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Aquarium Playlist, 8/6/24
EPISODE #602: 2024 SUMMER OLYMPICS, WEEK 2 (COUNTRIES II) Lemonheads — “Two Weeks in Another Town” [ALTERNATE THEME]France Gall — “Made in France”Wilco — “Impossible Germany” Amanda X — “Guatelmala” Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians — “Egyptian Cream” Katrina & the Waves — “Mexico”Jack Silbert — “O Switzerland!” The Exbats — “Hey New Zealand” Van […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/18/24
EPISODE #595: SUMMER 2024 The Flashing Lights — “Summertime Climb” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Proper Ornaments — “Waiting for the Summer”So Cow — “Summer Is Icumen in Again” Sweater Girls — “Summer Girls”Wolfmanhattan Project — “Summer Forever” The 5th Dimension — “On the Beach (in the Summertime)” The Pastels — “Summer Rain” The Smittens — “Summer Sunshine” […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/17/22
EPISODE #487: MAYBE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Eyelids — “Maybe More”The Connells — “Maybe”Lesley Gore — “Maybe I Know”Arthur Russell — “Maybe She”Okkervill River — “Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe”The Smittens — “Maybe It Is Me”Colleen Green — “Maybe I’ll Get Hit by a Car Tonight”Richard Davies — “Sign Up Maybe […]
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 […]
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, 10/22/19
EPISODE #353: THE FALL The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Veronica Falls — “Falling Out”The Schramms — “Won’t Fall Down”Cold Beat — “Falling Skyline”Neil Young — “Falling Off the Face of the Earth”Amy Rigby with Todd Snider — “Til the Wheels Fall Off”Dennis Diken With Bell Sound — “Fall Into Your Arms”Crowded House — “Fall at […]
Aquarium Playlist, 8/28/18
EPISODE #295: CATS III The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] The A-Bones — “Cat Nip” Colour Me Wednesday — “Cat Hair” Franklin Bruno — “Cat-Scratch Fever” The Smittens — “Cats for Cats” Elf Power — “The Cat Trapped in the Wall” Alejandro Escovedo — “Shave the Cat” Devo — “Pink Pussycat” Louis Jordan & His […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 5/27/14
EPISODE #130: NYC POPFESTS PAST The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] The Pooh Sticks — “Let the Good Times Roll” The Smittens — “Something Sassy” Pants Yell! — “A New City Life” Allo Darlin’ — “Some People Say” Tender Trap — “Do You Want a Boyfriend” White Town — “Cut Out My Heart” The Pains of […]
Album Review: ‘Twee Blues, Vol. 1’ by Colin Clary
4 stars out of 5 Click to purchase (or download two tracks) I like the indie pop, and I like record stores. Some years back, there were Mittens, and there were Smittens, as I’d flip through the racks. Smittens had the better band name, but a woman I found intriguing was friends with Mittens. So […]
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