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Best Of Billy Bragg At The BBC 1983 - 2019

Billy Bragg

2019 · Rock, Pop

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Best Of Billy Bragg At The BBC 1983 - 2019 by Billy Bragg

Best Of Billy Bragg At The BBC 1983 - 2019 is a Rock album by Billy Bragg, originally released in 2019. On Gatefold: 4 pressings tracked.

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Tracklist

  1. 1A New England (John Peel Session, 27th July 1983)2:16
  2. 2Fear Is a Man's Best Friend (John Peel Session, 27th July 1983)2:38
  3. 3Love Gets Dangerous (John Peel Session, 27th July 1983)2:15
  4. 4Like Soldiers Do (David Jensen Session, 22nd December 1983)2:46
  5. 5The Man in the Iron Mask (David Jensen Session, 22nd December 1983)2:22
  6. 6The Saturday Boy (David Jensen Session, 22nd December 1983)3:18
  7. 7A Lover Sings (John Peel Session, 18th September 1984)4:06
  8. 8Between the Wars (John Peel Session, 18th September 1984)2:40
  9. 9A13, Trunk Road to the Sea (Saturday Live, 13th October 1984)2:13
  10. 10There Is Power in a Union (John Peel Session, 20th August 1985)2:21
  11. 11Days Like These (John Peel Session, 20th August 1985)1:53
  12. 12Scholarship Is the Enemy of Romance (Janice Long Session, 18th December 1985)1:55
  13. 13Greetings to the New Brunette (John Peel Session, 2nd September 1986)3:24
  14. 14Ideology (John Peel Session, 2nd September 1986)3:26
  15. 15The Warmest Room (John Peel Session, 2nd September 1986)3:07
  16. 16She's Got a New Spell (John Peel Session, 30th August 1988)2:41
  17. 17Valentine's Day Is Over (John Peel Session, 30th August 1988)4:25
  18. 18The Short Answer (John Peel Session, 30th August 1988)4:23
  19. 19Rotting on Remand (John Peel Session, 30th August 1988)3:18
  20. 20The Few (John Peel Session, 12th May 1991)3:59
  21. 21Accident Waiting to Happen (John Peel Session, 12th May 1991)4:00
  22. 22Tank Park Salute (John Peel Session, 12th May 1991)3:46
  23. 23Brickbat (John Peel Session, 13th October 1995)2:56
  24. 24This Gulf Between Us (John Peel Session, 13th October 1995)2:05
  25. 25Goal Hanger (John Peel Divas Bar Live, 1st May 1997)2:52
  26. 26The Boy Done Good (John Peel Divas Bar Live, 1st May 1997)2:46
  27. 27From Red to Blue (John Peel Divas Bar Live, 1st May 1997)3:07
  28. 28The Busy Girl Buys Beauty (Janice Long Paris Theatre London Live, October 1999)1:57
  29. 29It Says Here (Janice Long Paris Theatre London Live, October 1999)2:20
  30. 30Lonesome Traveller (John Peel Session, 8th December 2004)3:20
  31. 31Goodbye, Goodbye (Phill Jupitus Live, 30th March 2007)3:07
  32. 32Way over Yonder in the Minor Key (Bob Harris Live, 6th May 2012)3:15
  33. 33No-One Knows Nothing Anymore (Latitude Festival Live, 18th July 2014)3:53
  34. 34Levi Stubbs' Tears (Glastonbury Live, 26th June 2015)3:23
  35. 35Why We Build the Wall (Tom Robinson Live Buxton Opera House, 21st January 2017)3:40
  36. 36I Ain't Got No Home (Radio 2 Folk Awards Live, 5th April 2017)3:48
  37. 37The Space Race Is Over (Tom Robinson Now Playing 'Billy Bragg Takeover', 14th July 2019)4:07
  38. 38St. Swithin's Day (Tom Robinson Now Playing 'Billy Bragg Takeover', 14th July 2019)2:53

Sound DNA

  • Rock

Album notes

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Hype copy reads:
"Work in progress. That's how John Peel thought of his evening sessions, offering artists the opportunity to try out new songs in the studio environment. That's how I looked at them too. The confirmation of a Peel session date was a signal to get my ideas together, to define material that had hitherto been little more than words scribbled on a page or a tune thrashed out during a sound check.
That's why some of the tracks here have a different phrasing and arrangement to that which appeared on record. The songs were so new, you can hear I'm still feeling my way into them. Several were conceived and written the night before the session. In one case, I actually composed a song from scratch while the show was on air.
That rawness was always a key component of my BBC sessions, the thrill of putting something out there for the very first time. And here I've collected all the best moments across 36 years of my ongoing work in progress." Billy Bragg
(p) 2019 BBC Licensed courtesy of BBC Studios
(c) 2019 Billy Bragg under exclusive licence to Cooking Vinyl Limited.
1-3 John Peel Session - Maida Vale 4, 27th July 1983
4-6 David Jensen Session - Studio 4, 22nd December 1983
7-8 John Peel Session - Maida Vale 5, 18th September 1984
9 Saturday Live - Live Studio 2, 13th October 1984
10-11 John Peel Session - Maida Vale 5, 20th August 1985
12 Janice Long Live - Studio 2, 18th December 1985
13-15 John Peel Session - Maida Vale 5, 2nd September 1986
16-19 John Peel Session - Maida Vale 4, 30th August 1988
20-22 John Peel Session - Maida Vale 3, 12th May 1991
23-24 John Peel Session - 13th October 1995
25-27 John Peel Divas Bar Live - 1st May 1997
28-20 Janice Long Live - Paris Theatre, October 1999
30 John Peel Session - 8th December 2004
31 Phill Jupitus Live - 30th March 2007
32 Bob Harris Live - 6th May 2012
33 Latitude Festival Live - 18th July 2014
34 Glastonbury Festival Live - 26th June 2015
35 Tom Robinson Live - 21st January 2017
36 Radio 2 Folk Awards Live - 5th May 2017
37-38 Tom Robinson Now Playing "Billy Bragg Takeover" - 14th July 2019

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • C.J. HillmanPEDAL STEEL GUITAR STEEL GUITAR
  • Cara TiveyKEYBOARDS
  • Dave WoodheadTRUMPET
  • Frank TurnerGUITAR, BACKING VOCALS
  • WiggyGUITAR

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