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Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC, 1983-2019.

Call Number

  • COMPACT DISC ROCK (CEN)

Performers

Billy Bragg ; with accompaniment.

Publication Information

[London, United Kingdom] : Cooking Vinyl, [2019]

Physical Description

2 audio discs (1 hr., 57 min., 59 sec.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

"38 classic tracks compiled from the BBC archive spanning 1983 to 2019. Fully remastered, many previously unreleased; includes selected highlights from sessions for John Peel, David Jensen, Janice Long, Phill Jupitus, Bob Harris, Tom Robinson & more"--Container.

Notes

Title from disc label.

"Fully remastered"--Container.

Contains previously unreleased material.

All songs written by Billy Bragg, except "Lonesome traveller" by Lee Hays; "Way over yonder in the minor key" by Guthrie/Bragg; "I ain't got no home" by Guthrie; "Why we build the wall" by Anais Mitchell; A13-BB parody of Route 66, lyrics by Bragg, tune by Bobby Troup; "Fear is a man's best friend" by John Cale; "The boy done good" by Bragg/Marr.

Compact discs.

Contents

  • A new England ; Fear is a man's best friend ; Love gets dangerous Like soldiers do ; The man in the iron mask / The Saturday boy A lover sings ; Between the wars A13, Trunk Road to the sea / There is power in a union ; Days like these Scholarship is the enemy of romance Greetings to the new brunette ; Ideology ; The warmest room She's got a new spell ; Valentine's Day is over ; The short answer ; Rotting on remand
  • The few ; Accident waiting to happen / Tank park salute / Brickbat ; This gulf between us Goal hanger ; The boy done good ; From red to blue The busy girl buys beauty ; It says here Lonesome traveller Goodbye, goodbye Way over yonder in the minor key No-one knows nothing anymore Levi Stubbs' tears Why we build the wall I ain't got no home / The space race is over ; St. Swithin's Day

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