By Jack Silbert on June 30, 2020
EPISODE #389: TOGETHER
#BlackLivesMatter
The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]
Wilbert Harrison — “Let’s Work Together”
The Beatles — “All Together Now”
John Lennon — “Come Together” (live)
The MC5 — “Come Together” (live)
Times New Viking — “Come Together”
Flowers of America — “Breathing Together”
Tom Barrett — “Together, Together, Together…”
The Velvet Underground — “We’re Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together” (live)
Beastie Boys — “Stand Together”
The Staple Singers — “Let’s Get Together”
The Jackson 5 — “Get It Together”
Tommy James & the Shondells — “Gettin’ Together”
Terry Hall & Mushtaq — “Stand Together”
The Whatnauts — “We Will Always Be Together”
Jack’s Aquarium is proudly recorded in Hoboken, NJ.
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By Jack Silbert on June 23, 2020
EPISODE #388: SUMMER 2020
The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]
Charmpit — “Summer Up My Skirt”
Strawberry Whiplash — “Looking Out for Summer”
Dave Clark Five — “Here Comes Summer”
The Proctors — “Summer Begins”
The Thousand Pities — “Count My Summer Down”
John Cozz — “Summer Kid”
Summer Blonde radio commercial
The Fox Sisters — “Low Low Low”
Reese McHenry — “Summer Sheets”
Marianne Faithfull — “Summer Nights”
Iron & Wine — “Summer Clouds”
The Orange Peels — “Long Cold Summer”
Alex Chilton — “Summertime Blues”
Young Fresh Fellows — “Unimaginable Zero Summer”
Ringo Deathstarr — “Summertime”
Jack’s Aquarium is proudly recorded in Hoboken, NJ.
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By Jack Silbert on June 16, 2020
EPISODE #387: CASEY KASEM TRIBUTE 2020
“The New Scooby-Doo Movies” [ALTERNATE THEME]
Cyndi Lauper — “Time After Time” [Billboard No. 1, 6/9/84 – 6/16/84]
Duran Duran — “The Reflex” [No. 1, 6/23/84 – 6/30/84]
Prince — “When Doves Cry” [No. 1, 7/7/84 – 8/4/84]
Prince — “Let’s Go Crazy” [No. 1, 9/29/84 – 10/6/84]
Stevie Wonder — “I Just Called To Say I Love You” [No. 1, 10/13/84 – 10/27/84]
Tears for Fears — “Everybody Wants To Rule the World” [No. 1, 6/8/85 – 6/15/85]
Duran Duran — “View to a Kill” [No. 1, 7/13/85 – 7/20/85]
Tears for Fears — “Shout” [No. 1, 8/3/85 – 8/17/85]
Marvin Gaye — “What’s Going On” [long-distance dedication]
Huey Lewis & the News — “The Power of Love” [No. 1, 8/24/85 – 8/31/85]
Dire Straits — “Money for Nothing” [No. 1, 9/21/85 – 6/30/85]
Stevie Wonder — “Part-Time Lover” [No. 1, 11/2/85]
Jack’s Aquarium is proudly recorded in Hoboken, NJ.
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By Jack Silbert on June 9, 2020
EPISODE #386: MINNEAPOLIS
#BlackLivesMatter
The Fall — “Fiery Jack” [ALTERNATE THEME]
The Replacements — “Kids Don’t Follow”
Prince — “Sign ‘o the Times”
Babes in Toyland — “Bruise Violet” (live)
Tapes ‘n Tapes — “Insistor”
Marvin Pontiac — “Don’t Fuck With Me”
Bob Mould — “American Crisis”
Soul Asylum — “Carry On”
The Magnolias — “Tear Up This Town”
The Hold Steady — “Stay Positive”
Low — “Just Make It Stop”
The Jayhawks — “Two Angels”
The Trashmen — “Surfin’ Bird”
Dr. Demento sound bite
Evan Lurie — “Coda”
Bob Dylan — “The Times They Are A-Changin'”
Jack’s Aquarium is proudly recorded in Hoboken, NJ.
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By Jack Silbert on June 2, 2020
EPISODE #385: BLACK LIVES MATTER 2020
in memory of George Floyd and so many others
Wadada Smith and Ed Blackwell — “Uprising” [ALTERNATE THEME]
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band — “American Skin (41 Shots)”
Trøn & DVD feat. Lynk & Jon Solomon — “Raps To Listen to at Night”
Lucinda Williams — “Minneapolis”
Gumball — “Black Payback”
The Mekons — “Never Been in a Riot”
Elliott Smith — “Riot Coming”
The Robins — “Riot in Cell Block #9”
Sonic Youth — “Teenage Riot”
The Standells — “Riot on Sunset Strip”
Greg Ashley — “Bullshit Society”
Worriers — “Yes All Cops”
The Whatnauts — “Message From a Black Man”
Jack’s Aquarium is proudly recorded in Hoboken, NJ.
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By Jack Silbert on May 26, 2020
EPISODE #384: LIGHTNING
Eddie Floyd — “Knock on Wood” [ALTERNATE THEME]
Hello — “Lightning”
Beck — “Saw Lightning”
Joan Jett — “Call Me Lightning”
Howlin’ Wolf — “Smokestack Lightnin'”
Telekinesis — “White Lightning”
Calvin Johnson with Beth Ditto — “Lightnin’ Rod for Jesus”
Margot & the So and So’s — “I Am a Lightning Rod”
The Shivas — “Old Lightning Rod”
XL Kings — “Lightning Strikes”
Bruce Springsteen — “Chain Lightning”
Steely Dan — “Chain Lightning”
Benji Cossa — “Love Is Like Lightning”
The Rubinoos — “Lightning Love Affair”
The Wooden Birds — “Struck by Lightning”
Jack’s Aquarium is proudly recorded in Hoboken, NJ.
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By Jack Silbert on May 19, 2020
EPISODE #383: THUNDER
Eddie Floyd — “Knock on Wood” [ALTERNATE THEME]
Bruce Springsteen — “Thunder Road”
The MC5 — “Thunder Express” [live]
Higgins — “Everybody (Thunder Mountain)”
Sonic Youth — “Thunderclap for Bobby Pyn”
AC/DC — “Thunderstruck”
T. Rex — “Thunderwing”
ZZ Top — “Thunderbird” [live]
Gumball — “Thunder”
The Babies — “Voice Like Thunder”
Grant Lee Buffalo — “Arousing Thunder”
The Kinks — “Johnny Thunder”
The Replacements — “Dose of Thunder” [live]
Robyn Hitchcock — “Let’s Go Thundering” [live]
Jack’s Aquarium is proudly recorded in Hoboken, NJ.
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By Jack Silbert on May 12, 2020
EPISODE #382: HAIR
The Hollywood Argyles — “Long Hair, Unsquare Dude Called Jack” [ALTERNATE THEME]
Kimberley Rew — “My Baby Does Her Hairdo Long”
Elvis Costello & the Attractions — “Baby’s Got a Brand New Hairdo”
They Might Be Giants — “Let Your Hair Hang Down”
The Lucksmiths — “Yunta Hair”
Frankie Rose & the Outs — “Little Brown-Haired Girls”
Talulah Gosh — “The Girl With the Strawberry Hair”
Amy Allison — “Her Hair Was Red”
Louis Jordan — “You Dyed Your Hair Chartreuse”
Manfred Mann — “Every Day Another Hair Turns Grey”
Dave Evans — “Be Proud of the Gray in Your Hair”
Grateful Dead — “Touch of Grey”
George Jones — “You Comb Her Hair”
Nice Try — “Your Hair”
Pavement — “Cut Your Hair”
The Beach Boys — “Caroline No”
Jack’s Aquarium is proudly recorded in Hoboken, NJ.
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By Jack Silbert on May 5, 2020
EPISODE #381: CINCO DE MAYO (FIVE)
The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]
Elvis Costello & The Roots featuring La Marisoul — “Cinco Minutos Con Vos”
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts — “Five”
Spit-take — “Five or Six”
Radiator Hospital — “Five & Dime”
Angel Olsen — “Hi-Five”
Mull Historical Society — “5 More Minutes”
Igloo — “Five Hours”
Yo La Tengo — “Five Years”
David Bowie — “Five Years”
Johnny Cash — “Five Feet High and Rising”
The Scene Is Now — “Full Fathom Five”
The Ventures “Hawaii Five-O” radio spot
The Clientele — “Five Day Morning”
The Field Mice — “Five Moments”
Jack’s Aquarium is proudly recorded in Hoboken, NJ.
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By Jack Silbert on April 30, 2020
Long Neck isn’t just one of the most exciting young bands in the area — they’re one of the top young bands anywhere. The second full-band full-length from Lily Mastrodimos and company is quite an achievement and I was delighted to review World’s Strongest Dog for hMAG.
Posted in shameless self-promotion, unsolicited criticism | Tagged hMAG, Hoboken, Jersey City, Long Neck
Jack Silbert, curator