Sparks
Aquarium Playlist, 7/9/24
EPISODE #598: HOUR GANG The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Billy Ward & the Dominoes — “Sixty-Minute Man”Sleater-Kinney — “One More Hour” Sparks — “Amateur Hour”The Bug Club — “In My Hour of Song” The Clientele — “An Hour Before the Light”The Plimsouls — “Zero Hour” The Sundays — “My Finest Hour” Wilson Pickett — “In […]
Movie Review: The Sparks Brothers
4 stars out of 5Like many in my general age range (mesozoic), my first encounter with the band Sparks was their semi-hit collaboration with the Go-Go’s Jane Wiedlin, “Cool Places,” in heavy rotation on MTV in 1983. For many that would indeed prove to be the only encounter. But we, the proud and shamed music […]
Aquarium Playlist, 11/19/19
EPISODE #357: CLOTHING The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Jonathan Richman — “Everyday Clothes”American Music Club — “Blue and Grey Shirt”Sparks — “Angst in my Pants”Cake — “Short Skirt/Long Jacket”Lisa Germano — “You Make Me Want To Wear Dresses”Yo La Tengo — “Autumn Sweater”Belle & Sebastian — “Long Black Scarf”Sharkmuffin — “Leather Gloves”Don and Dewey — […]
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 […]
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