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Don't Try This at Home (Billy Bragg album)

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Length
  
56:37

Artist
  
Billy Bragg

Producer
  
Grant Showbiz

Genres
  
Rock music, Folk rock

Don't Try This at Home (1991)
  
William Bloke (1996)

Release date
  
17 September 1991

Label
  
Elektra Records

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Released
  
17 September 1991 (1991-09-17)

Similar
  
Billy Bragg albums, Rock music albums

Don't Try This at Home is the sixth full-length album by urban folk artist Billy Bragg.

Contents

"Sexuality" was released as a single which reached #27 on the UK charts and #2 on the U.S. Modern Rock charts. Johnny Marr of The Smiths co-wrote "Sexuality" and helped to produce two tracks.

The song "Cindy of a Thousand Lives" is about photographer Cindy Sherman.

"Tank Park Salute" is about his father, Dennis Bragg, who died of lung cancer when Bragg was 18. He said that for a show in Barking, where he grew up, he was so moved by the presence of his mother and brother in the audience that he kept a copy of the lyrics in case he forgot them while performing.

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and Peter Buck contribute to "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood."

"Dolphins" is a cover of the Fred Neil song.

The song "God's Footballer" is about former professional football player Peter Knowles who spent his career at Wolverhampton Wanderers before voluntarily ending his football career to become a Jehovah's Witness.

Track listing

All tracks written by Billy Bragg except where noted.

  1. "Accident Waiting to Happen"
  2. "Moving the Goalposts"
  3. "Everywhere" (Greg Trooper, Sid Griffin)
  4. "Cindy of a Thousand Lives"
  5. "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood" (Bragg, Peter Buck)
  6. "Trust"
  7. "God's Footballer"
  8. "The Few"
  9. "Sexuality" (Bragg, Johnny Marr)
  10. "Mother of the Bride"
  11. "Tank Park Salute"
  12. "Dolphins" (Fred Neil)
  13. "North Sea Bubble"
  14. "Rumours of War"
  15. "Wish You Were Her"
  16. "Body of Water" (Bragg, Philip Wigg aka "Wiggy")

Along with a remastered album, a second bonus disc was released by Yep Roc Records (in the U.S.) and Cooking Vinyl (in the U.K.) in 2006. The new tracks include demos of songs on the album, as well as several other songs, including a cover of The Beatles' "Revolution". Natalie Merchant sings on two tracks.

Bonus disc track listing

  1. "Party of God" (Lead vocals by Natalie Merchant)
  2. "North Sea Bubble" (demo)
  3. "Sexuality" (demo)
  4. "Just One Victory" (Todd Rundgren)
  5. "Everywhere"
  6. "Trust"
  7. "Bread & Circuses" (Natalie Merchant)
  8. "Cindy of a Thousand Lives"
  9. "The Few"
  10. "Revolution" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
  11. "Tighten up your Wig"
  12. "MBH"
  13. "This Gulf Between Us"
  14. "Picadilly Rambler"

Personnel

  • Grant Showbiz – production
  • Johnny Marr – production
  • Danny Thompson - double bass
  • Peter Buck – mandolin
  • Jody Linscott – percussion
  • John Keane – pedal steel guitar, bass
  • Billy Bragg – vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards
  • Mary Ramsey – violin, viola
  • Dave Woodhead – flugelhorn
  • Steven Lewis - backing vocals
  • J.F.T. Hood – drums, percussion
  • Kirsty MacColl -- backing vocals
  • Cara Tivey – piano, background vocals on "Dolphins"
  • James Eller – bass
  • Wiggy – electric guitar, bass
  • Julia Palmer – cello
  • Amanda Vincent – keyboards
  • Andy Hobson - bass
  • Caroline Hall – trombone
  • Elliet Mackrell – violin
  • Lorraine Bowen – clarinet, background vocals on "Accident Waiting to Happen", "Trust", "God's Footballer", "Wish You Were Her"
  • Victoria Taylor Roberts – background vocals
  • Michael Stipe – background vocals on "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood"
    • Technical
  • John Keane, Owen Morris, Victor Van Vugt - engineer

    • Songs

    1Accident Waiting to Happen4:01
    2Moving the Goalposts2:34
    3Everywhere4:58

    References

    Don't Try This at Home (Billy Bragg album) Wikipedia
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