Stuck In Thee Garage #45: July 25, 2014

It's not easy being a rock star, or so I would suppose. Who knows why Jack White looked so bummed at a Cubs game this week? There could be any number of reasons, not the least of which he was at a Cubs game. Whatever the case, this week's Stuck In Thee Garage pays mini-tribute to ol' Stripey with three songs at the end of hour 1, and then goes off into orbit with an hour of kickass space rock tunes.

But seriously, lighten up, Francis:

Maybe this playlist will cheer him up.

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
The Raveonettes - Sisters/Pe'ahi
Sex Hands - Pivot/Pleh
Fucked Up - Led by Hand/Glass Boys
Ovlov - Moth Rock/am
Against Me! - Dead Friend/Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Mike Doughty - Super Bon Bon/Circles Super Bon Bon Sleepless...
The Dears - Death or Life We Want You/Gang of Losers
David Bowie (with Frank Black) - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)/Bowie's 50th Birthday Concert, Madison Square Garden 1997
Titus Andronicus - (I Am) The Electric Band/Local Business
Elliott Smith - Christian Brothers/Elliott Smith
Urge Overkill - Goodbye to Guyville/Stull EP
The White Stripes - Party of Special Things to Do/single
The Dead Weather - Hang You From the Heavens/Horehound
The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution/Consolers of the Lonely

Hour 2: Space rock
Fuzz - Raise/Fuzz
Black Mountain - Stormy High/In the Future
Fu Manchu - Strolling Astronomer/The Action is Go
Dead Meadow - Let's Jump In/Feathers
Kyuss - Asteroid/Sky Valley
Mastodon - Oblivion/Crack the Skye
Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine/The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years from Home/Their Satanic Majesties Request
The Flaming Lips - Take Meta Mars/In a Priest Driven Ambulance
Spacemen 3 - The Sound of Confusion/Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to
Pixies - Motorway to Roswell/Live in Los Angeles 12/22/91
Frank Black - Superabound/Teenager of the Year
Soundgarden - Superunknown/Superunknown
Black Sabbath - Supernaut/Live in Ashbury 1975
High on Fire - The Path/Snakes for the Divine

Stuck In Thee Garage #45 by Koomdogg on Mixcloud

Stuck In Thee Garage #34: May 2, 2014

It never ceases to amaze me how music can make just about any situation better. For me, anyway. Swamped with work? Crank up some rock and I'll get through it. Running around with a million things to do? Fire up the iPod. Pissed off at the world? Make it one louder.

This week was crazy busy, but the sense of accomplishment at putting together a good show is always worth it. I ended up playing a ton of newer music in hour 1 and then songs about nighttime in hour 2. It came together pretty nicely.

Just ask this dude:

The playlist, if you will:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Eagulls - Nerve Endings/Eagulls
Damon Albarn - Lonely Press Play/Everyday Robots
Dum Dum Girls - Lost Boys & Girls Club/Too True
Hymnals - When You're Away/single
Bedroom Eyes - Wild Sins/single
The Both - The Inevitable Shove/The Both
The Baseball Project - From Nails to Thumbtacks/3rd
Gord Downie and the Sadies - It Didn't Start to Break My Heart Until This Afternoon/And the Conquering Sun
The Pack A.D. - Big Shot/Do Not Engage
Mac DeMarco - Blue Boy/Salad Days
Screaming Maldini - Islands/single
Wye Oak - The Tower/Shriek
Cheap Trick - Southern Girls/In Color: The Unreleased Steve Albini Sessions
The Upper Crust - Rabble Rouser/The Decline and Fall of the Upper Crust
AC/DC - Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be/Let There Be Rock

Hour 2: Songs about nighttime
James Brown and the Famous Flames - Night Train/Live at the Apollo (1962)
Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
El-P - Up All Night/I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Billy Squier - Lonely is the Night/Don't Say No
Scorpions - Big City Nights/Love at First Sting
KISS - King of the Night Time World/Destroyer
Eagles of Death Metal - I Like to Move in the Night/Death by Sexy
David Bowie - African Night Flight/Lodger
Max Webster - Night Flights/A Million Vacations
Led Zeppelin - Night Flight/Physical Graffiti
The Boomtown Rats - Up All Night/Mondo Bongo
The Cure - A Night Like This/The Head on the Door
The Hold Steady - Massive Nights/Boys and Girls in America
Greg Dulli - Early Today (and later that night)/Amber Headlights
Sleater-Kinney - Night Light/The Woods
Buffalo Tom - Late at Night/Big Red Letter Day
Iggy Pop and James Williamson - Night Theme/Kill City
Iggy Pop and James Williamson - Night Theme (Reprise)/Kill City

Stuck In Thee Garage 034 by Koomdogg on Mixcloud