Childish, Billy: Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot! (Vinyl 3xLP)

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.

1. The Pop Rivets – Whatcha Gonna Do About It (Live)
   
2. The Pop Rivets – Kray Twins (Demo)
   
3. The Milkshakes – Love Can Lose
   
4. The Milkshakes – I'm Out Of Control
   
5. Thee Mighty Caesars – You Make Me Die
   
6. Thee Mighty Caesars – The Double Axe
   
7. Thee Mighty Caesars – Come Into My Life
   
8. Thee Mighty Caesars – Cowboys Are Square
   
9. The Delmonas – I Feel Like Giving In
   
10. Jack Ketch And The Crowmen – Brimful Of Hate
11. Thee Headcoatees – 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'
20. Billy Childish And Holly Golightly – Step Out
    
21. Billy Childish And Holly Golightly – Upside Mine
    
22. Billy Childish And The Singing Loins – I Don't Like The Man I Am
    
23. Billy Childish And Sexton Ming – Mussel Horse
    
24. Kyra – This Wondrous Day
    
25. Wild Billy Childish And The Blackhands – Rum And Coca Cola
    
26. Wild Billy Childish And The Blackhands – Mr Hitler
27. The Buff Medways – Archive From 1959
    
28. The Buff Medways – Troubled Mind
    
29. The Buff Medways – Unable To See The Good
    
30. The Buff Medways – Strood Lights
    
31. The Chatham Singers – The Man With The Gallows Eyes
    
32. The Chatham Singers – The Angel Of Death
    
33. The Buff Medways – Medway Wheelers
    
34. The Buffets – You Piss Me Off
35. The MBE's – Joe Strummer's Grave
    
36. The MBE's – Snack Crack
    
37. The MBE's – Christmas 1979
    
38. The Guy Hamper Trio – Polygraph Test
    
39. The Spartan Dreggs – We Spartan Dreggs (Be Fine)
    
40. The Spartan Dreggs – Headlong Fly The Aceans
    
41. The Spartan Dreggs – A Shropshire Lad
42. CTMF – A Song For Kylie Minogue
    
43. CTMF – In A Parallel World
    
44. CTMF – Something's Missing Inside
    
45. CTMF – All Our Forts Are With You
    
46. The Dear Watsons – Cadillac
    
47. The Shall I Say Quois – It's So Hard To Be Happy
    
48. CTMF – CTMF