Completely Conspicuous 585: All Shook Down

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite music of 1990. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded in person at CompCon World HQ

- In '90, Jay turned 23 and Phil turned 21

- Phil's short career in foodservice

- Jay was a newspaper reporter in Peabody, Mass.

- Controversies over 2 Live Crew, Milli Vanilli and Madonna

- Lots of scenes happening: Alternative, New Jack Swing, Madchester, Seattle

- The era of the Jock Jam

- Albums that didn't make Phil's top 5: Uncle Tupelo, Allman Brothers, Pretenders, Living Colour, Breeders, Alice in Chains, Mother Love Bone, Pixies, World Party, Happy Mondays, Ride, Mazzy Star, Sundays, Cowboy Junkies, Replacements, INXS, Social Distortion, Bob Mould, Black Crowes

- Questions around the November Rain video (which came out in '91)

- Jay's non-top 5s: Afghan Whigs, Flaming Lips, Midnight Oil, Mark Lanegan, Robert Plant

- 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 #418: March 25, 2022

These days, there are so many devices that kids are glued to, but when I was growing up, it was the television. I spent many waking hours watching TV: cartoons, reruns, new shows, sports, talk shows. Even now, I watch a fair amount of TV and there's so much more programming available. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about TV in hour 2. 

This playlist may or may not turn you into a stabbing robot:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

50 Foot Wave - Stare Into the Sun/Single

Guided By Voices - Excited Ones/Crystal Nuns Cathedral

Bambara - Birds/Love On My Mind

Kevin Morby - This Is a Photograph/This Is a Photograph

Papercuts - The Strange Boys/Past Life Regression

Pedro the Lion - Making the Most of It/Havasu

Goose - Dripfield/Dripfield

Just Mustard - Still/Heart Under

Yard Act - Pour Another/The Overload

Folly Group - Faint of Hearts/Human and Kind

Sasami - Need It to Work/Squeeze

Eels - Better Living Through Desperation/Extreme Witchcraft

Automatic -  New Beginning/Excess

Daniel Romano - Still Dreaming/Cobra Poems

Howless - Levels/To Repel Ghosts

Hour 2: TV

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television the Drug of the Nation/Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury

Prince - Sign O' the Times/Sign O' the Times

Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives/My Aim Is True

The Jam - Going Underground/Single

Pulp - TV Movie/This Is Hardcore

Destroyer - The Television Music Supervisor/Have We Met

Arcade Fire - (Antichrist Television Blues)/Neon Bible

Bad Religion - Television/Stranger Than Fiction

IDLES - Television/Joy as an Act of Resistance

Fontaines D.C. - Television Screen/Dogrel

The Smile - You Will Never Work in Television Again/Single

Lou Reed - Satellite of Love/Transformer

Tin Machine - Video Crime/Tin Machine

The Stooges - See That Cat (TV Eye)/1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions

Jack Elliott & Allyn Ferguson - Barney Miller/TV Land Presents Favorite TV Theme Songs

 

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #417: March 18, 2022

Hangovers are never fun, but eventually we learn how to avoid them if we want to. St. Patrick's Day has come and gone, and so have the hangovers. For the most part. Today on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about hangovers in hour 2. 

The chicken digs the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Howless - Fade Out/To Repel Ghosts

Sasami - Say It/Squeeze

Fleeting Joys - Throwaway/All Lost Eyes and Glitter

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

Adulkt Life - Book of Curses / METZ/Adulkt Life

Grave Flowers Bongo Band - Sleepy Eyes/Strength of Spring

Meat Wave - Yell at the Moon/Volcano Park

Papercuts - I Want My Jacket Back/Past Life Regression

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Andy, Come Out/Andy, Come Out

Superchunk - Connection/Wild Loneliness

Parquet Courts - Just Shadows/Sympathy For Life

Reptaliens - I Can't Hide/Multiverse

Mild Orange - Aurora/Looking For Space

Savak - My Book on Siblings / Human Error/Human Delight

Daniel Romano - Animals Above Our Town/Cobra Poems

IDLES - The End/Crawler

 

Hour 2: Hangovers

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

Nazareth - Hair of the Dog/Hair of the Dog

Max Webster - Hangover/Live Magnetic Air

Elliott Smith - Say Yes /  Either/Or

The Replacements - If Only You Were Lonely/Sucking Wax

Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own/Mutations

The Beatles - I'm So Tired/The White Album

The Kinks - Alcohol/Muswell Hillbillies

Bloc Party - Sunday/A Weekend in the City

Alice In Chains - No Excuses/Jar of Flies

Van Halen - Take Your Whiskey Home/Women and Children First

Ween - Booze Me Up and Get Me High/B-Sides, Demos & Rarities

Drive-By Truckers - Aftermath USA/A Blessing and a Curse

Titus Andronicus - Waking Up Drunk/Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol. 1

Black Flag - Thirsty and Miserable/Damaged

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #416: March 11, 2022

When you get to a certain age, time starts to become compressed. Things that seem like they just happened actually occurred decades ago. Where a quarter-century ago once seemed like it was the early '90s, now it's 1997. That's a year where some of us (ahem) turned 30. I played songs from 1997 in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage and managed not to have any flashbacks. So let your hair down and enjoy the rock.

This playlist is taking a special transport home:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

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

Guided By Voices - Re-Develop/Crystal Nuns Cathedral

Kids On a Crime Spree - Vital Points/Fall in Love Not in Line

The Afghan Whigs - I'll Make You See God/Single

METZ - Demolition Row / METZ/Adulkt Life

Savak - Dealers / Human Error/Human Delight

Papercuts - Sinister Smile/Past Life Regression

Dehd - Bad Love/Blue Skies

F!RES - The Lonely Sea/High Tide

Ex-Hyena - Sight Unseen/Single

The Simps - I Got You/Siblings

Yard Act - Payday/The Overload

Superchunk - This Night/Wild Loneliness

Spoon - The Devil and Mister Jones/Lucifer On the Sofa

Elvis Costello & the Imposters - Penelope Halfpenny/The Boy Named If

Hour 2: 1997

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

Paul Weller - Brushed/Heavy Soul

Portishead - Cowboys/Portishead

Radiohead - Karma Police/OK Computer

Yo La Tengo - Stockholm Syndrome/I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One

Elliott Smith - Speed Trials / Either/Or

Pavement - Starlings of the Slipstream/Brighten the Corners

Built to Spill - Randy Described Eternity/Perfect From Now On

Ween - The Golden Eel/The Mollusk

Superchunk - Watery Hands/Indoor Living

Sleater-Kinney - Words and Guitar/Dig Me Out

Moe Berg - Butterknife Dull/Summer's Over

Ben Folds Five - Kate/Whatever & Ever Amen

Spoon - Telamon Bridge/Live at KTRU 1997

Foo Fighters - Wind Up/The Colour and the Shape

Guided By Voices - Can't Hear the Revolution/Mag Earwhig!

Stuck In Thee Garage #415: March 4, 2022

Death happens. It's part of the circle of life, as they say. In the music world, it's painful when you lose musicians you like, but some deaths hit harder than others. Mark Lanegan died last week at the age of 57. Given the insane life he's led, it's a wonder he didn't die a long time ago, but somehow that doesn't make his passing any easier to take. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from throughout Lanegan's career in hour 2. He really had quite a wide range of collaborations over the years in addition to his stellar solo work. I could have filled the two hours with great Lanegan songs, but these will do for now.

The playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Pink Mountaintops - Lights of the City/Peacock Pools

Marion Belle - Pantera/Kisses and Chrome

Sasami - Make It Right/Squeeze

Destroyer - Eat the Wine, Drink the Bread/Labyrinthitis

Eels - What It Isn't/Extreme Witchcraft

Spoon - On the Radio/Lucifer on the Sofa

Superchunk - Refracting/Wild Loneliness

Elvis Costello and the Imposters - Mistook Me For a Friend/The Boy Named If

Meat Wave - Tugboat/Volcano Park

Bob Mould - The Ocean (World Cafe Session)/The Ocean

Thalia Zedek Band - Remain/Perfect Vision

Black Country, New Road - Haldern/Ants From Up There

Various Artists (aka Hallelujah the Hills) - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away/The Music of the Beatles as Channeled in 1958 by the Echo Lake Home for the Potentially Clairvoyant

Daniel Romano - Nocturne Child/Cobra Poems

Kurt Vile and the Violators - Run Run Run/I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground and Nico

Hour 2: Lanegan

Screaming Trees - Cold Rain/Even If and Especially When

Screaming Trees - Change Has Come/Change Has Come

Mark Lanegan - Down In the Dark/The Winding Sheet

The Twilight Singers - Live With Me/Live at KEXP 6/22/06

Mark Lanegan - House a Home/Whiskey for the Holy Ghost

Mark Lanegan Band - One Hundred Days/Bubblegum

SoulSavers - Revival/It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Come On Over (Turn Me On)/Sunday at Devil Dirt

Greg Dulli - Girl From the North Country/Random Desire

The Gutter Twins - Front Street/Saturnalia

Mad Season - Long Gone Day/Live at the Moore, Seattle 4/29/95

Queens of the Stone Age - In the Fade/Rated R

Queens of the Stone Age - Hangin' Tree/Songs For the Deaf

Mark Lanegan Band - Hit the City/Bubblegum