![]() ![]() Jack White was born around that time, and he went on to form The White Stripes, which. I can’t pretend to be a total expert, but most of my personal favourites do seem to have made the cut here: The Buff Medways’ “Troubled Mind” Thee Headcoats’ “Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot”, “What’s Wrong With Me” and “We Hate The Fuckin’ NME”, a rare example of Childish’s bile being specifically directed towards pop culture (and a big favourite with many of us NME writers back in the day, of course). Billy Childish was among the pioneers of punk rock, making his way in the music scene in the mid-’70s. There’s an argument that Childish’s music works best in seven-inch bursts, but massed together, it starts to make a kind of sense as an art project, too one where quantity and an artisanal commitment to homogeny are paramount. As a primer in Britain’s foremost exponent of garage rock, it works even better. As a snapshot of one man’s herculean obsession, it works pretty well. Explore the tracklist, credits, statistics, and more for Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot The Billy Childish Story 1977 - 2018 by Billy Childish. “Archive From 1959” isn’t arranged chronologically, but it wouldn’t sound much different if it were. Only the moustache, more or less, evolves. High fidelity, musical progress, an extended remit all remain doggedly off-limits. Over, what, three decades, with The Buff Medways, The MBEs, The Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, The Pop Rivets, Thee Mighty Caesars, The Chatham Singers and so on ( Jack Ketch & The Crowmen, anyone?), Childish has proved to be diligent and unrelenting in his commitment to a fixed set of aesthetics. ![]() If “Archive From 1959” shows us anything, it’s the breathtaking consistency of the man. New, of course, is something of a relative concept for Childish. ![]()
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