Workers Playtime (album)

Workers Playtime
Studio album by Billy Bragg
Released	September 20, 1988
Recorded	Pavilion Studios, London
Genre	Folk
Length	42:22
Label	Go! Discs
Producer	Joe Boyd, Wiggy
Billy Bragg chronology
Talking with the Taxman about Poetry (1986) Workers Playtime (1988) The Internationale (1990)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Robert Christgau	B[1]
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Workers Playtime is a 1988 album by Billy Bragg. Originally released on the Go! Discs label, it is his fourth release but third full length album. It was reissued on compact disc in September 1996 on the Cooking Vinyl label before being remastered, expanded and reissued in 2006 on the Cooking Vinyl label in the UK and on the Yep Roc label in the United States.

The album reached number 18 in the UK albums chart.^[2]

The original album cover has the subtitle "Capitalism Is Killing Music".^[3]

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc one 1.2 Disc two (2006 reissue) 2 Personnel 2.1 Musicians 2.2 Production 3 References

Track listing

All tracks written by Billy Bragg except where noted.

Disc one

1. "She's Got a New Spell" – 3:26
2. "Must I Paint You a Picture?" (Extended Version 7:08 Minutes) – 5:32
3. "Tender Comrade" – 2:50
4. "The Price I Pay" – 3:34
5. "Little Time Bomb" – 2:17
6. "Rotting on Remand" – 3:37
7. "Valentine's Day is Over" – 4:53
8. "Life With the Lions" – 3:06
9. "The Only One" – 3:26
10. "The Short Answer" – 4:59
11. "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" – 4:35

Disc two (2006 reissue)

1. "The Only One" (demo version) – 3:36
2. "The Price I Pay" (demo version) – 4:01
3. "Love Has No Pride" (Eric Kaz, Libby Titus) – 3:35
4. "That's Entertainment" (Paul Weller) – 3:53
5. "She's Got a New Spell" (demo version) – 2:44
6. "The Short Answer" (demo version) – 5:21
7. "Little Time Bomb" (demo version) – 2:21
8. "Bad Penny" (demo version) – 3:05
9. "Reason to Believe" (live) (Tim Hardin) – 2:12
10. "Must I Paint You a Picture?" (extended version) – 7:13
11. "Raglan Road" (live) (Patrick Kavanagh, traditional) – 3:46

Personnel

Musicians

• Billy Bragg – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, triangle
• Danny Thompson – double bass
• Cara Tivey – piano, vocals, Hammond C-3 organ
• Micky Waller – drums
• Wiggy – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals
• Tony Maronie – percussion
• Bruce Thomas – bass guitar
• Dave Woodhead – trumpets, flugelhorn
• B.J. Cole – pedal steel guitar
• Martin Belmont – electric guitar
• Barb Jungr – harmonica
• Julia Palmer – cello
• Camilla Brunt – violin
• Kenny Jones – 6 and 12 string acoustic guitar
• Theresa Pamplin – viola
• Donna Welchman – violin
• Porky – backing vocals
• Jayne Creamer – backing vocals
• Kaya Jenner – backing vocals
• Michelle Shocked – backing vocals

Production

• Joe Boyd – producer
• Wiggy – producer
• Martin Hayles – engineer
• Graham Dear – assistant engineer
• Lawrence Watson – photography
• Liu Chih-Kuei – artwork
• Thumbnail – design

References

Information from the Official Billy Bragg website discography ^[4] and the 2006 reissue CD liner notes ^[5] unless otherwise noted.

1. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Billy Bragg". Robert Christgau. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=142. 
2. ^ British Hit Singles & Albums (19th edition ed.). 2006. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 
3. ^ "Workers Playtime", Billy Bragg, Electra 9 60824-2 (1988) CD
4. ^ http://www.billybragg.co.uk/releases/albums/index.html
5. ^ "Workers Playtime", Billy Bragg, Yep records YEP2606 (2006) CD

Billy Bragg Studio albums Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy · Brewing Up with Billy Bragg · Talking with the Taxman about Poetry · Workers Playtime · The Internationale · Don't Try This at Home · William Bloke · Mermaid Avenue (with Wilco)  · Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (with Wilco)  · England, Half-English · Mr Love & Justice Compilations, and boxsets Back to Basics · The Peel Sessions Album · Victim of Geography · Life's a Riot Between the Wars · Bloke on Bloke · Reaching to the Converted · Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg · Volume 1 · Volume 2 Singles and EPs "Between the Wars EP" · "Days Like These" · "Levi Stubbs' Tears" · "Greetings to the New Brunette" · "She's Leaving Home" · "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" · "She's Got a New Spell" · "Won't Talk About It" · "Sexuality" · "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood" · "Accident Waiting to Happen EP" · "Upfield" · "The Boy Done Good" / "Sugardaddy" · "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key" (with Wilco)  · "She Came Along to Me EP" (with Wilco)  · "England Half English" / "St Monday" (with The Blokes)  · "Take Down the Union Jack" (with The Blokes)  · "We Laughed" (Rosetta Life feat. Billy Bragg)  · "I Keep Faith" · "The Beach Is Free" / "I Almost Killed You" · "Never Buy The Sun" Live albums "Help Save the Youth of America" · "No Pop, No Style, Strictly Roots" · "Mermaid Avenue Tour" · "Going to a Party Way Down South" · "Live at the Barbican" Related articles Wilco · Discography · Red Wedge · "A New England"