in the Dark)/Double Negative

Public Image Ltd. - Public Image/Public Image: First Issue

Dead Kennedys - We've Got a Bigger Problem Now/In God We Trust, Inc.

Hour 2: Colors

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

Prince - Computer Blue/Purple Rain

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Blue Green Olga/Acme

Ween - Happy Colored Marbles/Quebec

Ty Segall -  Orange Color Queen/Ty Segall

Matthew Sweet - Devil With the Green Eyes/Altered Beast

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

The Replacements - Color Me Impressed/Hootenanny

Jesse Malin and the St. Marks Social - Black Boombox/Love It to Life

Chubby and the Gang - Blue Ain't My Colour/Speed Kills

Smashing Pumpkins - Blue/Pisces Iscariot

Minutemen - The Red and the Black/3-Way Tie (For Last)

Judas Priest - The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)/Hell Bent For Leather

METZ - Soft Whiteout/Automat

Mission of Burma - Red/Signals, Calls and Marches

Fugazi - Blueprint/Repeater

Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat  White Light/White Heat

Listen to the show here.

Stuck In Thee Garage #449: November 11, 2022

The '80s were a magical time. Magically stupid, but magical nonetheless. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1987 in hour 2 and they were a blast. Much like the movie Raising Arizona, but for different reasons.

This playlist will drag you away kicking and screaming:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Yo La Tengo - Fallout/This Stupid World

Archers of Loaf - Misinformation Age/Reason In Decline

Ron Gallo - Anything But This/Single

Alvvays - Lottery Noises/Blue Rev

Dry Cleaning - Driver's Story/Stumpwork

Fazerdaze - Overthink It/Break!

S.C.A.B. - MTA LUX/S.C.A.B.

Hammered Hulls - Needlepoint Tiger/Careening

Blacklisters - Leisure Centre/Leisure Centre

Philip Selway - Check For Signs of Life/Strange Dance

Puppy Angst - Bedhead/Scorpio Season

Gord Downie and Bob Rock - Lustre Parfait/Single

Sloan - Dream It All Over Again/Steady

Metric - Oh Please/Formentera

Kal Marks - The Future/My Name Is Hell

GA-20 - Fairweather Friend/Crackdown

Ovens - Losin' Touch/Ovens

Hour 2: 1987

INXS - Mystify/Kick

The Cure - Why Can't I Be You?/Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

Echo & the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar/Echo & the Bunnymen

Dinosaur Jr. - The Lung/You're Living All Over Me

Pixies - Levitate Me/Come On Pilgrim

Jane's Addiction - 1%/Jane's Addiction

R.E.M. - Welcome to the Occupation/Document

The Replacements - Alex Chilton/Pleased to Meet Me

U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky/The Joshua Tree

Midnight Oil - Dream World/Diesel and Dust

The Cult - King Contrary Man/Electric

Soundgarden - Hunted Down/Screaming Life

Screaming Trees - Cold Rain/Even If and Especially When

Eric B. and Rakim - I Ain't No Joke/Paid In Full

Prince - Housequake/Sign O' the Times

Terence Trent D'Arby - Dance Little Sister/The Hardline According to...

Stuck In Thee Garage #448: November 4, 2022

Celebrities...they're just like us! Well, except for all the fame and money and monkey butlers and whatnot. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about famous people in hour 2. It's enough to make you want to form a supergroup.

Dave Grohl's afraid of this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Fazerdaze - Break!/Break!

Puppy Angst - Yellow Paint/Scorpio Season

Horsegirl - History Lesson, Part 2/Single

Hammered Hulls - Rights and Reproduction/Careening

Courting - Jumper/Guitar Music

Enumclaw - Jimmy Neutron/Save the Baby

Sloan - Magical Thinking/Steady

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Keep Your Secrets Close/They Only Wanted Your Soul

Ted Leo - Leaving River Road/Of Coit and Killie EP

Archers of Loaf - Saturation and Light/Reason In Decline

Titus Andronicus - Baby Crazy/The Will to Live

Country Westerns - It's Not Easy/Country Westerns

Blacklisters - The Wrong Way Home/Leisure Centre

OFF! - Smoking Gun/Free LSD

Alvvays - Easy On Your Own?/Blue Rev

PVA - Untethered/BLUSH

Cheekface - I Feel So Weird!/Too Much to Ask

Hour 2: Famous

Jon Spencer and the Hitmakers - Get It Right Now/Spencer Gets It Lit!

Liz Phair - Hey Lou/Soberish

Pink Mountaintops - Nikki Go Sudden/Peacock Pools

Interpol - Leif Erikson/Turn On the Bright Lights

R.E.M. - Exhuming McCarthy/Document

Pixies - Alec Eiffel/Live in LA 12/22/91

Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around/Live in Manchester UK 5/25/97

The Cult - Edie (Ciao Baby)/Sonic Temple

Piebald - Grace Kelly With Wings/If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds It Would Be Curtains For Us All

The Mountain Goats - The Legend of Chavo Guerrero/Beat the Champ

Paul McCartney and Wings - Picasso's Last Words/Band On the Run

Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr./Come On Feel the Illinoise!

The Clash - The Right Profile/London Calling

Stephen Malkmus - Jo Jo's Jacket/Stephen Malkmus

Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay/Electr-O-Pura

 

Completely Conspicuous 598: Basket Case

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1994. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Jay's non-top 5s: Superchunk, Jeff Buckley, Drive Like Jehu, Rollins Band, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Helmet, Pulp Fiction soundtrack, Mark Lanegan, Nirvana

- Phil's #5: Pearl Jam's third album gets a little adventurous and rough-edged

- Jay's #5: The Tragically Hip gets more atmospheric after more straight-ahead rockers

- Phil's #4: Debut album from Jeff Buckley showcases his vocal range and a flair for different styles

- Jay's #4: The super-prolific Guided By Voices brings lo-fi rock into the forefront

- Phil's #3: Nirvana reinvented the Unplugged format in a historic recording

- Jay's #3: No sophomore jinx for Pavement, who broke through in an indie rock way

- Phil's #2: Soundgarden breaks through to the mainstream

- Jay's #2: Frank Black does a Bob Pollard impression with a lot of short bursts of awesomeness on his second solo album

- Phil's #1: Green Day explodes into popular culture with a classic blast of snotty pop-punk

- Jay's #1: An abrupt shift in sound from Sloan that led to them getting dumped by Geffen and briefly breaking up...but it's amazing

- This was the peak of the '90s indie rock scene

- Favorite songs: "Longview" (Phil), "Coax Me" (Sloan)

 

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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 #447: October 28, 2022

Halloween is almost here, and that means playing all sorts of weird and creepy and spooky songs on Stuck In Thee Garage. There are the obvious Halloween songs and then there are songs that are less noticeable. Kick start your candy gathering with two hours of the good stuff.

This playlist was picked up at S-Mart:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Cure - Lullaby/Disintegration 

True Widow - Creeper/Circumambulation

Dead Moon - Demona/What a Way to See the Old Girl Gog

The Black Angels - Haunting at 1300 McKinley/Phosphene Dream

Hallelujah the Hills - Enough Blood to Bathe a Zombie/The World Is Most Certainly Haunted and I Am One of Its Best Ghosts

Gord Downie - Haunt Them, Haunt Them, Haunt Them/Secret Path

Moon Duo - Creepin/Occult Architecture Vol. 1

Six Finger Satellite - Crippled Monster Bearing Malice/Live at Vermonstress 1992 

High Rise - Monster a Go Go/High Rise II

Queens of the Stone Age - Monsters in the Parasol/Rated R

The Von Bondies - Only to Haunt You/Love, Hate and Then There's You

Jay Reatard - Haunting You/Singles '06-'07

The Night Marchers - Total Bloodbath/See You In Magic

The Rolling Stones - Too Much Blood/Undercover

 

Hour 2

Beastie Boys - Egg Man/Paul's Boutique

Frank Black and the Catholics - All My Ghosts/Frank Black and the Catholics

Jeff Rosenstock - To Be a Ghost/WORRY.

Pile - Raised By Ghosts/Jerk Routine

Morphine - Buena/Cure For Pain

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Crow Jane/Murder Ballads

Big Chief - John's Scared/Platinum Jive

Mad Season - Lifeless Dead/Live at the Moore 4/29/95

Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral/Paranoid

Motorhead - Killed By Death/No Remorse

Monster Magnet - See You in Hell/Powertrip

Radiohead - Bodysnatchers/In Rainbows

Matthew Sweet - Superdeformed/No Alternative

Sonic Youth & Lydia Lunch - Death Valley '69/Bad Moon Rising

John Carpenter - Halloween theme/Halloween soundtrack

 

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #446: October 21, 2022

Villains are crucial elements of entertainment. We love to hate a good villain. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about villains in hour 2. They're roguish and somewhat charming, but don't turn your back on them.

The justified playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Room at the Top/Room at the Top

Courting - Loaded/Guitar Music

Alvvays - After the Earthquake/Blue Rev

Pixies - Get Stimulated/Doggerel

Ted Leo - More Hard Times (remix)/For Colt and Killie EP

Disq - Mtn Dew/Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All

The Afghan Whigs - A Line of Shots/How Do You Burn?

Built to Spill - Never Alright/When the Wind Forgets Your Name

Titus Andronicus - Dead Meat/The Will to Live

Kal Marks - Ovation/My Name Is Hell

The Black Angels - Icon/Wilderness of Mirrors

Guided By Voices - Puzzle Two/Tremblers and Goggles By Rank

PUP - Relentless (live in Toronto)/PUP Unravels Live in Front of Everyone They Know

Peel Dream Magazine - Self Actualization Center/Pad

Sharon Van Etten - Mistakes/We've Been Going About This All Wrong

Ex-Hyena - At the Moondial (Gothsickles remix)/At the Moondial

Hour 2: Villains

Speedy Ortiz - Villain/Twerp Verse

Bethlehem Steel - Bad Girl/Bethlehem Steel

Elvis Costello and the Imposters - The Man You Love to Hate/The Boy Named If

Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance/Villains

The Cult - Outlaw/Electric

Bad Brains - The Big Take Over/Bad Brains

Living Colour - Who Shot Ya (Andre Betts remix feat. Prodigal Sunn, Black Thought, Chuck D, Pharoahe Monch, Kyle Mansa and Sandy Starr)/Who Shot Ya

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

Melvins - Evil New War God/The Bride Screamed Murder

Fu Manchu - Evil Eye/The Action Is Go!

Metallica - Am I Evil?/Garage Inc.

Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One/All Hands on the Bad One

Pardoner - Totally Evil Powers/Came Down Different

Grinderman - Evil!/Grinderman 2

Completely Conspicuous 597: Ill Communication

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1994. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Back after a two-month summer break

- In 1994, Jay turned 27, Phil turned 25

- Steely Dan was touring again

- Jay: Life improved in '94 on job and home front

- Jay: Saw a ton of shows including Pearl Jam, Afghan Whigs, Rollins Band, Cracker, Soundgarden, Buffalo Tom, Blues Explosion, Tragically Hip, Sugar

- Debating the merits of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones

- Phil's kids love the pop music

- Phil went to the infamous Green Day show at the Hatch Shell

- Top singles were all pop and hip hop, lots of ballads

- Big year for indie rock

- Grunge peaked and major labels started signing bands from non-Seattle locations like Chicago, San Diego, etc.

- Pearl Jam sued TicketMaster and tried to do a tour of non-TM venues, but it fizzled

- Cobain's death was a pivotal moment

- Woodstock '94 didn't get as much press as '99

- Other newsy events: Baseball strike, OJ Simpson chase, Eagles started charging $100 for concert tickets

- Phil's non-top 5 albums: Alice in Chains, R.E.M., Hole, Beastie Boys, Weezer, Phish, Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, Sugar, Dinosaur Jr., Luscious Jackson, Beck, Liz Phair, Veruca Salt, Stone Roses, Jesus and Mary Chain, Portishead, Stone Temple Pilots, Dave Matthews Band, Tom Petty, Neil Young & Crazy Horse

- What is emo? Also, what is internet?

- Weezer started out strong, but now they're a parody of themselves

- 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 #445: October 14, 2022

Most of us don't go looking for trouble, but somehow it manages to find us. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about trouble in hour 2. They'll start a rage in the cage.

 This playlist is a national treasure (whoops, wrong movie):

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Bully - Labor of Love/Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All

Sleater-Kinney - Free Time/Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All

Ty Segall - Glowing/Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All

Ted Leo - Too Bright Window/For Coit and Killie EP

Titus Andronicus - All Through the Night/The Will to Live

Eric's Trip - Follow/Live in Montreal 1993

Tony Molina - Burn Everyone/In the Fade

ON - Gator/ON

Pink Turns Blue - We Still Could Make It/Tainted Tour 2022 EP

Preoccupations - Death of Melody/Arrangements

OFF! - Worst Is Yet to Come/Free LSD

Pilot to Gunner - Escape Season/Hail Hallucinator

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Water Tower/XI: Bleed Here Now

Kal Marks - Everybody Hertz/My Name Is Hell

Dendrons - High in the Circle K/5-3-8

The Beths - Best Left/Expert in a Dying Field

 

Hour 2: Trouble

The Replacements - I'm in Trouble/For Sale: The Replacements Live at Maxwell's 1986

Material Issue - Trouble/International Pop Overthrow

Chubby and the Gang - Trouble (You Were Always On My Mind)/Speed Kills

Mexican Slang - Double Trouble/Twerp EP

Mourn - I'm in Trouble/Self Worth

The Liminanas - (I've Got) Trouble in Mind/7" and Rare Stuff

Titus Andronicus - Troubleman Unlimited/An Obelisk 

Soundgarden - Mood For Trouble/Ultramega OK

Temple of the Dog - Times of Trouble/Temple of the Dog

Ethan Eubanks - Troubled Times/Saving For a Custom Van

Dan Mangan - Troubled Mind/More or Less

Romero - Troublemaker/Single

Spoon - Trouble Comes Running/Transference

David Lee Roth - Big Trouble/Eat 'Em and Smile

Van Halen - The Trouble With Never/A Different Kind of Truth

Rollins Band - Wrong Man/Weight

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #444: October 7, 2022

Pickup lines are typically considered to be over the top or cringeworthy, but they can also be subtle or clever. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs with pickup lines or similar sentiments in hour 2. Just crank it up and enjoy; you don't even need to hit a water buffalo.

Put this playlist on the Underhills' tab:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Titus Andronicus - I Can Not Be Satisfied/The Will to Live

Kal Marks - Shit Town/My Name Is Hell

OFF! - Slice Up the Pie/Free LSD

Courting - Famous/Guitar Head

METZ - Heaven's Gate/Come On Down

Built to Spill - Spiderweb/When the Wind Forgets Your Name

Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Saltwater (feat. Conway the Machine)/Cheat Codes

The Mountain Goats - Make You Suffer/Bleed Out

Peel Dream Magazine - Wanting and Waiting/Pad

Tony Molina - All I've Known/In the Fade

Kiwi Jr. - Contract Killers/Chopper

Peter Matthew Bauer - Skulls/Flowers

The Black Angels - Empires Falling/Wilderness of Mirrors

The Beths - Head in the Clouds/Expert in a Dying Field

Big Joanie - In My Arms/Back Home

Karate, Guns and Tanning - Enchanter/Single

Hour 2: Pickup lines

Wet Leg - Chaise Longue/Wet Leg

Dream Wife - Let's Make Out/Dream Wife

PJ Harvey - This Is Love/Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

The Afghan Whigs - Somethin' Hot/1965

Pixies - Hey/Doolittle

Grinderman - Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)/Grinderman

Billy Squier - My Kinda Lover/Don't Say No

Cheap Trick - Hot Love/Cheap Trick

Judas Priest - Turbo Lover/Turbo

David Bowie - Let's Spend the Night Together/Aladdin Sane

The Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend/Ramones

T. Rex - Jeepster/Electric Warrior

Commodores - Brick House/Commodores

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer/So

Prince - Let's Pretend We're Married/1999

Stuck In Thee Garage #443: September 30, 2022

Humans are creatures of habit. We tend to settle into patterns to get through the drudgery of everyday life. Lather, rinse, repeat. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about repetition in hour 2. It's like getting stuck in an infinite loop, but not really.

The time-tested playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

METZ - Come On Down (feat. Joe Talbot)/Single

Kal Marks - My Life Is a Freak Show/My Name Is Hell

Dendrons - People Scare Me/5-3-8

The Afghan Whigs - Domino and Jimmy (feat. Marcy Mays)/How Do You Burn?

Peel Dream Magazine - Pictionary/Pad

Hallelujah the Hills - God Is So Lonely Tonight/Single

The Black Angels - History of the Future/Wilderness of Mirrors

The Beths - I Told You That I Was Afraid/Expert in a Dying Field

ON - Take a Shot/ON

Preoccupations - Slowly/Arrangements

Night Moves - Feel Another Day/The Redaction EP

Santigold - Fall First/Spirituals

The Mountain Goats - Need More Bandages/Bleed Out

Guided By Voices - Focus On the Flock/Tremblers and Goggles By Rank

PUP - Matilda (live in Toronto)/PUP Unravels Live in Front of Everyone They Know

Hour 2: Repeat

Fugazi - Repeater/Repeater

Mission of Burma - Hunt Again/ONoffON

Beastie Boys - Lee Majors Come Again/Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

Matthew Sweet - Do It Again/Altered Beast

The Feelies - Doin' It Again/Time For a Witness

Steely Dan - Do It Again/Can't Buy a Thrill

Mikal Cronin - Again and Again/Mikal Cronin

Jeff Rosenstock - Beers Again Alone/We Cool?

Sloan - Flying High Again/Never Hear the End of It

The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again/The Queen Is Dead

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over and Over Again (Lost & Found)/Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Wye Oak - Over and Over/The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs

Jarvis Cocker - I Will Kill Again/Jarvis

Antarctigo Vespucci - Do It Over/Love in the Time of E-mail

B Boys - On Repeat/Dudu

Van Halen - Outta Love Again/Van Halen II

Fu Manchu - Godzilla/Eatin' Dust

Stuck In Thee Garage #442: September 23, 2022

Life is full of duality. Yin and yang, black and white, up and down, right and wrong. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about right in hour 1 and wrong in hour 2. The scales of justice were balanced with a deft selection of rock and/or roll.

Order in the court:

Hour 1: Right

Artist - Song/Album

Jane's Addiction - Ain't No Right/Ritual De Lo Habitual

Frank Black - Jesus Was Right/The Cult of Ray

Mourn - Doing It Right/Sopresa Familia

Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place/Kid A

David Bowie - Right /Young Americans

David Byrne - Doing the Right Thing/American Utopia

Elliott Smith - Half Right/New Moon

Radiator Hospital - I'm All Right/Torch Song

Lee Ranaldo - Circular (Right as Rain)/Electric Rain

Fiddlehead - Get My Mind Right/Between the Richness

Eels - I Know You're Right/Extreme Witchcraft

The Coathangers - Make It Right/Nosebleed Weekend

Cloud Nothings - So Right, So Clean/Last Building Burning

Diamond Youth - Thought I Had It Right/Nothing Matters.

Sloan - Right or Wrong/Never Hear the End of It

The Feelies - Time Is Right/Here Before

R.E.M. - All the Right Friends/In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003

Hour 2: Wrong

Bullet Lavolta - Dead Wrong/The Gift

Husker Du - Afraid of Being Wrong/Savage Young Du

The Buzzcocks - Something's Gone Wrong Again/Singles Going Steady

The Clash - Wrong 'Em Boyo/London Calling

Alice In Chains - Got Me Wrong/Sap

Morphine - All Wrong/Cure For Pain

Sloan - Everything You've Done Wrong/One Chord to Another

Dead Meadow - Ain't Got Nothing (to Go Wrong)/Old Growth

Living Colour - Always Wrong/Shade

Rollins Band - Wrong Man/Weight

OFF! - Wrong/OFF!

Lilys - Everything Wrong Is Imaginary/Everything Wrong Is Imaginary

Mikal Wrong - Am I Wrong/MCII

AM Stereo - Done Wrong/When You Wish Upon a Bar

Superchunk - I Guess I Remembered It Wrong/Kid A

Gigolo Aunts - Everything Is Wrong/Minor Chords and Major Themes

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #441: September 16, 2022

Two decades in the blink of an eye. Much has changed, and much hasn't changed. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2002 in hour 2. Sometimes, you've just gotta say what the honorable Sen. Clay Davis says.

The playlist is definitely worth some sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-it:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Afghan Whigs - Jyja/How Do You Burn?

Built to Spill - Understood/When the Wind Forgets Your Name

Preoccupations - Fix Bayonet/Arrangements

Eldridge Rodriguez - Scars In the Vein (feat. Thalia Zedek)/Single

Dendrons - New Outlook/5-3-8

Franklin Gothic - Mr. Hangman/Into the Light

The Besnard Lakes - She's an Icicle/The Besnard Lakes Are the Prayers for the Death of Fame

Beverly Crusher - Vacuum/Waste of Waves

ON - Blackmail/ON

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Salt In Your Eyes/XI: Bleed Here Now

Candy Coffins - Every Day a Fresh Atrocity/Single

Pink Turns Blue - Not Gonna Take It/Tainted Tour 2022 EP

Black Market Karma - Dead Trajectory/Single

Hour 2: 2002

Elvis Costello - Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution)/When I Was Cruel

Consonant - Post-Pathetic/Consonant

Spoon - Jonathon Fisk/Kill the Moonlight

Interpol - PDA/Turn On the Bright Lights

Mudhoney - The Straight Life/When We've Become Translucent

Hot Snakes - I Hate the Kids/Suicide Invoice

McLusky - Alan is a Cowboy Killer/McLusky Do Dallas

Queens of the Stone Age - Do It Again/Songs For the Deaf

Mastodon - Burning Man/Remission

The Tragically Hip - It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken/In Violet Life

Ben Kweller - Wasted & Ready/Sha Sha

Brendan Benson - Good to Me/Lapalco

The Flaming Lips - Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

The Walkmen - Wake Up/Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone

David Bowie - Slow Burn/Heathen

The Kickovers - Regeneration/Osaka

Stuck In Thee Garage #440: September 9, 2022

First impressions are important. They tell you a lot about a person. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played great debut songs from debut albums in hour 2. Sometimes what you get is different from how it first appears.

This playlist is not necessarily what it seems...or is it?

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Gorillaz - New Gold/Cracker Island

Santigold - High Priestess/Spirituals

!!! - Crazy Talk/Let It Be Blue

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - No Confidence/XI: Bleed Here Now

Guided By Voices - Unproductive Funk/Tremblers and Goggles by Rank

Dendrons - Vain Repeating/5-3-8

Illiterate Light - Light Me Up/Single

The Murdocs - Compos Mentis/Rapscallion

Fanclubwallet - National TV/You Have Got to Be Kidding Me

Coco - Rough Water/Single

The Mountain Goats - Make You Suffer/Bleed Out

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - My Echo/Endless Rooms

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Writing Songs/Still Clouds at Noon

Kiwi Jr. -  Kennedy Curse/Chopper

Near Beer - Thursday/Near Beer

Pilot to Gunner - Razor Drop/Hail Hallucinator

Hour 2: Debut songs from debut albums

The Pretenders - Precious/Pretenders

Joe Jackson - One More Time/Look Sharp!

The Jam - Art School/In the City

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels/Run the Jewels

Bad Brains - Sailin' On/Bad Brains

New York Dolls - Personality Crisis/New York Dolls

The Stooges - 1969/The Stooges

Big Star - Feel/#1 Record

Talking Heads - Uh Oh, Love Comes to Town/Talking Heads '77

Arctic Monkeys - The View From the Afternoon/Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

The White Stripes - Jimmy the Exploder/The White Stripes

Courtney Barnett - Elevator Operator/Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit

The Breeders - Glorious/Pod

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored/The Stone Roses

The Hold Steady - Positive Jam/Almost Killed Me

The Pursuit of Happiness - Hard to Laugh/Love Junk

Smashing Pumpkins - I Am One/Gish

Stuck In Thee Garage #439: September 2, 2022

Nine years is a long time, man. Think about what the world was like in 2013. Very different. This week, I celebrated 9 years of Stuck In Thee Garage radio and the station it airs on, BFF.fm, with two hours of hot jammers, including songs about predictions in hour 2. Get your knives out!

The celebratory playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Beths - Silence Is Golden/Expert in a Dying Field

Pixies - Vault of Heaven/Doggerel

Dendrons - Double Ending/5-3-8

Slang - Chipped Tooth/Cockroach in a Ghost Town

Momma - Lucky/Household Name

Grand Courriers - Coin Toss/Doesn't Come Easy

The Mountain Goats - First Blood/Bleed Out

Elk City - That Someone/Above the Water

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Walk Through Any Wall/Still Clouds at Noon

Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Belize (feat. MF Doom)/Cheat Codes

The Sadies - Cut Up High and Dry/Colder Streams

Tony Molina - Leave This Town/In the Fade

Ty Segall - Saturday, Part 2/Hello, Hi

Sloan - Scratch the Surface/Steady

Jack White - That Was Then, This Is Now/Fear of the Dawn

Glove - Modern Toy/Boom Nights

Pet Fox - Undeserving You/A Face In Your Life

Hour 2: Predictions

David Bowie - 1984/Diamond Dogs

Paul McCartney and Wings - Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five/Band On the Run

Flaming Lips - All We Have Is Now/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood/Peter Gabriel (1977)

Public Enemy - Prophets of Rage/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

The Clash - London Calling/London Calling

Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a  Riot/Employment

Matthew Sweet - Future Shock/In Reverse

Savak - Bad Omen/Beg Your Pardon

Camp Cope - The Omen/How to Socialise & Make Friends

Kurt Vile - Bad Omens/b'lieve i'm goin down

The Black Angels - Bad Vibrations/Phosphene Dream

Rush - Red Sector A/Grace Under Pressure

Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon/Ocean Rain

Stuck In Thee Garage #438: August 26, 2022

It's a tough world out there. Sometimes you've just gotta grab the brass ring and not let go, but that takes a lot of self confidence, bravado, or shall we say, swagger. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs with swagger in hour 2. Big Ern knows what I'm talking about.

Sometimes a playlist just has to face the music:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Mountain Goats - Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome/Bleed Out

Pilot to Gunner - Total Rager/Hail Hallucinator

ON - Soul Killer/Underdog

Tony Molina - Not Worth Knowing/In the Fade

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Violent Pictures/Still Clouds at Noon

The Black Angels - Firefly/Wilderness of Mirrors

Smokey Brights - Ocean Shores/Single

Beach Bunny - Entropy/Emotional Creature

Metric - Oh Please/Formentera

Kiwi Jr. - The Sound of Music/Chopper

Cola - So Excited/Deep In View

Sharon Van Etten - Come Back/We've Been Going About This All Wrong

Bread Pilot - Droopee/New to You

Near Beer - Paper Cups/Near Beer

Joyce Manor - Dance With Me/40 oz. to Fresno

Erica Dawn Lyle & Vice Cooler - Never Was (feat. Ivy Jeanne and Mike Watt)/Land Trust: Benefit for North East Farmers of Color

Cave In - Reckoning/Heavy Pendulum

 

Hour 2: Swag

PJ Harvey - 50 Ft. Queenie/Rid of Me

Cat Power - The Greatest/The Greatest

M.I.A. - Hit That/Kala

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Blues X Man/Orange

James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine/Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thing

Eric B. and Rakim - As the Rhyme Goes On/Paid In Full

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Tha Shiznit/Doggystyle

Joe Jackson - I'm the Man/I'm the Man

Iggy & the Stooges - Search and Destroy/Raw Power

New Bomb Turks - I Got Your Bitter End/Information Highway Revisited

Ty Segall - I'm a Man/Fudge Sandwich

Van Halen - I'm the One/Van Halen

Monster Magnet - Space Lord/Powertrip

King Khan & the Shrines - Land of the Freak/The Supreme Genius of...

The Nation of Ulysses - Spectra Sonic Sound/13-Point Program to Destroy America

Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)/Mothership Connection

 

Completely Conspicuous 596: Pass the Popcorn

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

Show notes:

- Recorded while driving to Tree House Brewery

- Watching scary movies as a kid

- The Shining still holds up

- Favorite directors: Kubrick, Scorsese, Tarantino

- Jay: After Hours is a fun movie; similar plot to Into the Night, which came out around the same time

- The current state of prestige TV is giving movies a run for their money

- Better Call Saul is the latest great show

- The early days of the pandemic led to watching lots of movies

- Great time to catch up on old favorites and things you missed

- The greatness of The Decline of Western Civilization, Part 2

- U2 was riding high until they released the movie Rattle and Hum

- Lots of movies filmed in our area

- Jay: After we had kids, didn't go to an adult movie in the theater for years

- Movie dates used to be a big deal when we were younger

- Don't do it that much anymore

- The movie viewing experience at home is much better than it used to be

- Phil hasn't been to a movie in a theater since the pandemic started

- Watching edited versions of movies on network TV

- We interact differently with movies today

- Movie recommendations: Jay recommends Prey, The Limey, Burn After Reading, No Country For Old Men, Something Wild, After Hours

- Phil recommends Bernie, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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 #437: August 19, 2022

A decade can fly by so quickly that you don't realize it until someone tells you. And just like that, we're looking at 2012 and realizing it seems so close and so far away. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from a decade ago. There were ancient predictions that the world would end that year and we made apocalyptic playlists for nothing. Ultimately, it was a time that seems so innocent now, even though the pillow fights were savage.

 Abed is down with this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

OFF! - War Above Los Angeles/Free LSD

ON - Underdog/Underdog

High Vis - Blending/Blending

Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Strangers (feat. ASAP Rocky and Run the Jewels)/Cheat Codes

Pilot to Gunner - Ship Jumpers/Hail Hallucinator

Winter - Atonement (feat. Hatchie)/Atonement

Tony Molina - The Last Time/In the Fade

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - The Future's Just More of the Same/Still Clouds at Noon

The Black Angels - Without a Trace/Wilderness of Mirrors

The Besnard Lakes - A Jacket for a Rainy Day/The Besnard Lakes Are the Prayers for the Death of Fame

Kiwi Jr. - Parasite II/Chopper

Sorry - Let the Lights On/Anywhere But Here

The Inflorescence - Are You Sorry/Remember What I Look Like

Ty Segall - Over/Hello, Hi

Pet Fox - Slows Me Down/A Face in Your Life

Just Mustard - I Am You/Heart Under

Hour 2: 2012

Divine Fits - My Love Is Real/A Thing Called Divine Fits

Metric - Youth Without Youth/Synthetica

Johnny Foreigner - 3 Hearts/Names

Titus Andronicus - In a Big City/Local Business

Japandroids - The Nights of Wine and Roses/Celebration Rock

Bob Mould - Silver Age/Silver Age

Golden Gurls - I Can See the City/Typo Magic

El-P and Paul Banks - Works Every Time/Cancer 4 Cure

Dinosaur Jr. - Pierce the Morning Rain/I Bet on Sky

Ty Segall Band - The Tongue/Slaughterhouse

METZ - Wet Blanket/METZ

A.C. Newman - Encyclopedia of Classic Takedowns/Shut Down the Streets

The Tragically Hip - At Transformation/Now For Plan A

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill/Psychedelic Pill

Van Halen - Bullethead/A Different Kind of Truth

Torche - Kicking/Harmonicraft

Soundgarden - By Crooked Steps/King Animal

Completely Conspicuous 595: At the Movies

Celebrating the show's 16th birthday with part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our love of movies. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded while driving to Tree House Brewery

- Phil remembers seeing "Bambi" in the theater and "Halloween" a little early

- The interesting career beginnings of Kurt Russell

- Jay: Watched a lot of Disney movies as a kid

- Drive-in theaters were fun

- Getting into James Bond movies

- Jay's early favorites: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters

- Getting scolded during E.T.

- Date movies: Titanic was a weepy scene

- In recent years, Jay takes his daughters to MCU movies

- Sandler movies run the gamut

- Seeing an R-rated movie with a friend's family

- Watching adult content with your parents is seriously awkward

- Jay became a Mel Brooks fan as a pre-teen

- Watching old movies during the early days of the pandemic

- Eddie Murphy's '80s standup wouldn't fly today

- 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 #436: August 12, 2022

The indie music scene was turned on its head in the early '00s by the introduction of the iPod and the explosion of MP3 blogs. I paid tribute to both in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage this week. These are all songs I downloaded from 2003 to 2007 from blogs. It was an important time for music discovery.

This playlist will make you jump for joy:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc./Demon Days

M.I.A. - Paper Planes/Kala

Dudley Perkins - Come Here My Dear/Expressions

The Hold Steady - You Gotta Dance (With Who You Came to the Dance With)/Boys and Girls in America B-side

Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor/Demo

Tapes 'n Tapes - Cowbell/The Loon

Maximo Park - Isolation/Missing Songs

Pixies - Bam Thwok/Single

Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out/Happiness in Magazines

Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage!/Fire

The Apes - The Night-Time Reaper/Baba's Mountain

The Black Keys - No Fun/The Moan

We Are Scientists - The Bomb Inside the Bomb/Safety, Fun and Learning (In That Order)

Runner and the Thermodynamics - Powerlines/Runner and the Thermodynamics

Criteria - Run Together/When We Break

Hour 2

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

TV On the Radio - New Health Rock/New Health Rock

Joel Plaskett Emergency - Work Out Fine/Truthfully Truthfully

The Black Angels - Black Grease/Passover

The Riverboat Gamblers - Ice Water/Something to Crow About

Beck - Strange Apparition/The Information

Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists!!/Rabbit Fur Coat

Band of Horses - The Funeral/Everything All the Time

Matt Mays & El Torpedo - Cocaine Cowgirl/Matt Mays & El Torpedo

The Unicorns - Jellybones/Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

Dead Meadow - Let's Jump In/Feathers

Annie - Me Plus One/Anniemal

Four Tet - Iron Man/Everything Comes & Goes: A Tribute to Black Sabbath

Devin Davis - Iron Woman/Lonely People of the World, Unite!

The Dears - Who Are You, Defenders of the Universe/No Cities Left

The Futureheads - First Day/The Futureheads

Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass/Silent Alarm

Greg Dulli - Cigarettes/Amber Headlights

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #435: August 5, 2022

Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about worsts in hour 2.They're enough to combat the worst of the worst, like Mr. Newman there.

 Hello, playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Alvvays - Pharmacist/Blue Rev

Titus Andronicus - We're Coming Back/The Will to Live

Pet Fox - Hesitate/A Face In Your Life

Black Midi - Sugar/Tzu / Hellfire

Making Movies - XOPA/XOPA

Ex-Hyena - At the Moondial/Moon Reflections

Ty Segall - Looking at You/Hello, Hi

The Sadies - More Alone/Colder Streams

Jack White - Eosophobia/Fear of the Dawn

Alex the Astronaut - Haircut/How to Grow a Sunflower Underwater

Metric - What Feels Like Eternity/Formentera

Sharon Van Etten - Mistakes/We've Been Going About This All Wrong

Horsegirl - Beautiful Song/Version of Modern Performance

Horse Jumper of Love - Under the House (Skunks)/Natural Part

Cola - Gossamer/Deep In View

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Caught Low/Endless Rooms

Hour 2: Worst

Sebadoh - Worst Thing/Harmacy

Joanna Gruesome - Honestly Do Yr Worst/Peanut Butter

Johnny Foreigner - The Worst of Us/.Mono No Aware

Fuzzed Out - My Own Worst Enemy/Fuzzed Out

Jon Spencer & the Hitmakers - The Worst Facts/Spencer Gets It Lit!

Robert Plant - Worse Than Detroit/Pictures at Eleven

Superchunk - You Can Always Count on Me (In the Worst Way)/Come Pick Me Up

Joyer - Worst Thing/Perfect Gray

Deep State - You Are the Worst Person I Know/The Path to Fast Oblivion

Deer Tick - Mr. Nothing Gets Worse/Deer Tick, Vol. 2

Soundgarden - Worse Dreams/King Animal

Radio Birdman - You Just Make It Worse/Zeno Beach

OFF! - Toxic Box/OFF!

Matthew Sweet - Worse to Live/In Reverse

Divine Fits - Baby Get Worse/A Thing Called Divine Fits

The Dears - The Worst In Us/Lovers Rock

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #434: July 29, 2022

Many claim to be the best, but few actually live up to the hype. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about being the best in hour 2. It'll knock you on your butt.

This playlist floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Sloan - Spend the Day/Steady

Hallelujah the Hills - Superglued to You/Single

Titus Andronicus - (I'm) Screwed/The Will to Live

Pilot to Gunner - Drop the Sun/Hail Hallucinator

Near Beer - Double Double/Near Beer

Jawbox - Consolation Prize/The Revisionist EP 

PVA - Hero Man/Blush

Courting - Tennis/Guitar Music

Metric - False Dichotomy/Formentera

Fazerdaze - Come Apart/Single

Hello Mary - Looking Right Into the Sun/Looking Right Into the Sun

Green/Blue - Moving On/Paper Thin

Viagra Boys - Ain't No Thief/Cave World

Disq - Cujo Kiddies/Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet

Archers of Loaf - In the Surface Noise/Reason In Decline

The Sadies - No One's Listening/Colder Streams

Ty Segall - Hello, Hi/Hello, Hi

Hour 2: Best

Pavement - Best Friend's Arm/Wowee Zowee

Ovlov - The Best of You/TRU

Guided By Voices - The Best Foot Forwards/Mirrored Aztec

Fugazi - Smallpox Champion/In On the Kill Taker

Rush - Best I Can/Fly By Night

The Pursuit of Happiness - Man's Best Friend/Love Junk

Mother Love Bone - Stardog Champion/Apple

Modest Mouse - The Best Room/Strangers to Ourselves

Bill Janovitz - Best Route/Walt Whitman Mall

Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Sunday's Best/Armed Forces

Songs: Ohia - Champion/Axxess & Ace

The White Stripes - A Boy's Best Friend/De Stijl

The Hush Now - Pete's Best/Memos

Mitski - Your Best American Girl/Puberty 2

Gustaf - Best Behavior/Audio Drag for Ego Slobs

The New Pornographers - Champions of Red Wine/Brill Bruisers

Completely Conspicuous 594: Exile in Guyville

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite music of 1993. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Jay's non-top 5s: Urge Overkill, Living Colour, Matthew Sweet, The Pursuit of Happiness, Paw, Fugazi

- Some good comps and soundtracks: No Alternative, Sweet Relief, Judgment Night

- Phil's #5: Belly with a strong debut

- Jay's #5: Dinosaur Jr. straddles the line between alt- and classic rock

- Jay's #4 and Phil's #3: Smashing Pumpkins break through on sophomore effort

- Jay's #3: Electrifying, raw second album from PJ Harvey

- Phil's #2: U2 takes an interesting left turn with Zooropa

- Jay's #2 and Phil's #4: Nirvana's abrasive followup to Nevermind

- Phil's #1: Liz Phair with an audacious debut out of nowhere

- Jay's #1: A dark look at modern romance from the Afghan Whigs

- Favorite songs: "Mesmerize" (Phil), "Debonair" (Jay)

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 #433: July 15, 2022

Holy haberdashery! This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs with alliterative titles in hour 2. They're totally terrific.

Presenting playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Killer Mike - Run (feat. Young Thug)/Single

Jawbox - Grip/The Revisionist EP

Preoccupations - Ricochet/Arrangements

Supercrush - Perfect Smile/Melody Maker

Pet Fox - It Won't Last/A Face In Your Life

Cola - Met Resistance/Deep In View

The Mary Onettes - Mind On Fire/What I Feel In Some Places

Gully Boys - See You See/Single

Shearwater - Highgate/The Great Awakening

Metric - What Feels Like Eternity/Formentera

The Inflorescence - The Truth/Remember What I Look Like

Horsegirl - Option 8/Versions of Modern Performance

Jack White - Taking Me Back/Fear of the Dawn

Near Beer - Dead Drummers/Single

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Meet You on the Eastern Beach/Endless Rooms

Hour 2: Alliteration

The Police - De Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Da/Zenyatta Mondatta

Prince and the Revolution - Paisley Park/Around the World in a Day

Run DMC - Peter Piper/Raising Hell

R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion/Reckoning

Smashing Pumpkins - Day Dream/Gish

Max Webster - Diamonds, Diamonds/High Class in Borrowed Shoes

Stephen Malkmus - Jo-Jo's Jacket/Stephen Malkmus

Rocket From the Crypt - Heater Hands/Scream, Dracula, Scream!

The Pursuit of Happiness - Completely Conspicuous/Where's the Bone

Superchunk - Water Wings/Foolish

Pixies - Tony's Theme/Surfer Rosa

Titus Andronicus - Arms Against Atrophy/The Airing of Grievances

Judas Priest - Electric Eye/Screaming For Vengeance

Marnie Stern - Simon Says/This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That

Queens of the Stone Age - Sick Sick Sick/Era Vulgaris

Sonic Youth - Screaming Skull/Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star