Stuck In Thee Garage #477: May 26, 2023

Commercial radio is way past its prime, but one of the things I used to like as a kid was hearing rock block weekends on the local rock stations. They'd play three or four songs by the same artist and it was pretty great. As much as those stations suck now, I revived rock blocks for the entirety of this week's Stuck In Thee Garage. And I didn't even have to take a station hostage to do it!

This playlist is as timeless as Joe Mantegna's perm in that 30-year-old photo:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Hold Steady - Positive Jam/Almost Killed Me

The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend/Separation Sunday

The Hold Steady - Massive Nights/Boys and Girls in America

Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene/Bug

Dinosaur Jr. - The Wagon/Green Mind

Dinosaur Jr. - Over It/Farm

Run the Jewels - Oh My Darling Don't Cry/Run the Jewels 2

Run the Jewels - Talk to Me/RTJ3

Run the Jewels - The Ground Below/RTJ4

The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog*/The Stooges (*Due to some computer weirdness, a combination of two other songs somehow populated the MP3 I used; c'est la vie!)

Iggy and the Stooges - Shake Appeal/Raw Power

Iggy Pop - Sister Midnight/The Idiot

Iggy Pop - American Valhalla/Post Pop Depression

Sonic Youth - Drunken Butterfly/Dirty

Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather/Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

Kim Gordon - Air Bnb/No Home Record

Hour 2

PJ Harvey - Me-Jane/Rid of Me

PJ Harvey - The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore/Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

PJ Harvey - Cat on the Wall/Uh Huh Her

Peter Gabriel - Modern Love/Car

Peter Gabriel - I Don't Remember/Melt

Peter Gabriel - Big Time/So

Helium - Pat's Trick/The Dirt of Luck

Wild Flag - Something Came Over Me/Wild Flag

Ex-Hex - Cosmic Cave/It's Real

Minutemen - This Ain't No Picnic/Double Nickels on the Dime

Firehose - Down With the Bass/Flyin' the Flannel

Mike Watt - Chinese Firedrill/Ball-Hog or Tugboat?

Prince - Uptown/Dirty Mind

Prince - Partyup/Dirty Mind

Prince and the Revolution - Pop Life/Around the World in a Day

Rock the blocks RIGHT HERE, HOMEY!

Stuck In Thee Garage #476: May 19, 2023

It doesn't take long for 20 years to fly by. You deal with what life throws at you and the next thing you know, you're 20 years older. It's the damnedest thing. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 2003 in hour 2.

This playlist may be under surveillance:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Queens of the Stone Age - Emotion Sickness/In Times New Roman...

Iguana Death Cult - Pushermen/Echo Palace

Of the Heavy Sun - Cosmic Television/Single

Dawn Richard - Bubblegum/Single

Big Joanie - Cactus Tree/Back Home

Model/Actriz - Pure Mode/Dogsbody

Country Westerns - Grapefruit/Forgive the City

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Burning Sunflowers/The Town That Cursed Your Name

Boygenius - True Blue/The Record

The Bellwether Syndicate - Clarion/Vestige & Vigil

Dyr Faser - This Menace/Karmic Revenge

Yves Tumor - Operator/Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume

Washer - Blammo/Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends

Mudhoney - Flush the Fascists/Plastic Eternity

White Reaper - Crawlspace/Asking For a Ride

The Hold Steady - Carlos is Crying/The Price of Progress

Hour 2: 2003

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Coma Girl/Streetcore

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

Ween - Tried and True/Quebec

Mark Lanegan Band - Methamphetamine Blues/Here Comes That Weird Chill

Stephen Malkmus - Water and a Seat/Pig Lib

TV On the Radio - Young Liars/Young Liars

The Wrens - Everyone Choose Sides/The Meadowlands

Sloan - False Alarm/Action Pact

The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed/Electric Version

The Postal Service - Such Great Heights/Give Up

The Riverboat Gamblers - Hey! Hey! Hey!/Something to Crow About

Drive-By Truckers - Hell No I Ain't Happy/Decoration Day

The Black Keys - Thickfreakness/Thickfreakness

The Twilight Singers - Teenage Wristband/Blackberry Belle

Wire it up NOW, pal!

Stuck In Thee Garage #475: May 12, 2023

Look, not everyone's a go-getter. You're going to have your coffee achievers and you're going to have the other end of the spectrum: the lazy, if you will. Everybody's has a little laziness in them, but some definitely have more than others. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about laziness in hour 2. It really ties the room together.

This playlist is decidedly not nihilistic:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Country Westerns - Knucklen'/Forgive the City

Model/Actriz - Slate/Dogsbody

Washer - Grift on Repeat/Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends

The Hold Steady - Flyover Halftime/The Price of Progress

Gord Downie & Bob Rock - In the Field/Lustre Parfait

Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World/This Stupid World

Eyelids - The Snowfire Band/A Colossal Waste of Light

Generationals - Dirt Diamond/Heatherhead

The New Pornographers - Firework in the Falling Snow/Continue as a Guest

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Gideon Gray/Heaven's Off

Los Campesinos! - Little Mouth/Single

Cornershop - Disco's Main Squeeze/Disco's Main Squeeze

Blues Lawyer - I Won't/All in Good Time

Shame - Yankees/Food For Worms

Quasi - Last Long Laugh/Breaking the Balls of History

Fucked Up - Falling Right Under/One Day

Hour 2: Lazy

The Saints - (I'm) Stranded/(I'm) Stranded

Black Flag - TV Party/Damaged

Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant/Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols

Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell - Lazy Sunday/SNL

Walter Lure & the Waldos - Lazy Day/Wacka Lacka Boom Bop a Loom Bam Boo

The Ramones - I Don't Wanna Be Learned/I Don't Wanna Be Tamed /Ramones

Grave Flowers Bongo Band - Lazy River/Strength of Spring

Beck - Lazy Flies/Mutations

Franz Ferdinand - Lazy Boy/Always Ascending

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye/Carnavas

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

Parquet Courts - Before the Water Gets Too High/Wide Awake!

Eels - Novocaine for the Soul/Beautiful Freak

The Dambuilders - Lazy Eye/Ruby Red

The Murder City Devils - Idle Hands/In Name and Blood

The Gutter Twins - Idle Hands/Saturnalia

Hey man, is that Stuck In Thee Garage? Well, TURN IT UP, MAN.

Stuck In Thee Garage #474: May 5, 2023

It's a dog eat dog world, or so they say. Fortunately, that's just a figure of speech and the dogs don't eat each other, because we like the dogs. And most of the other animals. Speaking of animals, I played songs about animals in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage this week. It's like if you had a chimp on your baseball team.

This playlist is hitting cleanup:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Palehound - The Clutch/Eye on the Bat

PJ Harvey - A Child's Question, August/I Inside the Old Year Dying

Boygenius - Anti-Curse/The Record

Squid - Undergrowth/O Monolith

Emerald Comets - Autumn Vehicle/Single

Washer - Answer to Hell/Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends

Shame - Fingers of Steel/Food For Worms

Ben Folds - Exhausting Lover/What Matters Most

Illiterate Light - Heaven Bends/Sunburned

Tanlines - Burns Effect/The Big Mess

Skinny Pelembe - Don't Be Another/Hardly the Same Snake

The Bellwether Syndicate - We All Rise/Vestige & Vigil

Dyr Faser - This Menace/Karmic Revenge

White Reaper - Thorn/Asking For a Ride

Hour 2: Animals

Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal/Sunbathing Animal

Arctic Monkeys - Dangerous Animals/Humbug

Stephen Malkmus - Animal Midnight/Pig Lib

Superchunk - The Animal Has Left Its Shell/Here's to Shutting Up

Bodega - Domesticated Animal/Shiny New Model

Daniel Romano - Animals Above Our Town/Cobra Poems

Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephants/The Peel Session

Volcano Suns - White Elephant/All Night Lotus Party

Them Crooked Vultures - Elephants/Them Crooked Vultures

The Cult - American Horse/Sonic Temple

Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses/Songs to Learn and Sing

PJ Harvey - Horses in My Dreams/Songs From the City, Songs From the Sea

Silkworm - Raised By Tigers/In the West

Piebald - In Like a Lamb and Out Like a Lion/When Life Hands You Lemons

Big Chief - Lion's Mouth/Platinum Jive

Check out the rock HERE!