They Might Be Giants
Aquarium Playlist, 1/20/26
EPISODE #677: ROBOTS II The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Stereolab — “Robot Riot” Freedy Johnston — “Madeline’s Eye” The Buggles — “I Love You (Miss Robot)” Magnetic Fields — “The Little Robot Girl” Heather Cook — “Robot Prom” Dentist — “Robot” Dennis Young — “Radical Robots” Flaming Lips — “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. […]
Aquarium Playlist, 8/5/25
EPISODE #653: ISLANDS The Surfaris w/ The Honeys — “I Want To Take a Trip to the Islands” [ALTERNATE THEME]The Millennium — “The Island”UV-TV — “Pale Blue Island” The Blue Jays — “Lover’s Island” The Buggles — “Island” The Garment District — “The Island of Stability”Rare Books — “Island” Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers — […]
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, 10/9/24
EPISODE #610: NO The Human Beinz — “Nobody But Me” [ALTERNATE THEME]They Might Be Giants — “No!”Billy Ward & the Dominoes — “’Yes, My Darling’No!’ Says My Heart” The Pains of Being Pure at Heart — “Say No to Love” Laura Cantrell — “No Way There From Here” Sonic Youth — “No Way”The Resonars — […]
Aquarium Playlist, 7/16/24
EPISODE #599: COOL III The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Charlie Gracie — “Cool Baby”The Pooh Sticks — “Cool in a Crisis” Heavenly — “Cool Guitar Boy”Sonny Boy Williamson II — “Cool, Cool Blues” Sonic Youth feat. Chuck D — “Kool Thing”Rolling Stones — “Cool, Calm, and Collected” The Cucumbers — “Keep Your Cool” They Might […]
Aquarium Playlist, 1/23/24
EPISODE #574: THINKING ABOUT The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]David Bowie with the Lower Third — “Can’t Help Thinking About Me” Juniper — “I Was Thinking About You”Darren Hayman — “I Was Thinking About You” Special Moves — “I Think About U + It Makes Me Smile” Marvin Gaye — “Too Busy Thinking About My […]
Aquarium Playlist, 9/26/23
EPISODE #557: UNDERWATER The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Philip Glass — “The Chase” [from the Undertow soundtrack]Elk City — “Undertow”Drgn King — “Undertow” Alvvays — “In Undertow” The Feelies — “The Undertow” Fond Farewells — “Underwater”Saturday Looks Good to Me — “Underwater Heartbeat” Radar Bros. — “Underwater Culprits”They Might Be Giants — “Underwater Woman” Soft […]
Aquarium Playlist, 5/9/23
EPISODE #537: LINES The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Pailhead — “Don’t Stand in Line” Kiwi Jr. — “Waiting in Line”The Bangles — “I’m in Line”They Might Be Giants — ”I Can Help the Next in Line” The Kinks — “Who’ll Be the Next in Line” Dew Claw — “The Line”Cait Brennan — “Lines”Architrave — “Yellow […]
Aquarium Playlist, 4/4/23
EPISODE #532: IN SHAPE The Yardbirds — “Shapes of Things” [ALTERNATE THEME]Idlewild — “When I Argue I See Shapes” Johnny Restivo — “The Shape I’m In”The Band — “The Shape I’m In”Beach Boys — ”I’m in Great Shape” They Might Be Giants — “Spiraling Shape” The Pipettes — “Pull Shapes”Jackson Browne — “In the Shape […]
Aquarium Playlist, 2/28/23
EPISODE #527: HATE EPISODE II In response to an idiotic so-called “Day of Hate” by white-supremacist neo-Nazi fuckfaces that never actually materialized. Spoiler alert: Love always wins. The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Clash — “Hateful” Reese McHenry — “I Hate Waiting”Eric’s Trip — “Hate Song”Ramona — ”Hater’s Ball Parade” They Might Be Giants — […]
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