CHILDISH, BILLY - PUNK ROCK IST NICHT TOT 

[ENG] · 40 Years of Childish! Career-spanning compilation! Triple Gatefold Vinyl! Sleevenotes by Stewart Lee! 

 

Billy Childish is an English musician, painter, author & poet. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art. He has led and played in bands including the Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, Thee Mighty Caesars, Thee Headcoats, Buff Medways & CTMF. primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and and releasing more than 130 albums. How did Billy come to be? Holed away in the distant inter tidal marshland of mid-Seventies Kent, breaking rocks in the hot sun as a teenage dockland stonemason, undiagnosed dyslexia and general insubordination denying him the educational path he might have taken, Childish took the punk gospel Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols preached in 1976 as revealed scriptural truth. Forty-two years later Childish is the last man standing, the most enduring, uncorrupted and prolific of the class of `77. And some heroic fool has now tried to sum him up in a mere forty-eight songs, from the thousand or so he has recorded. 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. Here's a field guide to the many faces of Billy Childish. 

 

TRACKLISTING:  01. THE POP RIVETS - WHATCHA GONNA DO ABOUT IT (LIVE) 02. THE POP RIVETS - KRAY TWINS (DEMO) 03. THE MILKSHAKES - LOVE CAN LOSE 04. THE MILKSHAKES - I'M OUT OF CONTROL 05. THEE MIGHTY CAESARS - YOU MAKE ME DIE 06. THEE MIGHTY CAESARS - THE DOUBLE AXE 07. THEE MIGHTY CAESARS - COME INTO MY LIFE 08. THEE MIGHTY CAESARS - COWBOYS ARE SQUARE 09. THE DELMONAS - I FEEL LIKE GIVING IN 10. JACK KETCH AND THE CROWMEN - BRIMFUL OF HATE 11. THEE HEADCOATS - DAVEY CROCKET 12. THEE HEADCOATS - GIRL FROM '62 13. THEE HEADCOATS - ALL MY FEELINGS DENIED 14. THEE HEADCOATS - PUNK ROCK IST NICHT TOT 15. THEE HEADCOATS - AN IMAGE OF YOU 16. THEE HEADCOATEES - EVIL THING 17. THEE HEADCOATEES - WILD MAN 18. THEE HEADCOATEES - HURT ME 19. THEE HEADCOATS - I'M HURTIN' DISC #2: 01. BILLY CHILDISH AND HOLLY GOLIGHTLY - STEP OUT 02. BILLY CHILDISH AND HOLLY GOLIGHTLY - UPSIDE MINE 03. BILLY CHILDISH AND THE SINGING LOINS - I DON'T LIKE THE MAN I AM 04. BILLY CHILDISH AND SEXTON MING - MUSCLE HORSE 05. KYRA - THIS WONDROUS DAY 06. WILD BILLY CHILDISH AND THE BLACKHANDS - RUM AND COCA COLA 07. WILD BILLY CHILDISH AND THE BLACKHANDS - MR HITLER 08. THE BUFF MEDWAYS - ARCHIVE FROM 1959 09. THE BUFF MEDWAYS - TROUBLED MIND 10. THE BUFF MEDWAYS - UNABLE TO SEE THE GOOD 11. THE BUFF MEDWAYS - STROOD LIGHTS 12. THE CHATHAM SINGERS - THE MAN WITH THE GALLOWS EYES 13. THE CHATHAM SINGERS - THE ANGEL OF DEATH 14. THE BUFF MEDWAYS - MEDWAY WHEELERS 15. THE BUFFETS - YOU PISS ME OFF DISC #3: 01. THE MUSICIANS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE - JOE STRUMMER'S GRAVE 02. THE MUSICIANS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE - SNACK CRACK 03. THE MUSICIANS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE - CHRISTMAS 1979 04. THE GUY HAMPER TRIO - POLYGRAPH TEST 05. THE SPARTAN DREGGS - WE SPARTAN DREGGS (BE FINE) 06. THE SPARTAN DREGGS - HEADLONG FLY THE ACHAEANS 07. THE SPARTAN DREGGS - A SHROPSHIRE LAD 08. CTMF - A SONG FOR KYLIE MINOGUE 09. CTMF - IN A PARALLEL WORLD 10. CTMF - SOMETHING'S MISSING INSIDE 11. CTMF - ALL OUR FORTS ARE WITH YOU 12. THE DEAR WATSONS - CADILLAC 13. THE SHALL I SAY QUOIS - IT'S SO HARD TO BE HAPPY 14. CTMF - CTMF