Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983 – 2019

~ Release by Billy Bragg (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

1Digital Media
#TitleRatingLength
1A New England
live recording of:
A New England (on 1983-07-27)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
publisher:
BMG Music Publishing Ltd. and Chappell Music Ltd.
52:17
2Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend
live recording of:
Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend (on 1983-07-27)
lyricist and composer:
John Cale (The Velvet Underground founder)
live cover recording of:
Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend
lyricist and composer:
John Cale (The Velvet Underground founder)
recording of:
Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend
lyricist and composer:
John Cale (The Velvet Underground founder)
2:38
3Love Gets Dangerous
live recording of:
Love Gets Dangerous (on 1983-07-27)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
2:16
4Like Soldiers Do
live recording of:
Like Soldiers Do (on 1983-12-22)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
2:46
5The Man in the Iron Mask
live recording of:
The Man in the Iron Mask (on 1983-12-22)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
publisher:
Chappell Music Ltd.
2:23
6The Saturday Boy
live recording of:
The Saturday Boy (on 1983-12-22)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
3:18
7A Lover Sings
live recording of:
A Lover Sings (on 1984-09-18)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
4:06
8Between the Wars
live recording of:
Between the Wars (on 1984-09-18)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
2:40
9A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
recording of:
A13 (Trunk Road to the Sea) (from 1984-10-13 to present)
lyricist:
Billy Bragg
composer:
Bobby Troup
version of:
(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66
2:14
10There Is Power in a Union
live recording of:
There Is Power in a Union (with lyrics by Billy Bragg) (on 1985-08-20)
lyricist and arranger:
Billy Bragg
is based on:
Battle Cry of Freedom
2:22
11Days Like These
live recording of:
Days Like These (on 1985-08-20)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
1:54
12Scholarship Is the Enemy of Romance
live recording of:
Scholarship Is the Enemy of Romance (on 1985-12-18)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
1:56
13Greetings to the New Brunette
live recording of:
Greetings to the New Brunette (on 1986-09-02)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
3:24
14Ideology
live recording of:
Ideology (on 1986-09-02)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
3:27
15The Warmest Room
live recording of:
The Warmest Room (on 1986-09-02)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
3:08
16She’s Got a New Spell
live recording of:
She’s Got a New Spell (on 1988-08-30)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
2:42
17Valentine’s Day Is Over
live recording of:
Valentine's Day Is Over (on 1983-07-27)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
4:25
18The Short Answer
live recording of:
The Short Answer (on 1988-08-30)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
4:24
19Rotting on Remand
live recording of:
Rotting on Remand (on 1988-08-30)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
3:19
20The Few
live recording of:
The Few (on 1991-05-12)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
4:00
21Accident Waiting to Happen
live recording of:
Accident Waiting to Happen (on 1991-05-12)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
recording of:
Accident Waiting to Happen
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
4:01
22Tank Park Salute
live recording of:
Tank Park Salute (on 1991-05-12)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
3:47
23Brickbat
live recording of:
Brickbat (on 1995-10-13)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
2:57
24This Gulf Between Us
live recording of:
This Gulf Between Us (on 1995-10-13)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
2:05
25Goal Hanger
live recording of:
Goalhanger (on 1997-05-01)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
2:53
26The Boy Done Good
live recording of:
The Boy Done Good (on 1997-05-01)
lyricist:
Billy Bragg
composer:
Johnny Marr
2:46
27From Red to Blue
live recording of:
From Red to Blue (on 1997-05-01)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
3:07
28The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
live recording of:
The Busy Girl Buys Beauty (in 1999-10)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
publisher:
Chappell Music Ltd.
1:57
29It Says Here
live recording of:
It Says Here (in 1999-10)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
2:21
30Lonesome Traveller
live cover recording of:
Lonesome Traveler (“I’m (just) a Lonely and a Lonesome Traveller”) (on 2004-12-08)
lyricist and composer:
Lee Hays
publisher:
Essex Musikverlag and Folkways Music Publishers Inc.
live recording of:
Lonesome Traveler (“I’m (just) a Lonely and a Lonesome Traveller”) (on 2004-12-08)
lyricist and composer:
Lee Hays
publisher:
Essex Musikverlag and Folkways Music Publishers Inc.
3:20
31Goodbye, Goodbye
live recording of:
Goodbye, Goodbye (on 2007-03-30)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
3:08
32Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
live recording of:
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key (on 2012-05-06)
lyricist:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1946)
composer:
Billy Bragg (in 1997)
3:15
33No‐One Knows Nothing Anymore
live recording of:
No One Knows Nothing Anymore (on 2014-07-18)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
3:54
34Levi Stubbs’ Tears
live recording of:
Levi Stubbs’ Tears (on 2015-06-26)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
3:24
35Why We Build the Wall
recorded at:
Buxton Opera House in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom (on 2017-01-21)
live cover recording of:
Why We Build the Wall (on 2017-01-21)
lyricist and composer:
Anaïs Mitchell
publisher:
Treleven Music
part of:
Hadestown (2006 musical based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice)
live recording of:
Why We Build the Wall (on 2017-01-21)
lyricist and composer:
Anaïs Mitchell
publisher:
Treleven Music
part of:
Hadestown (2006 musical based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice)
3:41
36I Ain’t Got No Home
live cover recording of:
I Ain’t Got No Home (on 2017-04-05)
lyricist and composer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1938)
live recording of:
I Ain’t Got No Home (on 2017-04-05)
lyricist and composer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1938)
3:48
37The Space Race Is Over
live recording of:
The Space Race Is Over (on 2019-07-14)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
4:07
38St. Swithin’s Day
live recording of:
St Swithin’s Day (on 2019-07-14)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Bragg
publisher:
BMG Music Publishing Ltd.
2:53