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Poems Of Laughter and Violence
rock and indie · 1988 · 62 tracks · 1h 0m

Poems Of Laughter and Violence

Billy Childish

1988 · Hangman Records (2)

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Tracklist · 62 Tracks · 1h 0m
01
People Don't Need Poetry
0:55
02
Heaven She Said
0:35
03
Worts Grow Like Fies
0:46
04
In Here We Believe
0:48
05
The Talking Lites
0:25
06
All of Them, Especially the Poets
0:54
07
Will the Circles Be Unbroken
1:07
08
In Up to My Knees
0:48
09
All These Things She Can Do
1:05
10
The Halls of Hell
0:57
11
We Live Quiet Lives
0:34
12
Father and Son
1:10
13
Anyone Who Can Tell
0:58
14
Naked in the Sun
0:34
15
My Father Aged 5
1:01
16
If You're a Chatham Man (4)
0:48
17
The Dog
0:32
18
My Father
0:48
19
All of Them
0:49
20
A Contented Life
0:54
21
The T.V. Man
0:54
22
Poem 4 Years Too Late
0:49
23
They Sit and They Die
0:45
24
We Lost It
2:18
25
A Man With a Singular Vision
1:13
26
A Matter of Life and Death
0:32
27
What Deranges Me?
1:04
28
The Angel of Death
0:53
29
No Reason
1:08
30
The Terrible Buti
1:09
31
Me n' My Father
0:34
32
Catastrophy
1:11
33
Hawk and Spitfire
0:52
34
Mercy?
0:43
35
The Casualties Are Everywhere
0:46
36
Lyrical Quality
1:08
37
Prostitutes on Chatham High Street
0:55
38
Afterwards
1:07
39
Crazy Horse
1:30
40
Question
0:26
41
The Human Beings
1:11
42
War Is Like Man
1:08
43
The Noble Beast
1:33
44
Chatham Market '84
1:35
45
Gluttony
0:53
46
The Reds
1:04
47
Universal Buti and the Blockhouse Effect
1:22
48
We Are These People
1:02
49
Change and Death
1:11
50
A Matter of Upbringing
0:40
51
True History of the Human Race
0:35
52
The Americans
0:58
53
Flanders
0:45
54
Somebody Elses Little Jap
0:56
55
All the Apollo's
1:19
56
Hungarian Japanese
1:20
57
This Dirty World
0:49
58
Soho Peep Show
1:18
59
Earth Sun and Sky
1:22
60
Monks Without God
0:35
61
Rochester Castle
1:30
62
The Budha of Chatham Hill
0:53

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