Frankie Cosmos
Aquarium Playlist, 3/4/26
EPISODE #683: ALIVE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Frankie Cosmos — “Being Alive” Electric Light Orchestra — “I’m Alive” Jackson Browne — “I’m Alive” Queen — “Keep Yourself Alive”Tom Waits — “What Keeps Mankind Alive” The Pains of Being Pure at Heart — “Stay Alive” Bern & the Brights — “As Long As I’m Alive” […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/21/26
EPISODE #664: LANDS Bruce Springsteen — “Jungleland” [ALTERNATE THEME]Renee Maskin — “Wonderland” Allo Darlin’ — “Wonderland” Frankie Cosmos — “Wonderland” Earth, Wind & Fire — “Boogie Wonderland” The dB’s — “Neverland”Untamed Youth — “Rollerland”Swansea Sound — “Dreamland” R.E.M. — “Ignoreland” The Clash — “Garageland” The Birthday Party — “Swampland”Torres — “Constant Tomorrowland”James McMurtry — “Candyland” […]
Aquarium Playlist, 3/4/25
EPISODE #631: DARK Ezra Cohen — “Kiss Me in the Dark” [ALTERNATE THEME]Yo La Tengo — “When It’s Dark”Dwight Yoakam — “Some Dark Holler” Frankie Cosmos — “Too Dark” James Carr — “The Dark End of the Street” Grass Jaw — “Dark Months”Old Town Crier — “Into the Dark” The Resonars — “Dark on You […]
Aquarium Playlist, 1/14/25
EPISODE #624: FIRE IIIinspired by the January 2025 southern California wildfiresThe Olivia Tremor Control — “California Demise 3” [ALTERNATE THEME]M. Ward — “Fuel for Fire”Beach Boys — “Santa Ana Winds” The Dracu-Las — “Fire” The Resonars — “Forest Fire” Television — “The Fire”22° Halo — “Big Fire” XTC — “Great Fire” Mount Eerie — “Huge […]
Aquarium Playlist, 8/15/23
EPISODE #551: DOG DAYS OF SUMMER VIII The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Bob Dylan & The Band — “Kickin’ My Dog Around” Frankie Cosmos — “If I Had a Dog”The Specials — “Do the Dog”Flatt & Scruggs — ”Old Salty Dog Blues” Eels — “Dog’s Life” Syd Straw — “Howl”Morrissey — “I Am Not a […]
Aquarium Playlist, 4/18/23
EPISODE #534: AS-IS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Harry Styles — “As It Was” John Cozz — “As Long As I’m With You”The Rubinoos — “As Long As I’m With You”Bern & the Brights — ”As Long As I’m Alive” 2nd Grade — “As Long As We Can Talk About It” Amy Rigby — “As […]
Movie Review: Funny Pages
4 stars out of 5You have to hand it to Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates — they’ve churned out a couple of super-talented kids. Greta Kline has been a fave of mine for a while, via her band Frankie Cosmos. And now Owen Kline has written and directed a self-assured feature debut which is by […]
Aquarium Playlist, 11/12/19
EPISODE #356: MODES OF TRANSPORT The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Dionne Warwick — “Trains and Boats and Planes”C.W. McCall — “Convoy”Laura Cantrell — “Roll Truck Roll”Lightnin’ Hopkins — “Automobile”Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers — “The Airplane Song”Flowers — “Boat Song”Colin Clary — “She’s a Motorcycle”Eternal Summers — “Pogo”Grandaddy — “Skateboarding Saves Me Twice”Pink […]
Aquarium Playlist, 12/25/18
EPISODE #312: NEW TO ME IN 2018, PT. 1 So far in 2018, I’ve seen 427 musical performances by 360 different acts, 224 of which I was seeing for the first time, 211 of them brand-new to me. Of those, I was inspired to buy 64 records. (I also purchased debut records by acts I’d seen in previous […]
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