Martin Phillipps

Martin Phillipps
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About the artist

Martin Phillipps (born in Dunedin on 2 July 1963; died 28 July 2024) was a New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist remembered for being co-founder and longest serving member of The Chills and for writing songs such as "Pink Frost" and "Kaleidoscope World". Phillipps wrote more than 500 songs confirming him as one of the world's most influential indie-pop songwriters, accumulating a body of work stretching back to the New Zealand punk scene of the late '70s.

Top songs

  1. Evermore
  2. February
  3. Evadene
  4. No More Tigers
  5. Haunt Me
  6. Residential Green Cell
  7. Secret Garden
  8. Crow
  9. Warm
  10. Bad Dancer
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  1. Martini
  2. Small Spark
  3. Witch's Hat
  4. Carabela
  5. Sleep Sirens
  6. Hawea
  7. Spring
  8. Submarine Bells
  9. Wet Blanket
  10. Kaleidoscope World
  11. Spring [Segment]
  12. Autumn Testament 20
  13. Spring Segment
  14. Pink Frost
  15. Jungle Law
  16. I Don't Want To Live Forever
  17. Liberty Or Love
  18. Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe
  19. Evermore [Album Version]
  20. Entertainer
  21. Spring (Segment)
  22. This Is the Way
  23. Brave Words
  24. As Far As I Can See
  25. Underwater Wasteland
  26. Streets Of Forgotten Cool
  27. I Love My Leather Jacket
  28. The Male Monster From The Id
  29. The Oncoming Day
  30. Interview excerpt
  31. Background Affair
  32. Eazy Peazy
  33. Doledrums
  34. Evermore (Album Version)
  35. Soft Bomb
  36. I Can't Help You
  37. Easy Peazy
  38. Interview
  39. Liberty or Love (live)
  40. Evermore (Martin Phillips)
  41. Hokey Pokey
  42. I Won't Hurt You
  43. A Message To Pretty
  44. Lost in Future Ruins (live)
  45. Solitary Man (live)
  46. Yabba Dabba Do (live)
  47. Farewell Live Stream - 2PM NZT 9th August 2024
  48. Rolling Moon (live)
  49. Don't Be Memory (live)
  50. Come Home
  51. Pink Frost (Live at the Moth Club, September 2015)
  52. Past Part Past Fiction (live)
  53. Wet Blanket (live)
  54. Kaleidoscope World (live)
  55. Swimming in the Rain
  56. Dreams Are Free
  57. Juicy Creaming Soda
  58. Pink Frost (live at WFMU)
  59. Interview 1992
  60. Surrounded
  61. Lost in Future Ruins
  62. Motorway One
  63. Evermore [Album Version]/Album Version
  64. Juicy Creaming Soda (Live)
  65. Vampire Sweat
  66. A dog's life
  67. Since you left me
  68. 21
  69. 3 voices and a guitar
  70. Residential Green Cell (Live)
  71. Melodica
  72. I Love My Leather Jacket (Live)
  73. Muri Loves Ra
  74. Cold Feet
  75. Mandolin Thing 2
  76. Summer Segement
  77. Pink Frost (Live)
  78. Never Never Go
  79. Interview on Pink Frost
  80. Autumn Testament #20
  81. Tropical Loveland
  82. Lost in Space (live)
  83. February (live)
  84. Juicy Creaming Soda II (live)
  85. So Long (live)
  86. Come Home (live)
  87. Dan Destiny and the Silver Dawn (live)
  88. Halo Fading (live)
  89. Doledrums (live)
  90. Track 05

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