Pirate Radio on CFCR

07/11/2025

07/10/2025 Pirate Radio

Here’s what happened last night on a special episode of Pirate Radio with my guest for the evening, Taron Cochrane! He brought in an excellent selection of polka, punk, polka-punk and Saskatchewan themed music, plus the stories to go with them…

-Mary Saxton “Georgia Eyes”
-Nightmares in the Afternoon “City of Woe”
-SNFU “Misfortune”
-Eddy Current Suppression Ring “Shapes and Forms”
-EPIC “Dogsh*t Tired”
-Wes Dakus Rebels “Rattlesnake”
-The Courtneys “Social Anxiety”
-Split System “Time Killer”
-Olaf & George Sveen “Frisky Polka”
-Ripcordz “Gotta Get Out of Humboldt”
-The Dead South “Instrumental Theme Song”
-Frankie Yankovic & Walter Ostanek “Let’s Have a Party”
-Herd of Wasters “Tactical Squad”
-The Real McKenzies “Weyburn”
-The Dreadnoughts “Polka Pit”
-The Dreadnoughts “Polka Never Dies”
-Willie Dunn “I Pity the Country”

Thanks for listening! You can listen/download this show on our broadcast archive at cfcr dot ca!

07/11/2025

07/10/2025 Pirate Radio

Here’s what happened last night on a special episode of Pirate Radio with my guest for the evening, Taron Cochrane! He brought in an excellent selection of polka, punk, polka-punk and Saskatchewan themed music, plus the stories to go with them…

-Mary Saxton “Georgia Eyes”
-Nightmares in the Afternoon “City of Woe”
-SNFU “Misfortune”
-Eddy Current Suppression Ring “Shapes and Forms”
-EPIC “Dogsh*t Tired”
-Wes Dakus Rebels “Rattlesnake”
-The Courtneys “Social Anxiety”
-Split System “Time Killer”
-Olaf & George Sveen “Frisky Polka”
-Ripcordz “Gotta Get Out of Humboldt”
-The Dead South “Instrumental Theme Song”
-Frankie Yankovic & Walter Ostanek “Let’s Have a Party”
-Herd of Wasters “Tactical Squad”
-The Real McKenzies “Weyburn”
-The Dreadnoughts “Polka Pit”
-The Dreadnoughts “Polka Never Dies”
-Willie Dunn “I Pity the Country”

Thanks for listening! You can listen/download this show on our broadcast archive at cfcr.ca!

07/04/2025

Here's what skipped across your ear-ponds last night on Pirate Radio!

1. Ramones - "Now I Wanna Be A Good Boy"
2. Durango 95 - "Don't Look At Me"
3. The Poles - "CN Tower"
4. Siggy Magic & The Hey Hoe Band - "Tooth Decay"
5. Tropical F**k Storm (TFS Band) - "Chameleon Paint"
6. Flaming Lips - "Shine On Sweet Jesus"
7. Guided By Voices - "Avalanche Aminos"
8. Echo and the Bunnymen - "Nocturnal Me"
9. Bridgeland - "Disappearer"
10. BADBADNOTGOOD - "Audacia"
11. The Budos Band - "Thrice Crowned"
12. UWUW - "Scattered Ashes"
13. William Onyeabor - "Fantastic Man"
14. The Allan Sisters - "Lonely World"
15. Les Contacts - "Je sais"
16. King Beezz - "Now"
17. The Mystery Lights - "Before You Realize It"
18. Christopher Sleightholm - "You Can't Speak With A Mouth Full of Wine"
19. Holy Void - "Salvation"
20. Secret Door - "Feed"
21. The Beach Boys - "The Little Girl I Once Knew" (RIP Brian Wilson (I know it was almost a month ago, but I hadn't done a show since))

Thanks for listening in and checking out the playlist. Tune in again next week for another great show with Chad!

If you missed the show live, you can head to the show's archive at
cfcr-dot-ca/timetable/program/pirate-radio/ and stream/download the past 4 episodes there!

- The Jay of Spades

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06/27/2025

06/26/2025 Pirate Radio

Here’s what reverberated out into the airwaves last night…

-The Courtneys “Insufficient Funds”
-Eddy Current Suppression Ring “Insufficient Funds”
-Tranzmitors “Nervous Breakdown”
-Black Flag “Nervous Breakdown”
-Penza Penza “Hang Loose”
-Mandrill “Hang Loose”
-The Rip-Offs “Zodiac”
-Badge Époque Ensemble “Zodiac”
-FOWL “Blood on the Saddle”
-Brian Ritchie & The Ghostly Trio “Blood on the Saddle”
-Tha Retail Simps “Rock n Roll”
-The Velvet Underground “Rock & Roll”
-The Mandates “Phantasmagoria”
-Annihilator “Phantasmagoria”
-U.S. Girls “Born to Lose”
-Attitude Adjustment “Born to Lose”
-Monks “I Hate You”
-Zoom “I Hate You”
-Janitor Scum “Downtown”
-Mrs. Miller “Downtown”
-Rheostatics “Horses”

Thanks so much for listening! Tune in next week for another killer show with Jay Allen

06/13/2025

Pirate Radio 06/12/2025

Here’s what we heard last night…

-The Collectors “Teletype Click”
-The Boojums “Outta My Head”
-Kid Koala “The Frequencies”
-G.I. Jinx “Change the World”
-Puffer “Concrete Jungle”
-Béton Armé “Chemin De Croix”
-UV Race “Outta Control Kids”
-Rheostatics “California Dreamline”
-The Astronauts “Surfin’ USA”
-Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet “In My Room”
-Descendents “Wendy”
-Beach Boys “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times”
-Teenage Head “Drive-In”
-Frank Black “Hang On to Your Ego”
-Sunday Morning “Explain the World”
-The Folk Implosion “Natural One”
-S.S.I.K. “Joy”
-Johnny & The Nite-Liters “Over and Out”
-Badge Époque Ensemble “Zealous Child”
-Alice Cooper “Reflected”
-Lothario “Overdrawn”
-New Bomb Turks “Law of the Long Arm”
-Dead Kennedys “Terminal Preppie”
-X-Cetra “Idiotic”
-Piranhas “Isolation Enormo”

RIP Brian Wilson

Thanks for listening! I’ll be back next week!

05/23/2025

Here's what zipped & zapped out on last night's Pirate Radio!

1. Ramones - "All's Quiet on the Eastern Front"
2. Vancougar - "Naughty"
3. Leyton Buzzards - "Villain"
4. Modern Minds - "Go"
5. Aunt Mary - "Stumblin' Stone"
6. Dunbarrow - "In My Heart"
7. Black Thunder - "Embrace the Basilisk"
8. Willie Thrasher - "Forefathers"
9. Brian Davey - "Little Billy"
10. Humphrey and the Dumptrucks - "Another Storm"
11. Richie Knight and the Mid-Knights - "Work Song"
12. Mary Saxton - "Sad Eyes"
13. Frank Motley - "Early In The Morning"
14. Zen Guerilla - "Empty Heart" (Rolling Stones cover)
15. PIXIES - "Velouria"
16. Carbon Dating Service - "Terraform Mars"
17. Junior Pantherz - "Class Action Lawsuit"
18. Action Makes - "Drag The Lake"
19. The Who - "The Seeker"

Thanks for tuning in and checking out the playlist! Stream/Download the past 4 episodes on CFCR's website at
cfcr-dot-ca/timetable/program/pirate-radio/. Tune in again next Thurs from 7:30-9pm MDT for another great show with Chad!

- The Jay of Spades

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05/16/2025

Pirate Radio 05/15/2025

Here’s what we heard last night on CFCR 90.5 FM…

-Three To One “See Emily Play”
-The Allan Sisters “I’m in With the Downtown Crowd”
-Metro-Gnomes “Curtains”
-Simply Saucer “I Can Change My Mind”
-The Crosses “Hate Market”
-Puffer “Live & Die in the City”
-Split System “On the Edge”
-Plastic Bertrand “Pogo Pogo”
-Sick Thoughts “Hole in the Wall”
-Medusa “Think Harder”
-Klaatu “Mister Manson”
-Facecrime “I Know Some People”
-Movieland “Rant”
-Mudhoney “In ‘n’ Out of Grace”
-Empanads Ilegales “Lamento de un Galax”
-VOM “I’m In Love With Your Mom”
-Penza Penza “Off the Lip”
-Mary Margaret O’Hara “Year in Song”
-Crass “Bloody Revolutions”
-Sunday Morning “Junky Don’t Care”

Thanks for listening! To in next week for another fantastic episode with Jay Allen

05/09/2025

Here's what pumped outta yr speakerz last night on Pirate Radio!

1. Ramones - "Chinese Rock"
2. Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - "Chinese Rocks"
3. Taxi Girls - "The Lion's Share"
4. The B-Girls - "B-Side"
5. Romeo Void - "Myself to Myself"
6. Martha and the Muffins - "Motorbikin'" (Chris Spedding Cover)
7. Bart - "Magic Sun"
8. Ted Daigle - "Cut Across Shorty"
9. Ted Lucas - "It Is So Nice To Get Stoned"
10. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - "Me and Mia"
11. Teddy Pendergrass - "You Can't Hide From Yourself"
12. Wayne McGhie - "Going in Circles"
13. Jackie Mittoo - "Toronto Express"
14. WITCH (We Intend To Cause Havoc) - "Chance"
15. Nightmares In The Afternoon - "Curtains"
16. Blue Fantasy - "Permanent Daydream"
17. Holy Void - "Golden Lies"
18. The Five Bells (The Bells) - "Time"
19. Sharon Tandy - "Daughter of the Sun"
20. The Carolyn Hester Coalition - "East Virginia"
21. Kacy & Clayton - "Springtime of the Year"

Thanks for listening in and checking out the playlist! Remember you can stream/download the past 4 episodes on the CFCR archive at cfcr-dot-ca/timetable/program/pirate-radio/.

- The Jay of Spades

PS: If anyone can tell me when *exactly* this Jackie Mittoo song was recorded, I'd be grateful. I'm trying to determine how coincidental that "Ohio" keyboard riff is. It was released the same year (1970), but not sure when exactly it was recorded...

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05/06/2025

Pirate Radio 05/01/2025

Way back last Thursday night, on the first day of May, this is what we heard…

-Puffer “Jimmy”
-Elle Barbara’s Black Space “Operating Thetan: Unknown”
-B-52s “52 Girls”
-NoMeansNo “Graveyard Shift”
-Pere Ubu “Final Solution”
-The Nils “Up Turns to Down”
-Demon Fuzz “Another Country”
-Troyka “Go East Young Man / Beautiful Pink Eyes”
-B.J. Berg “The Laughing Song”
-Flipper “Ha Ha Ha”
-Heavy Möther “Night of the Long Grass”
-The Nerve “Penchant”
-The Undead “Somebody Super Like You (Beef Construction Song)”
-Starboy “My Place is Hot”
-Payola$ “Comfortable”
-Spike Drivers “High Time”
-Susan Christie “Yesterday, Where Is My Mind?”
-John Mills-Cockell “Eldorado pt 1”

Thanks for tuning in! Listen next week for another fantastic episode with Jay Allen

04/25/2025

Here's what rambled out into the night on yesterday's Pirate Radio!

1. Ramones - "California Sun" (Joe Jones Cover)
2. First Class - "Beach Baby"
3. Les 409 - "They Say"
4. The Mystery Lights - "Follow Me Home"
5. Ohama - "Where Do You Call Home"
6. Su***de - "Ghost Rider"
7. Bruce Haack - "Electric To Me Turn"
8. Cathy Young - "Colour That Lightning"
9. Fraser & DeBolt - "Snowdrift Song"
10. Auriel Andrews - "I'm A Walking Advertisement"
11. Vanda King - "Ooh Whatcha Do!"
12. THE BAND - "Katie's Been Gone"
13. Muddy Waters - "Katie"
14. Moloch - "Co***ne Katy"
15. Al Green - "Driving Wheel"
16. Slow - "Intro/In Deep"
17. Doughboys - "Stranger From Within"
18. Change Of Heart - "Pave"
19. Plumtree - "The Phone The Phone"
20. Geronimo Black - "Uneasy"
21. Jimi Hendrix - "Dolly Dagger"
22. Brenton Wood - "The Oogum Boogum Song" (RIP)

Thanks for tuning in & checking out the playlist! Remember you can check out the past 4 episodes of the show on CFCR's archive at cfcr-dot-ca/timetable/program/pirate-radio.

Tune in again next Thursday for another great show from Chad!

- The Jay of Spades

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04/04/2025

04/03/2025 Pirate Radio

Here’s what blasted out into the chilly airwaves last night…

-Les Pommes de Lune “Les Chimères”
-Bubble Puppy “Hot Smoke & Sassafras”
-Da Slyme “Hey Ottawa”
-Cowboy Dick “Blood Man”
-F**kin’ Flyin’ A-Heads “Swiss Cheese Back”
-Py Py “15 Sec”
-Frank Soda & The Imps “Toxic Takeover”
-Dayglo Abortions “Dragons”
-Lawsuit “Too Young to Die”
-Apostles “Never Too Late”
-Bu****le Surfers “To Parter”
-Teenage Head “Drive-In”
-Marie Davidson “Sexy Clown”
-Natasha “Talk is Cheap/Sex is Dirty”
-Faze “Wanna Be Good”
-Modern Minds “20 Years Old”
-Finnogun’s Wake “Strawberry Avalanche”
-Ernest Monias “Tormented Soul”
-SNFU “Poor Pitiful Me”

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Thanks for listening! Tune in next week for another fantastic show with Jay Allen!