The Smithereens
Aquarium Playlist, 5/20/25
EPISODE #642: MOVING The Smithereens — “House We Used To Live In” [ALTERNATE THEME]Nick Lowe — “House for Sale”Springhouse — “Moving Van” Wimp Factor 14 — “Change of Address Kit” Basic Bitches — “We All Moved to the City, Now We Can’t Afford to Live” Butthole Surfers — “Moving to Florida”Charley Patton — “Going to […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/13/25
EPISODE #641: REALLY? The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Fastbacks — “Really”New Pornographers — “Really Really Light” The Undertones — “Really Really” The Crows — “I Really Really Love You” Elvis Presley — “I Really Don’t Want to Know”Roseanne Cash — “What We Really Want” Rolling Stones — “Do You Think I Really Care?” The Byrds […]
Aquarium Playlist, 8/8/23
EPISODE #550: NOWHERE Jaime Rose — “Nowhere” [ALTERNATE THEME]Ribbon Stage — “Nowhere Fast” The Wedding Present — “Getting Nowhere Fast”The Smiths — “Nowhere Fast”Big Eyes — ”Suddenly Nowhere” Talking Heads — “Road to Nowhere” Martha Reeves & the Vandellas — “Nowhere to Run”The Rock ’n’ Roll HiFives — “Running Nowhere” UV-TV — “Back to Nowhere”Young […]
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, 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 […]
Aquarium Playlist, 4/11/23
EPISODE #533: ANTONYMS The Smile — “The Opposite” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Yardbirds — “Over Under Sideways Down” Kitty Wells — “Left to Right”The dB’s — “Black and White”Allegra Krieger — ”The Push and the Pull” Bruce Springsteen — “From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)” The Smithereens — “Blues Before and After”Frank Sinatra — “Night […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/10/19
EPISODE #347: BOYS AND GIRLS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Blur — “Girls & Boys”Juniper — “Boys! Boys! Boys! Boys! Boys!”Liz Phair — “Girls! Girls! Girls!”Human Switchboard — “Shake It, Boys”Marshall Crenshaw — “Girls…”U2 — “Stories for Boys” (Three EP version)The Smithereens — “Girls About Town”The Just Joans — “Some Boys Are Bigger Than Others”Guided […]
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 […]
Aquarium Playlist, 2/12/19
EPISODE #319: VALENTINE’S DAY 2019 (ROSES) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Jimmy Work — “I Would Send You Roses (But They Cost Too Much)”Flatt & Scruggs — “Will the Roses Bloom (Where She Lies Sleeping)”Laura Cantrell — “When the Roses Bloom Again”Camera Obscura — “A Red, Red Rose”The Orange Peels — “She Is Like a Rose”Casio Adcock […]
Jack Silbert, curator