Stuck In Thee Garage #438: August 26, 2022

It's a tough world out there. Sometimes you've just gotta grab the brass ring and not let go, but that takes a lot of self confidence, bravado, or shall we say, swagger. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs with swagger in hour 2. Big Ern knows what I'm talking about.

Sometimes a playlist just has to face the music:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Mountain Goats - Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome/Bleed Out

Pilot to Gunner - Total Rager/Hail Hallucinator

ON - Soul Killer/Underdog

Tony Molina - Not Worth Knowing/In the Fade

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Violent Pictures/Still Clouds at Noon

The Black Angels - Firefly/Wilderness of Mirrors

Smokey Brights - Ocean Shores/Single

Beach Bunny - Entropy/Emotional Creature

Metric - Oh Please/Formentera

Kiwi Jr. - The Sound of Music/Chopper

Cola - So Excited/Deep In View

Sharon Van Etten - Come Back/We've Been Going About This All Wrong

Bread Pilot - Droopee/New to You

Near Beer - Paper Cups/Near Beer

Joyce Manor - Dance With Me/40 oz. to Fresno

Erica Dawn Lyle & Vice Cooler - Never Was (feat. Ivy Jeanne and Mike Watt)/Land Trust: Benefit for North East Farmers of Color

Cave In - Reckoning/Heavy Pendulum

 

Hour 2: Swag

PJ Harvey - 50 Ft. Queenie/Rid of Me

Cat Power - The Greatest/The Greatest

M.I.A. - Hit That/Kala

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Blues X Man/Orange

James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine/Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thing

Eric B. and Rakim - As the Rhyme Goes On/Paid In Full

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Tha Shiznit/Doggystyle

Joe Jackson - I'm the Man/I'm the Man

Iggy & the Stooges - Search and Destroy/Raw Power

New Bomb Turks - I Got Your Bitter End/Information Highway Revisited

Ty Segall - I'm a Man/Fudge Sandwich

Van Halen - I'm the One/Van Halen

Monster Magnet - Space Lord/Powertrip

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

The Nation of Ulysses - Spectra Sonic Sound/13-Point Program to Destroy America

Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)/Mothership Connection

 

Completely Conspicuous 596: Pass the Popcorn

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

Show notes:

- Recorded while driving to Tree House Brewery

- Watching scary movies as a kid

- The Shining still holds up

- Favorite directors: Kubrick, Scorsese, Tarantino

- Jay: After Hours is a fun movie; similar plot to Into the Night, which came out around the same time

- The current state of prestige TV is giving movies a run for their money

- Better Call Saul is the latest great show

- The early days of the pandemic led to watching lots of movies

- Great time to catch up on old favorites and things you missed

- The greatness of The Decline of Western Civilization, Part 2

- U2 was riding high until they released the movie Rattle and Hum

- Lots of movies filmed in our area

- Jay: After we had kids, didn't go to an adult movie in the theater for years

- Movie dates used to be a big deal when we were younger

- Don't do it that much anymore

- The movie viewing experience at home is much better than it used to be

- Phil hasn't been to a movie in a theater since the pandemic started

- Watching edited versions of movies on network TV

- We interact differently with movies today

- Movie recommendations: Jay recommends Prey, The Limey, Burn After Reading, No Country For Old Men, Something Wild, After Hours

- Phil recommends Bernie, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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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 #437: August 19, 2022

A decade can fly by so quickly that you don't realize it until someone tells you. And just like that, we're looking at 2012 and realizing it seems so close and so far away. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from a decade ago. There were ancient predictions that the world would end that year and we made apocalyptic playlists for nothing. Ultimately, it was a time that seems so innocent now, even though the pillow fights were savage.

 Abed is down with this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

OFF! - War Above Los Angeles/Free LSD

ON - Underdog/Underdog

High Vis - Blending/Blending

Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Strangers (feat. ASAP Rocky and Run the Jewels)/Cheat Codes

Pilot to Gunner - Ship Jumpers/Hail Hallucinator

Winter - Atonement (feat. Hatchie)/Atonement

Tony Molina - The Last Time/In the Fade

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - The Future's Just More of the Same/Still Clouds at Noon

The Black Angels - Without a Trace/Wilderness of Mirrors

The Besnard Lakes - A Jacket for a Rainy Day/The Besnard Lakes Are the Prayers for the Death of Fame

Kiwi Jr. - Parasite II/Chopper

Sorry - Let the Lights On/Anywhere But Here

The Inflorescence - Are You Sorry/Remember What I Look Like

Ty Segall - Over/Hello, Hi

Pet Fox - Slows Me Down/A Face in Your Life

Just Mustard - I Am You/Heart Under

Hour 2: 2012

Divine Fits - My Love Is Real/A Thing Called Divine Fits

Metric - Youth Without Youth/Synthetica

Johnny Foreigner - 3 Hearts/Names

Titus Andronicus - In a Big City/Local Business

Japandroids - The Nights of Wine and Roses/Celebration Rock

Bob Mould - Silver Age/Silver Age

Golden Gurls - I Can See the City/Typo Magic

El-P and Paul Banks - Works Every Time/Cancer 4 Cure

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

Ty Segall Band - The Tongue/Slaughterhouse

METZ - Wet Blanket/METZ

A.C. Newman - Encyclopedia of Classic Takedowns/Shut Down the Streets

The Tragically Hip - At Transformation/Now For Plan A

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill/Psychedelic Pill

Van Halen - Bullethead/A Different Kind of Truth

Torche - Kicking/Harmonicraft

Soundgarden - By Crooked Steps/King Animal

Completely Conspicuous 595: At the Movies

Celebrating the show's 16th birthday with part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our love of movies. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Recorded while driving to Tree House Brewery

- Phil remembers seeing "Bambi" in the theater and "Halloween" a little early

- The interesting career beginnings of Kurt Russell

- Jay: Watched a lot of Disney movies as a kid

- Drive-in theaters were fun

- Getting into James Bond movies

- Jay's early favorites: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters

- Getting scolded during E.T.

- Date movies: Titanic was a weepy scene

- In recent years, Jay takes his daughters to MCU movies

- Sandler movies run the gamut

- Seeing an R-rated movie with a friend's family

- Watching adult content with your parents is seriously awkward

- Jay became a Mel Brooks fan as a pre-teen

- Watching old movies during the early days of the pandemic

- Eddie Murphy's '80s standup wouldn't fly today

- 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 #436: August 12, 2022

The indie music scene was turned on its head in the early '00s by the introduction of the iPod and the explosion of MP3 blogs. I paid tribute to both in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage this week. These are all songs I downloaded from 2003 to 2007 from blogs. It was an important time for music discovery.

This playlist will make you jump for joy:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc./Demon Days

M.I.A. - Paper Planes/Kala

Dudley Perkins - Come Here My Dear/Expressions

The Hold Steady - You Gotta Dance (With Who You Came to the Dance With)/Boys and Girls in America B-side

Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor/Demo

Tapes 'n Tapes - Cowbell/The Loon

Maximo Park - Isolation/Missing Songs

Pixies - Bam Thwok/Single

Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out/Happiness in Magazines

Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage!/Fire

The Apes - The Night-Time Reaper/Baba's Mountain

The Black Keys - No Fun/The Moan

We Are Scientists - The Bomb Inside the Bomb/Safety, Fun and Learning (In That Order)

Runner and the Thermodynamics - Powerlines/Runner and the Thermodynamics

Criteria - Run Together/When We Break

Hour 2

A.C. Newman - Miracle Drug/The Slow Wonder

TV On the Radio - New Health Rock/New Health Rock

Joel Plaskett Emergency - Work Out Fine/Truthfully Truthfully

The Black Angels - Black Grease/Passover

The Riverboat Gamblers - Ice Water/Something to Crow About

Beck - Strange Apparition/The Information

Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists!!/Rabbit Fur Coat

Band of Horses - The Funeral/Everything All the Time

Matt Mays & El Torpedo - Cocaine Cowgirl/Matt Mays & El Torpedo

The Unicorns - Jellybones/Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

Dead Meadow - Let's Jump In/Feathers

Annie - Me Plus One/Anniemal

Four Tet - Iron Man/Everything Comes & Goes: A Tribute to Black Sabbath

Devin Davis - Iron Woman/Lonely People of the World, Unite!

The Dears - Who Are You, Defenders of the Universe/No Cities Left

The Futureheads - First Day/The Futureheads

Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass/Silent Alarm

Greg Dulli - Cigarettes/Amber Headlights

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #435: August 5, 2022

Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about worsts in hour 2.They're enough to combat the worst of the worst, like Mr. Newman there.

 Hello, playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Alvvays - Pharmacist/Blue Rev

Titus Andronicus - We're Coming Back/The Will to Live

Pet Fox - Hesitate/A Face In Your Life

Black Midi - Sugar/Tzu / Hellfire

Making Movies - XOPA/XOPA

Ex-Hyena - At the Moondial/Moon Reflections

Ty Segall - Looking at You/Hello, Hi

The Sadies - More Alone/Colder Streams

Jack White - Eosophobia/Fear of the Dawn

Alex the Astronaut - Haircut/How to Grow a Sunflower Underwater

Metric - What Feels Like Eternity/Formentera

Sharon Van Etten - Mistakes/We've Been Going About This All Wrong

Horsegirl - Beautiful Song/Version of Modern Performance

Horse Jumper of Love - Under the House (Skunks)/Natural Part

Cola - Gossamer/Deep In View

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Caught Low/Endless Rooms

Hour 2: Worst

Sebadoh - Worst Thing/Harmacy

Joanna Gruesome - Honestly Do Yr Worst/Peanut Butter

Johnny Foreigner - The Worst of Us/.Mono No Aware

Fuzzed Out - My Own Worst Enemy/Fuzzed Out

Jon Spencer & the Hitmakers - The Worst Facts/Spencer Gets It Lit!

Robert Plant - Worse Than Detroit/Pictures at Eleven

Superchunk - You Can Always Count on Me (In the Worst Way)/Come Pick Me Up

Joyer - Worst Thing/Perfect Gray

Deep State - You Are the Worst Person I Know/The Path to Fast Oblivion

Deer Tick - Mr. Nothing Gets Worse/Deer Tick, Vol. 2

Soundgarden - Worse Dreams/King Animal

Radio Birdman - You Just Make It Worse/Zeno Beach

OFF! - Toxic Box/OFF!

Matthew Sweet - Worse to Live/In Reverse

Divine Fits - Baby Get Worse/A Thing Called Divine Fits

The Dears - The Worst In Us/Lovers Rock

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #434: July 29, 2022

Many claim to be the best, but few actually live up to the hype. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about being the best in hour 2. It'll knock you on your butt.

This playlist floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Sloan - Spend the Day/Steady

Hallelujah the Hills - Superglued to You/Single

Titus Andronicus - (I'm) Screwed/The Will to Live

Pilot to Gunner - Drop the Sun/Hail Hallucinator

Near Beer - Double Double/Near Beer

Jawbox - Consolation Prize/The Revisionist EP 

PVA - Hero Man/Blush

Courting - Tennis/Guitar Music

Metric - False Dichotomy/Formentera

Fazerdaze - Come Apart/Single

Hello Mary - Looking Right Into the Sun/Looking Right Into the Sun

Green/Blue - Moving On/Paper Thin

Viagra Boys - Ain't No Thief/Cave World

Disq - Cujo Kiddies/Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet

Archers of Loaf - In the Surface Noise/Reason In Decline

The Sadies - No One's Listening/Colder Streams

Ty Segall - Hello, Hi/Hello, Hi

Hour 2: Best

Pavement - Best Friend's Arm/Wowee Zowee

Ovlov - The Best of You/TRU

Guided By Voices - The Best Foot Forwards/Mirrored Aztec

Fugazi - Smallpox Champion/In On the Kill Taker

Rush - Best I Can/Fly By Night

The Pursuit of Happiness - Man's Best Friend/Love Junk

Mother Love Bone - Stardog Champion/Apple

Modest Mouse - The Best Room/Strangers to Ourselves

Bill Janovitz - Best Route/Walt Whitman Mall

Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Sunday's Best/Armed Forces

Songs: Ohia - Champion/Axxess & Ace

The White Stripes - A Boy's Best Friend/De Stijl

The Hush Now - Pete's Best/Memos

Mitski - Your Best American Girl/Puberty 2

Gustaf - Best Behavior/Audio Drag for Ego Slobs

The New Pornographers - Champions of Red Wine/Brill Bruisers

Completely Conspicuous 594: Exile in Guyville

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite music of 1993. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- Jay's non-top 5s: Urge Overkill, Living Colour, Matthew Sweet, The Pursuit of Happiness, Paw, Fugazi

- Some good comps and soundtracks: No Alternative, Sweet Relief, Judgment Night

- Phil's #5: Belly with a strong debut

- Jay's #5: Dinosaur Jr. straddles the line between alt- and classic rock

- Jay's #4 and Phil's #3: Smashing Pumpkins break through on sophomore effort

- Jay's #3: Electrifying, raw second album from PJ Harvey

- Phil's #2: U2 takes an interesting left turn with Zooropa

- Jay's #2 and Phil's #4: Nirvana's abrasive followup to Nevermind

- Phil's #1: Liz Phair with an audacious debut out of nowhere

- Jay's #1: A dark look at modern romance from the Afghan Whigs

- Favorite songs: "Mesmerize" (Phil), "Debonair" (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 #433: July 15, 2022

Holy haberdashery! This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs with alliterative titles in hour 2. They're totally terrific.

Presenting playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Killer Mike - Run (feat. Young Thug)/Single

Jawbox - Grip/The Revisionist EP

Preoccupations - Ricochet/Arrangements

Supercrush - Perfect Smile/Melody Maker

Pet Fox - It Won't Last/A Face In Your Life

Cola - Met Resistance/Deep In View

The Mary Onettes - Mind On Fire/What I Feel In Some Places

Gully Boys - See You See/Single

Shearwater - Highgate/The Great Awakening

Metric - What Feels Like Eternity/Formentera

The Inflorescence - The Truth/Remember What I Look Like

Horsegirl - Option 8/Versions of Modern Performance

Jack White - Taking Me Back/Fear of the Dawn

Near Beer - Dead Drummers/Single

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Meet You on the Eastern Beach/Endless Rooms

Hour 2: Alliteration

The Police - De Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Da/Zenyatta Mondatta

Prince and the Revolution - Paisley Park/Around the World in a Day

Run DMC - Peter Piper/Raising Hell

R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion/Reckoning

Smashing Pumpkins - Day Dream/Gish

Max Webster - Diamonds, Diamonds/High Class in Borrowed Shoes

Stephen Malkmus - Jo-Jo's Jacket/Stephen Malkmus

Rocket From the Crypt - Heater Hands/Scream, Dracula, Scream!

The Pursuit of Happiness - Completely Conspicuous/Where's the Bone

Superchunk - Water Wings/Foolish

Pixies - Tony's Theme/Surfer Rosa

Titus Andronicus - Arms Against Atrophy/The Airing of Grievances

Judas Priest - Electric Eye/Screaming For Vengeance

Marnie Stern - Simon Says/This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That

Queens of the Stone Age - Sick Sick Sick/Era Vulgaris

Sonic Youth - Screaming Skull/Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star

 

Completely Conspicuous 593: Cure For Pain

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite music of 1993. Listen to the episode or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

- In 1993, Jay turned 26, Phil turned 24

- Jay moved to Middleton, Mass.

- Phil saw the Breeders, Belly, Lenny Kravitz

- Jay saw Nirvana and the Breeders, Midnight Oil, Lollapalooza

- Big year for hip hop

- Hair metal was dead

- Phil's non-top 5s: Pearl Jam, Lenny Kravitz, Breeders, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Afghan Whigs, Uncle Tupelo, Frank Black, Juliana Hatfield, Morphine, Velvet Underground, Bjork, Cracker, Mazzy Star, Dinosaur Jr., Big Head Todd and the Monsters   

- 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 #432: July 8, 2022

One is the loneliest number, or so they say. You can get a lot more done when you team up with someone else. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played interesting collaborations in hour 2. It's like if Sting showed up in a movie based on a Who album.

Scoot along with the playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The Mary Onettes - What I Feel In Some Places/What I Feel In Some Places EP

Horse Jumper of Love - Chariots/Natural Part

Sharon Van Etten - Headspace/We've Been Going About This All Wrong

Ex-Hyena - Magnification/Moon Reflections

Black Midi - Welcome to Hell/Hellfire

Cola - Fulton Park/Deep In View

!!! - Let It Be Blue/Let It Be Blue

Stars - To Feel What They Feel/From Capleton Hill

Spiritualized - Best Thing You Never Had (The D Song)/Everything Was Beautiful

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Vanishing Dots/Endless Rooms

Pet Fox - Checked Out/A Face In Your Life

The Smile - Skrting On the Surface/A Light For Attracting Attention

Joyce Manor - Dance With Me/40 Oz. to Fresno

Horsegirl - Homage to Birdnoculars/Versions of Modern Performance

Erica Dawn Lyle & Vice Cooler - Bodies (feat. Kelley Deal, Emily Restas, Sarah Register)/Land Trust: Benefit for North East Farmers of Color

Hour 2: Collaborations

Adrian Belew and David Bowie - Pretty Pink Rose/Young Lions

Pearl Jam - Little Sister (with Robert Plant)/2005 Christmas Single

Rush - Time Stand Still/Hold Your Fire

Living Colour - Elvis Is Dead/Time's Up

Mudhoney and Sir Mix-a-Lot - Freak Momma/Judgment Night soundtrack

Rollins Band - Night Sweat (with Charles Gayle)/Weighting

The Afghan Whigs - My Curse/Gentlemen

Metric - The Wanderlust/Synthetica

Paul McCartney - You Want Her Too/Flowers In the Dirt

The I Don't Cares - King of America/Wild Stab

The Raconteurs and Pete Townshend - The Seeker/Attic Jam

Buffalo Tom and Grant Hart - Pink Turns to Blue/Live at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago 12/3/00

Gord Downie and the Sadies - Demand Destruction/And the Conquering Sun

Teenage Fanclub and the Donnas - Personality Crisis/Velvet Goldmine soundtrack

Desert Sessions - Crawl Home/The Desert Sessions Vol. 9 & 10