Billy Bragg - The Roaring Forty | 1983-2023 (Limited Edition Super Deluxe Box Set) [CD]

Celebrate four decades of Billy Braggs influential career with The Roaring Forty 1983-2023 (Super Deluxe Edition) [CD]. This collection captures the essence of Braggs unique blend of folk punk and protest music. Featuring collaborations with artists like Wilco and contributions from legendary producers this anthology selects tracks that showcase Braggs poignant lyrics and enduring impact on the music scene. From his early anthems to recent works this compilation is a testament to Braggs unwavering voice in social and political commentary. A must-have for fans and newcomers alike this edition honours a true icon of British music.

Part 1 : 1983-1984 Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy (July 1983) The Milkman Of Human Kindness To Have And Have Not Richard A New England The Man In The Iron Mask The Busy Girl Buys Beauty Lovers Town Revisited Album Extras Strange Things Happen (Alternative Version) The Cloth 1 Love Lives Here Speedway Hero Loving You Too Long The Man In The Iron Mask (Alternative Version) This Guitar Says Sorry (Alternative Version) Love Gets Dangerous (Alternative Version) The Cloth 2 A13, Trunk Road To The Sea Fear Is A Man's Best Friend John Peel Session (27 July 1983) A New England Strange Things Happen The Guitar Says Sorry Love Gets Dangerous Fear Is A Man's Best Friend A13, Trunk Road To The Sea Live At The ICA, London (5 January 1984) The Busy Girl Buys Beauty The Man In The Iron Mask A New England Part 2: 1984-1985 Brewing Up With ... (October 1984) It Says Here Love Gets Dangerous The Myth Of Trust From A Vauxhall Velox The Saturday Boy Island Of No Return St. Swithin's Day Like Soldiers Do This Guitar Says Sorry Strange Things Happen A Lover Sings Album Extras It Must Be A River Won't Talk About It Talking Wag Club Blues You Got The Power The Last Time Back To The Old House A Lover Sings (Alternative Version) Between The Wars E.P. (February 1985) Between The Wars Which Side Are You On? The World Turned Upside Down It Says Here (Different Version) Days Like These E.P. (December 1985) Days Like These I Don't Need This Pressure Ron Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance Between The Wars (Live At Festival Des Politischen. Lides, Berlin GDR, February 1986) Part 3: 1986-1988 Talking With The Taxman About Poetry (September 1986) Greetings To The New Brunette Train Train The Marriage Ideology Levi Stubbs' Tears Honey I'm A Big Boy Now There Is Power In A Union Help Save The Youth Of America Wishing The Days Away The Passion The Warmest Room The Home Front Album Extras Shirley The Tracks Of My Tears Wishing The Days Away (Alternative Version) The Clashing Of Ideologies (Alternative Version) A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe Only Bad Signs Hold The Fort From 'Levi Stubbs' Tears' (June 1986) Think Again Walk Away Renee From 'Greetings To The New Brunette' (November 1986) The Tatler Deportees Jeane Sin City Part 4: 1988 - 1989 Workers Playtime (September 1988) She's Got A New Spell Must I Paint You A Picture Tender Comrade The Price I Pay Little Time Bomb Rotting On Remand Valentine's Day Is Over Life With The Lions The Only One The Short Answer Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards Album Extras The Price I Pay (Demo) Love Has No Pride That's Entertainment She's Got A New Spell (Demo) Little Time Bomb (Demo) Bad Penny (Demo) Reason To Believe (Live At Club Soda, Montreal, November 1988) Raglan Road (Live At Womad Festival Toronto, August 1989) She's Leaving Home (Single, March 1988) Wishing The Days Away (Ballad Version) (from 'Waiting For The Great Leap Forward', August 1988) Won't Talk About It (Single, June 1989) Part 5: 1990 - 1991 The Internationale (May 1990) The Internationale I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions Blake's Jerusalem Nicaragua Nicarauguita The Red Flag My Youngest Son Came Home Today Album Extras Joe Hill This Land Is Your Land Never Cross A Picket Line A Change Is Gonna Come A Miner's Life Help Save The Youth Of America: Live And Dubious E.P (April 1988) Introduction Help Save The Youth Of America (Live) Think Again (Live) Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (Live) Days Like These (DC Remix) To Have And To Have Not (Live) There Is Power In A Union Billy Bragg Live (Canada 1991) Levi Stubbs' Tears (Live) Ideology (Live) The Short Answer (Live) Seven & Seven Is (from 'Rubáiyát (Elektra's 40th Anniversary), March 1990) Part 6: 1991 - 1992 Don't Try This At Home (September 1991) Accident Waiting To Happen Moving The Goalposts Everywhere Cindy Of A Thousand Lives You Woke Up My Neighbourhood Trust God's Footballer The Few Sexuality Mother Of The Bride Tank Park Salute Dolphins North Sea Bubble Rumours Of War Wish You Were Her Body Of Water Bad Penny (from 'Sexuality', June 1991) From 'You Woke Up My Neighbourhood' (September 1991) Ontario, Quebec And Me Bread And Circuses Heart Like A Wheel From 'Accident Waiting To Happen' (February 1992) Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star Version) Sulk Revolution Part 7: 1996 - 1997 William Bloke (September 1996) From Red To Blue Upfield Everybody Loves You Babe Sugardaddy A Pict Song Brickbat The Space Race Is Over Northern Industrial Town The Fourteenth Of February King James Version Goalhanger Album Extras From 'The Boy Done Good' (May 1997) The Boy Done Good (Extended Edit) Run Out Of Reasons Just One Victory From 'Bloke On Bloke' (June 1997) The Boy Done Good Qualifications Sugardaddy (Smokey Gets In Your Ears Mix) Never Had No One Ever Rule Nor Reason Thatcherites Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (Demo) Part 8: 1998 - 2012 From 'Mermaid Avenue' (June 1998) Walt Whitman's Niece Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key Birds And Ships She Came Along To Me Ingrid Bergman I Guess I Planted Eisler On The Go The Unwelcome Guest From 'Mermaid Avenue Volume 2' (November 1999) My Flying Saucer Hot Rod Hotel Stetson Kennedy All You Fascists Meanest Man Black Wind Blowing From 'Mermaid Avenue Volume 3' (June 2012) Bugeye Jim My Thirty Thousand Ought To Be Satisfied Now Go Down To The Water Jailcell Blues Don't You Marry Give Me A Nail Union Prayer Be Kind To The Boy On The Road I'm Out To Get Part 9: 1998 - 2002 England, Half English (March 2002) St. Monday Jane Allen Distant Shore England, Half English NPWA Some Days I See The Point Baby Faroukh Take Down The Union Jack Another Kind Of Judy He'll Go Down Dreadbelly The Tears Of My Tracks From 'Take Down The Union Jack' (May 2002) Mystery Shoes England, Half English (7" Remix) Take Down The Union Jack (Band Version) Yarra Song You Pulled The Carpet Out From 'The Mermaid Avenue Tour: You Can Call Me Cupcake' (January 1999) Christ For President (Live In The Studio October / November 1999) California Stars (Live In The Studio October / November 1999) Hoodoo Ska Voodoo (Live In The Studio October / November 1999) My Father's Mansion (From 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone: The Songs Of Pete Seeger', March 1998) England Half English Meets John Barleycorn (From 'The Imagined Village' E.P., (September 2007) Part 10: 2006 - 2010 Mr. Love & Justice (March 2008) I Keep Faith I Almost Killed You M For Me The Beach Is Free Sing Their Souls Back Home You Make Me Brave Something Happened Mr. Love & Justice If You Ever Leave O Freedom The Johnny Carcinogenic Show Farm Boy Ash Wednesday (Band Version) Like Soldiers Do (Acoustic Version) (From 'I Keep Faith' 7-inch Single, March 2008) The Price Of Oil Down In The Willow Garden (From 'The Progressive Patriot: Complimentary Music', November 2006) Old Clash Fan Fight Song (From 'Johnny Clash' Single, August 2007) The Big Lie From 'Six Songs From Pressure Drop' (April 2010) Home Same Again There Will Be A Reckoning (Pressure Drop Version) All You Fascists 2010 Tomorrow's Going To Be A Better Day (Pressure Drop Version) The Battle Of Barking A New England (From 'A Concert For Kirsty Maccoll', Shepherds Bush Empire 10/10/2010) Part 11: 2011 - 2015 Tooth & Nail (March 2013) January Song No One Knows Nothing Anymore Handyman Blues I Ain't Got No Home Swallow My Pride Do Unto Others Over You Goodbye, Goodbye There Will Be A Reckoning Chasing Rainbows Your Name On My Tongue Tomorrow's Going To Be A Better Day From 'Fight Songs: A Decade Of Downloads' (November 2011) We're Following The Wrong Star Never Buy The Sun Last Flight To Abu Dhabi Constituition Hill Lay Down Your Weary Tune (From 'Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan', February 2012) Song Of The Iceberg (From 'No One Knows Nothing Anymore' 7-inch Single, April 2013) There Is Power In A Union (Recorded For The Film Pride, September 2014) Hope St. (Single, 2014) Kilroy Was Here (From 'Joy Of Living: A Tribute To Ewan MacColl' October 2015) Sunday Morning (from RockWiz Sunday Morning September 2015) Part 12: 2016 - 2017 Shine A Light: Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad (September 2016) Rock Island Line The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore The Midnight Special Railroad Bill Lonesome Whistle KC Moan Waiting For A Train In The Pines Gentle On My Mind Hobo's Lullaby Railroading On The Great Divide John Henry Early Morning Rain Live At Buxton Opera House 21/01/2017 Why We Build The Wall (Live) The Midnight Special (Live) The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore (Live) Bridges Not Walls (November 2017) The Sleep Of Reason King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood Why We Build The Wall Saffiyah Smiles Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted Full English Brexit Part 13: 2021 The Million Things That Never Happened (October 2021) Should Have Seen It Coming Mid-Century Modern Lonesome Ocean Good Days And Bad Days Freedom Doesn't Come For Free Reflections On The Mirth Of Creativity The Million Things That Never Happened The Buck Doesn't Stop Here No More I Believe In You Pass It On I Will Be Your Shield Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained Lockdown Live: The Million Things Streamed Launch (September 2021) Sulk (Live) Moving The Goalposts (Live) Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained (Live) The Million Things That Never Happened (Live) King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood (Live) Mid-Century Modern (Live) Cindy Of A Thousand Lives (Live) Lonesome Ocean (Live) Part 14: 1987 - 2015 Rare And Previously Unreleased Recordings Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) (Live In Australia 1985) The Internationale Salt Of The Earth My Youngest Son Came Home Today PF Sloan Darling, Let's Have Another Baby If I Had A Hammer Slipknot Marching Out From Selma When The Ship Comes In (Live At The Barbican, September 2005) Live At AIR Studio, London (24 February 2008) Don't Do It Liza The Drugs Don't Work I Ain't Got No Home On A Good Day Talkin' World War III Blues From The Film 'Death Or Liberty' (2011) The Rebels Of '48 An English Revolutionary Ballots And Bread Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You If We Make It Through December Springhill Can't Be There Today

• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 711297536256
• Release Date: October 27, 2023

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