“Music is My Passion, and Here are Some Cool Songs” by Richard F. Yates

[Digital drawing. 2020.]

Some of you may know that I’ve started making “pirate radio shows” and uploading them to DSound.io (for fun.) I love music. I’ve been a music collector since I was a little kid (still have some of my cassettes from when I was 11 years old---and that was a LOOOOONG time ago…), and I started DJing back in the ‘80s. I’ve worked at two different record stores, spent several years studying music related subcultures (as a cultural anthropology student), and I still have to DJ the occasional wedding for some young whipper-snapper, although I usually only do it for family members or friends’ kids…or friends of friends…now-o-days, for free... (I’m a SHITTY businessman.)

But I still LOVE music. Music non-stop. Music in the car, music while I’m showering, music when I’m writing or drawing, and music (playing quietly) while I sleep. All the time. I have thousands of CDs, hundreds of records (I’m down to about eight milk-crates worth, since I lost a bunch in one of our far-too-frequent moves…but that’s the life of a SPY! Always on the go!), and over 30,000 digital tracks on the computer. (My favorite present, whatever the holiday, is a gift card for buying more music.)

I DON’T like streaming services, especially the ones that make you pay a monthly fee to use their services, partially because a LOT of the music I like isn’t available on those services, but MOSTLY it’s because you don’t actually OWN anything with that type of set-up. You pay to listen, but when you STOP paying, they take everything away from you. Drop a hundred bucks for a year of fancy streaming services, and you can listen all you like. Stop paying…you’ve got nothing but memories.

I like to own my tunes. I pay. I HOPE that most of the money I spend makes its way to the artists who CREATED the music (and not just to the distributor where I bought the music.)

And that’s my music rant for the day… Meanwhile, here are the songs that I’ve played on my pirate radio shows, so far…

Every Song That I’ve Played, So Far, on my Punkatronic Pirate Radio Shows!

I’ve only finished three shows so far, but here’s what I played (listed alphabetically by artist…)

A3 – “U Don’t Dance 2 Tekno Anymore” – Ep. 2
Alien Sex Fiend – “Shit’s Coming Down (Dodger Mix)” – Ep. 2
The Baby Namboos – “ANCOATS2ZAMBIA (Dillinja Remix)” – Ep. 3
Ben Weasel – “Strangers” – Ep. 3
Black Flag – “Wasted” – Ep. 3
Brilliant – “Scream Like an Angel” – Ep. 3
Bruce Haack & Esther Nelson – “Upside Down” – Ep. 3
Captain Polaroid – “Shatner” – Ep. 2
Charlotte Gainsbourg – “IRM” – Ep. 2
Chops-EMC + Extensive – “Me’ Israelites” – Ep. 2
The Cramps – “People Ain’t No Good” – Ep. 2
The Cure – “A Night Like This (Hello Goodbye Mix 2018)” – Ep. 3
David Bowie – “Panic in Detroit” – Ep. 1
Divinyls – “Science Fiction” – Ep. 2
Eminem feat. Juice WRLD – “Godzilla” – Ep. 1
Empire of the Sun – “DNA (Brodinski Remix)” – Ep. 3
Funkadelic – “Red Hot Mama” – Ep. 2
Future Forward Society & Mount Sims – “The Creep (Capri Mix)” – Ep. 3
Grimes – “My Name is Dark (Art Mix)” – Ep. 1
Groovie Ghoulies – “Doin’ Fine” – Ep. 1
Implant feat. Front 242 – “The Creature (David Carretta Mix)” – Ep. 1
The Jimmies – “Don’t Change” – Ep. 1
King Crimson – “21st Century Schizoid Man” – Ep. 2
Klaatu – “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft” – Ep. 3
Les Rythmes Digitales – “Soft Machine” – Ep. 1
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Wendy Carlos – “Sea of Simulation” – Ep. 2
Oingo Boingo – “Stay” – Ep. 1
Patrick Wolf – “Tristan” – Ep. 3
Pixies – “Wave of Mutilation (U.K. Surf)” – Ep. 3
The Punk Group – “Yoda” – Ep. 2
Skinny Puppy – “Smothered Hope” – Ep. 2
Skold – “Tonight (Rotersand Rework)” – Ep. 2
The Sniveling Shits – “Terminal Stupid” – Ep. 1
The Specials – “Little Bitch” – Ep. 3
Syd Barrett – “Octopus” – Ep. 1
Tranquility Bass – “They Come in Peace” – Ep. 1
X-Ray Spex – “The Day the World Turned Day-Glo” – Ep. 3

That’s what I’ve played so far (plus some talking from me, mostly about when the songs came out and where I found them. I’m really thinking of this as something akin to a “mix tape” project. I’m just playing some of the songs that I’m enjoying at the moment…) If you want to listen to the actual episodes, here are the links:

Episode 001
Episode 002
Episode 003

I’m HOPING to get another show recorded in the next few days. I haven’t got the FOGGIEST idea what I’m going to play, yet, but that’s half the fun.

I’ve also considered pulling some of my favorite 7” singles out and photographing them. (Seven inch singles are LITTLE records, the kind that sometimes have the BIG hole in the middle, and they’re also known as 45s, as they are usually---but not always---played at 45 rpms [revolutions per minute] instead of the 33 rpms of “long play” records, which are usually bigger… Do you care??? I don’t know, but I’m also assuming that not everyone has SEEN a real record-player anymore…) I have some INTERESTING 45s, colored vinyl, weird bands, that kind of stuff, and I thought it might make an interesting post to show you folks these old, weird things! What do you think?? Sound fun? Let me know!!!

Later skaters!!!

---Richard F. Yates
(Primitive Thoughtician and Holy Fool)

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