Childish, Billy Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot LP Vinyl

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

1. Whatcha Gonna Do About It (Live) 2. Kray Twins (Demo) 3. Love Can Lose 4. I'm Out of Control 5. You Make Me Die 6. The Double Axe 7. Come Into My Life 8. Cowboys are Square 9. I feel Like Giving In 10. Brimful Of Hate 11. Davey Crocket 12. Girl From '62 13. All My Feelings Denied 14. Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot 15. An Image of You 16. Evil Thing 17. Wild Man 18. Hurt Me 19. I'm Hurtin' 20. Step Out 21. Upside Mine 22. I Don't Like The Man I Am 23. Muscle Horse 24. This Wondrous Day 25. Rum and Coca Cola 26. Mr Hitler 27. Archive from 1959 28. Troubled Mind 29. Unable to See the Good 30. Strood Lights 31. The Man with The Gallows Eyes 32. The Angel of Death 33. Medway Wheelers 34. You Piss Me Off 35. Joe Strummer's Grave 36. Snack Crack 37. Christmas 1979 38. Polygraph Test 39. We Spartan Dreggs (Be Fine) 40. Headlong Fly the Achaeans 41. A Shropshire Lad 42. A Song For Kylie Minogue 43. In A Parallel World 44. Something's Missing Inside 45. All Our Forts Are With You 46. Cadillac 47. It's so Hard to be Happy 48. CTMF