Thee Headcoats "Heavens To Murgatroyd, Even! It's Thee Headcoats Already" 1990

This 1990 album, originally released on indie stalwart SubPop, established the basic template for Billy Childish’s oeuvre for the next decade to come: simple garage riffage, snotty, smart lyrics, and a tinny, devil-may-care production that underscores the casual desperation behind the music.Wild Billy Childish and his Headcoats bring a typhoon that will whirl through your body and soul, and before you know it, you'll be dancing the go-go in white knee boots and putting on the frosted eyeshadow your mother always warned you about.
From the first tune, "Man Trap," the blood will start pumping. Later on in, "I Don't Like the Man I Am" you'll be agreeing with him. In "Pokerhuntus Was Her Name", a soulful song done by Thee Headcoatees, the girls who live the Headcoats life, you'll see what Disney left out of the movie.
The short hip-shaking, body-twisting tunes become ingrained in your memory, cropping up at bizarre times. Shopping during the holiday season, try singing, "The Reindeer are Wild" at the mall-Santas and see if they won't join in. "Headcoat Man" should be an anthem of youth--all young men and women should want to be Headcoats!
Simply constructed tunes, insistant beats, and the roots of rock, rockabilly, and Billy himself bring music back to what it should be--a GOOD TIME! - amazontrax:

01 Mantrap 02 No Way Out 03 Reindeer Are Wild 04 Hand to Hand 05 Headcoat Man 06 Girl of Matches 07 I Don't Like the Man I am 08 Pokerhuntus Was Her Name 09 We're Gone 10 Stewball 11 I Ain't About to Give You My Name 12 Rusty Hook