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Aquarium Playlist, 12/7/21

By Jack Silbert on December 7, 2021

EPISODE #464: 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (RADIO IX) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Hank Williams — “Happy Rovin’ Cowboy” [Health and Happiness Show theme]soundbite — Jack on WNYC’s Morning Edition, 12/19/12 Gary Stewart — “Ten Years of This” Mac McCaughan — “I Hear a Radio”Hearty Har — “Radio Man ’56”All Ashore! — “Radio Sunshine”Freedy Johnston — […]

Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged All Ashore!, BBC, Freedy Johnston, Gary Stewart, Hank Williams, Hearty Har, Mac McCaughan, Marshall Crenshaw, Michael Shelley, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock, Steve Wynn, Talking Heads, WFMU, WNYC, Wussy, Yardbirds | Leave a response

Aquarium Playlist, 8/17/21

By Jack Silbert on August 17, 2021

EPISODE #448: DOG DAYS OF SUMMER VIThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Jayhawks — “Dogtown Days”The Rolling Stones — “Walking the Dog” [live on air]Jack White — “Why Walk a Dog?”They Might Be Giants — “Dog Walker”Potty Mouth — “Dog Song”The Extra Lens — “Dogs of Clinic 17”The Narrator — “Panic at Puppy Beach”Dogmo from […]

Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Adam & the Ants, Daniel Johnston, Dog Date, East River Pipe, Extra Lens, Jack White, Jayhawks, John Cozz, Little Richard, Nanci Griffith, Natural Child, Potty Mouth, Rolling Stones, Special Pillow, The Narrator, They Might Be Giants, WFMU | Leave a response

In Real Life w/ Kimzilla & Emily: Happy Jack

By Jack Silbert on May 22, 2019

What an honor to be interviewed on the great WFMU program In Real Life about my disability, recovery, and more. An extended podcast version is available here.

Posted in shameless self-promotion | Tagged disability awareness, Hoboken Jack, In Real Life with Kimzilla and Emily, WFMU | Leave a response

Aquarium Playlist, 4/30/19

By Jack Silbert on April 30, 2019

EPISODE #328: MY 2019 WFMU RECORD FAIR DJ SET The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Fleshtones — “Destination Greenpoint”The Incredible Casuals — “Records Go Round”Big Eyes — “Back From the Moon”Pinact — “Seams”The Fastbacks — “Everything I Don’t Need”Liquid Liquid — “Optimo”Pylon Reenactment Society — “Messenger”Stag — “The Bedazzler”Sunshine & the Rain — “It’s All […]

Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Big Eyes, Bruce Springsteen, Fastbacks, Fleshtones, Heavenly, Incredible Casuals, Joy Cleaner, Liquid Liquid, Pinact, Pylon Reenactment Society, Resounding No, Stag, Sunshine & the Rain, The Mice, WFMU | Leave a response

Book Review: ‘The Day the Cow Sneezed’ by James Flora

By Jack Silbert on April 5, 2019

Originally published on the Media Darlings blog, October 2011 For a long stretch of time there, it seemed like every album I bought — and I buy a lot of albums — had some connection to Irwin Chusid. His name appeared in reissue liner notes for Esquivel (whose 50s/60s “space-age bachelor pad music” helped spawn […]

Posted in unsolicited criticism | Tagged children's books, James Flora, Jim Flora, Media Darlings blog, picture books, WFMU | Leave a response

Aquarium Playlist, 3/19/19

By Jack Silbert on March 19, 2019

EPISODE #322: WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 2019 (HOBOKEN) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] artists participating in Women Who Rocked the Hoboken Sound events at WFMU’s Monty Hall, March 23/24, 2019:Karyn Kuhl Band — “Be Your Friend (deluxe mix)”Wild Carnation — “Acid Rain and ‘The Big One’” The Wygals — “Eat a Horse”Long Neck — “Matriarch”Tiny […]

Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Debby Schwartz, Dick Dale, Gut Bank, Hoboken, Human Switchboard, Jaime Rose, Karyn Kuhl Band, Kate Jacobs, Long Neck, Maxwell's, Rest Ashore, Special Pillow, The Cucumbers, The Wygals, Tiny Lights, WFMU, Wild Carnation, Women's History Month | Leave a response

Aquarium Playlist, 12/4/18

By Jack Silbert on December 4, 2018

EPISODE #309: 7TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (RADIO VOL. VI) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Joy Division — “Transmission” The Iguanas — “9-Volt Heart” The Selecter — “On My Radio” listener Hoboken Jack legal ID for WFMU Versing — “Radio Kinski” The Original Sins — “Radio Friendly” Laura Cantrell — “Can’t Wait” The Beach Boys — […]

Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Beach Boys, Deerhunter, Joy Division, Laura Cantrell, Los Super Seven, Modern Lovers, Mojave 3, Original Sins, R.E.M., The Iguanas, The Replacements, The Selecter, Versing, WFMU | Leave a response

Movie Review: One October

By Jack Silbert on May 19, 2018

4 stars out of 5 Watch on-demand By the time Clay Pigeon arrived at WFMU circa 2007 or so, I was already a longtime listener to the station. I started to notice his name on the schedule (“Huh, that’s a funny name”), but as a Manhattan working stiff, I never really got a chance to […]

Posted in movie reviews | Tagged 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Clay Pigeon, Rachel Shuman, WFMU | Leave a response

Album Review: ‘Great & Solemn Wild’ by Marybeth D’Amico

By Jack Silbert on February 19, 2018

4 stars out of 5 Click to listen or purchase Word on the street was that Pat Byrne was releasing an album. Yet it wasn’t from his rocking band They Live!, nor was it selections from his fondly remembered WFMU comedy show Prove It All Night. Rather, Byrne had produced and was releasing a […]

Posted in unsolicited criticism | Tagged Bruce Springsteen, Jersey City, Marybeth D'Amico, New Jersey, Pat Byrne, WFMU | Leave a response

Aquarium Playlist, 12/5/17

By Jack Silbert on December 5, 2017

EPISODE #260: 6TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (RADIO VOL. V) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] The Replacements — “Left of the Dial” (live) The Blasters — “Border Radio” ZZ Top — “Heard It on the X” M. Ward — “Pirate Radio” Stephen Chopek — “Radio Caroline” Boys’ Star Library — “History of the Radio” [listener Hoboken […]

Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged Bobby Sky, Boys' Star Library, Cordova Academy Glee Club, Jim Testa, Jon Langford, Jon Langford's Four Lost Souls, Komplx, M. Ward, Oddateee, Spoon, Stephen Chopek, Stray Cats, The Blasters, The Replacements, unpopular music, WFMU, ZZ Top | Leave a response