0:00:01) Guerilla Radio By Richard Cheese off of Lounge Against the Machine / Guerilla Radio by Rage Against the Machine off of The Battle of Los Angele

0:04:05 (Rev. talking over Wait And See by Factor off of Chandelier)

Welcome once again to the pirate radio show in my head, my reverie. It’s me again shooting down through your ionosphere to talk at you from the cool half la moon. I am your unenthusiastic-astronaut, your space cadet, your radio flyer broadcasting from an escape-hatch on chicken-legs poised to jump. I am Rev. and we are here to be Aurally Fixated together.
We started with two songs I mushed together. That was a gaggle of LA boys; Richard Cheese from his Lounge Against the Machine record covering Rage’s Gurilla Radio. Because today, the 13th day of February is World Radio Day! But this time I’ll try and keep my rambling short and sweet. And speaking of Swedes…

0:05:55) Sugar Town by ShitKid off of Fish

0:08:30) Balrog Boogie by Diablo Swing Orchestra off of The Butcher’s Ballroom

0:12:20) They Say I’m Different by Betty Davis off of They Say I’m Different

0:16:20) Death Ray Radio By KillerTone Jones off of Death Ray Radio

0:20:00 (Rev. prattling on over Ups and Downs by Factor Chandelier off of As Dark As Today)

Thank you so much for coming along with me to have fun and splash with me in these radio-waves. And speaking of making some fun waves, few ever did it better than Ms. Betty Davis. But I’m getting ahead of myself. What we just heard was Killer Tone Jones with the title track off of Death Ray Radio. And before that was the title track off of Betty Davis’s They Say I’m Different. (And thank the gods she was) Before she we did the Balrog Boogie with to the Diablo Swing Orchestra. And we started it all off with ShitKid taking us all the way from Stockholm Sweden to Sugar Town.
Something I forgot to mention last time is that if for whatever reason you miss the name of an artist or song, I put timestamps next to each song and ramble from me so it’s easy as possible to look up or restart an episode from a specific place. Now, let’s continue our title trip around the world.

0:22:15) The Great London Traffic Warden Massacre by Morecheeba off of Charango

0:25:15) Dougou Badia By Amadou & Mariam feat. Santigold off of Oh Amadou

0:29:05 Commercial Radio Advice / Radio Friendly Unit Shifter by Nirvana off of InUtero

0:34:05) Comin’ Through By Chali 2na off of Fish Otta Water

0:37:25 (Rev. Yapping over Never The Same Again by Factor Chandelier off of As Dark As Today)

I could listen to Chali 2na rap the phonebook. From him we heard him Comin’ Through. Just prior to that we heard Nirvana with a song laughably called Radio Friendly Unit Shifter. Previous to that we heard from who were know as The Blind Couple From Mali Amadou & Mariam. And we started off with Morecheeba with The Great London Traffic Warden Massacre.

Nirvana got me remembering growing up in our trailer with the thin walls, and after Mother had gone to bed, taking my boombox and putting it under my pillow, pressing my little skull right up against it, trying to listen to late-night collage radio just loud enough to be enjoyed but not so enjoyable as to get me yelled at. When I got older my favorite bookstore had a CD section called “Left of the Dial.” I never did put 2 and 2 together and realize that all those collage stations were pretty much all the way to the left on the radio dial. Apparently those stations down there are reserved for non-commercial and education stations. it was from those young head-on-speaker nights I first heard this song.

0:40:05) Venus Blue By Acid Bath off of Pagan Terrorism Tactics

0:44:40) Transmission By Joy Division

0:48:05) Team The Best Team By DoomTree off of No Kings

0:52:35) Tanta Furia By BirdEatsBaby off of Tanta Furia

0:56:50 (Rev. blathering over Keep Them Coming Back by Factor Chandelier off of Cold, Cold World)

That was BirdEatsBaby with the title track off their Tanta Furia album. That band has changes a lot over the years and I’m excited to see where they continue to go. But in front of them we heard the Team, The Best Team from there 2011 album entitled No Kings that was Doomtree. Before them we heard the 1979 debut single from Joy Division. And we began that quad-tangle of tunes off with something from Acid Bath second and final album. From 1997’s Pagan Terrorism Tactics we heard Venus Blue. That’s a group that somehow propped my up through that every difficult decade or so of adolescence, if not longer. But now I only seem to posses half their discography….

It’s weird broadcasting from this stilted little radio shack. It has a sort of internet access, which is something I’ve never had before, and makes some things convenient, but I don’t have access to my full old collection of music. Even with access to my BandCamp and to the YouTubes in some ways it was easier before – just sitting Naked in Front of The Computer, searching my hard-drive for sentence and memory fragments. But at least up here I don’t have to be hassled by library security whilst using their wi-fi. It wasn’t true I had nothing on, I had the radio on!

0:59:05) Oh Sajna by Bombay Royale off of You Me Bullet Love

1:01:40) Abou Zilif by Omar Souleyman off of Shlon

1:06:45) Dueling Banjos by Nini

1:09:10) Introduce Me To Your Family by Otoboke Beaver off of Love Is Short

1:11:38) The Radio Still Sucks by The Ataris off of Short Music for Short People

1:12:06) Bad Times by Lubricated Goat off of The Great Old Ones

1:14:30 (Here he is yet again, jibber-jabbering over Fast Lane by Factor Chandelier off of Cold, Cold World)

Rev. here, with his face for radio, voice for writing, and a taste for the tasteless, that’s why that group might have my favorite band name. From Sydney Australia, that was Lubricated Goat moaning about Bad Times. Before that The Ataris told us who they were sick of hearing on the radio. But they too would eventually have an over played radio hit when they covered Don henley’s Boys of Summer. Whatever the case The Radio Still Sucks. Before those Indiana boys we were graced with Otoboke Beaver from Kyoto Japan with Introduce Me To Your Family. Then from Taiwan we heard Nini using traditional asian instruments to play Dueling Banjos. Before her, from the war-torn boarders of Turkey and Syria we had Omar Souleyman. And we started our journey in Melbourne with the Bombay Royale with one from You Me Bullets Love.

So we went from Down Under, to the Middle East, to the Far East, to the West, then back Down again. It seems crazy you name places after directions. Just because that’s the way it is on the map doesn’t mean your country is actually in the front, or even that the top is Up. Just because someone named it North doesn’t make it True. There is no Up in space. That’s not how Celestiography works. So remember when it seems like everybody else is sure they’re headed in the right direction, and you’re lost in the anxiety of orientational anarchy, orientation just means to know which way is East (towards the Orient) and East is just made up. No one is ahead of you because they aren’t going where you are. So go your own way. Keep moving forward, whatever that means to you. Draw your own treasure maps to whatever you value most. But you know this, you’re my fellow weirdos. That’s why you’re here with me instead of watching TV – because the pictures are better on the radio.

1:18:15) Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio by Ramones off of End Of The Century