Stuck In Thee Garage #108: December 11, 2015

As we get ready to say goodbye to 2015, I paid another visit on Stuck In Thee Garage this week to a quarter century ago. Hour 2 of the show featured songs from 1990 and man, that stuff still holds up. Our new teacher would like you to shut up and listen.

This playlist is not a toomah!

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Eugene Quell - Song for Marla and Lucas/I Will Work the Land
Pete Astor - Really Something/Spilt Milk
Kurt Vile - Dust Bunnies/b'lieve i'm goin down
Strange Faces - Still Lit/Stonerism
Sunwolf - Dreamers/Follow the Dreamers
Cross Record - High Rise/Wabi-Sabi
Palm - Ankles/Trading Basics
Salad Boys - No Taste Bomber/Metalmania
All Them Witches - Talisman/Dying Surfer Meets His Maker
Merchandise (feat. Dum Dum Girls) - Red Sun/Single
Big Nice - Upwards/EP 1
Palehound - Seekonk/Dry Food
Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Lucid (live)/EP B-Side (Live)
Protomartyr - Clandestine Time/The Agent Intellect
Teenage Fanclub - Escher/Thirteen

Hour 2: 1990
Jane's Addiction - Stop!/Ritual de lo Habitual
Mother Love Bone - Come Bite the Apple/Apple
Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots/Goo
Buffalo Tom - Birdbrain/Birdbrain
Adrian Belew and David Bowie - Pretty Pink Rose/Young Lions
Bob Mould - It's Too Late/Black Sheets of Rain
The Pursuit of Happiness - Survival/One Sided Story
Pixies - Is She Weird/Bossanova
The Breeders - Iris/Pod
Ride - Dreams Burn Down/Nowhere
Soul Asylum - We 3/And the Horse They Rode In On
The Replacements - Merry Go Round/All Shook Down
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Farmer John/Ragged Glory

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Completely Conspicuous 401: Reeling in the Years, 1992 (Part 3)

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1992. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
 
Show notes:
- Recorded via Skype
- Jay: Rollins Band broke out with The End of Silence
- Jay's #5
- The best album from The Tragically Hip
- Brian's #5 and Jay's #4
- Pavement's first stab at greatness
- The Pavement reunion was disappointing
- Brian's #4 and Jay's #2
- Brian's #3
- 1992 was a banner year for Alice in Chains
- Dirt was unrelentingly dark
- Jay's #3
- Jay: The album that got me into Buffalo Tom
- Saw them play Let Me Come Over front to back earlier this year
- Brian's #2
- Found at CMJ conference: Balanescu Quartet does Kraftwerk
- Sugar was a great combination of Bob Mould's worlds
- Came out at the right time as alt-rock was hitting
- Brian's #1
- With Kerplunk, Green Day laid blueprint for future success
- Jay's #1
- The Afghan Whigs set up a great decade melding rock with R&B
- A few others we missed
- Next year to tackle: 1983

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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.

Stuck In Thee Garage #107: December 4, 2015

'Tis the season of money: Sales, shopping and store profits. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I play songs about commercialism in hour 2. Sure, the economy may be struggling, but people are spending money nonetheless, regardless of whether they actually have it. At least we've still got the rock.

The "Looking Good, Billy Ray" playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Fast Romantics - Julia/Single
The Gods Themselves - Tangerines/Pink Noise
Futurebirds - Deadbeat Hits/Hotel Parties
Idle Bloom - Some Paranoia/Some Paranoia
Stove - Wet Food/Is Stupider
Bloodhounds on My Trail - Old Fools/Escape II
Holy Esque - Strange/Submission
Palmas - Sweet Water/To the Valley
Jackson Boone - Runaway/Natural Changes
The Ocean Blue - Breezing Up/Cerulean
Wimps - Leftovers/Super Me
Strange Faces - Don't Feel Bad/Stonerism
White Reaper - Sheila/White Reaper Does It Again
Tedo Stone - Back Down/Marshes
Foo Fighters - Savior Breath/Saint Cecilia EP
Video - Drink It In/The Entertainers
Timmy's Organism - Back in the Dungeon/Heartless Heathen

Hour 2: Commercialism
Fugazi - Merchandise/Repeater
Nirvana - Serve the Servants/In Utero
Casket Salesmen - I'll Take That for a Dollar/Sleeping Giants
Spoon - Don't Buy the Realistic/Telephono
Art Brut - Slap Dash for No Cash/Art Brut vs. Satan
OFF! - I Need One (I Want One)/OFF!
Bruce Springsteen - Used Cars/Nebraska
The Who - Odorono/The Who Sell Out
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Piece of Crap/Sleeps With Angels
The Replacements - Customer (live)/Simply Unacceptable
The Capitol Years - Mounds of Money/Let Them Drink
Eagles of Death Metal - Stacks o' Money/Peace Love Death Metal
The Flying Lizards - Money (That's What I Want)/The Flying Lizards
Spinal Tap - Gimme Some Money/Back from the Dead
Totally Mild - Money or Fame/Down Time
They Might Be Giants - Dead/Flood Live in Australia
Kuroma - Big Bad Money/Kuromarama
Hot in Snakes - Audit in Progress/Audit in Progress
Gang of Four - Return the Gift/Entertainment!

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Completely Conspicuous 400: Reeling in the Years, 1992 (Part 2)

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1992. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
 
Show notes:
- Recorded via Skype
- Brian: A friend was at the Eagles of Death Metal show in Paris but escaped unharmed
- Security at club shows is minimal
- Post-9/11 concert experiences
- Bands formed in '92: Brainiac, Bush, Shellac, Sugar, Weezer
- Harvey Danger's "Flagpole Sitta" is a great song
- Bands that broke up in '92: Bullet Lavolta, Europe, Fine Young Cannibals, Feelies
- Albums that didn't make our top 5
- Brian: Nirvana, Late!, GBV, Ween, They Might Be Giants, Beasties, R.E.M.
- Jay: Lemonheads, Rage Against the Machine, Sloan, Neil Young, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains, Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees
- Tom Scharpling does the best version of "Killing in the Name Of"
- Jay: Saw Alice in Chains at a small Boston club in late '92
- Automatic for the People was the last great R.E.M. album
- 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. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #106: November 27, 2015

Watching television is as much of a modern Thanksgiving tradition as any of the other Turkey Day standbys. Who among us on Thanksgiving or the day after hasn't ended up a motionless, drowsy blob on the couch for hours on end watching movies, sports, parades or pretty much anything else? This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about TV in hour 2. So sit back and enjoy as the tryptophan flows through your veins.

The playlist is heeeerrrre:

Artist - Song/Album
Stove - Ex-Punk/Is Stupider
Beach Slang -  Young & Alive/The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us
Royal Headache - Carolina/High
Idle Bloom - No Body/No Control - Some Paranoia
The Spook School - Friday Night/Try to Be Hopeful
Swings - Sea/Sugarwater
Maszer - Fata Mirage/Single
Future Punx - Post-Wave/This is Post-Wave
!!! - Lucy Mongoosey/As If
Eagles of Death Metal - Save a Prayer/Zipper Down
The Foetals - Malted/Meet the Foetals
Protomartyr - Pontiac 87/The Agent Intellect
Faith No More - Cone of Shame/Sol Invictus
SIMO - Long May You Sail/Let Love Show the Way
Infinity Girl - Blood and Dirt/Stop Being on My Side
The Ocean Blue - Between Something and Nothing/The Ocean Blue

Hour 2: TV
Colleen Green - TV/I Want to Grow Up
Naomi Punk - Television Man/Television Man
Sports - Reality TV/All of Something
Titus Andronicus - Anxiety Block/Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape, Volume 1
The Stooges - TV Eye/Fun House
Black Flag - TV Party/Damaged
The Germs - Media Blitz/ (GI)
Minutemen - There Ain't Shit on TV Tonight/Double Nickels on the Dime
Bad Religion - Television/Stranger Than Fiction
The Nation of Ulysses - Channel One Ulysses/13-Point Program to Destroy America
Public Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero?!/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Colour Television/Primary Colours
Mission of Burma - Second Television/Unsound
Lou Reed - Video Violence/Mistrial
Matthew Sweet - Does She Talk?/Girlfriend
Cheap Trick - The Ballad of TV Violence (I'm Not the Only Boy)/Cheap Trick

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Completely Conspicuous 399: Reeling in the Years, 1992 (Part 1)

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1992. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
 
Show notes:
- Recorded via Skype
- In '92, Brian turned 10 and Jay turned 25
- Hot 100 chart had a lot of pop, R&B, some hip hop
- But alternative rock was booming
- "Baby Got Back" was #2 song of the year
- Clapton's Unplugged album was huge
- The greatness of early Dire Straits
- Pat Smear in the Chili Peppers?
- The evolution of Guns 'N Roses
- Axl's vampire voice
- Labels got rid of the CD longbox
- Once it was about hifi, now nobody cares about audio quality
- Big year for rock weddings
- Concert for Life paid tribute to the late Freddie Mercury
- Wayne's World appealed to both of us for different reasons
- Hair metal died in the U.S. but remained huge in Europe
- Montreal fans rioted because of Axl's antics
- Arena shows were de rigeur in the '70s and '80s
- Bands play much smaller venues now
- 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. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #105: November 20, 2015

After the events that occurred last Friday in Paris, music fans needed to vent. I know I did. So on this week's Stuck In Thee Garage, I played new rock but also an hour of songs that displayed the power of rock in hour 2. Music should be cathartic. Just ask this guy:

The Rage in the Cage playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Eagles of Death Metal - Complexity/Zipper Down
Titus Andronicus - Fired Up/The Most Lamentable Tragedy
The Beastie Boys - Pass the Mic/Check Your Head
Palm - Crank/Trading Basics
Sally Crewe - The Payback/Later Than You Think
Talk in Tongues - She Lives in My House/Alone With a Friend
Red Red Meat - Flank/Jimmywine Majestic reissue
Destroyer - Hell/Poison Season
Nosferatu D2 - A Man at War With Himself/Older, Sadder, Wiser
Los Colognes - All That You Know/Dos
Donovan Wolfington - Manchac/How to Treat the Ones You Love
Sports - The Washing Machine/All of Something
Pinecones - The Love Song/Sings for You Now
METZ - Wait in Line/II
Big Chief - All Downhill from Here/Platinum Jive
Helmet - Rollo/Betty
Motorhead - The Hammer/Ace of Spades

Hour 2: The power of rock
Grinderman - Get It On/Grinderman
The Afghan Whigs - Honky's Ladder/Black Love
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil/Shout at the Devil
The Upper Crust - Rabble Rouser/The Decline and Fall of the Upper Crust
Thin Lizzy - Fighting My Way Back/Fighting
Mudhoney - Douchebags on Parade/Vanishing Point
Mission of Burma - So Fuck It/The Sound The Speed The Light
New Bomb Turks - Bullish on Bullshit/Information Highway Revisited
PJ Harvey - Who the Fuck?/Uh Huh Her
Descendents - Everything Sux/Everything Sucks
Public Enemy - Rebel Without a Pause/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Run DMC - King of Rock/King of Rock
AC/DC - Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution/Back in Black
Drive-By Truckers - Let There Be Rock/Southern Rock Opera
The Cult - Bad Fun/Electric
The Who - Long Live Rock/Odds & Sods

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Completely Conspicuous 398: All Over But the Shouting

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

Show notes:
- Order Matt's book The Entropy of Everything: The Indestructibles Book 3
- Don't get sick!
- Studies can be scary
- Apply some logic when reading studies
- People live in fear of everything
- We love to get worked up about studies
- Studies with no research on long-term effects
- Studies seem to have lost all value
- Outrage only lasts for about a week and we move on
- Nobody wants to take the time to verify
- Are cell phones dangerous? Let's hope not
- Studies: Everything gives you cancer
- We're all gonna die!
- Only thing Wall-e got wrong was everyone was happy
- Pixar wants to make you sad
- Near-death running experiences

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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.

Stuck In Thee Garage #104: November 13, 2015

It's a dark time right now, what with the terrorist attacks in Paris that went down a few hours ago, including a shocking hostage situation/massacre at an Eagles of Death Metal show. In times like these, it's tempting to stop all types of mundane everyday activities and focus on the horror and shock unfolding. But dammit, we have to carry on.

With that in mind, here's the playlist and recording of the Stuck In Thee Garage episode that aired earlier today on BFF.fm. Hour 2 featured songs about movies. If nothing else, music, like movies, can help us escape the reality of horrific situations like these, even if it's just for a little while.

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Palm - Egg in a Frame/Trading Basics
Swings - Dust/Sugarwater
Mike Krol - Left Out (Attn: SoCal Garage Rockers)/Turkey
Rodents - Calm Down/The Hand Cut Record Club
The Spook School - Richard and Judy/Try to Be Hopeful
Worriers - They/Them/Theirs - Imaginary Life
Broken Gold - Turning Blue/Turning Blue EP
The Foxymorons - Permanent Frown/Fake Yoga
The Dead Weather - I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)/Dodge & Burn
Think No Think - 432 Dreams/432 Dreams
All Them Witches - Dirt Preachers/Dying Surfer Meets His Maker
Pink Mountaintops x White Lung - Chinese Watermelon/CONS EP Vol. 3
Trashlord - Cones of Dunshire/Strange Mangers-Trashlord split
Lou Barlow - Redeemed/Brace the Wave
Ringo Deathstarr - Heart and Soul/Single
Moving Panoramas - Tonight/One
Poster Children - Jeremy Straight/Toreador Squat (Re-remaster)

Hour 2: Songs about movies
Sloan - Set in Motion/Never Hear the End of It
They Might Be Giants - Road Movie to Berlin/Flood Live in Australia
St. Vincent - Actor Out of Work/Actor
Thrush Hermit - From the Back of the Film/Clayton Park
Two Inch Astronauts - Cigarettes, Boys, and Movies/Foulbrood
Frank Black - Two Reelers/Teenager of the Year
Hallelujah the Hills - Home Movies/Have You Ever Done Something Evil?
Okkervil River - Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe/The Stage Names
Jason Isbell - Brand New Kind of Actress/Sirens of the Ditch
David Bowie - Cracked Actor/Aladdin Sane
Van Halen - Dirty Movies/Fair Warning
Ozzy Osbourne - No Bone Movies/Blizzard of Ozz
Gary Numan - Films/The Pleasure Principle
Beck - Movie Theme/The Information
The Gaslight Anthem - Film Noir/The '59 Sound
The Hold Steady - Slapped Actress/Stay Positive

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Completely Conspicuous 397: Recent Studies Show...

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the problem with research studies. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
 

Show notes:
- Order Matt's book The Entropy of Everything: The Indestructibles Book 3
- Surviving Halloween in Salem
- Endless barrage of studies
- You can find a study to prove just about any point
- Pick and choose the result you want
- Going down the WebMD wormhole
- Studies get picked up by mass media
- People don't verify the research, just pass it on
- Morning TV shows are an empty void
- Recent study says processed meat causes cancer
- The research-industrial complex
- Watch out for Big Vegetable
- The folly of the Farmer's Almanac
- The influence of pharma companies on research studies
- Too much TV as a child dident make us dumm
- Rarely watch TV now without social media interruptions
- Studies don't necessarily change behavior
- 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. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #103: November 6, 2015

One great thing about living in the Boston area is the local music scene. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played music from Boston artists in hour 2. It was a wicked pissah.

But best not to bother this guy.

The Depp-approved (not really) playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Eleanor Friedberger - False Alphabet City/False Alphabet City
Wolf Alice - Giant Peach/Live at SXSW 2015
Beach House - One Thing/Thank Your Lucky Stars
Protomartyr - Cowards Starve/The Agent Intellect
Nosferatu D2 - The Kids From 'Fame'/Older, Wiser, Sadder
Strange Mangers - Lurker/Trashlord Split
Trashlord - Empty Cloud/Trashlord Split
Froth - Postcard Radio/Bleak
Tim Foljahn - Plain as Day/Fucking Love Songs
Beeef - Down/A Beeef EP
Timmy's Organism - Get Up, Get Out/Heartless Heathen
Viet Cong - Newspaper Spoons/Viet Cong
Ty Segall - The Feels/Manipulator
Sleater-Kinney - Fade/No Cities to Love
Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World/The Physical World

Hour 2: Boston
The Cars - Touch and Go/Panorama
Mission of Burma - Fame and Fortune/Signals, Calls and Marches
Bullet Lavolta - Between the Lines/Swandive
Buffalo Tom - Suppose/Big Red Letter Day
Orbit - Wake Up/Libido Speedway
Swirlies - Tree Chopped Down/Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
Barrence Whitfield and the Savages - Turn Your Damper Down/Dig Thy Savage Soul
The Sheila Divine - The Innocents/Single
Hallelujah the Hills - Try This Instead/Have You Ever Done Something Evil?
Mean Creek - My Madeline/Local Losers
Palehound - Easy/Dry Food
Speedy Ortiz - Dvrk Wvrld/Foil Deer
Eddie Japan - Fight Song/Keep Safe Boston 2014 for Planned Parenthood
Pile - Baby Boy/Dripping
Soccer Mom - It's Probably Not Your Fault/Soccer Mom
The Freeze - This is Boston, Not LA/Token Bones

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