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It’s either utterly ridiculous or a monumental sign post detailing the creativity of humanity that Billy Childish is associated with so many different recordings. Beginning towards the early eighties, Childish and whatever group of bums he could find would crank out some extraordinarily engaging pop induced garage tunes, stick around for a while and then dissolve into the mess of independently released Brit music from the period.

Of course, remaining completely detached from pervasive tastes over there in the UK is pretty impressive when considering the expansive backlog of records Childish has had a hand in. But it’s also kind of nutty that one guy has seen fit to record in roughly the same mode for just about thirty years and folks still eat it up – I’m one of them.

Anyway, after the Milkshakes fell apart, it didn’t take Childish too long to soldered together the group which would constitute Thee Mighty Caesars – and no, I have no idea what all the ‘Thees’ are a bout. Ask Thee Oh Sees, maybe.

During the first two years of the band’s existence it issued some ridiculous number of singles and no less then three albums – or four depending on what dates you dig up from the interwebs and not the dust jackets.