Friday, June 24, 2022

Stuck In Thee Garage #430: June 24, 2022

Thirty years ago, Hollywood's idea of a dystopian future featured Mick Jagger as a mercenary who captures people about to die in the early '90s and brings them to oh-so-futuristic 2009, where they serve as substitute bodies for rich people. And clearly, they predicted everything correctly. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1992 in hour 2. 


This playlist is free, Jack:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Pet Fox - Only Warning/A Face In Your Life

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - My Echo/Endless Rooms

Black Midi - Eat Men Eat/Hellfire

Horse Jumper of Love - Ding Dong Ditch/Natural Part

Cola - At Pace/Deep In View

The Inflorescence - So Much of Nothing/Remember What I Look Like

Near Beer - Mixtape Generation/Single

Joyce Manor - Souvenir/40 Oz. to Fresno

Cave In - Floating Skulls/Heavy Pendulum

Horsegirl - World of Pots and Pans/Versions of Modern Performance

Nikki Lane - First High/Denim & Diamonds

Ian Sweet - Fight/Star Stuff

Shearwater - Laguna Seca/The Great Awakening

!!! - Here's What I Need to Know/Let It Be Blue

Sharon Van Etten - I'll Try/We've Been Going About This All Wrong

Porridge Radio - U Can Be Happy If U Want/Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky

Hour 2: 1992

Faith No More - Midlife Crisis/Angel Dust

Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack/Rage Against the Machine

Beastie Boys - Finger Lickin' Good/Check Your Head

Alice In Chains - Right Turn/Sap

Pavement - In the Mouth a Desert/Slanted and Enchanted

Pearl Jam - Sonic Reducer/1992 Christmas Single

Sugar - The Act We Act/Copper Blue

Helmet - Give It/Meantime

Kyuss - Green Machine/Blues For the Red Sky

Rollins Band - Grip/The End of Silence

The Afghan Whigs - Conjure Me/Congregation

Buffalo Tom - Darl/Let Me Come Over

R.E.M. - Monty Got a Raw Deal/Automatic For the People

The Black Crowes - Black Moon Creeping/The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

 


Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Completely Conspicuous 591: The First Part

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

Show notes:

- Recorded at Clicky Clicky World HQ

- Breitling's laptop is acting up

- Concerts are mostly back

- Kate Bush sees a resurgence in popularity

- R.I.P., the iPod

- RL Mathews discovers the new stuff

- Breitling's honorable mentions: Graveyard Club, David West, Big Cream, Peaness, Golden Apples, Stomptalk Modstone, Pillow Queens, Pinchpoints, Flash Hits

- Kumar's HMs: Papercuts, Kurt Vile, Savak, Sasami, Kids on a Crime Spree, Yard Act, Adulkt Life, Mister Goblin, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Elvis Costello

- Good reissues from Pavement and the Flashing Lights

- Kumar's #10: Pink Mountaintops bring the psych/sludge/synth pop

- Breitling's #10: Lo Fi Legs, a musical band with a terrible name and good indie rock

- Kumar's #9: Dan Bejar brings a little more danceability to the latest Destroyer joint

- Kumar's #8: Jon Spencer's back with a fun record

- Breitling's #8: Spiritualized is worth repeat listening

- Kumar's #7: Wet Leg proves they're not a one-trick pony

- Breitling's #7: Tremendous release from Pet Fox, featuring doods from Ovlov and Palehound

- Breitling's #6: Yawners with the Spanish indie rock

- Kumar's #6: Moody change of pace from Fontaines D.C.

- 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.

Saturday, June 18, 2022

Stuck In Thee Garage #429: June 17, 2022

Life is like a rollercoaster. For every meteoric climb, you've got a momentous drop. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about being down and out in hour 2. It wasn't as depressing as you might think, George Michael Bluth.


Snoopy knows what's up:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Joyce Manor - Gotta Let It Go/40 Oz. to Fresno

The Inflorescence - Phantom Feelings/Remember What I Look Like

Erica Dawn Lyle & Vice Cooler - Mirrorball (feat. Kathleen Hanna)/Land Trust: Benefit for North East Farmers of Color

Horsegirl - Anti-glory/Versions of Modern Performance

The Black Angels - El Jardin/Wilderness of Mirrors

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Tidal River/Endless Rooms

Pink Mountaintops - Nikki Go Sudden/Peacock Pools

Adulkt Life - Move/Book of Curses

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

Spiritualized - Let It Bleed (For Iggy)/Everything Was Beautiful

Drive-By Truckers - The Driver/Welcome 2 Club XIII

Jon Spencer & the Hitmakers - Get Up and Do It/Spencer Gets It Lit!

!!! - This Is Pop 2/Let It Be Blue

Just Mustard - Early/Heart Under

Bodega - Seneca the Stoic/Broken Equipment


Hour 2: Down

World Party - Way Down Now/Goodbye Jumbo

Mark Lanegan Band - When Your Number Isn't Up/Bubblegum

Nine Inch Nails - Down In It/Pretty Hate Machine

Lo Tom - Bad Luck Charm/Lo Tom

Dead Stars - Always Down/Never Not Here

The War On Drugs - Knocked Down/A Deeper Understanding

Fucked Up - Came Down Wrong/Dose Your Dreams

EMA - Down and Out/Exile in the Outer Ring

St. Vincent - Down and Out Downtown/Daddy's Home

Rocket From the Crypt - Drop Out/Scream, Dracula, Scream!

The Needy Sons - Chopped Down/Vis-a-Vis

The Pursuit of Happiness - The Downward Road (Revisited)/The Downward Road

Dinosaur Jr. - Goin Down/Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not

Frank Black and the Catholics - Down in the Hole/Snake Oil

Courtney Barnett - Debbie Downer/Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Radiohead - Let Down/OK Computer


Friday, June 10, 2022

Stuck In Thee Garage #428: June 10, 2022

Let's face facts: We live in a world that's full of lies. Whether it's our politicians, our parents or our friends, we hear lies all the time. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about lies in hour 2. It's the single greatest radio show in the history of the world. Yeah, that's the ticket.


This playlist was approved by Morgan Fairchild:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Horsegirl - Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty)/Versions of Modern Performance

These Arms Are Snakes - Camera Shy/Duct Tape & Shivering Crows

Erica Dawn Lyle & Vice Cooler - Soul Fire Farm (feat. Alice Bag and Emily Retsas)/Land Trust: Benefit for North East Farmers of Color

Emerald Comets - Sore Eyes/Single

The Smile - We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings/A Light For Attracting Attention

Oceanator - Stuck/Nothing's Ever Fine

Kiwi Jr. - Night Vision/Chopper

Just Mustard - In Shade/Heart Under

PUP - Matilda/The Unraveling of PUPtheband

Automatic - Skyscraper/Excess

!!! - It's Grey, It's Grey (It's Grey)/Let It Be Blue

Stars - Hoping/From Capleton Hill

Wet Leg - Convincing/Wet Leg

Drive-By Truckers - Welcome to Club XIII/Welcome to Club XIII

Bread Pilot - Crook/New to You

The Mountain Goats - Training Montage/Bleed Out


Hour 2: Lies

Gigolo Aunts - The Big Lie/Minor Chords and Major Themes

Big Star - Don't Lie to Me/#1 Record

Sleater-Kinney - Was It a Lie?/All Hands on the Bad One

Soundgarden - All Your Lies/Ultramega OK

Husker Du - The Biggest Lie/Zen Arcade

Chavez - The Singer Lied/Cockfighters

The Afghan Whigs - Let Me Lie to You/Congregation

Yo La Tengo - The Lie and How We Told It/I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

Joyce Manor - Big Lie/Million Dollars to Kill Me

The Saints - L-I-E-S/(I'm) Stranded

The Rolling Stones - Lies/Some Girls

The Raconteurs - Live a Lie/Help Us Stranger

L7 - Ouija Board Lies/Scatter the Rats

Monster Magnet - Your Lies Become You/Powertrip

Arctic Monkeys - Dance Little Liar/Humbug

Rollins Band - Liar (live)/Weighting


Friday, June 03, 2022

Stuck In Thee Garage #427: June 3, 2022

The weekend is here, and you know what that means: Rock blocks. Well, it used to mean that back in the '80s, when radio stations would plays blocks of your favorite artists all weekend. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played non-traditional rock blocks in hour 2 and it was good. Great, even. But no, I didn't play any Blue Oyster Cult.


Damone knows what's up with the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Just Mustard - Seed/Heart Under

Erica Dawn Lyle & Vice Cooler - Debt Collector (feat. Kim Gordon)/Land Trust: Benefit for North East Farmers of Color

Bread Pilot - Skin Day/New to You

Stars - Patterns/From Capleton Hill

Metric - All Comes Crashing/Formentera

Working Men's Club - Circumference/Fear Fear

Roosevelt - Passion (feat. Nile Rodgers)/Single

!!! - Man on the Moon (feat. Meah Pace)/Let It Be Blue

Bodega - No Blade of Grass/Broken Equipment

The Smile - The Opposite/A Light For Attracting Attention

Pink Mountaintops - Lady Inverted Cross/Peacock Pools

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Bob Holiday/Night Gnomes

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Magenta Mountain/Omnium Gatherum

Martin Courtney - Corncob/Magic Sign

Jeanines - Any Day Now/Don't Wait For a Sign

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


Hour 2: Rock blocks

The Afghan Whigs - Debonair/Gentlemen

The Twilight Singers - Teenage Wristband/Blackberry Belle

The Afghan Whigs - Honky's Ladder/Black Love

Funkadelic - Hit It and Quit It/Maggot Brain

Funkadelic - Funky Dollar Bill/Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow

Parliament - Testify/Up For the Down Stroke

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?/Hearts of Oak

Ted Leo - Timorous Me/Live at WSUW 12/6/02

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Colleen/Living With the Living

The Breeders - Hellbound/Pod

The Breeders - Do You Love Me Now?/Last Splash

The Amps - Tipp City/Pacer

Pavement - Silence Kit/Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Pavement - Unseen Power of the Picket Fence/No Alternative

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Senator/Mirror Traffic

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Independent Street/Wig Out at Jagbags

 



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