Hi, I'm
DESPICABLEMUSIC.ORG
or Des Pickard, or someone.
Skip to songs below - mostly not safe for kids or employers.

Talent's nothing to be proud of, nor is loving to be sold,
so I've sworn an improbable but life-serious oath never to profit from these songs.
Sole payment accepted is a discrete measurable uptick in your political involvement.   
Activism is like dating: maintain a sense of humor.
 

 Meanwhile, please let me know I exist by typing in your email
 
or - dear heavens! - write me at des@despicablemusic.org.

You can download a chock-full zipped-file album of songs here,
or check out the song pages below.

Any bass you hear is masterfully, however despairingly, improvised to my
DUI guitarsmahship  by the well-nigh-ineffable Mr. Bill Kavanagh.  

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A FEW SONGS

Some Accompanying Blather
Manhattan

This is a completely true story, except I went a month one year.   Oh and I'm a coward.
Pushing Up Daisy

This song I think manages to simultaneously and completely feel two opposite ways about the same event .
The Arc of the Covenant This is a love song slathered in Douglas Rushkoff and maybe a little Michael Neumann.
Freezerburn You are a leftover.
15 min / 4 years

This is a song about that "daily democracy requires daily citizenship" thing.  Ah, well.

Colorless Green

Anarchy is "no rulers", whereas chaos is no rules.  You see?   Opposites.  This song details Chomsky's endless struggle with Cthulhu.

(Every Inch Of My) Freedom This is a song that I avoid ever thinking too closely about when performing the instrumental section.
The Masturbation Rag This is a song about not loving people enough: sentimentality is undead love. 
What I Know This is a series of nice visual puns capped with an implausible gesture.
Hitler

This was written under Bush, but Obama sadly  is Bush's third term.  Never compare anyone to Hitler - what do you want, to learn from history?
Land Called Jesus This is a atheist crucifixion porn.  - Hang on, that's the whole website! - the death was from suffocation.
Power In The Blood

This is a Chomskyan overview with even more atheist Biblical imagery, recorded 3 years back on some glorious fella's bass guitar.

Don't Kick The TV This is a mournful love song with an odd populist dig at liberalism attempted in the middle.
The @$#* Starts Here

This is a song that I tried to work the "muttonchops" hairstyle into, but rhyme or no rhyme it didn't take.
The Red Red Sea This is a song that convinced my Mom that my music was pure idiocy for a whole year after she heard it.
Long Live The King This was meant to be longer, but I sort of like it this way.
Cahoots This is a reaction to hearing somebody say "Some of us have lives" and thinking "Yes, but with that attitude, for how long?"
I'm Only Being True This is another attempt at equal-opportunity liberal- and conservative- bashing.  One day I'll rewrite it so it works.
Solid Fuel Rocket This is a song that I've since written a proper ending for.
Mean

This is a song for, and only for, those who've lost no-one close in the war 'n' terror, with humble apologies on our behalf to the rest of you.
I Love Everybody This is an excuse to name the two kinds of circulation in plants, dragged reluctantly to odd places by the rhyme scheme. 
GKTI

This is a lighthearted song about New York getting destroyed, as I felt we needed one in the months after 9/11.  I dunno.

The World's Big Secret This is a song about learning The World's Big Secret, and adding it to the pile.  Will rewrite someday.
Fingerpuzzle This is an attempt at an Elvis Costello song, minus the pettiness and the genius and all that.  I hope ugly enough?
The Way

This is a song about lust of country.  Face it, she has a sweet ass.

This website really hasn't changed in way too long, and there's too many songs I've written and played out that aren't available above.  Still writing 'em, too.
If the NYC 4/9/11 CD giveaway gets a kindly enough response, it may inspire me to get this page in order.
I'll eventually have all of these and more on this website for you for nothing more than the soul thing, as stated. 
Please tell your friends about my site, and thanks.
 

 Creative Commons License
All the above songs are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.  Pass on the donation policy when you share the songs, and thanks.

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