Crimes Against Music
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Album: Crimes Against Music: 1986-1999
# Song Title   Time
1)    I've Got Everything Indeed
2)    Strange Words
3)    I Love That Girl Ammonia
4)    Get Out of Here Pretty Girl
5)    Greatest Lover in the World, The
6)    Coming Upside Your Head
7)    Mister Elisabeth
8)    I Remember
9)    Why Don't You Try My Love?
10)    Burn and Blind Me
11)    Not Many of My Kind
12)    This Whole Wide World
13)    Grinning in Your Face
14)    Yellow Skin Baby
15)    Bourgeois Blues
16)    Cosmetic Women
17)    Troubled Times
18)    I Love My Woman
19)    Bottle Up and Go
20)    John Hardy
21)    Ballad of Hollis Brown, The
22)    Cowboys Are Square
23)    I Feel So Bad
24)    I'm Hurting
25)    Iodine in My Coffee
26)    Cold Chills
27)    Crimes of the Future
 

Album: Crimes Against Music: 1986-1999
# Song Title   Time
1)    I've Got Everything Indeed
2)    Strange Words
3)    I Love That Girl Ammonia
4)    Get Out of Here Pretty Girl
5)    Greatest Lover in the World, The
6)    Coming Upside Your Head
7)    Mister Elisabeth
8)    I Remember
9)    Why Don't You Try My Love?
10)    Burn and Blind Me
11)    Not Many of My Kind
12)    This Whole Wide World
13)    Grinning in Your Face
14)    Yellow Skin Baby
15)    Bourgeois Blues
16)    Cosmetic Women
17)    Troubled Times
18)    I Love My Woman
19)    Bottle Up and Go
20)    John Hardy
21)    Ballad of Hollis Brown, The
22)    Cowboys Are Square
23)    I Feel So Bad
24)    I'm Hurting
25)    Iodine in My Coffee
26)    Cold Chills
27)    Crimes of the Future
 
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  • Personnel: Billy Childish (vocals, guitar); Billy Childish; Kyra (vocals, drum, claves, foot stamps); Holly Golightly (vocals); Johnny Johnson (guitar, banjo, harmonica); Mike Hampshire, Big Russ Wilkins (guitar); Dan Melchior (slide guitar); Seamus (accordion); Dave (trumpet); Olifer (bass guitar, drums); Bertie (bass guitar, maracas); John Gibbs, Rockin' Richard (bass guitar); Bruce Brand (drums, foot stamps); Vic Templar (drums).
  • Recording information: Hangman Records (07/29/1986-??/??/1987); Sympathy for the Record Industry (07/29/1986-??/??/1987).
  • This double-LP collection of largely acoustic blues numbers from the U.K.'s king of low-tech punk was seemingly recorded in the home in super-rough fidelity over a three-year period, and covers the rawest guts of Billy Childish's post-punk blues sound. As ragged and convincing as Robert Johnson at points, Crimes Against Music was taped in varying degrees of fidelity, and upon listening one can assume the songs were cut in some pretty early hours of the morning, with little to no preparation. An astonishing display of spontaneous cracked genius, Crimes Against Music is utterly essential to collectors of the great poet's work. The artist's own blues numbers are interspersed with flooring renditions of Son House, Bob Dylan, Jimmy Reed, Huddie Ledbetter, and John Lee Hooker standards. With over 21 tracks in total, the collection culminates on side four with John Lee Hooker's "Cold Chills," an outstanding take. The collection closes with Childish's own "Crimes of the Future," a terse Childish rave that can leave your mouth agape in silence for a good half an hour before giving in to the impulse to play the whole four sides again. "Why Don't You Try to Love Me?," "I Love That Girl Ammonia," and "Mister Elizabeth" are exceptional titles as well, and Crimes Against Music displays some of Childish's finest work spanning 1986 to 1999. ~ Skip Jansen
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