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Volume 1 (7 CD + 2 DVD) |  | Artist: Billy Bragg
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 30827
Format: Box set, Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 9
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 711297320152
EAN: 0711297320152
ASIN: B000BRP78C
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Milkman Of Human Kindness | | • | To Have And To Have Not | | • | Richard | | • | New England | | • | Man In The Iron Mask | | • | Busy Girl Buys Beauty | | • | Lovers Town Revisited |
Disc 2
| • | Strange Things Happen | | • | Cloth | | • | Love Lives Here | | • | Speedway Hero | | • | Loving You Too Long | | • | This Guitar Says Sorry | | • | Love Gets Dangerous | | • | Cloth | | • | Man In The Iron Mask | | • | A13 Trunk Road To The Sea | | • | Fear Is A Man's Best Friend |
Disc 3
| • | It Says Here | | • | Love Gets Dangerous | | • | Myth Of Trust | | • | From A Vauxhall Velox | | • | Saturday Boy | | • | Island Of No Return | | • | St. Swithin's Day | | • | Like Soldiers Do | | • | This Guitar Says Sorry | | • | Strange Things Happen | | • | Lover Sings |
Disc 4
| • | It Must Be A River | | • | Won't Talk About It | | • | Talking Wag Club Blues | | • | You Got The Power | | • | Last Time | | • | Back To The Old House | | • | Lover Sings | | • | Which Side Are You On | | • | It Says Here | | • | Between The Wars | | • | World Turned Upside Down |
Disc 5
| • | Greetings To The New Brunette | | • | Train Train | | • | Marriage, The | | • | Ideology | | • | Levi Stubbs' Tears | | • | Honey I'm A Big Boy Now | | • | There Is Power In A Union | | • | Help Save The Youth Of America | | • | Wishing The Days Away | | • | Passion, The | | • | Warmest Room, The | | • | Home Front, The |
Disc 6
| • | Sin City | | • | Deportees | | • | There Is Power In A Union | | • | Tracks Of My Tears | | • | Wishing The Days Away | | • | Clashing Of Ideologies | | • | Greetings To The New Brunette | | • | Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe | | • | Only Bad Signs | | • | Hold The Fort |
Disc 7
| • | Internationale | | • | I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night | | • | Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions | | • | Blake's Jerusalem | | • | Nicaragua Nicaraguita | | • | Red Flag | | • | My Youngest Son Came Home Today | | • | Intro | | • | Help Save The Youth Of America | | • | Think Again | | • | Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto | | • | Days Like These | | • | To Have And To Have Not | | • | There Is Power In A Union - Bragg, Billy The Pattersons | | • | Joe Hill | | • | This Land Is Your Land | | • | Never Cross A Picket Line | | • | Change Is Gonna Come | | • | Miner's Life |
Disc 8
| • | There Is Power In A Union (1) | | • | Between The Wars (1) | | • | Nicaragua Nicaraguita (1) | | • | I Heard It Through The Grapevine | | • | To Have And To Have Not (1) | | • | Milkman Of Human Kindness (1) | | • | Island Of No Return (1) | | • | Between The Wars (2) | | • | World Turned Upside Down (1) | | • | Levi Stubbs Tears (1) | | • | Help Save The Youth Of America (1) | | • | New England (1) | | • | Wishing The Days Away (1) | | • | People Get Ready/Tupelo Honey | | • | Star | | • | A13 Trunk Road To The Sea (1) |
Disc 9
| • | To Have And To Have Not | | • | A13 Trunk Road To The Sea | | • | Island Of No Return | | • | Lover Sings | | • | New England | | • | Which Side Are You On | | • | Between The Wars | | • | Lovers Town Revisited | | • | Levi Stubbs Tears | | • | World Turned Upside Down | | • | It Says Here | | • | Island Of No Return | | • | Which Side Are You On | | • | Love Gets Dangerous | | • | Richard | | • | Train Train | | • | New England |
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Keeping the Bragg flag flying! March 15, 2006
PHJ
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
In an era of political (and social) apathy, where the skinny-trousered new princes of pop, like the Duran#x27;s and Spandau#x27;s at the time when Billy first got going, are really only in it for the fame and fortune, it#x27;s good to be reminded of the harsh yet melodic #x27;pop protest#x27; that could be heard during the grey #x27;n#x27; gritty days of the 1980s. Thus, with this about-time lavish repackaging of Bragg#x27;s earlier offerings we are now able to reappraise his music whilst simultaneously revisiting an 80s that was bookended by the Falklands War and the fall of the Wall. He#x27;s been described, rather famously (and in a rather shallow manner), as #x27;a one-man Clash#x27;, but - it has to be remembered - that there are, indeed, "two sides to every story" (to quote the Bard from Barking himself). Thus, quite often on the same slab of vinyl, we have the two voices of Bragg: the angry young social commentator alongside the patriotic Romantic. Take, for instance, the clanging political wake up call that is #x27;Ideology#x27; and the forlornly beautiful - at once both despairing and inspiring - #x27;The Home Front#x27;; and that#x27;s just the musical polar opposites to be found on #x27;Talking With The Taxman About Poetry#x27; alone! As for his cover of #x27;The World Turned Upside Down#x27; (from the #x27;Between The Wars#x27; EP, also included here - Bragg#x27;s version, of course, owing more to Dick Gaughan#x27;s own rendition rather than Leon Rosselson#x27;s original), well, it#x27;s enough to make you put on your old CND pin badge, join a picket line and go on a march against New Labour! Let#x27;s here it for our very own Blakean William Bloke then. Up the workers!!!
Never more relevant - just as poignant March 30, 2006
mikewooldridge (liverpool, uk)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
It's hard now to remember what it felt like to live in the Thatcher-Reaganbrera, when everyone expected nuclear war any day, and when a miner'sbrstrike divided the UK in a way that no other issue has since. Billy was a voice ofbrpassion and reason then, and given the currently scary direction the worldbrseems to be heading, his songs about war and injustice seem terribly relevantbragain. Between the wars still tells us as clearly as ever what the differencebris between what people want and what their leaders do in their name. But as wellbras the passionate political songs, Billy was always about talking about emotionsbropenly, and The Saturday Boy and St Swithins Day are both classics ofbryouth and the torment of young relationships (when I heard The StreetsbrDry Your Eyes, it made me think of these songs immediately). There is real wit brand charm to Billy's songs - I defy anybody to listen to Sexuality without smiling. brI bought these albums on vinyl for 3 pounds 99p when they appeared in the 1980s, brand I was really grateful to Billy for releasing them at such a low price. I'm very brhappy to buy the complete set on CD for what still seems like an incredible bargain brprice.
So good I#x27;ve bought it three times!! March 22, 2006
James B. Spink (Kent, UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A must for any Billy Bragg fan! I#x27;ve bought this material on the original vinyl, then on CD and now, for a third time, on this superb box set! The sound quality and bonus material make this well worth the very reasonable asking price, and it makes a fine collection and tribute to a great body of work. A note to the reviewer from Wales who missed the track "scholarship is the enemy of romance" - the track can be found on the earlier collection "Reaching to the Converted", which is readily available from Amazon!
A Game of Two Halves March 22, 2008
Ian Wood, Author of 'Here's 2 Absent Fathers'
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This box set gathers together the first three albums `Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy', `Brewing up with Billy Bragg' and `Talking with the Taxman about Poetry' and also the fifth `The Internationale'. `The Internationale' has been swapped with the fourth album `Workers Playtime' as this fits more with the `Pop' styling's on Volume II rather than the urgent urban folk collected here.
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br /As well as the four classic albums and the obligatory bonus disks of demo's, b-sides and outtakes it also includes the unique DVD `From the West Down to the East'. This is a DVD of two halves the first of which is from `The South Band Show' ITV's flagship arts programme from 1985. It is quite unusual for an artist to be profiled by `The South Bank Show' so early in their career but Billy Bragg has had a career less ordinary. His involvement with the labour party and the miners strike is showcased here as well as his own past and that of Barking for which the geography of Bragg's take on `Route 66', the fantastic `A13', is examined.
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br /The second part of the DVD is a concert recorded in the then communist East Berlin showing how one man and a guitar can connect across all divides. There are no victims of geography on show here. Although this is quite a lively set it pales compared to the DVD contained with `The International' which by virtue of some accompaniment makes it better to suited to watching in a living room as does a set list that includes Bowie's `Star', Van Morrison's `Tupelo Honey', Curtis Mayfield's `People Get Ready' and the Motown classic `Heard it through the Grapevine'. Help Save the Youth of the East and the West.
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Pay No More Than....... March 10, 2006
M. J. Williams
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
What can you say? The only disappointment for me is that "Scholarship is the Enemy of Romance" from the b-side of "Days Like These" is missing but then I#x27;m being picky #x27;cos I love that song. Bragg is a one-off. He always gave value for money with the "Pay No More Than..." notices on his albums and this compilation is truly V.F.M. The three albums and one E.P. are each beautifully repackaged with extra tracks along with two DVDs and a very nice song book. As a taff he#x27;s the one Englishman I can take English patriotism from #x27;cos I know his is a working-clas socialism based patriotism that cuts across nationalism. Can#x27;t wait for Volume 2 Bill but put "Scholarship..." on it!
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