Friday, August 08, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #592: August 8, 2025

Disasters happen. Here, there and everywhere. Whether it's insane weather events or unimaginable accidents, disasters are lurking around every corner. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about disasters in hour 2. It'll sink your cruise ship!

The playlist won't sink:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Tiberius - Tag/Troubadour

Autocamper - Again/What Do You Do All Day?

Stereolab - Electrified Teenybop!/Instant Holograms on Metal Film

Dead Tooth - Minds Eye/Dead Tooth

Rye Coalition - Wingwalker/Paid in Full

Lifeguard - Like You'll Lose/Ripped and Torn

Jeff Tweedy - Enough/Twilight Override

Kurt Vile and Luke Roberts - Slow Talkers '22/Classic Love EP

Hallelujah the Hills - Too High to Say Hello (7 of Diamonds)/DECK: Diamonds

Ecce Shnak - Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy (live)/Backroom Sessions

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Out of the Flesh/Trash Classic

Shark? - Skelaeton (Big Opinions)/A Simple Life

Civic - Poison/Chrome Dipped

Wet Leg - Jennifer's Body/Moisturizer

Hotline TNT - Break Right/Raspberry Moon

The Bug Club - The Sound of Communism/Very Human Features


Hour 2: Disasters

The Go Team - T.O.R.N.A.D.O./Rolling Blackouts

Run the Jewels - Holy Calamafuck/RTJ4

Girl Friday - Earthquake/Androgynous Mary

Sebadoh - Fantastic Disaster/Bubble and Scrape

Ben Kweller - Ann Disaster/On My Way

The Von Bondies - Earthquake/Love, Hate and Then There's You

Shudder to Think - Earthquakes Come Home/Pony Express Record

The Besnard Lakes - Disaster/The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse

The Tragically Hip - Nautical Disaster/Day For Night

Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood/Live in Athens 1987

Drive-By Truckers - Tornadoes/The Dirty South

The Smile - Open the Floodgates/A Light for Attracting Attention

Kim Gordon - Earthquake/No Home Record

Alvvays - After the Earthquake/Blue Rev

Diet Cig - Flash Flood/Do You Wonder About Me?

The Dirtbombs - Earthquake Heart/Dangerous Magical Noise


The playlist might just blow up!


 

Monday, August 04, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 661: Shakin' All Over

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

  • Jay: Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust tour in 1973
  • Never saw Bowie
  • Phil: Grateful Dead's famous Cornell show 5/8/77
  • The Holy Grail for Deadheads
  • Jay: Canadian art rock weirdos Max Webster in southern Ontario 8/9/79
  • Band split up in 1981 as singer-guitarist Kim Mitchell went solo
  • Opened for Rush in the U.S. in the mid- to late '70s
  • Phil: The Stones at the Boston Garden, 1972
  • Jagger and Richards were arrested in Providence and Boston mayor bailed them out in time for the Garden show
  • Mick Taylor era was notable
  • Jay: Van Halen at Oakland Arena in June 1981
  • A few songs were captured on video; VH fans have hoped for more
  • Phil: Zeppelin at Berkeley, Calif., September 1971
  • Touring before their fourth album was released
  • Playing some of their acoustic songs
  • Jay: SST legends Husker Du at the Channel in Boston 9/30/84
  • In the middle of a killer stretch of albums; this one was for Zen Arcade
  • Two classic albums were released the next year
  • Phil: Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East in 1971 
  • Original lineup including Duane Allman
  • Jay and Phil: The Who live at University of Leeds on Valentine's Day 1970
  • Played a show at Hull the following night
  • We're going to see the Who at Fenway later this month
  • Band was at the literal peak of their powers
  • First release of Live at Leeds was only six songs
  • Longer versions have come out; full set was 33 songs
  • No video of this show unfortunately

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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.

Friday, August 01, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #591: August 1, 2025

Things were interesting in 1980. Coming out of the '70s, everything seemed so shiny and new and exciting, even if they really weren't. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I've got songs from 1980 in hour 2 (following an hour of new music from Nine Inch Nails, Dead Tooth, Tiberius and Autocamper, among others). It'll make you hear things, if you know what I mean.


Danny isn't here, but the playlist is:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me to Be/Tron: Ares soundtrack

Dead Tooth - You Never Do Shit/Dead Tooth

Rye Coalition - Bullet Train to Vegas/Paid in Full

Tiberius - Sag/Troubadour

Autocamper - Map Like a Leaf/What Do You Do All Day?

Daniel Romano - Long Mirror of Time/Live in Oslo

Turnstile - Dull/Never Enough

Kurt Vile & Luke Roberts - Hit of the Highlife/Classic Love EP

Sly & the Family Stone - I Ain't Got Nobody/The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967

Mal Blum - Cool Guy/The Villain

Wet Leg - Don't Speak/Moisturizer

Subsonic Eye - My iPhone Screen/Singapore Dreaming

Momma - Ohio All the Time/Welcome to My Blue Sky

(T-T)b - The Kick/Beautiful Extension Cord

The Convenience - Cafe Style/Like Cartoon Vampires

TVOD - Wells Fargo/Party Time

Pretty Rude - Call Me, Ishmael/Ripe


Hour 2: 1980

Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song/Signals, Calls and Marches

X - The Unheard Music/Los Angeles

The Feelies - Moscow Nights/Crazy Rhythms

Joy Division - Twenty-Four Hours/Closer

David Bowie - When You're Young/Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

The Clash - Somebody Got Murdered/Sandinista!

The Police - Voices Inside My Head/Zenyatta Mondatta

Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers/Melt

XTC - Respectable Street/Black Sea

Adam and the Ants - Antmusic/Kings of the Wild Frontier

The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom/I Just Can't Stop It

The Cars - Down Boys/Panorama

AC/DC - Shake a Leg/Back in Black

Motorhead - Shoot You in the Back/Ace of Spades

Van Halen - Tora! Tora!/Women and Children First

Van Halen - Loss of Control/Women and Children First


Tony's busy cranking up the playlist, Mrs. Torrance.


Monday, July 28, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 660: When Schlitz Rocked America

Celebrating 19 years of podcasting with part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

  • On to our top 10 shows
  • Phil's are in chronological order, Jay's in no particular order
  • Phil: Neil Young and Pearl Jam on their short Euro tour, 8/26/95 in Dublin
  • PJ standing in for Crazy Horse
  • The Velvet Sundown, lame AI band
  • Jay: The Clash from June 1980 at Hammersmith Palais
  • 31 songs from throughout their career
  • The Clash opened for the Who on the Schlitz Rocks America tour
  • Apparently Schlitz was once a big name in beer
  • Phil: Stevie Ray Vaughan on 9/21/85 at the Capitol Theatre
  • Jay: PJ Harvey on the Rid of Me tour in '93
  • Saw her on the next tour in '95
  • Phil: Talking Heads on the Speaking in Tongues tour in Oct. 1983 in Billerica, Mass.
  • Jay: I would've picked the 1980 tour with Adrian Belew on guitar
  • Jay: Living Colour at TT the Bears in Cambridge, Mass. in the summer of '88
  • Taped the show off the radio simulcast on WBCN
  • Killer show before the band blew up the next year
  • Phil: U2 on the War tour in March 1983
  • Jay: Prince's Purple Rain tour at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse
  • Prince was the biggest musician in the world at the time
  • Phil: The Pretenders at the Paradise in Boston in 1980
  • The band's original lineup was so good
  • Jay: Went with a December 1981 Pretenders show in France
  • 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.  

Friday, July 25, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #590: July 25, 2025

There are legends, and there are LEGENDS. Ozzy Osbourne was one of the latter. For 55 years, the man was an icon, trendsetter and all-around lunatic. On Stuck In Thee Garage this week, I paid tribute to the Ozzman in hour 2, after a set of new music from the likes of Sloan, Laura Jane Grace and Daniel Romano in hour 1. Take a big bite!


You can't kill this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Sloan - Dream Destroyer/Based on the Best Seller

Laura Jane Grace - Active Trauma/Adventure Club

Daniel Romano - Pride of Queens/Live in Oslo

Mal Blum - Killer/The Villain

Wet Leg - Pillow Talk/Moisturizer

Hallelujah the Hills - Camouflage Band-Aid (3 of Clubs)/DECK: Clubs

The Fall - New Face in Hell/Grotesque (After the Gramme) Live

Hotline TNT - Where U Been?/Raspberry Moon

Pulp - My Sex/More

Queens of the Stone Age - Suture Up Your Future/Alive in the Catacombs

Jeanines - Coaxed a Storm/How Long Can It Last

Lightheaded - The Lindens The Lindens The Lindens!/Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!

Savak - Child's Play/SQUAWK!

The Bug Club - Blame Me/Very Human Features

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Conducting Experiments/Trash Classic

Lifeguard - T.L.A./Ripped and Torn


Hour 2: Ozzy

Black Sabbath - Behind the Wall of Sleep/Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral/Paranoid

Black Sabbath - After Forever/Master of Reality

Black Sabbath - Changes/Vol. 4

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Black Sabbath - Killing Yourself to Live/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Ozzy Osbourne - Suicide Solution/Blizzard of Ozz

Ozzy Osbourne - No Bone Movies/Blizzard of Ozz

Ozzy Osbourne - Believer/Diary of a Madman

Ozzy Osbourne - S.A.T.O./Diary of a Madman

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon/Bark at the Moon

Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark/The Ultimate Sin


Crank up the playlist, people!


Monday, July 21, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 659: Journey Through the Past

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

  • We're taking advantage of time machine technology
  • That time Zebra opened for their own Zep cover band
  • We're listing specific shows
  • So many great artists to choose from
  • YouTube makes it easier to see a lot of shows you missed
  • Honorable mentions
  • Jay: Surprise show by the Stones at a small Toronto club in '77
  • Two shows were turned into a live album decades later
  • Phil: Bob Marley and the Wailers in London, Monterey Pop, Bowie on Diamond Dogs tour, Sleater-Kinney in Berkeley, James Brown at the Boston Garden in '68, Beatles in Hamburg or the rooftop set, Prince on Purple Rain tour, Phish in '98, Steely Dan in '74  
  • Jay: JB at the Soul Train studios in '73, the Police in '79, Iggy and the Stooges in '73, Zeppelin in '70, Mission of Burma's first farewell in '83, Drive Like Jehu in '94, Black Sabbath in '70, Iron Maiden in '81 with their original singer
  • The Police jumped on the new wave bandwagon and brought energy and skill to it
  • Sabbath's had interesting line items in their recording budget
  • Shout out to CompCon intern Lily
  • 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.

Friday, July 18, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #589: July 18, 2025

These days, seeing isn't necessarily believing. You can't always trust what you see. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about vision in hour 2 (along with new music from Wet Leg, Geese and Mal Blum in hour 1). 


This playlist was made by someone named Abby Normal:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Wet Leg - CPR/Moisturizer

Geese - Taxes/Getting Killed

Mal Blum - Truth is Out There/The Villain

Viagra Boys - Pyramid of Health/Viagr Aboys

Tropical Fuck Storm - Irukandji Syndrome/Fairyland Codex

Car Seat Headrest - Equals/The Scholars

Thalia Zedek Band - Pin/The Boat Outside Your Window

Fine - I Could/I Could

Allo Darlin' - You Don't Think of Me at All/Bright Nights

Kurt Vile & Luke Roberts - Classic Love/Classic Love EP

Jeanines - Satisfied/How Long Can It Last

The Bug Club - Beep Boop Computers/Very Human Features

Subsonic Eye - Situations/Singapore Dreaming

Hotline TNT - If Time Flies/Raspberry Moon

The Convenience - Target Offer/Like Cartoon Vampires

Lifeguard - (I Wanna) Break Out/Ripped and Torn

Chime Oblivion - Heated Horses/Chime Oblivion

Turnstile - Sole/Never Enough

Civic - Swing of the Noose/Chrome Dipped


Hour 2: Vision

Run the Jewels - Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) (feat. Zach de la Rocha)/Run the Jewels 2

Boss Hog - Black Eyes/Brood X

Queens of the Stone Age - Keep Your Eyes Peeled/...Like Clockwork

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Ativan Eyes/The Brutalist Bricks

Johnny Foreigner - Eyes Wide Terrified/Waited Up Til It Was LIght

Witch - Eye/Paralyzed

Spiral Stairs - Angel Eyes/Doris & the Daggers

Male Gaze - Pale Gaze/Miss Taken

The Kills - Baby's Eyes/Little Bastards

Johnny Cash - Mean Eyed Cat/Unchained

Kiwi Jr. - Night Vision/Chopper

Velocity Girl - Audrey's Eyes/Copacetic

Green River - Corner of My Eye/Live at the Tropicana 1984

Death From Above 1979 - All I C is U & Me/Outrage is Now!

Marnie Stern - Believing is Seeing/The Comeback Kid


Get yer ya-ya's out (AKA, listen to the show) RIGHT HERE, kids! 

Friday, July 11, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #588: July 11, 2025

There's a danger in looking backwards too much. That said, it can be fun. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I revisited the reverse chronological order thing that I did back in January. In that episode, I played songs from 2025 to 1994 and this time around, I picked up where I left off and went from 1993 to 1964. It was a blast and there was nary a hot tub time machine in sight.


Come on in, the water's fine:

Hour 1: 1993-1979

Artist - Song/Album

Fugazi - Rend It/In On the Kill Taker

Faith No More - Midlife Crisis/Angel Dust

Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign/Bandwagonesque

Jane's Addiction - No One's Leaving/Ritual de lo Habitual

Big Audio Dynamite - Contact/Megatop Phoenix

Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Prince - U Got the Look/Sign O' the Times

Peter Gabriel - Big Time/So

R.E.M. - Can't Get There From Here/Fables of the Reconstruction

Husker Du - Pink Turns to Blue/Zen Arcade

The Fixx - The Sign of Fire/Reach the Beach

Bad Brains - Sailin' On/Bad Brains

Van Halen - Mean Street/Fair Warning

The Pretenders - The Wait/Pretenders

Joe Jackson - Friday/I'm the Man


Hour 2: 1978-1964

The Rolling Stones - Respectable/Some Girls

AC/DC - Dog Eat Dog/Let There Be Rock

Rush - Something for Nothing/2112

Parliament - Ride On/Chocolate City

David Bowie - 1984/Diamond Dogs

Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy/Billion Dollar Babies

T. Rex - Buick Mackane/Slider

Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft/Shaft soundtrack

Black Sabbath - N.I.B./Black Sabbath

MC5 - Come Together/Kick Out the Jams

The Kinks - Do You Remember Walter?/The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

The Who - I Can See for Miles/The Who Sell Out

The Remains - Don't Look Back/The Remains

Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm/Bringing It All Back Home

Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell/St. Louis to Liverpool


Don't adjust the framistat: Just crank it up HERE!

Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 658: Hits to the Dome

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite music of 2025 so far. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

  • Counting down our favorite albums
  • Breitling's #6: Dan Bejar with another well-done Destroyer album
  • "Slacker Sinatra" singing about aging
  • Kumar's #6: Striking solo effort from Tunde Adebimpe
  • Breitling's #5: Shoegaze goodness from NJ's High
  • Kumar's #5: Dax Riggs with fuzz-laden goth grunge
  • Breitling's #4: Digging the Estonian dream pop from mariin k.
  • Kumar's #3: Impressive 15th solo album from Bob Mould plays to his strengths
  • Still kicking ass into his mid-60s
  • Breitling's #3: Boston trio with a dumb name and a great album, (T-T)b
  • Kumar's #2: Mclusky returns after 21 years with a razor-sharp ripper
  • Breitling's #2 and Kumar's #4: Surprise return to thunderous form from The Men
  • Kumar's #1: PUP's fifth album finds them exploring more mature themes while still kicking ass
  • Breitling's #1 and Kumar's #7: The four-album magnum opus from Hallelujah the Hills exceeds expectations
  • Many guest appearances among the 54 songs
  • Looking forward to new releases from the Lemonheads, Sloan, Superchunk, Pile, Wednesday

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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. 

Friday, July 04, 2025

Stuck In Thee Garage #587: July 4, 2025

Nothing strikes more fear in the hearts of partygoers than when some jamoke breaks out an acoustic guitar. Nine times out of 10, it's a total cringe-inducing moment. But in the hands of a professional, the acoustic guitar can be used for good, not evil. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Superchunk, Allo Darlin' and the Jeanines in hour 1 and quality acoustic jams in hour 2. They're the bomb!


MacGruber, we've only got 30 seconds left:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Superchunk - Is It Making You Feel Something/Songs in the Key of Yikes

The Bug Club - How to Be a Confidante/Very Human Features

Lifeguard - A Tightwire/Ripped and Torn

Hotline TNT - Julia's War/Raspberry Moon

Hallelujah the Hills - Gimme Midnight (Ace of Diamonds)/DECK: Diamonds

Queens of the Stone Age - Running Joke/Paper Machete /Alive in the Catacombs

Model/Actriz - Poppy/Pirouette

Allo Darlin' - Stars/Bright Nights

Jeanines - You Can't Get It Back/How Long Can It Last

Lightheaded - Mercury Girl/Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!

Turnstile - Time is Happening/Never Enough

Civic - Trick Pony/Chrome Dipped

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Total Reset/Trash Classic

Tropical Fuck Storm - Bloodsport/Fairyland Codex

Viagra Boys - Waterboy/Viagr Aboys

(T-T)b - Hey, Creepshow/Beautiful Extension Cord


Hour 2: Acoustic

Superchunk - The First Part/Acoustic Foolish

Pixies - Break My Body/Live on WERS 1/18/87

Ted Leo - Parallel or Together/Live on WUSW 12/6/02

The Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil/American Beauty

Zwan - Number of the Beast/Honestly

XTC - Great Fire/Dear God/Big Day /K-Rocking in Pasadena 1989

Bob Mould - Sinners and Their Repentances/Workbook

Ty Segall & White Fence - Good Boy/Joy

Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay/Elliott Smith

Syd Barrett - Terrapin/The Peel Session 1970

Big Star - Thirteen/#1 Record

R.E.M. - Pop Song '89 (Acoustic)/In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003

The Tragically Hip - Fireworks/Live at Planet Studios July 1998

Screaming Trees - Winter Song (Acoustic)/Shadow of the Season

The Feelies - Let's Go/The Good Earth

The Replacements - Skyway/Pleased to Meet Me


Light off some firecrackers and crank up the tuneage HERE.

Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Completely Conspicuous 657: Charts Schmarts

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite music of 2025 so far. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

  • Drinking some Italian beer
  • Rock is dead commercially
  • Billboard album chart contains nearly no rock
  • Fleetwood Mac's Rumours still riding high for some reason
  • Festival cancellations: Bonnaroo, Boston Calling next year, Lollapalooza
  • Too many festivals, high ticket prices
  • Black Sabbath farewell show
  • Lots of big rock deaths: Brian Wilson, Sly Stone, David Johansen, Marianne Faithfull, etc.
  • We saw Hallelujah the Hills recently and it was glorious
  • Kumar saw some shows: Frank Black, Shannon/Narducy, Gang of Four, Bob Mould
  • Breitling will see Oasis in Mexico, as one does
  • Who's the Who's drummer?
  • Breitling's bubbling under albums: Whirr, Winter, Lunchbox, Pink Floyd reissue, Rough Francis, The Get Quick, Autocamper, Viagra Boys, Thalia Zedek Band
  • Kumar's list: Kinski, Ty Segall, Civic, Cameron Keiber, Dean Wareham, Pulp, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, The Bug Club, Turnstile, The Tubs, Kestrels, Lifeguard, Hotline TNT
  • Breitling's #10: An electronic collab between Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke
  • Kumar's #10: Sophomore release from Horsegirl explores mellower sounds
  • So much music to listen to these days
  • Breitling's #9: Ambient situation delivered by William Tyler
  • Of Bills Frisell and Laswell
  • Kumar's #9: Post-punk ripper from Charm School
  • Kurt Loder is still with us
  • Kumar's #8: Heavy Spoon influence on the new album from The Convenience
  • Breitling's #7: Dean Wareham is still bringing it
  • 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 #592: August 8, 2025

Disasters happen. Here, there and everywhere. Whether it's insane weather events or unimaginable accidents, disasters are lurking around...