Volume 1 (Box Set)

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Volume 1
Box set by Billy Bragg
Released	2006
Recorded	1981 - 1990
Genre	Alternative folk
Label	Yep Roc
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (7.4/10) link
Billy Bragg chronology
Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg (2003) Volume 1 (2006) Volume 2 (2006)

Box set by alternative folk singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, released in 2006. The box set includes 7 CDs and 2 DVDs with a booklet containing song lyrics and an introduction by Wiggy a friend and producer of several of his albums.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc 1 (Life's a Riot With Spy v's Spy - Original Album) 1.2 Disc 2 (Life's a Riot With Spy v's Spy - Bonus CD) 1.3 Disc 3 (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg - Original Album) 1.4 Disc 4 (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg - Bonus CD) 1.5 Disc 5 (Talkin With The Taxman About Poetry - Original Album) 1.6 Disc 6 (Talkin With The Taxman About Poetry - Bonus CD) 1.7 Disc 7 (The Internationale - Original Album / Live & Dubious EP / Bonus Tracks) 1.8 Disc 8 (Bonus DVD - Here And There) 1.9 Disc: 9 (Boxed Set Bonus DVD, From The West Down To The East) 2 References

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc 1 (Life's a Riot With Spy v's Spy - Original Album)

1. The Milkman of Human Kindness
2. To Have and to Have Not
3. Richard
4. A New England
5. The Man In The Iron Mask
6. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
7. Lovers Town Revisited

[edit] Disc 2 (Life's a Riot With Spy v's Spy - Bonus CD)

1. Strange Things Happen (Alternative Version)
2. The Cloth (1)
3. Love Lives Here
4. Speedway Hero
5. Loving You Too Long
6. This Guitar Says Sorry(Alternative Version)
7. Love Gets Dangerous (Alternative Version)
8. The Cloth (2)
9. The Man In The Iron Mask (Alternative Version)
10. A13, Trunk Road To The Sea
11. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend

[edit] Disc 3 (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg - Original Album)

1. It Says Here
2. Love Gets Dangerous
3. The Myth Of Trust
4. From A Vauxhall Velox
5. The Saturday Boy
6. Island Of No Return
7. St. Swithin's Day
8. Like Soldiers Do
9. This Guitar Says Sorry
10. Strange Things Happen
11. A Lover Sings

[edit] Disc 4 (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg - Bonus CD)

1. It Must Be A River
2. Won't Talk About It
3. Talking Wag Club Blues
4. You Got The Power
5. The Last Time
6. Back To The Old House
7. A Lover Sings (Alternative Version)
8. Which Side Are You On (Between The Wars EP)
9. It Says Here (Between The Wars EP)
10. Between The Wars (Between The Wars EP)
11. World Turned Upside Down (Between The Wars EP)

[edit] Disc 5 (Talkin With The Taxman About Poetry - Original Album)

1. Greetings To The New Brunette
2. Train Train
3. The Marriage
4. Ideology
5. Levi Stubbs' Tears
6. Honey, I'm A Big Boy Now
7. There Is Power In A Union
8. Help Save The Youth Of America
9. Wishing The Days Away
10. The Passion
11. The Warmest Room
12. The Home Front

[edit] Disc 6 (Talkin With The Taxman About Poetry - Bonus CD)

1. Sin City
2. Deportees
3. There Is Power In A Union (Instrumental)
4. The Tracks Of My Tears
5. Wishin The Days Away (Alternative Take)
6. The Clashing Of Ideologies (Alternative Version)
7. Greetings To The New Brunette (Demo)
8. A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe
9. Only Bad Signs
10. Hold The Fort

[edit] Disc 7 (The Internationale - Original Album / Live & Dubious EP / Bonus Tracks)

1. The Internationale
2. I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
3. The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions
4. Blake's Jerusalem
5. Nicaragua Nicaraguita
6. The Red Flag
7. My Youngest Son Came Home Today
8. Introduction (Live, Live & Dubious EP)
9. Help Save The Youth Of America (Live, Live & Dubious EP)
10. Think Again (Live, Live & Dubious EP)
11. Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (Live, Live & Dubious EP)
12. Days Like These (DC Remix, Live & Dubious EP)
13. To Have And To Have Not (Live, Live & Dubious EP)
14. There Is Power In A Union (With The Pattersons, Live & Dubious EP)
15. Joe Hill (Bonus Track)
16. This Land Is Your Land (Bonus Track)
17. Never Cross A Picket Line (Bonus Track)
18. A Change Is Gonna Come (Bonus Track)
19. A Miner's Life (Bonus Track)

[edit] Disc 8 (Bonus DVD - Here And There)

East Berlin DDR - February 1986 (Live Concert)

1. There Is Power In A Union
2. Between The Wars

Nicaragua - July 1987 (Live)

1. Nicaragua Nicaraguita

Lithuania USSR - May 1988 (Live Concert)

1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
2. To Have And To Have Not
3. The Milkman Of Human Kindness
4. Island Of No Return
5. Between The Wars
6. The World Turned Upside Down
7. Levi Stubbs' Tears
8. Help Save The Youth Of America
9. A New England
10. Wishing The Days Away
11. People Get Ready / Tupelo Honey
12. Star
13. A13, Trunk Road To The Sea

[edit] Disc: 9 (Boxed Set Bonus DVD, From The West Down To The East)

The South Bank Show, March 1985 (TV Special)

1. To Have And To Have Not
2. A13, Trunk Road To The Sea
3. Island Of No Return
4. A Lover Sings
5. A New England
6. Which Side Are You On?
7. Between The Wars

East Berlin DDR, August 1986 (Live Concert)

1. Lovers Town Revisited
2. Levi Stubbs' Tears
3. The World Turned Upside Down
4. It Says Here
5. Island Of No Return
6. Which Side Are You On?
7. Love Gets Dangerous
8. Richard
9. Train Train
10. A New England

[edit] References

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