Their sound is a little more tougher than their name. I hear the early Kinks and the British invasion in these two songs that I posted.
This song was the B side to It’s You released in 1982 (both are posted at the bottom of the post).
The Milkshakes formed in 1980 in Chatham, Kent, England, after Billy Childish’s band… Pop Rivets broke up. Childish teamed up with former roadie Mickey Hampshire, who’d been fronting Mickey and the Milkshakes.
The Milkshakes were a prolific band, recording nine albums in their four years together, and the band was very much a blend of Childish raw writing and Hampshire’s more melodic songs.
The A side It’s You
The B side Please Don’t Tell My Baby
Please Don’t Tell My Baby
Please don’t tell my baby I saw her last night
Please don’t tell my baby I saw her last night
I saw her kiss that boy
I saw her kiss that boy
I saw her kiss that boy
Please don’t tell her that I know
’cause when I catch her gonna get it all
I’m gonna put it on the line
That I’ll take her…all her lying
She made me very mad
I’m gonna treat her bad
She gonna wish she never told the lie she had
I saw her kiss that boy
I saw her kiss that boy
I saw her kiss that boy
Last night
Please don’t tell my baby
Please don’t tell my baby
Please don’t tell my baby
THE MILKSHAKES
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I can hear the Kinks sound in this song.
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quite retro in sound and look.
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I’m not familiar with this band. I like both A and B sides. Band reminds me of The Syndicate of Sound “Little Girl”.
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I forgot about that song…they do have that sound.
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Right. “Little Girl”. Raunchy, rockin’ little tune.
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Raw garage sound. Had never heard of them. I think you’re right, there’s some early Kinks in here.
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Real afficionados! I got to know The Milkshakes in 1982, at a concert in the Bern ISC Club, which I will never forget. Their music is a rhythm’n’beat, just like it was played in the early 60s. Sometimes you also hear old songs by Bo Diddley, Kinks or the Beatles, but the Milkshakes reproduce an atmosphere that the mostly smoothly recorded original beat LPs hardly have.
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That is cool that you got to know them and a chance to hear them live.
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I really like these… Really raw! I’d never heard of them before.
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Thanks for reading…yea it’s not much about them out there….but I love the rawness. Hard to believe they were in the 80s.
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There’s a bit of punk in there too, I think – kind of makes the connection from 1960s punk to 1970s punk more explicit than usual. Voice isn’t miles away from Joe Strummer in The Clash.
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Yes I would agree with the punk element. Sometimes it’s harder for me to see that at first unless it’s blatant.
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Kinks all over it. I like it.
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