June 2021
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Aquarium Playlist, 6/29/21
EPISODE #441: CASEY KASEM TRIBUTE 2021 “The New Scooby-Doo Movies” [ALTERNATE THEME]Prince — “Kiss” [Billboard No. 1, 4/19/86 – 4/26/86]Pet Shop Boys — “West End Girls” [No. 1, 5/10/86]Peter Gabriel — “Sledgehammer” [No. 1, 7/26/86]Bananarama — “Venus” [No. 1, 9/6/86]Huey Lewis & the News — “Stuck With You” [No. 1, 9/20/86 – 10/4/86]Cyndi Lauper — “True […]
Movie Review: The Sparks Brothers
4 stars out of 5Like many in my general age range (mesozoic), my first encounter with the band Sparks was their semi-hit collaboration with the Go-Go’s Jane Wiedlin, “Cool Places,” in heavy rotation on MTV in 1983. For many that would indeed prove to be the only encounter. But we, the proud and shamed music […]
Album Review: ‘Home’ by Terry McCarthy
4 stars out of 5Listen on Spotify hereListen/purchase on Apple Music hereIf there’s anything we anticipate from a Terry McCarthy album, it’s his warm strumming guitar, sharply observed lyrical details, and mildly groan-worthy titles indicating which number record this is for him: Wait, a Second!; The Charm; Go Fourth. But with his latest release, the […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/22/21
EPISODE #440: SUMMER 2021The Who — “Summertime Blues” [ALTERNATE THEME]Teenage Halloween — “Summer Money”The Speedways — “Just Another Regular Summer”Castle Black — “Premonition”Isley Brothers — “Summer Breeze”Special Moves — “Our Summer”Disturbios — “Summer Loves”Lana Del Rey — “Summer Sadness”Sylvan Esso — “Ferris Wheel”First Responder — “Dog Days”Fascinations Grand Chorus — “On a Summer Holiday”The Last […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/15/21
EPISODE #439: DON’T The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Elvis Presley — “Don’t”Talulah Gosh — “Don’t Go Away”The Beths — “Don’t Go Away”The Minders — “Don’t You Stop”The Cars — “Don’t Cha Stop”Peter Holsapple — “Don’t Ever Leave”Jennifer O’Connor — “Don’t Talk to Me”Dennis Diken with Bell Sound — “Don’t Let Me Sleep Too Long”Freedy Johnston […]
Movie Review: The Conjuring — The Devil Made Me Do It
3 stars out of 5At some point in the past few years, I watched The Conjuring on HBO, and liked it well enough that I soon watched The Conjuring 2. I was suitably amused/creeped out by these based-on-actual-bullshit tales of real-life spook searchers Ed and Lorraine Warren (of Amityville Horror fame), plus I’m a fan […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/8/21
EPISODE #438: ACRONYMSThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]ATV — “Action Time Vision”Le Tigre — “TKO”Ming Tea — “BBC”Naughty by Nature — “O.P.P.”ABBA — “S.O.S.”Edwin Starr — “Stop Her on Sight (S.O.S.)”Jay Reatard — “DOA”Jay-Z — “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”They Might Be Giants — “P.S.O.K.”Sweet — “A.C.D.C.”Robyn Hitchcock — “NASA Clapping”Village People — “YMCA”Guided by Voices […]
Movie Review: A Quiet Place part II
3.5 stars out of 5Have you been back to the movies? Talk about a quiet place! As we crawl back to some semblance of normalcy, I noticed this was the first flick since before-times to have multiple afternoon showings. Like, a regular schedule! However, we’re quickly reminded that things have been a little “off” when […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/1/21
EPISODE #437: BUSESThe Who — “Magic Bus” [ALTERNATE THEME]John Cozz & the Rippers — “Greyhound”Simon & Garfunkel — “America”Skeeter Davis — “Bus Fare to Kentucky”The Replacements — “Kiss Me on the Bus”The Hollies — “Bus Stop”Fastbacks — “Bus Stop”Cinema Red and Blue — “Ballad of a Bus Stop”ZZ Top — “Waitin’ for the Bus”Vehicle Flips […]
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