Colleen Green
Aquarium Playlist, 11/9/21
EPISODE #460: DISCOThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Disco Bros. (Nick Lowe) — “Let’s Go to the Disco”Jennifer O’Connor — “Born at the Disco” Tussle — “Disco d’Oro” [AB mix]Colleen Green — “Disco”The Minutemen — “If Reagan Played Disco”Future Bible Heroes — “The World Is a Disco Ball”The New Pornographers — “Valkyrie in the Roller […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/21/21
EPISODE #453: NICE!The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Lithics — “Nice Alone”Colleen Green — “It’s Nice To Be Nice” The Jesus Lizard — “Mouth Breather”Kimya Dawson — “So Nice So Smart”English Beat — “Too Nice to Talk To”Todd Rundgren — “Be Nice to Me”Nellie McKay — “Won’t U Please B Nice”Paul McCartney — “Seize the Day”Screaming […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/17/20
EPISODE #374: ST. PATRICK’S DAY DAY 2020 (GREEN)The Who — “Happy Jack” [live, ALTERNATE THEME]Booker T. & the MG’s — “Green Onions”Chris Stamey — “14 Shades of Green”Amy Rigby — “Apple Green”The Reivers — “On Green Dolphin Street”The Garment District — “Soon We See Green”Dolly Mixture — “Grass Is Greener”Colleen Green — “Green My Eyes”The […]
Aquarium Playlist, 1/28/20
EPISODE #367: WANT The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Jay Reatard — “Always Wanting More”Bob Dylan — “I Want You”Elvis Costello — “I Want You”The Shivas — “I Want You”Cheap Trick — “I Want You To Want Me” (early version)NRBQ — “I Want You Bad”The Hoodoo Gurus — “I Want You Back”Terry McCarthy — “Want You […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/8/19
EPISODE #351: WANNA The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Soft Boys — “I Wanna Destroy You”The Ramones — “I Wanna Be Sedated”Colleen Green — “I Wanna Be Degraded”Prince — “I Wanna Be Your Lover”Tom Waits — “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up”Best Coast — “I Wanna Know”Papercuts — “Do You Really Wanna Know”The Raspberries — “I […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/23/19
EPISODE #340: COOL The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Meters — “Look-Ka Py Py” r.i.p. Art NevilleJune Christy — “Something Cool”Rat Fancy — “Stay Cool”Sparks featuring Jane Wiedlin — “Cool Places”Pylon — “Cool”Lucinda Williams — “2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten”Algebra II — “Cool Girl”Sonic Youth — “Kool Thing”Karl Hendricks Trio — “Hold On, Cool Breeze”Dinosaur […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/19/18
EPISODE #285: SUMMER 2018 The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Colleen Green — “Cold Shoulder” LFO — “Summer Girls” Marshall Crenshaw — “Starless Summer Sky” The Only Ones — “Lovers of Today” Big Star — “Hung Up With Summer” 14 Iced Bears — “Summer Nights” Bauhaus — “Endless Summer of the Damned” No Joy — […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/17/17
EPISODE #253: L.A. MUSICIANS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] X — “Los Angeles” The Blasters — “Marie Marie” Los Lobos — “Don’t Worry Baby” Dream Syndicate — “Too Little, Too Late” The Turtles — “Me About You” The Bangs — “Getting Out of Hand” The Go-Go’s — “How Much More” Redd Kross — “Peach […]

Backpack Backtrack
I take very good care of my backpacks. (Umbrellas too, but that’s another story.) As a result, I can remember every backpack I’ve ever owned. When my sister was graduating college, I was graduating high school, so she bequeathed me her grey JanSport backpack to begin my own university career. That was my first. JanSport […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/31/16
EPISODE #235: WHATEVER The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Dinosaur Jr. — “Whatever’s Cool With Me” The Monkees — “Whatever’s Right” The Clean — “Whatever I Do It’s Right” Colleen Green — “Whatever I Want” Elliott Smith — “Whatever (Folk Song in C)” Brian Wilson — “Whatever Happened” The Shivas — “Whatever” Oasis — “Whatever” […]
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