Stuck In Thee Garage #422: April 29, 2022

Ah, the big '80s. It was a different time, that's for sure. Big hair, big colors, big music. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played music from 1987 in hour 2 and it was definitely a blueprint for what was to come in the years following. It was also a good year for Alien Life Forms.

Crank the playlist and hide the cat:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Folk Implosion - Don't Give It Away/Feel It If You Feel It

Built to Spill - Gonna Lose/When the Wind Forgets Your Name

PUP - PUPtheBand Inc. Is Filing For Bankruptcy/The Unraveling of PUPtheBand

Mister Goblin - Good Son/Bad Seed /Bunny

Fontaines D.C. - Roman Holiday/Skinty Fia

Kurt Vile - Palace of OKV In Reverse/(watch my moves)

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Heaven Is In Your Mind/The Old 200

Bodega - Statuette on the Console/Broken Equipment

Savak - Baltimore Moon/ Human Error/Human Delight

Adulkt Life - New Curfew/Book of Curses

Wet Leg - Ur Mum/Wet Leg

Oceanator - Nightmare Machine/Nothing's Ever Fine

Jeanines - Don't Wait for a Sign/Don't Wait for a Sign

Sasami - Sorry Entertainer/Squeeze

Jon Spencer and the Hitmakers - Layabout Trap/Spencer Gets It Lit!

Yard Act - Witness/The Overload

Guided By Voices - Eyes of Your Doctor/Crystal Nuns Cathedral

Meat Wave - Fire Dreams/Volcano Park

Hour 2: 1987

Husker Du - Could You Be the One?/Warehouse: Songs and Stories

Dinosaur Jr. - Little Fury Things/You're Living All Over Me

Pixies - Ed Is Dead/Come On Pilgrim

Jane's Addiction - Trip Away/Jane's Addiction

The Replacements - Skyway/Pleased to Meet Me

The Smiths - Unlovable/Louder Than Bombs

R.E.M. - Exhuming McCarthy/Document

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning/Diesel and Dust

Eric B. & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul/Paid In Full

Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well/The Hardline According to...

Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man/Sign O' the Times

Screaming Trees - Transfiguration/Even If and Especially When

Soundgarden - Nothing to Say/Screaming Life

The Cult - Bad Fun/Electric

Metallica - Last Caress/Green Hell /The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Revisited

Stuck In Thee Garage #421: April 22, 2022

The ocean is vast and mysterious. There are plenty of songs about the ocean, and I featured some of them in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage this week. There's something to delight everyone, even the cabin boy.

This playlist is ready for you scalliwags:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

TV Priest - Bury Me In My Shoes/My Other People

Crows - Garden of England/Beware Believers

Wet Leg - I Don't Wanna Go Our/Wet Leg

Francis of Delirium - The Funhouse/Single

Pillow Queens - The Wedding Band/Leave the Light On

Oceanator - Bad Brain Daze/Nothing's Ever Fine

Porridge Radio - The Rip/Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky

Mister Goblin - Red Box/Bunny

Craig Finn - Messing With the Settings/A Legacy of Rentals

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

Adulkt Life - Metalic County/Book of Curses

PUP - Totally Fine/The Unraveling of PUPtheband

Howless - Levels/To  Repel Ghosts

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Day After Day/The Old 200 EP

Papercuts - The Strange Boys/Past Life Regression

Eddie Vedder - Brother the Cloud/Earthling

Hour 2: Oceans

Sebadoh - Ocean/Harmacy

Scarce - Ocean Blue/Tattoos and Parades

Stephen Malkmus - Ocean of Revenge/Groove Denied

Savak - Cold Ocean / Human Error/Human Delight

Kal Marks - The Fucking Ocean/Life Is Murder

Kyuss - Capsized/Blues For the Red Sun

Queens of the Stone Age - I Sat By the Ocean/...Like Clockwork

Gary Numan - Oceans/The Pleasure Principle

Lou Reed - Ocean/Lou Reed

Neil Young - I'm the Ocean/Mirror Ball

Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty/Good News For People Who Love Bad News

Ween - Ocean Man/The Mollusk

Dinosaur Jr. - Oceans in the Way/Farm

The Cult - Electric Ocean/Electric

Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size/Nothing's Shocking

Stuck In Thee Garage #420: April 15, 2022

When you do something to the letter, that implies an attention to detail. When you cover something from A to Z, that leaves a little more leeway. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs that represented each letter of the alphabet in hour 2, which meant I had to pack a lot more into that hour: 26 songs to be exact. Which also meant they had to be short and punchy, and they were. So dig into a can of your favorite frosty beverage and shotgun that mofo, because it's time to rock, as it were.

This playlist is equals parts teen and wolf:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

PUP - Grim Reaping/The Unraveling of PUPtheband

Jon Spencer & the Hitmakers - Junk Man/Spencer Gets It Lit!

Oceanator - The Last Summer/Nothing's Ever Fine

Mister Goblin - Military Discount/Bunny

Adulkt Life - Room Context/Book of Curses

Folly Group - Paying the Price/Human and Kind

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

Eddie Vedder - Rose of Jericho/Earthling

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Old 200/The Old 200

Pavement - Sinister Purpose (live)/Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal

Pillow Queens - Well Kept Wife/Leave the Light On

Wet Leg - Oh No/Wet Leg

Sasami - Say It/Squeeze

Destroyer - It Takes a Thief/Labyrinthitis

Superchunk - Highly Suspect/Wild Loneliness

The Black Tones - The End of Everything/Single

Hello Mary - Sink In/Single

The Simps - On Fye/Siblings

Hour 2: A to Z

The Jam - Absolute Beginners/Snap!

Frank Black - Bad, Wicked World/Teenager of the Year

Teenage Fanclub - Commercial Alternative/Thirteen

Nirvana - Downer/Incesticide

Alice Bag - Even/Sister Dynamite

Jeff Rosenstock - The Fuzz/WORRY.

Sleater-Kinney - Gimme Love/No Cities to Love

The Breeders - Huffer/Title TK

Big Heet - Incomplete/On a Wire

U-Men - Juice Party/U-Men

The Wedding Present - Kill Devil Hills/Going, Going...

Queens of the Stone Age - Little Sister/Lullabies to Paralyze

Snowball II - Meet Yr Dad/Flashes of Quincy

Varsity Drag - Night Owls/Live Owls: Varsity Drag Live on WMFO

The Muffs - On and On/Blonder and Blonder

Bully - Picture/Feels Like

Guided By Voices - Queen Parking Lot/Surrender Your Poppyfield

Minutemen - Retreat/Double Nickels on the Dime

A Giant Dog - Sex & Drugs/Pile

Ty Segall - Thank You, Mr. K/Ty Segall

The Kills - U.R.A. Fever/Midnight Boom

The Blood Brothers - Vital Beach/Young Machetes

The I Don't Cares - Wear Me Out Loud/Wild Stab

Bullet LaVolta - X-Fire/The Gift

Butthole Surfers - You Don't Know Me/Independent Worm Saloon

Pavement - Zurich is Stained/Slanted and Enchanted

 

Completely Conspicuous 586: Repeater

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite music of 1990. Listen to the episode or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Our top 5 albums of '90

- Phil's #5: Jane's Addiction with a sprawling classic

- Jay's #5: Sophomore release from Living Colour explored a lot of different styles

- Phil's #4: Sinead O'Connor blows up with her second album

- Her SNL appearance in '92 caused serious controversy

- Sinead is alive and well

- Jay's #4: Kim Deal goes out on her own with the Breeders

- Phil's #3: Phish comes into their own with second album

- The jammier acts played the Northeast college scene in the late '80s/early '90s

- Jay's #3: Public Enemy blasts through with a strident, political album

- Phil's #2: Sonic Youth streamlines their sound on their major label debut

- Jay's #1: Fugazi continues sticking it to The Man on their first full-length album

- Phil's #1 and Jay's #2: Neil Young and Crazy Horse crank up the amps and embrace feedback

- Phil saw this tour with Sonic Youth and Social Distortion opening

- He might be making the best current music of his peers

- Favorite songs: "Fuckin' Up" (Phil), "Merchandise" (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 #419: April 1, 2022

When you think about it, 2002 wasn't too different than 2022. People were on edge. We were still fresh off 9/11, fears of terrorism were high, the economy was in freefall, and the U.S. was getting ready to invade Iraq. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2002 in hour 2. 

This playlist will get your rage under control:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Destroyer - Suffer/Labyrinthitis

Folly Group - I Raise You (The Price of Your Head)/Human and Kind

Papercuts - Palm Sunday/Past Life Regression

Spoon - Held/Lucifer on the Sofa

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

Laura Jane Grace - Long Dark Night/At War With the Silverfish

The Lazy Eyes - Fuzz Jam/SongBook

Death Valley Girls - I'm Free/Single

Guerilla Toss - Happy Me/Famously Alive

Kids On a Crime Spree - Goods Get Got/Fall in Love Not in Line

Grave Flowers Bongo Band - Down Man/Strength of Spring

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

Bob Mould - Forecast of Rain/The Ocean

Monster Magnet - Pill Shovel/Spine of God

Tricky Woo - Fly the Orient/Sometimes I Cry

Foo Fighters - Rope/Wasting Light

Hour 2: 2002

Interpol - Roland/Turn On the Bright Lights

David Bowie - Cactus/Heathen

Flaming Lips - Fight Test/Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Elvis Costello - Spooky Girlfriend/When I Was Cruel

Brendan Benson - Tiny Spark/Lapalco

George Harrison - Stuck Inside a Cloud/Brainwashed

Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth/Songs For the Deaf

Mclusky - Day of Deadringers/Mclusky Do Dallas

Hot Snakes - LAX/Suicide Invoice

Audioslave - Cochise/Audioslave

Jets to Brazil - Perfecting Loneliness/Perfecting Loneliness

The Walkmen - Revenge Wears No Wristwatch/Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone

Spoon - Something to Look Forward to/Kill the Moonlight

The Black Keys - Heavy Soul/The Big Come Up

The Tragically Hip - Silver Jet/In Violet Light

Ben Kweller - No Reason/Sha Sha

Wilco - Nothing Up My Sleeve/Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Demos