Fight Songs (Billy Bragg album)

Fight Songs

Compilation album by Billy Bragg

Released

October 19, 2011

Label

Bragg Central Ltd

Billy Bragg chronology

Pressure Drop
(2010)

Fight Songs
(2011)

Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions
(2012)

Fight Songs is a compilation of songs by Billy Bragg that had previously been released as free digital downloads. This album was released in October 2011.^[1]^[2] Most of the songs are political in nature, but a Christmas song, "We’re Following the Wrong Star", is also included.^[3]

Describing why he decided to release this album, Bragg said... "Since I started giving away music for free on the internet in 2002 with The Price of Oil, I’ve felt a little bit like I’ve been pissing in the wind, so to speak, that the ideas that I’ve been putting out there have not really been in keeping with what’s going on in the music industry. But the last couple of years, since the crash in 2008, I think the idea of polemical songs has become more and more relevant, so it now seems like a good time to collect these together and make them available for people who may only have tuned in a few years ago."^[4]

Track listing

Never Buy The Sun - 3:43
Last Flight To Abu Dhabi - 2:04
The Battle Of Barking - 2:18
The Wolf Covers Its Tracks - 4:23
The Big Lie - 2:03
Bush War Blues - 3:39
Constituition Hill - 2:29
Old Clash Fan Fight Song - 2:33
The Price Of Oil - 4:49 -
The Lonesome Death Of Rachel Corrie - 4:51
We're Following The Wrong Star - 4:09

References

↑ "Billy Bragg announces 'Fight Songs' compilation". NME. October 19, 2011. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
↑ Murray, Robin (October 19, 2011). "Billy Bragg Download Album". Clash (magazine). Retrieved April 15, 2013.
↑ Sandle, Tim (Dec 23, 2011). "Op-Ed: Fight Songs, a new Billy Bragg album for troubled times". Digital Journal. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
↑ Peters, Aaron (January 24, 2012). "Nothing to Bragg about". The Student Newspaper. Retrieved April 15, 2013.

External links

Fight Songs at Discogs
Fight Songs @ BillyBragg.com

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 Mermaid Avenue Vol. III (with Wilco) Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions Tooth & Nail

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 Fight Songs

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"

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