Released October 28, 2003 Length 2:47:22 Artist Billy Bragg Label Cooking Vinyl | Recorded 1983-2001 Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg
(2003) Volume 1
(2006) Release date 28 October 2003 Genres Rock music, Rock and roll | |
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Producers Grant Showbiz, Edward de Bono, John Porter, Kenney Jones Similar Talking with the Taxman, Reaching to the Converted, William Bloke, Workers Playtime, Don't Try This at Home |
Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg, is a three CD collection of Billy Bragg's greatest hits and b-sides, released on October 28, 2003. It consists of a double album and a disc of ten extras. Subscribers to Billy's website voted on their favourite tracks and these votes were used to compile the CD collection.
Contents
Disc one
- "A New England"
- "Man in the Iron Mask"
- "Milkman of Human Kindness"
- "To Have and to Have Not"
- "A Lover Sings"
- "St. Swithin's Day"
- "Saturday Boy"
- "Between the Wars"
- "World Turned Upside Down"
- "Levi Stubbs' Tears"
- "Walk Away Renee"
- "Greetings to the New Brunette"
- "There is Power in a Union"
- "Help Save the Youth of America"
- "Warmest Room"
- "Must I Paint You a Picture?"
- "She's Got a New Spell"
- "Price I Pay"
- "Valentine's Day is Over"
- "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards"
Disc two
- "Sexuality"
- "Cindy of a Thousand Lives"
- "Moving the Goalposts"
- "Tank Park Salute"
- "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood"
- "Accident Waiting to Happen" (Red Stars Version)
- "Sulk"
- "Upfield"
- "The Fourteenth of February"
- "Brickbat"
- "The Space Race is Over"
- "Boy Done Good"
- "Ingrid Bergman"
- "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key"
- "My Flying Saucer"
- "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" (Blokes version)
- "NPWA (No Power Without Accountability)"
- "St. Monday"
- "Some Days I See the Point"
- "Take Down the Union Jack" (Band version)
Disc three
- "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea"
- "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend"
- "Cold and Bitter Tears" (Live)
- "Seven and Seven Is"
- "When Will I See You Again?"
- "Rule nor Reason" (Live)
- "Debris" (Live)
- "Dry Bed" (Demo version)
- "She Smiled Sweetly"
- "Take Down the Union Jack" (King Normal & The Rug remix)
Songs
1A New England2:15
2The Man in the Iron Mask2:07
3The Milkman of Human Kindness2:56
References
Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA