Stuck In Thee Garage #495: September 29, 2023

Ah, the '80s. Life was very different then. Technology was primitive compared to today. The California Raisins became pop stars. The Ford Escort was the top-selling car. CDs outsold vinyl for the first time. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1988 in hour 2. It's weird that they came out 35 years ago, but not as weird as the fact that OJ Simpson was considered a likeable comic actor in 1988.

 

This playlist is from the files of Police Squad:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Pile - Scaling Walls/Hot Air Balloon EP

Radar Peak - Butane Glow/Single

Blue Ocean - Elated Prose/Fertile State

The Replacements - Bastards of Young (Ed Stasium mix)/Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)

The Breeders - Divine Mascis/Last Splash (30th Anniversary Edition)

Wellwater Conspiracy - Late Night (feat. Josh Homme)/Declaration of Conformity

Eldridge Rodriguez - Casual Jesus/Atrophy

Teenage Fanclub - Foreign Land/Nothing Lasts Forever

Swansea Sound - I Don't Like Men in Uniform/Twentieth Century

Jeff Rosenstock - Will U Still U/Hellmode

Slowdive - Alife/Everything is Alive

Speedy Ortiz - Ballad of Y&S/Rabbit Rabbit

Sparklehorse - Evening Star Supercharger/Bird Machine

McLusky - The Digger You Deep / Unpopular Parts of a Pig/The Digger You Deep

Sabatta - Get Your Shit Together/How to Get Even

Genesis Owusu - Old Man/Struggler

Hour 2: 1988

The Feelies - Deep Fascination/Only Life

The Church - Reptile/Starfish

The Pursuit of Happiness - When the Sky Comes Falling Down/Love Junk

The Godfathers - Cause I Said So/Birth, School, Work, Death

Living Colour - Memories Can't Wait/Vivid

Eric B. & Rakim - I Ain't No Joke/Paid in Full

Public Enemy - Louder Than a Bomb/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Pixies - Break My Body/Surfer Rosa

Jane's Addiction - Idiots Rule/Nothing's Shocking

Mudhoney - In 'n Out of Love/Superfuzz Bigmuff

Soundgarden - Flower/Ultramega OK

Dinosaur Jr. - Let It Ride/Bug

Soul Asylum - Sometime to Return/Hang Time

Sonic Youth - The Sprawl/Daydream Nation

Fishbone - Subliminal Fascism/Truth and Soul

Yo, crank the digital boombox HERE, holmes.

Completely Conspicuous 624: Positive Jam

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 2004. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Phil's #5: Arcade Fire with a rousing debut about suburbia
• Jay's #5: First album from Mission of Burma in 19 years kicks serious butt
• Phil's #4: The last U2 album Phil enjoyed
• Zebra once opened for their Zeppelin cover band
• Jay's #4 and Phil's #3: Drive-By Truckers unleash another powerful concept album about the South
• Phil's #2: Brian WIlson finally releases unreleased epic album Smile
• The Beach Boys went from "America's Beatles" to an oldies joke band
• Jay's #2: Another excellent album from Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
• Jay's #1: Debut from the Hold Steady combines '70s riffs with indie rock
• Phil's #1 and Jay's #3: Mark Lanegan with a world-weary masterpiece with a little help from his friends
• Favorite songs: "Hit the City" (Phil), "Positive Jam" (Jay)

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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 #494: September 22, 2023

First impressions are important, but last impressions are pretty crucial as well. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played great album closing songs that leave a huge impression. Last call!

Drink up, lads:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Eldridge Rodriguez - A Feeling That Won't Go Away/Atrophy

Model/Actrix - Winnipesaukee/Single

McLusky - Unpopular Parts of a Pig / Unpopular Parts of a Pig/The Digger You Deep

Swansea Sound - Seven in the Car/Twentieth Century

Sparklehorse - I Fucked It Up/Bird Machine

Daiistar - Parallel/Good Time

Fan Girl - Falling (feat. Elizabeth M. Drummond)/Single

Deeper - Tele/Careful!

A Giant Dog - I Believe/Bite

The Breeders - Go Man Go/Last Splash 30th Anniversary Edition

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Weird Dog/Data Doom

Speedy Ortiz - Ranch vs. Ranch/Rabbit Rabbit

Gladie - Born Yesterday/Don't Know What You're In Until You're Out

Jeff Rosenstock - Life Admin/Hellmode

Kristin Hersh - Eyeshine/Clear Pond Road

Semiwestern - Visitor/Semiwestern

Tony Jay - The Switch for the Light/Perfect Worlds

Bad History Month - Touch the Riff/God is Luck

Hour 2: Closers

Public Enemy - Party for Your Right to Fight/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Mission of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate/Vs.

Sebadoh - I Smell a Rat/Harmacy

Rancid - The Way I Feel/...And Out Come the Wolves

Buffalo Tom - Anything That Way/Big Red Letter Day

Silver Jews - The Wild Kindness/American Water

Pavement - Our Singer/Slanted & Enchanted

Sloan - 400 Metres/One Chord to Another

PJ Harvey - The Dancer/To Bring You My Love

Jarvis Cocker - Running the World/Jarvis

Pixies - Gouge Away/Doolittle

Blondie - Living in the Real World/Eat to the Beat

Boss Hog - Sam/Boss Hog

Interpol - Leif Erikson/Turn on the Bright Lights

David Bowie - Fame/Young Americans

Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)/The Bends

This show Always Be Closing.

Completely Conspicuous 623: Take Me Out

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 2004. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• In 2004, Jay became a father for the second time, was a diaper-changing machine
• Phil got married, saw the Red Sox and Patriots become champions
• Jay: Got an iPod, downloaded a ton of music
• Pixies reunited, Phish broke up
• Many bands take hiatuses
• The tale of Mr. Jimmy
• William Hung becomes famous
• Phil's non-top 5s: Wilco, Black Keys, Beastie Boys, Patterson Hood, Umphrey's McGee, the Killers, Green Day, Twilight Singers, Eagles of Death Metal, PJ Harvey, Franz Ferdinand, TV On the Radio, Tragically Hip 
• Phil invents new words
• Green Day rejuvenates itself
• Jay's non-top 5s: The Walkmen, Death From Above 1979
• 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 #493: September 15, 2023

Rain can make for a dramatic movie scene, but in real life, it can be annoying and/or depressing. This summer has been an especially rainy one in the Northeast. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about rain in hour 2. It's way better than giving someone a pen.

The soggy playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Gladie - Chaos Reigns/Single

Sparklehorse - It Will Never Stop/Bird Machine

Slowdive - Shanty/Everything Is Alive

Kristin Hersh - Ms. Haha/Clear Pond Road

Genesis Owusu - Freak Boy/Struggler

The Budos Band - Frontier's Edge/Frontier's Edge

A Giant Dog - Avalonia/Bite

Speedy Ortiz - Kim Cattrall/Rabbit Rabbit

Jeff Rosenstock - Soft Living/Hellmode

Daiistar - Tracemaker/Good Time

Bad History Month - God Is Luck/God Is Luck

The Hives - Countdown to Shutdown/The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons

Rancid - Drop Dead Inn/Tomorrow Never Comes

Pardoner - Love Yourself and Others/Peace Loving People

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Mild Davis/Data Doom

Osees - Sleazoid Psycho/Intercepted Message

Spring Breeding - Gina Sleeps All Day/Zum Audio, Vol. 5

Hour 2: Rain

The Cult - Rain/Love

The Beths - A Passing Rain/Expert in a Dying Field

Cloud Nothings - Open Rain/The Shadow I Remember

Mission of Burma - After the Rain/The Sound, The Speed, The Light

Superchunk - Rainy Streets/Here's to Shutting Up

Bob Mould - Black Sheets of Rain/Black Sheets of Rain

Destroyer - Midnight Meet the Rain/Poison Season

Mark Lanegan - Kingdoms of Rain/Whiskey for the Holy Ghost

Urge Overkill - View of the Rain/Exit the Dragon

Peter Gabriel - Red Rain/So

R.E.M. - So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)/Reckoning

The Police - Shadows in the Rain/Zenyatta Mondatta

The Cure - Prayers for Rain/Disintegration

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Completely Conspicuous 622: The Hardest Button to Button

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 2003. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Phil's #5: Raucous debut from NYC's Yeah Yeah Yeahs, featuring the electric Karen O
• Jay's #5: Radiohead combined electronic and guitar-driven sounds
• Radiohead albums kept leaking early on file-sharing networks
• Phil's #4: The Shins hone their super catchy pop sound
• Jay's #4: An indie rock gem from the Wrens that still awaits a follow-up
• 20 years of starts, stops, indecision and disagreements
• Phil's #3:My Morning Jacket combined indie rock, Southern rock, folk and jam band sounds
• MP3 blog bands abound
• Jay's #3: Another kickass release from Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
• Leo is one of the great unsung artists of our generation
• Is Springsteen overrated?
• Phil's #2: Drive-By Truckers add Jason Isbell and step up their game
• Jay's #2: A departure for Sloan, but one jam-packed with great songs
• The only Sloan album without an Andrew Scott song
• Phil's #1: The White Stripes expand their sound and totally blow up
• The Stripes made a lot of noise with minimal instrumentation
• Jay's #1: Greg Dulli's Twilight Singers unleash a classic album as a tribute to late friend
• Favorite songs: "The Hardest Button to Button" (Phil), "Teenage Wristband" (Jay)

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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 #492: September 8, 2023

Milestones come and go and we tend to downplay them, but this is a big one. TEN YEARS. I've been doing this show for 10 freaking years. Additionally, BFF.fm has been doing its thing for 10 years. It's wild. This week, I play songs featuring the number 10 in hour 2. Break out the party hats!

Three's company but 10's a charm:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Jeff Rosenstock - Future is Dumb/Hellmode

Speedy Ortiz - Ghostwriter/Rabbit Rabbit

A Giant Dog - Different Than/Bite

Wellwater Conspiracy - The Ending/Declaration of Conformity

Slowdive - The Slab/Everything is Alive

Sweeping Promises - You Shatter/Good Living is Coming For You

The Hives - Rigor Mortis Radio/The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Burn Me Down/Data Doom

Osees - Goon/Intercepted Message

Militarie Gun - Will Logic/Life Under the Gun

Geese - Crusades/3D Country

Genesis Owusu - Stay Blessed/Struggler

Daiistar - Star Starter/Good Time

Fiddlehead - Sullenboy/Death is Nothing to Us

Spiral Dub - Rise and Shine/Spiral Dub

Crossed Wires - Smile/Ellipsis

Chris Farren - Bluish/Doom Singer

M.A.G.S. - Floyd/Destroyer

Hour 2: Ten

Hot Snakes - This Mystic Decade/Audit in Progress

Frank Black - Ten Percenter/Frank Black

Blonde Redhead - 10 Feet High/Masculin Feminin

U-Men - Ten After One/U-Men

Goon - Ten Tables/Dusk of Punk - Happy Omen

Freeloader - Ten Songs Make an Album/The Path of Least Resistance

Jeff Rosenstock - 9/10 / POST

Enumclaw - 10th and J2/Save the Baby

TV Priest - Powers of Ten/Uppers

Big Joanie - Count to 10/Back Home

XTC - Ten Feet Tall/Drums and Wires

Jeff Tweedy - Ten Sentence/WARMER

The Molenes - Ten Pound Hammer/Good Times Comin'

Mark Lanegan - Ten Feet Tall/The Winding Sheet

The Pursuit of Happiness - Ten Fingers/Love Junk

A.C. Newman - There Are Maybe Ten or Twelve.../Get Guilty

The Wedding Present - Ten Sleep/Going, Going...

Velvet Crush - #10/Teenage Symphonies to God

I got yer hot-shit radio show RIGHT HEAH!

Completely Conspicuous 621: It's Gonna Be a Long Night

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 2003. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• In 2003, Jay had a toddler and found out another kid was on the way
• Started downloading a lot of music via blogs
• Jay saw Pat DiNizio, Gord Downie, Radiohead, Guster
• Phil got engaged, saw a lot of Red Sox games
• Coed softball struggles
• 50 Cent had the #1 song of the year
• A lot of number bands on the charts
• What's the deal with Kid Rock?
• Phil's non-top 5s: TV On the Radio, Warren Zevon, Jason Molina, Black Keys, Jet, Outkast, Ween, Lucinda Williams, Bowie
• Jay's non-top 5s: Gord Downie, Electric Six, Dizzee Rascal, Stephen Malkmus, Zeppelin
• To be continued

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 #491: September 1, 2023

Some folks are morning people, some need a little time to get it together. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about mornings in hour 2. It's not always easy to be at your best that early.

The chicken digs this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven/Single

Genesis Owusu - The Roach/Struggler

Daiistar - LMN BB LMN/Good Time

Illuminati Hotties - Truck/Single

Tony Jay - Isolated Visions/Perfect Worlds

Radar Peak - Heaven's Gate/Single

Ty Segall - Void/Single

The Feelies - Rock 'N Roll/Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground

Wellwater Conspiracy - Sleeveless/Declaration of Conformity

Semiwestern - I Never Mean What I Say/Semiwestern

Bad History Month - Let It Ride/God Is Luck

Slowdive - Kisses/Everything Is Alive

The Hives - What Did I Ever Do to You?/The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons

Sweeping Promises - Throw of the Dice/Good Living Is Coming For You

Fiddlehead - Loserman/Death Is Nothing to Us

M.A.G.S. - Red Sky/Destroyer

Hour 2: Morning

The Gap Band - Early in the Morning/Gap Band IV

Betty Davis - You Won't See Me in the Morning/Betty Davis

Faith No More - The Morning After/The Real Thing

Radiohead - Morning Bell/Kid A

Mark Lanegan Band - Morning Glory Wine/Bubblegum

Destroyer - In the Morning/ken

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Get Up Morning/Eddy Current Suppression Ring

Beeef - Morning Light/Bull in the Shade

Ringo Deathstarr - Chainsaw Morning/God's Dream

Krill - This Morning/Lucky Leaves

The Kills - Goodnight Bad Morning/Midnight Boom

Mudhoney - Morning in America/Morning in America

The Who - Early Morning Cold Taxi/The Who Sell Out

Japandroids - Midnight to Morning/Near to the Wild Heart of Life

Dinosaur Jr. - Pierce the Morning Rain/I Bet On Sky

Wake up! Listen to the show HERE!