Despicablemusic.org

Hi, I'm DESPICABLEMUSIC.ORG but my friends call me Des! Links to songs are below You can also download a chock-full zipped-file album of older songs here. I send very few updates and the ones I do send are fabulous: you should also write me at des@despicablemusic.org. Fine print: An antimeritocrat, I've sworn an improbable but life-serious oath never to profit financially from whatever talent is in these songs, and if they suck I'm not taking money for that either - my fee for repeated listens is a discrete, measurable uptick in your political involvement, whatever that looks like. Activism is like dating: maintain a sense of humor. Any bass you hear is Bill Kavanagh, horn is Paul Calzaretta, drums are gonna tend to be Jack McClain. NEWER SONGS JUST LEFT LYING AROUND Against markets: Better In A War (demo) • Free Will • Get A Job Against my friends: The Troglodytes • Treehugger • The Afterlife Against despair: Hey Thanks Jude • House of Cards • The Shadow of the World For it: My Dear in the Headlights • Top of the World • The Second Coming

OLDER SONGS I'VE MADE PAGES FOR (you may have to click the pictures for sound)	Some Accompanying Blather
Manhattan	This is a completely true story, except I went a month late one year. Oh and I'm a coward.
Colorless Green	Anarchy is "no rulers", whereas chaos is no rules. You see? Opposites. This song details Chomsky's endless struggle with Cthulhu.
Pushing Up Daisy	This song I think manages to simultaneously and completely feel two opposite ways about the same event .
Freezerburn	You are a leftover.
15 min / 4 years	This is a song about that "daily democracy requires daily citizenship" thing. Ah, well.
*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.
(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?**
The Arc of the Covenant	This is a love song slathered in Douglas Rushkoff and maybe a little Michael Neumann.
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 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.

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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