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Back to Basics (Billy Bragg album)

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Released
  
7 July 1987

Length
  
57:53

Release date
  
7 July 1987

Recorded
  
1983-1985

Artist
  
Billy Bragg

Label
  
Elektra Records

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Back to Basics (1987)
  
Workers Playtime (1988)

Genres
  
Folk music, Folk punk, Indie rock

Similar
  
Brewing Up with Billy Bragg, Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy, Don't Try This at Home, Workers Playtime, Talking with the Taxman

Billy bragg which side are you on


Back to Basics is a 1987 collection of Billy Bragg's first three releases: The albums Life's A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy and Brewing Up with Billy Bragg and the EP Between The Wars. This collection did not contain any new material, but did document Billy Bragg's early "one man and his guitar" approach. The songs collected on this release demonstrate major recurrent themes in Bragg's work: highly critical commentary on Thatcherite Britain, laced with poetic love songs. The collection was re-released in November 1993 on the Cooking Vinyl label.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Milkman of Human Kindness" (Life's a Riot)
  2. "To Have and To Have Not" (Life's a Riot)
  3. "Richard" (Life's a Riot)
  4. "Lovers Town Revisited" (Life's a Riot)
  5. "A New England" (Life's a Riot)
  6. "The Man in the Iron Mask" (Life's a Riot)
  7. "The Busy Girl Buys Beauty" (Life's a Riot)
  8. "It Says Here" (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg)
  9. "Love Gets Dangerous" (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg)
  10. "The Myth of Trust" (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg)
  11. "From a Vauxhall Velox" (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg)
  12. "The Saturday Boy" (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg)
  13. "Island of No Return" (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg)
  14. "St Swithin's Day" (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg)
  15. "Like Soldiers Do" (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg)
  16. "This Guitar Says Sorry" (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg)
  17. "Strange Things Happen" (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg)
  18. "A Lover Sings" (Brewing Up With Billy Bragg)
  19. "Between the Wars" (Between The Wars)
  20. "World Turned Upside Down" (Between The Wars)
  21. "Which Side Are You On?" (Between The Wars)

Songs

1The Milkman of Human Kindness2:49
2To Have and to Have Not2:33
3Richard2:50

References

Back to Basics (Billy Bragg album) Wikipedia
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