Stuck In Thee Garage #481: June 23, 2023

Some musical artists get the glory, whether it's through sales or airplay. Others toil on in obscurity. Hits may get more attention, but it's the less heralded stuff that floats my boat. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played two hours of underrated rock classics. It's like some serious gourmet shit.

Drink up:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Superdrag - Sucked Out/Regretfully Yours

Dambuilders - Shrine/Encendedor

Frank Black & the Catholics - Billy Radcliffe/Pistolero

Art Brut - Formed a Band/Bang Bang Rock & Roll

Fugazi - Margin Walker/13 Songs

Descendents - When I Get Old/Everything Sucks

METZ - Rats/METZ

Drakulas - Fashion Forward/Terminal Amusements

Guided By Voices - Echos Myron/Bee Thousand

Bettie Serveert - Tomboy/Palomine

Kam Fong - On Top, Rockin' It/From the Bottom of the Sea

Rollins Band - Grip/The End of Silence

Helmet - Turned Out/Meantime

Husker Du - Makes No Sense at All/Flip Your Wig

Bad Religion - Hooray For Me.../Stranger Than Fiction

Jawbreaker - Chemistry/Dear You

Hour 2

Blue Oyster Cult - This Ain't the Summer of Love/Agents of Fortune

Dead Meadow - What Needs Must Be/Old Growth

The Mars Volta - The Widow/Frances the Mute

The Pursuit of Happiness - Little Platoons (My Neighbourhood)/One Sided Story

Joel Plaskett Emergency - Drunk Teenagers/Ashtray Rock

New Bomb Turks - Pretty Lightning/The Night Before the Day the Earth Stood Still

Savages - Evil/Adore Life

Mission of Burma - Trem Two/Vs.

Primal Scream - Kowalski/Vanishing Point

King Khan and the Shrines - Land of the Freak/The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines

Les Savy Fav - Sleepless in Silverlake/Root For Ruin

The Feelies - Fa Ce La/Crazy Rhythms

Sebadoh - Mind Reader/Harmacy

Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise/Siamese Dream

Titus Andronicus - (I Blame) Society/An Obelisk

The Dirtbombs - Indivisible/We Have You Surrounded

The Upper Crust - Ne'er Do Well/The Decline and Fall of the Upper Crust

OFF! - I Got News For You/OFF!

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Stuck In Thee Garage #480: June 16, 2023

Living a healthy lifestyle is important, but enjoying life is also something to consider. Watching your diet is crucial to longevity but it's okay to indulge yourself in a dessert every so often. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about dessert in hour 2. It's damn good, much like a slice of cherry pie.

This playlist is Agent Cooper-approved:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Speedy Ortiz - You SO2/Rabbit Rabbit

Bully - All I Do/Lucky For You

Wye Oak - I Learned It From You/Every Day Like the Last

Protomartyr - For Tomorrow/Formal Growth in the Desert

Guardian Singles - Chad and Stacey/Feed Me to the Doves

Telehealth - Taliesin Grid/Content Oscillator

Weird Nightmare - She's the One/Single

PUP - How to Live With Yourself/Single

The Dirty Nil - Nicer Guy/Free Rein to Passions

Guided By Voices - Instinct Dwelling/La La Land

Superviolet - Angels on the Ground/Infinite Spring

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

Iguana Death Cult - Radio Brainwave/Echo Palace

Purr - Drift/Who is Afraid of Blue?

Feeble Little Horse - Freak/Girl With Fish

Genesis Owusu - Leaving the Light/Struggler

Big Joanie - Today/Back Home

Model/Actriz - Mosquito/Dogsbody

Hour 2: Dessert

The Cure - Icing Sugar/Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

Juliana Hatfield - Sugar/Weird

Cibo Matto - Birthday Cake/Viva! La Woman

Pom Pom Squad - Cake/Death of a Cheerleader

Young Prisms - Sugar/Friends For Now

The White Stripes - Sugar Never Tasted So Good/The White Stripes

Barrence Whitfield & the Savages - Sugar/Dig Thy Savage Soul

Spinal Tap - Cups and Cakes/Back From the Dead

Cub Scout Bowling Pins - Funnel Cake Museum/Heaven Beats Iowa

Giant Burger - Bacon Ice Cream/Odd Box Weekender V

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Cool Ice Cream/Eddy Current Suppression Ring

Divine Fits - Like Ice Cream/A Thing Called Divine Fits

Redd Kross - Ice Cream (Strange and Pleasing)/Beyond the Door

Van Halen - Ice Cream Man/Van Halen

Blonder - Ice Cream Girl/Knoxville House

Laura Jane Grace - Ice Cream Song/Stay Away

Pardoner - Sugary + Sweet/Playin' on a Cloud

Bleached - Sour Candy/Welcome the Worms

The Raveonettes - You Want the Candy/Lust Lust Lust

Get the sweet audio HERE, pally!

Completely Conspicuous 613: Stuck In a Moment

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 2000. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Jay's non-top 5 picks: Hot Snakes, Rollins Band, Fu Manchu, Pearl Jam
• Phil's and Jay's #5: Diverse offering from the Tragically Hip
• Phil's and Jay's #4: More accessible effort about living in NYC by PJ Harvey
• Phil's #3: Bluesy debut album from North Mississippi All-Stars
• Jay's #3: Electrifying major-label debut from At the Drive-In
• Featured in Dan Ozzi's book Sellout about indie acts who sign with majors
• Phil's #2: Phish blends some different styles into their jam band formula
• Jay's #2: Queens of the Stone Age's second album takes a big leap onto the rock scene
• Phil's #1: U2 bounces back with a back-to-basics release
• Phil: Feeling down about what was once his favorite band
• How bands age 
• The last really good U2 album
• Jay's #1: Radiohead totally reinvents their sound, embracing electronics
• Phil's not feeling it
• Favorite songs: "Optimistic" (Jay), "Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" (Phil) 

 

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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 #479: June 9, 2023

Time machine technology is still in its infancy, but what many scientists fail to realize is time travel is already possible through music. Listening to music instantly transports you to a different time and place. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I take a trip in reverse chronological order from 2010 through the year 1982. It's totally not bogus, dude.

The most excellent playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls/This Is Happening

Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications/Further Complications

The Raveonettes - Dead Sound/Lust Lust Lust

Spoon - Don't You Evah/Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me/Return to Cookie Mountain

Sleater-Kinney - Entertain/The Woods

The Walkmen - The Rat/Bows + Arrows

Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage/Fire

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Another Morning Stoner/Source Tags and Codes

Destroyer - The Sublimation Hour/Streethawk: A Seduction

Yo La Tengo - Cherry Chapstick/And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

The Flaming Lips - Waitin' for a Superman/The Soft Bulletin

Beck - Tropicalia/Mutations

Hour 2

Radiohead - Lucky/OK Computer

The Afghan Whigs - My Enemy/Black Love

Pavement - Fight This Generation/Wowee Zowee

Drive Like Jehu - Golden Brown/Yank Crime

Fugazi - Cassavettes/In On the Kill Taker

Buffalo Tom - Velvet Roof/Let Me Come Over

Soundgarden - Room a Thousand Years Wide/Badmotorfinger

Living Colour - Elvis Is Dead/Time's Up

Beastie Boys - Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun/Paul's Boutique

Public Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero?!/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Prince -Housequake/Sign o' the Times

Cameo - Word Up/Word Up!

The Cult - Rain/Love

U2 - Wire/The Unforgettable Fire

The Fixx - Saved By Zero/Reach the Beach

Bad Brains - Attitude/Bad Brains

Check out the Wayback Machine in reverse ROIGHT HERE.

Completely Conspicuous 612: In the Year 2000

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 2000. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• In 2000, Jay got married
• Jay turned 33, Phil turned 31
• Jay: Went to SXSW, saw Modest Mouse, Fu Manchu, Bevis Frond
• Pivotal year for the dot-com boom
  
• Albums were leaking on Napster before they came out
• A better year than '99 in terms of stuff we liked
• Top 100 songs were predominantly pop
• Phil's non-top 5s: Ween, Sleater-Kinney, Outkast, White Stripes, Rage Against the Machine, Ryan Adams, New Pornographers, Doves, Neil Young, Steely Dan, the Hives 
• Phil's out on runs scaring old ladies 
• 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 #478: June 2, 2023

Everybody falls at some point. It's just a matter of how far and how hard. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about falling in hour 2. It's much more fun than falling off a cliff like a certain unlucky coyote.

That's all, folks!

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Jeff Rosenstock - Liked U Better/Single

Osees - Intercepted Message/Intercepted Message

Guardian Singles - Manic Attraction/Feed Me to the Doves

Low Praise - Gate/Dressing

Iguana Death Cult - Rope a Dope/Echo Palace

Big Joanie - Happier Still/Back Home

Blur - The Narcissist/The Ballad of Darren

Country Westerns - Wait For It/Forgive the City

Model/Actriz - Amaranth/Dogsbody

Skinny Pelembe - Deadman Deadman Deadman/Hardly the Same Snake

Immaterial Possession - Chain Breaker/Mercy of the Crane Folk

Feeble Little Horse - Tin Man/Girl With Fish

Wednesday - Quarry/Rat Saw God

Spoon - Sugar Babies/Memory Dust EP

Corvair - Right Hook/Bound to Be

Washer - Coward/Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends

Mudhoney - Cry Me an Atmospheric River/Plastic Eternity

Hour 2: Falling

Mission of Burma - Falling/ONoffON

The Lemonheads - Falling (Live on WERS 1987)/Hate Your Friends (Deluxe)

Sweeping Promises - Falling Forward/Hunger For a Way Out

R.E.M. - Fall On Me/Lifes Rich Pageant

The New Pornographers - Falling Down the Stairs of Your Smile/In the Morse Code of Brake Lights

The Ocean Blue - Falling Through the Ice/Cerulean

Pugwash - Fall Down/The Olympus Sound

Happyness - Falling Down/Write In

Smokescreens - Falling Down/Used to Yesterday

Mr. Airplane Man - Fallen/C'mon DJ

Parquet Courts - Fall On Yr Face/Tally All the Things That You Broke

Oceanator - The Sky Is Falling/Things I Never Said

Matthew Sweet - Falling/Altered Beast

Ty Segall - The Fall/First Taste

Bullet Lavolta - Before I Fall/Swandive

Faith No More - Falling to Pieces/The Real Thing

Fall into the kickass playlist HERE.