Friday, April 29, 2022

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


Friday, April 22, 2022

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


Friday, April 15, 2022

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

 

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

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.

Friday, April 01, 2022

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

 

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