My First Billy Childish Album

Various Artists
Damaged Goods
General | Feb 2007

Reviews

Ragnar of Ravensfjord
Reviewed 2007-07-07
A nice one album package that complies the absurdly prolific work of Mr. Childish- raw punk, lo-fi garage rock, blues and even spoken word. The dude has been all over the in various mediums since at least ’79. Great place to start & a great album all together.

(((((1))))) Trashy, punk rawk mayhem.
(((((2)))))) 4-5 chord garage madness. No polish whatsoever.
(((((3))))) Nasty punk rawk with a killer Oi!-like chorus.
((((4)))) Lo-fi, dirty harmonica strewn blues rock.
((((((5))))) Killer beat and swinging riffs, slap this on at yer next party!
(((((6))))) Excellent, 60’s French girl group rock with a lotta jangle and organ grooves.
((((7)))) Snarling garage/punk with tons of ripping guitar work.
((((8)))) Strummy and punky with really fucked up lyrics.
(((9))) TOO MANY FCCs – AVOID!
((((10)))) Rave-up, rawk n’ roll sounds like a few of the long lost bands from the Pebbles/Nuggets comps.
((((((11))))) Perfect 70’s UK punk sound. ‘Nuff said!
((((12)))) Strummy, 60’s “girls in the garage” thing. Nice vocals with a “gabba gabba hey” thrown in for good measure.
(((13))) Lo-fi blues strummin’, not bad but mostly “there”.
((((14)))) (FCC “piss”?) Fast, simple & direct punk with female vox.
(((15))) Country-blues-lo-fi garage strummin’ with pretty good vocals. A little too much guitar tweakage, though.
(((16))) Big sound with a strong 1965-66 mod/proto punk vibe.
((((17)))) Dirty, no-fi garage punk. Quite nice.
(((((18)))) Spoken word piece covering some autobiographical moments, the beauty of girl’s names, artists and more.

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Charting

2007-06-24 — 2007-08-26
Week EndingAirplays
Aug 26 2
Aug 19 4
Aug 5 2
Jul 29 3
Jul 22 5
Jul 15 4
Jul 8 5
Jul 1 6

Track listing

1. Archive From 1959
2. Trubled Mind
3. Fun In The Uk
4. Ballad Of Hollis Brown
5. When You Stop Loving Me
6. I Feel Like Giving In
7. Loathsome 'n' Wild
8. I'm Hurting
9. The Day I Beat My Father Up
10. Rusty Hook
11. It Ait Mine
12. Davy Crockett
13. The Man With The Fallows Eve
14. You Piss Me Off
15. Get Out Of Here Pretty Girl
16. Sally Sensation
17. Every Bit Of Me
18. I Am The Strange Hero Of Hunger