Stuck In Thee Garage #637: June 19, 2026

Life is too short to waste it on anger, but that doesn't mean we're going to stop getting angry about things. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new music from Today Junior, Feeble Little Horse and Piebald in hour 1 and songs about anger in hour 2. 

You'll get this playlist and like it!

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Today Junior - Keep On Pushing Me/Single

Feeble Little Horse - DMT/bitknot

Piebald - This Thing is Old/Tales for the Rages

Sparta - Split Lip/Cut a Silhouette

The Creem - Paraphernalia/Taste of Cherry

Death Cab for Cutie - How Heavenly a State/I Built You a Tower

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Bop/In Light of Recent Events

Guided By Voices - Lost in the Sun/Crawlspace of the Pantheon

The Bug Club - Every Single Muscle/Every Single Muscle

Ecca Vandal - Bleed But Never Die/Looking for Someone to Unfollow

The Sheila Divine - We Once Burned/The Middle Ages

Drakulas - Going Going Gone Gone/Midnight City

Interpol - This Mirror Weighs a Ton/This Mirror Weighs a Ton

Sub*T - Wide Load/How My Own Voice Sounds

Deer Tick - I Am an Island/Coin-O-Matic

Metric - Time is a Bomb/Romanticize the Dive

Broken Social Scene - Mission Accomplished (Kingfisher)/Remember the Humans

Hour 2: Anger

Public Enemy - Welcome to the Terrordome/Fear of a Black Planet

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name/Rage Against the Machine

Rollins Band - You Didn't Need/The End of Silence

Parquet Courts - Marathon of Anger/Sympathy for Life

Apostle of Hustle - My Sword Hand's Anger/National Anthem of Nowhere

The Posies - Everybody is a Fucking Liar/Amazing Disgrace

Helmet - You Turned Out/Meantime

Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin'/Screaming for Vengeance

Motley Crue - Knock 'Em Dead, Kid/Shout at the Devil

Nirvana - Negative Creep/Bleach

PJ Harvey - Long Snake Moan/To Bring You My Love

Mudhoney - Douchebags on Parade/Vanishing Point

Fugazi - Merchandise/Repeater

OFF! - Borrow and Bomb/OFF!

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Stuck In Thee Garage #133: June 3, 2016

Anger is an energy. Or so I'm told. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about anger in hour 2. After a long (or short) week, a certain amount of anger can build up, so it's good to be able to vent with some quality rock jams.

The trigger-happy playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Wolf Parade - Floating World/EP 4
The Coathangers - Make It Right/Nosebleed Weekend
A Giant Dog - I'll Come Crashing/Pile
Thin Lips - DEB/Riff Hard
White Reaper - I Don't Think She Cares/White Reaper Does It Again
Radiator Hospital - 181935/Torch Song
Radiohead - Identikit/A Moon Shaped Pool
Sonny & the Sunsets - The Hospital Grounds at Night/Moods Baby Moods
The Spook School - Everybody Needs to Be in Love/Try to Be Hopeful
Nancy - Midnite/Nancy
Champion Lover - How Will I Know/Champion Lover
PUP - Never Try/PUP
Ty Segall - The Picture/Mr. Face
British Sea Power - Carrion/The Decline of British Sea Power
The Breeders - Too Alive/Title TK
Okkervil River - A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene/The Stage Names
Urge Overkill - Somebody Else's Body/Exit the Dragon

Hour 2: Anger
Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces/Whatever and Ever Amen
The Gentlemen - Shakin' Mad Baby/Ladies and Gentlemen...
Medium Medium - Hungry, So Angry/The Glitterhouse
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages - Angry Hands/Under the Savage Sky
Neil Young - Angry World/Le Noise
Drive-By Truckers - Hell No, I Ain't Happy/Decoration Day
Pearl Jam - Gimme Some Truth (live)/2001 Christmas single
The Posies - Hate Song/Amazing Disgrace
XTC - Don't Lose Your Temper/Black Sea
Elvis Costello - I'm Not Angry/My Aim is True
David Bowie - Look Back in Anger/Lodger
Public Image Ltd. - Rise/Album
Iggy and the Stooges - Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell/Raw Power
McLusky - What We've Learned/McLusky Do Dallas
Faith No More - Midlife Crisis/Angel Dust

Completely Conspicuous 263: The Upside of Anger

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss our angry society. Listen to the episode below or download it directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:
- Recorded at Chez Phillion, Salem, Mass.
- Matt and his siblings got the angry gene
- Be nice to your crazy co-workers
- Copycat wackos
- Blaming the videogames and Hollywood
- Violent movies don't necessarily make you violent
- When you recognize the bank robber
- Matt's been shot at before
- It's unrealistic to think guns are going away
- Who's paranoid? Not us.
- Talk radio is another forum for angry people
- The 2nd Amendment
- Universal healthcare gets people angry
- "People aren't totally shitbags"
- High-powered hunting
- Matt's advocating for an asteroid to wipe us out
- Bonehead of the Week


Music:
The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
Bad Religion - True North
Screaming Females - Poison Arrow
Titus Andronicus - Upon Viewing Oregon's Landscape with the Flood of Detritus

Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!

The Joy Formidable song is on the album Wolf's Law on Atlantic. Download it for free at Chromewaves.
The Bad Religion song is on the band's new album True North on Epitaph. Download the song for free at Chromewaves.
The Screaming Females song is on the cassette-only album Chalk Tape on Don Giovanni. Download the song for free from Stereogum.
The Titus Andronicus song is on the album Local Business on XL Recordings. Download the song for free at Epitonic.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Completely Conspicuous 262: Anger is an Energy

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss anger management. Listen to the episode below or download it directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Recorded at Chez Phillion, Salem, Mass.
- The joys of home ownership
- We've talked in the past about profanity and politics, which both tie in to anger
- Many forums available for people to vent anger
- Dealing with crazy co-workers
- Matt's an angry man at times
- Running can be therapeutic...or not
- Getting behind the wheel instantly amplifies anger level
- Road rage is scary
- Are we an angrier society than we used to be?
- Like driving a car, social media makes you a lot braver
- Online comments can be particularly vicious
- Putting up with conflicting opinions on Facebook
- The gun debate has stoked anger on both sides
- Matt has a "Spanish face"
- Matt: The rest of the world sees Americans as "overweight, angry and armed"
- Some friends love to troll "the other side" online
- Seagull Facebook: Fly in, make a bunch of noise, crap on everything and fly away
- Anger is stoked at sporting events
- Alcohol doesn't help
- Giants fan beaten at Dodgers Stadium
- Matt wrecked his shoulder venting on a punching bag
- To be continued
- Bonehead of the Week

Music:
Mudhoney - The Only Son of the Widow of Nain
Camper Van Beethoven - Someday Our Love Will Sell Us Out
Guided By Voices - She Lives in an Airport
Lovestreams - Shock Corridor

Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!

The Mudhoney song is on the forthcoming album Vanishing Point on Sub Pop. Download it for free (in exchange for your email address) at SubPop.com.
The Camper Van Beethoven song is on the band's new album La Costa Perdida on 429 Records. Download the song for free at Soundcloud.
The Guided By Voices song is on the self-released album The Bears for Lunch. Download the song for free from Soundcloud.
The Lovestreams song is available for free download from the Lovestreams Tumblr.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.