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Billy Bragg The Roaring Forty | 1983-2023

Cooking Vinyl  ·  2023

Artist
Billy Bragg
Title
The Roaring Forty | 1983-2023
Label
Cooking Vinyl – COOKCD862X
Format
Box Set, Compilation, Limited Edition + 14× CD, Album, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
Country
Europe
Released
27 Oct 2023
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Tracklist
  • Part 1 : 1983-1984
  • Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy (July 1983)
  • 1-1 The Milkman Of Human Kindness
  • 1-2 To Have And Have Not
  • 1-3 Richard
  • 1-4 A New England
  • 1-5 The Man In The Iron Mask
  • 1-6 The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
  • 1-7 Lovers Town Revisited
  • Album Extras
  • 1-8 Strange Things Happen (Alternative Version)
  • 1-9 The Cloth 1
  • 1-10 Love Lives Here
  • 1-11 Speedway Hero
  • 1-12 Loving You Too Long
  • 1-13 The Man In The Iron Mask (Alternative Version)
  • 1-14 This Guitar Says Sorry (Alternative Version)
  • 1-15 Love Gets Dangerous (Alternative Version)
  • 1-16 The Cloth 2
  • 1-17 A13, Trunk Road To The Sea
  • 1-18 Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
  • John Peel Session (27 July 1983)
  • 1-19 A New England
  • 1-20 Strange Things Happen
  • 1-21 The Guitar Says Sorry
  • 1-22 Love Gets Dangerous
  • 1-23 Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
  • 1-24 A13, Trunk Road To The Sea
  • Live At The ICA, London (5 January 1984)
  • 1-25 The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
  • 1-26 The Man In The Iron Mask
  • 1-27 A New England
  • Part 2: 1984-1985
  • Brewing Up With ... (October 1984)
  • 2-1 It Says Here
  • 2-2 Love Gets Dangerous
  • 2-3 The Myth Of Trust
  • 2-4 From A Vauxhall Velox
  • 2-5 The Saturday Boy
  • 2-6 Island Of No Return
  • 2-7 St. Swithin's Day
  • 2-8 Like Soldiers Do
  • 2-9 This Guitar Says Sorry
  • 2-10 Strange Things Happen
  • 2-11 A Lover Sings
  • Album Extras
  • 2-12 It Must Be A River
  • 2-13 Won't Talk About It
  • 2-14 Talking Wag Club Blues
  • 2-15 You Got The Power
  • 2-16 The Last Time
  • 2-17 Back To The Old House
  • 2-18 A Lover Sings (Alternative Version)
  • Between The Wars E.P. (February 1985)
  • 2-19 Between The Wars
  • 2-20 Which Side Are You On?
  • 2-21 The World Turned Upside Down
  • 2-22 It Says Here (Different Version)
  • Days Like These E.P. (December 1985)
  • 2-23 Days Like These
  • 2-24 I Don't Need This Pressure Ron
  • 2-25 Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance
  • 2-26 Between The Wars (Live At Festival Des Politischen. Lides, Berlin GDR, February 1986)
  • Part 3: 1986-1988
  • Talking With The Taxman About Poetry (September 1986)
  • 3-1 Greetings To The New Brunette
  • 3-2 Train Train
  • 3-3 The Marriage
  • 3-4 Ideology
  • 3-5 Levi Stubbs' Tears
  • 3-6 Honey I'm A Big Boy Now
  • 3-7 There Is Power In A Union
  • 3-8 Help Save The Youth Of America
  • 3-9 Wishing The Days Away
  • 3-10 The Passion
  • 3-11 The Warmest Room
  • 3-12 The Home Front
  • Album Extras
  • 3-13 Shirley
  • 3-14 The Tracks Of My Tears
  • 3-15 Wishing The Days Away (Alternative Version)
  • 3-16 The Clashing Of Ideologies (Alternative Version)
  • 3-17 A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe
  • 3-18 Only Bad Signs
  • 3-19 Hold The Fort
  • From 'Levi Stubbs' Tears' (June 1986)
  • 3-20 Think Again
  • 3-21 Walk Away Renee
  • From 'Greetings To The New Brunette' (November 1986)
  • 3-22 The Tatler
  • 3-23 Deportees
  • 3-24 Jeane
  • 3-25 Sin City
  • Part 4: 1988 - 1989
  • Workers Playtime (September 1988)
  • 4-1 She's Got A New Spell
  • 4-2 Must I Paint You A Picture
  • 4-3 Tender Comrade
  • 4-4 The Price I Pay
  • 4-5 Little Time Bomb
  • 4-6 Rotting On Remand
  • 4-7 Valentine's Day Is Over
  • 4-8 Life With The Lions
  • 4-9 The Only One
  • 4-10 The Short Answer
  • 4-11 Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
  • Album Extras
  • 4-12 The Price I Pay (Demo)
  • 4-13 Love Has No Pride
  • 4-14 That's Entertainment
  • 4-15 She's Got A New Spell (Demo)
  • 4-16 Little Time Bomb (Demo)
  • 4-17 Bad Penny (Demo)
  • 4-18 Reason To Believe (Live At Club Soda, Montreal, November 1988)
  • 4-19 Raglan Road (Live At Womad Festival Toronto, August 1989)
  • 4-20 She's Leaving Home (Single, March 1988)
  • 4-21 Wishing The Days Away (Ballad Version) (from 'Waiting For The Great Leap Forward', August 1988)
  • 4-22 Won't Talk About It (Single, June 1989)
  • Part 5: 1990 - 1991
  • The Internationale (May 1990)
  • 5-1 The Internationale
  • 5-2 I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
  • 5-3 The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions
  • 5-4 Blake's Jerusalem
  • 5-5 Nicaragua Nicarauguita
  • 5-6 The Red Flag
  • 5-7 My Youngest Son Came Home Today
  • Album Extras
  • 5-8 Joe Hill
  • 5-9 This Land Is Your Land
  • 5-10 Never Cross A Picket Line
  • 5-11 A Change Is Gonna Come
  • 5-12 A Miner's Life
  • Help Save The Youth Of America: Live And Dubious E.P (April 1988)
  • 5-13 Introduction
  • 5-14 Help Save The Youth Of America (Live)
  • 5-15 Think Again (Live)
  • 5-16 Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (Live)
  • 5-17 Days Like These (DC Remix)
  • 5-18 To Have And To Have Not (Live)
  • 5-19 There Is Power In A Union
  • Billy Bragg Live (Canada 1991)
  • 5-20 Levi Stubbs' Tears (Live)
  • 5-21 Ideology (Live)
  • 5-22 The Short Answer (Live)
  • 5-23 Seven & Seven Is (from 'Rubáiyát (Elektra's 40th Anniversary), March 1990)
  • Part 6: 1991 - 1992
  • Don't Try This At Home (September 1991)
  • 6-1 Accident Waiting To Happen
  • 6-2 Moving The Goalposts
  • 6-3 Everywhere
  • 6-4 Cindy Of A Thousand Lives
  • 6-5 You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
  • 6-6 Trust
  • 6-7 God's Footballer
  • 6-8 The Few
  • 6-9 Sexuality
  • 6-10 Mother Of The Bride
  • 6-11 Tank Park Salute
  • 6-12 Dolphins
  • 6-13 North Sea Bubble
  • 6-14 Rumours Of War
  • 6-15 Wish You Were Her
  • 6-16 Body Of Water
  • 6-17 Bad Penny (from 'Sexuality', June 1991)
  • From 'You Woke Up My Neighbourhood' (September 1991)
  • 6-18 Ontario, Quebec And Me
  • 6-19 Bread And Circuses
  • 6-20 Heart Like A Wheel
  • From 'Accident Waiting To Happen' (February 1992)
  • 6-21 Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star Version)
  • 6-22 Sulk
  • 6-23 Revolution
  • Part 7: 1996 - 1997
  • William Bloke (September 1996)
  • 7-1 From Red To Blue
  • 7-2 Upfield
  • 7-3 Everybody Loves You Babe
  • 7-4 Sugardaddy
  • 7-5 A Pict Song
  • 7-6 Brickbat
  • 7-7 The Space Race Is Over
  • 7-8 Northern Industrial Town
  • 7-9 The Fourteenth Of February
  • 7-10 King James Version
  • 7-11 Goalhanger
  • Album Extras
  • From 'The Boy Done Good' (May 1997)
  • 7-12 The Boy Done Good (Extended Edit)
  • 7-13 Run Out Of Reasons
  • 7-14 Just One Victory
  • From 'Bloke On Bloke' (June 1997)
  • 7-15 The Boy Done Good
  • 7-16 Qualifications
  • 7-17 Sugardaddy (Smokey Gets In Your Ears Mix)
  • 7-18 Never Had No One Ever
  • 7-19 Rule Nor Reason
  • 7-20 Thatcherites
  • 7-21 Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (Demo)
  • Part 8: 1998 - 2012
  • From 'Mermaid Avenue' (June 1998)
  • 8-1 Walt Whitman's Niece
  • 8-2 Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
  • 8-3 Birds And Ships
  • 8-4 She Came Along To Me
  • 8-5 Ingrid Bergman
  • 8-6 I Guess I Planted
  • 8-7 Eisler On The Go
  • 8-8 The Unwelcome Guest
  • From 'Mermaid Avenue Volume 2' (November 1999)
  • 8-9 My Flying Saucer
  • 8-10 Hot Rod Hotel
  • 8-11 Stetson Kennedy
  • 8-12 All You Fascists
  • 8-13 Meanest Man
  • 8-14 Black Wind Blowing
  • From 'Mermaid Avenue Volume 3' (June 2012)
  • 8-15 Bugeye Jim
  • 8-16 My Thirty Thousand
  • 8-17 Ought To Be Satisfied Now
  • 8-18 Go Down To The Water
  • 8-19 Jailcell Blues
  • 8-20 Don't You Marry
  • 8-21 Give Me A Nail
  • 8-22 Union Prayer
  • 8-23 Be Kind To The Boy On The Road
  • 8-24 I'm Out To Get
  • Part 9: 1998 - 2002
  • England, Half English (March 2002)
  • 9-1 St. Monday
  • 9-2 Jane Allen
  • 9-3 Distant Shore
  • 9-4 England, Half English
  • 9-5 NPWA
  • 9-6 Some Days I See The Point
  • 9-7 Baby Faroukh
  • 9-8 Take Down The Union Jack
  • 9-9 Another Kind Of Judy
  • 9-10 He'll Go Down
  • 9-11 Dreadbelly
  • 9-12 The Tears Of My Tracks
  • From 'Take Down The Union Jack' (May 2002)
  • 9-13 Mystery Shoes
  • 9-14 England, Half English (7" Remix)
  • 9-15 Take Down The Union Jack (Band Version)
  • 9-16 Yarra Song
  • 9-17 You Pulled The Carpet Out
  • From 'The Mermaid Avenue Tour: You Can Call Me Cupcake' (January 1999)
  • 9-18 Christ For President (Live In The Studio October / November 1999)
  • 9-19 California Stars (Live In The Studio October / November 1999)
  • 9-20 Hoodoo Ska Voodoo (Live In The Studio October / November 1999)
  • 9-21 My Father's Mansion (From 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone: The Songs Of Pete Seeger', March 1998)
  • 9-22 England Half English Meets John Barleycorn (From 'The Imagined Village' E.P., (September 2007)
  • Part 10: 2006 - 2010
  • Mr. Love & Justice (March 2008)
  • 10-1 I Keep Faith
  • 10-2 I Almost Killed You
  • 10-3 M For Me
  • 10-4 The Beach Is Free
  • 10-5 Sing Their Souls Back Home
  • 10-6 You Make Me Brave
  • 10-7 Something Happened
  • 10-8 Mr. Love & Justice
  • 10-9 If You Ever Leave
  • 10-10 O Freedom
  • 10-11 The Johnny Carcinogenic Show
  • 10-12 Farm Boy
  • 10-13 Ash Wednesday (Band Version)
  • 10-14 Like Soldiers Do (Acoustic Version) (From 'I Keep Faith' 7-inch Single, March 2008)
  • 10-15 The Price Of Oil
  • 10-16 Down In The Willow Garden (From 'The Progressive Patriot: Complimentary Music', November 2006)
  • 10-17 Old Clash Fan Fight Song (From 'Johnny Clash' Single, August 2007)
  • 10-18 The Big Lie
  • From 'Six Songs From Pressure Drop' (April 2010)
  • 10-19 Home
  • 10-20 Same Again
  • 10-21 There Will Be A Reckoning (Pressure Drop Version)
  • 10-22 All You Fascists 2010
  • 10-23 Tomorrow's Going To Be A Better Day (Pressure Drop Version)
  • 10-24 The Battle Of Barking
  • 10-25 A New England (From 'A Concert For Kirsty Maccoll', Shepherds Bush Empire 10/10/2010)
  • Part 11: 2011 - 2015
  • Tooth & Nail (March 2013)
  • 11-1 January Song
  • 11-2 No One Knows Nothing Anymore
  • 11-3 Handyman Blues
  • 11-4 I Ain't Got No Home
  • 11-5 Swallow My Pride
  • 11-6 Do Unto Others
  • 11-7 Over You
  • 11-8 Goodbye, Goodbye
  • 11-9 There Will Be A Reckoning
  • 11-10 Chasing Rainbows
  • 11-11 Your Name On My Tongue
  • 11-12 Tomorrow's Going To Be A Better Day
  • From 'Fight Songs: A Decade Of Downloads' (November 2011)
  • 11-13 We're Following The Wrong Star
  • 11-14 Never Buy The Sun
  • 11-15 Last Flight To Abu Dhabi
  • 11-16 Constituition Hill
  • 11-17 Lay Down Your Weary Tune (From 'Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan', February 2012)
  • 11-18 Song Of The Iceberg (From 'No One Knows Nothing Anymore' 7-inch Single, April 2013)
  • 11-19 There Is Power In A Union (Recorded For The Film Pride, September 2014)
  • 11-20 Hope St. (Single, 2014)
  • 11-21 Kilroy Was Here (From 'Joy Of Living: A Tribute To Ewan MacColl' October 2015)
  • 11-22 Sunday Morning (from RockWiz Sunday Morning September 2015)
  • Part 12: 2016 - 2017
  • Shine A Light: Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad (September 2016)
  • 12-1 Rock Island Line
  • 12-2 The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore
  • 12-3 The Midnight Special
  • 12-4 Railroad Bill
  • 12-5 Lonesome Whistle
  • 12-6 KC Moan
  • 12-7 Waiting For A Train
  • 12-8 In The Pines
  • 12-9 Gentle On My Mind
  • 12-10 Hobo's Lullaby
  • 12-11 Railroading On The Great Divide
  • 12-12 John Henry
  • 12-13 Early Morning Rain
  • Live At Buxton Opera House 21/01/2017
  • 12-14 Why We Build The Wall (Live)
  • 12-15 The Midnight Special (Live)
  • 12-16 The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore (Live)
  • Bridges Not Walls (November 2017)
  • 12-17 The Sleep Of Reason
  • 12-18 King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood
  • 12-19 Why We Build The Wall
  • 12-20 Saffiyah Smiles
  • 12-21 Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
  • 12-22 Full English Brexit
  • Part 13: 2021
  • The Million Things That Never Happened (October 2021)
  • 13-1 Should Have Seen It Coming
  • 13-2 Mid-Century Modern
  • 13-3 Lonesome Ocean
  • 13-4 Good Days And Bad Days
  • 13-5 Freedom Doesn't Come For Free
  • 13-6 Reflections On The Mirth Of Creativity
  • 13-7 The Million Things That Never Happened
  • 13-8 The Buck Doesn't Stop Here No More
  • 13-9 I Believe In You
  • 13-10 Pass It On
  • 13-11 I Will Be Your Shield
  • 13-12 Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained
  • Lockdown Live: The Million Things Streamed Launch (September 2021)
  • 13-13 Sulk (Live)
  • 13-14 Moving The Goalposts (Live)
  • 13-15 Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained (Live)
  • 13-16 The Million Things That Never Happened (Live)
  • 13-17 King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood (Live)
  • 13-18 Mid-Century Modern (Live)
  • 13-19 Cindy Of A Thousand Lives (Live)
  • 13-20 Lonesome Ocean (Live)
  • Part 14: 1987 - 2015
  • Rare And Previously Unreleased Recordings
  • 14-1 Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) (Live In Australia 1985)
  • 14-2 The Internationale
  • 14-3 Salt Of The Earth
  • 14-4 My Youngest Son Came Home Today
  • 14-5 PF Sloan
  • 14-6 Darling, Let's Have Another Baby
  • 14-7 If I Had A Hammer
  • 14-8 Slipknot
  • 14-9 Marching Out From Selma
  • 14-10 When The Ship Comes In (Live At The Barbican, September 2005)
  • Live At AIR Studio, London (24 February 2008)
  • 14-11 Don't Do It Liza
  • 14-12 The Drugs Don't Work
  • 14-13 I Ain't Got No Home
  • 14-14 On A Good Day
  • 14-15 Talkin' World War III Blues
  • From The Film 'Death Or Liberty' (2011)
  • 14-16 The Rebels Of '48
  • 14-17 An English Revolutionary
  • 14-18 Ballots And Bread
  • 14-19 Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
  • 14-20 If We Make It Through December
  • 14-21 Springhill
  • 14-22 Can't Be There Today

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