catalogue

CHILDISH, WILD BILLY & CTMF

LAST PUNK STANDING (DAMAGED GOODS)

CHILDISH, WILD BILLY & CTMF - LAST PUNK STANDING 134296
format:
1 LP
release:
19.07.2019
label:
DAMAGED GOODS
item ID:
134296
barcode:
5020422051812
Repress on blakc vinyl. "'You're the One I Idolise' - This is a love song, along the lines of some of the ballads we used to do in the Milkshakes - inspired by Arthur Alexander.

There also seems to be some Richard Hell in there (the Voidoids have been a big inspiration over the years (I saw them supporting the Clash at Hastings Pier Pavilion in '77.

'Like an Inexplicable Wheel' - The strangest thing in life is time, not clocks but that there was a past and there will be a future (apparently).

Life seems to be an inexplicable wheel, and I thought there should be a pop song (or two) about that.

'Last Punk Standing' - A more CTMF sounding track. This should really be called 'Who'll be the Last Punk Standing?' but it looked better as a shortened title.

Again it's about time, and knowledge running out. When a generation passes there's no one left to explain the true nature of their experience.

eg- those who fought in WW2 are all but gone and that's how we get the rise of the new right: we learn from history that we don't learn from history.

Who'll be left to pass on the essence of what punk was about - home-made, please yourself music.

PS - the character Roberta, is from a Leadbelly tune- I thought it nice to have her and Mark E.

Smith in the same pop song (Mark was still with us when we recorded this number)." Billy Childish - May 2019
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. IT HURTS ME STILL
  • 1.2. YOU CAN'T CAPTURE TIME
  • 1.3. JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT
  • 1.4. LIKE AN INEXPLICABLE WHEEL
  • 1.5. YOU'RE THE ONE I IDOLISE
  • 1.6. THE DARKNESS WAS ON ME
  • 1.7. MAHREK LE MOLE
  • 1.8. GARY'S SONG
  • 1.9. THE HAPPY PLACE
  • 1.10. SHE DIDN'T KNOW EVERYTHING WAS AVAILABLE
  • 1.11. LAST PUNK STANDING
  • 1.12. I CAN RECALL IT ALL
  • 1.13. SOME UNKNOWN REASON
  • 1.14. THE USED TO BE