Rufus Wainwright
Aquarium Playlist, 4/25/23
EPISODE #535: TOWN TOPICS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Replacements — “Happy Town” Big Eyes — “Leave This Town”The Smithereens — “Girls About Town”The Sundays — ”Hideous Towns” Rufus Wainwright — “Going to a Town” Ezra Cohen — “Talk of the Town”Lucinda Williams — “East Side of Town”Fan Modine — “One Company Town”The Rock […]
Aquarium Playlist, 2/1/22
EPISODE #472: GROUNDHOG DAY (SHADOWS) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Rolling Stones — “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow”Beat Happening — “Cast a Shadow”My Teenage Stride — “Cast Your Own Shadow”Au Revoir Simone — “Shadows”Yo La Tengo — “Shadows”Rufus Wainwright — “Shadows”Velvet Monkeys — “Shadow Box” Pale Lights — “Port of […]
Aquarium Playlist, 10/12/21
EPISODE #456: GOT MILK?The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Louis Jordan — “Show Me How (You Milk the Cow)”Joy Cleaner — “No Milk Today” The Operators — “Mild as Milk”Eugenius — “Buttermilk”Franklin Bruno — “Milkcrate”Robert Johnson — “Milkcow’s Calf Blues”Elvis Presley — “Milkcow Blues Boogie”Elvis Costello & the Attractions — “Sour Milk-Cow Blues”Jackie Lomax — “Sour […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/7/21
EPISODE #451: 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 (NEW YORK II)Cat Power — “New York” [ALTERNATE THEME]Richard Hell & the Voidoids — “Downtown at Dawn” [Destiny Street Repaired version]The Drifters — “On Broadway” John Lennon — “New York City”Amy Allison & the Maudlins — “I Was Born in NYC”Laura Cantrell — “14th Street”Rufus Wainwright — “14th Street”Leonard […]
Aquarium Playlist, 2/2/21
EPISODE #420: PERFECTIONThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Jermaine Jackson — “(Closest Thing to) Perfect”Terry McCarthy — “Perfectly”Jennifer O’Connor — “Perfect Match”Clint Michigan — “The Perfect of Days”Dolly Mixture — “Welcome to the Perfect Day”The Human Hearts — “Perfect Lovers (Summation Gallop)”Chris Stamey — “Perfect Time”R.E.M. — “Perfect Circle”The Ladybug Transistor — “Perfect for Shattering”Lloyd Cole […]
Aquarium Playlist, 2/4/20
EPISODE #368: NEED Thelonious Monk — “Well You Needn’t” [ALTERNATE THEME]Sunshine & the Rain — “All We Need”The Kinks — “I Need You”The Muffs — “I Need You”The Who — “I Need You”The Beatles — “I Need You”Rufus Wainwright — “Sometimes You Need”LL Cool J — “I Need Love”Elva — “I Need Love”Slim Harpo — […]
Aquarium, 5/28/19
EPISODE #332: CIGARETTES The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Benny Spellman — “Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)”Karyn Kuhl — “Cigarette Song”Karl Hendricks Trio — “Some Girls Like Cigarettes”Spoon — “My Little Japanese Cigarette Case”The Insomniacs — “The Long Cigarette”Hefner — “The Hymn for the Cigarettes”My Bloody Valentine — “Cigarette in Your Bed”The Minus 5 — “Cigarettes […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 3/31/15
EPISODE #174: APRIL FOOLS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Rufus Wainwright — “April Fools” Ricky Nelson — “Poor Little Fool” Elvis Presley — “(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such As I” Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers — “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” The Beatles — “The Fool on the Hill” Grant McLennan […]
Hey Rufus Wainwright, Your Opera Sucks
Or maybe it doesn’t? No, I think it does. Right off the bat I have to admit I don’t really know squat about opera. I went once, to the Metropolitan Opera, in the late ’90s. My friend Joe had purchased two tickets well in advance, but was worried that his relationship might not last until […]
Jack Silbert, curator