3LP - Black Vinyl.
40 Years of Childish! 48 Tracks from The Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, Thee Mighty Caesars, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoatees, Billy Childish and Holly Golightly, The Buff Medways, The Musicians of the British Empire, The Spartan Dreggs and CTMF.
This compilation provides tiny tasters of each of Childish’s phases, and some snippets of short-lived side-projects too. Administered correctly, it will make an addict of you. You have been warned!
An ongoing concern, this flexible trio touch bass with all the different stylistic phases of Childish’s career, and their most recent album, Brand New Cage, features a forty year old photo of a vacantly furious young Billy, his face scarred with acne and razorblades, while inside this elder statesman of outsider art, flanked by long term drummer Wolf and his wife and co-worker Julie, stares up at the camera, now unassailable. In A Song For Kylie Minogue Childish even appears to make peace with his own reputation, accommodating, rather than resenting, the praise and adulation of the art and music superstars who cite him as an influence, hatchets and bitten hands well and truly buried. Few artists of such wildly independent spirit live long enough to achieve this kind of equilibrium.
Tracklist:
A1 The Pop Rivets – Whatcha Gonna Do About It (Live)
A2 The Pop Rivets – Kray Twins (Demo)
A3 The Milkshakes – Love Can Lose
A4 The Milkshakes – I'm Out Of Control
A5 Thee Mighty Caesars – You Make Me Die
A6 Thee Mighty Caesars – The Double Axe
A7 Thee Mighty Caesars – Come Into My Life
A8 Thee Mighty Caesars – Cowboys Are Square
A9 The Delmonas – I Feel Like Giving In
A10 Jack Ketch And The Crowmen– Brimful Of Hate
B1 Thee Headcoatees – Davey Crocket
B2 Thee Headcoats – Girl From 62
B3 Thee Headcoats – All My Feelings Denied
B4 Thee Headcoats – Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot
B5 Thee Headcoats – An Image Of You
B6 Thee Headcoatees – Evil Thing
B7 Thee Headcoatees – Wild Man
B8 Thee Headcoatees – Hurt Me
B9 Thee Headcoats – I'm Hurtin'
C1 Billy Childish And Holly Golightly – Step Out
C2 Billy Childish And Holly Golightly – Upside Mine
C3 Billy Childish And The Singing Loins – I Don't Like The Man I Am
C4 Billy Childish And Sexton Ming – Mussel Horse
C5 Kyra – This Wondrous Day
C6 Wild Billy Childish And The Blackhands – Rum And Coca Cola
C7 Wild Billy Childish And The Blackhands – Mr Hitler
D1 The Buff Medways – Archive From 1959
D2 The Buff Medways – Troubled Mind
D3 The Buff Medways – Unable To See The Good
D4 The Buff Medways – Strood Lights
D5 The Chatham Singers – The Man With The Gallows Eyes
D6 The Chatham Singers – The Angel Of Death
D7 The Buff Medways – Medway Wheelers
D8 The Buffets – You Piss Me Off
E1 The MBE's – Joe Strummer's Grave
E2 The MBE's – Snack Crack
E3 The MBE's – Christmas 1979
E4 The Guy Hamper Trio – Polygraph Test
E5 The Spartan Dreggs – We Spartan Dreggs (Be Fine)
E6 The Spartan Dreggs – Headlong Fly The Aceans
E7 The Spartan Dreggs – A Shropshire Lad
F1 CTMF – A Song For Kylie Minogue
F2 CTMF – In A Parallel World
F3 CTMF – Something's Missing Inside
F4 CTMF – All Our Forts Are With You
F5 The Dear Watsons – Cadillac
F6 The Shall I Say Quois – It's So Hard To Be Happy
F7 CTMF – CTMF