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Billy Bragg

The Roaring Forty | 1983-2023 (Limited Edition 14CD Super Deluxe Box Set)

$145.00

Release Date: Oct 27, 2023

Discs: 14

2023 will see Billy Bragg and Cooking Vinyl celebrating forty years of music from the singer, songwriter, activist and author, with a selection of releases to appeal to casual admirers and die hard fans alike. The career spanning 14 CD box set, contains more than 300 tracks including highlights from each of Billy’s twelve studio albums, non-album singles and B- Sides, session tracks, rare live recordings, collaborations and previously unreleased material from across his career.

The 14 CD box set is packaged with a 12-inch sized perfect bound book containing images of 40 significant objects from Billy’s career, each stunningly photographed and accompanied by descriptions and reminiscences by the man himself. To be expected from a career that has straddled many genres, Billy has worked with a wealth of celebrated musicians from different musical backgrounds that appear on this box set.

Part 1: 1983-1984 - Life's A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy Plus...

Life's A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy (May 1983)

1. The Milkman Of Human Kindness
2. To Have And To Have Not
3. Richard
4. A New England
5. The Man In The Iron Mask
6. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
7. Lovers Town Revisited

Album Extras

8. Strange Things Happen (Alternative Version)
9. The Cloth 1
10. Love Lives Here
11. Speedway Hero
12. Loving You Too Long
13. The Man In The Iron Mask (Alternative Version)
14. This Guitar Says Sorry (Alternative Version)
15. Love Gets Dangerous (Alternative Version)
16. The Cloth 2
17. A13, Trunk Road To The Sea
18. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend

John Peel Session 27/07/83

19. A New England
20. Strange Things Happen
21. This Guitar Says Sorry
22. Love Gets Dangerous
23. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
24. A13, Trunk Road To The Sea

Live at the ICA, London 05/01/84

25. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
26. The Man In The Iron Mask
27. A New England

Part 2: 1984-1985 - Brewing Up With Plus...

Brewing Up With... (October 1984)

1. It Says Here
2. Love Gets Dangerous
3. The Myth Of Trust
4. From A Vauxhall Velox
5. The Saturday Boy
6. Island Of No Return
7. St. Swithin's Day
8. Like Soldiers Do
9. This Guitar Says Sorry
10. Strange Things Happen
11. A Lover Sings

Album Extras

12. It Must Be A River
13. Won't Talk About It
14. Talking Wag Club Blues
15. You Got The Power
16. The Last Time
17. Back To The Old House
18. A Lover Sings (Alternative Version)

Between The Wars E.P (February 1985)

19. Between The Wars
20. Which Side Are You On?
21. World Turned Upside Down
22. It Says Here (Alternative Version)

Days like These E.P. (December 1985)

23. Days Like These
24. I Don't Need This Pressure Ron
25. Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance
26. Between The Wars (Live at Festival Des Politischen Liedes, Berlin)

Part 3: 1986 - 1988 - Talking With The Taxman Plus...

Talking With The Taxman About Poetry (September 1986)

1. Greetings To The New Brunette
2. Train Train
3. The Marriage
4. Ideology
5. Levi Stubbs' Tears
6. Honey, I'm A Big Boy Now
7. There Is Power In A Union
8. Help Save The Youth Of America
9. Wishing The Days Away
10. The Passion
11. The Warmest Room
12. The Home Front

Album Extras

13. Shirley
14. The Tracks Of My Tears
15. Wishing The Days Away (Alternative Version)
16. The Clashing Of Ideologies (Alternative Version)
17. A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe
18. Only Bad Signs
19. Hold The Fort

From 'Levi Stubbs' Tears' (June 1986)

20. Think Again
21. Walk Away Renee (Version) (Introducing Duane Tremelo)

From 'Greetings To The New Brunette' (November 1986)

22. The Tatler
23. Deportees (With Hank Wangford)
24. Jeane
25. Sin City (With Hank Wangford)

Part 4: 1988 - 1989 - Workers Playtime Plus...

Workers Playtime (September 1988)

1. She's Got A New Spell
2. Must I Paint You A Picture
3. Tender Comrade
4. The Price I Pay
5. Little Time Bomb
6. Rotting On Remand
7. Valentine's Day Is Over
8. Life With The Lions
9. The Only One
10. The Short Answer
11. Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

Album Extras

12. The Price I Pay (Demo)
13. Love Has No Pride
14. That's Entertainment
15. She's Got A New Spell (Demo)
16. Little Time Bomb (Demo)
17. Bad Penny (Demo)
18. Reason To Believe (Live at Club Soda, Montreal, November 1988)
19. Raglan Road (Live at Womad Festival Toronto, August 1989)
20. She's Leaving Home (With Cara Tivey) (Single, March 1988)
21. Wishing The Days Away (Ballad Version) (from 'Waiting For The Great Leap Forward', August 1988)

Part 5: 1990 - 1991 - The Internationale Plus...

The Internationale (May 1990)

1. The Internationale
2. I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
3. The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions
4. Blake's Jerusalem
5. Nicaragua Nicarauguita
6. The Red Flag
7. My Youngest Son Came Home Today

Album Extras

8. Joe Hill (With The Pattersons)
9. This Land Is Your Land (With Heathens All)
10. Never Cross A Picket Line
11. A Change Is Gonna Come
12. A Miner's Life

Live And Dubious E.P: Help Save The Youth Of America (April 1988)

13. Introduction
14. Help Save The Youth Of America (Live)
15. Think Again (Live)
16. Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (Live)
17. Days Like These (DC Remix)
18. To Have And To Have Not (Live)
19. There Is Power In A Union (With The Pattersons)

Billy Bragg Live (Canada 1991)

20. Levi Stubbs' Tears (Live)
21. Ideology (Live)
22. The Short Answer (Live)
23. Seven & Seven Is (from 'Rubáiyát (Elektra's 40th Anniversary)', March 1990)

Part 6: 1991 - 1992 - Don't Try This At Home Plus...

Don't Try This At Home (September 1991)

1. Accident Waiting To Happen
2. Moving The Goalposts
3. Everywhere
4. Cindy Of A Thousand Lives
5. You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
6. Trust
7. God's Footballer
8. The Few
9. Sexuality
10. Mother Of The Bride
11. Tank Park Salute
12. Dolphins
13. North Sea Bubble
14. Rumours Of War
15. Wish You Were Her
16. Body Of Water
17. Bad Penny (from 'Sexuality', June 1991)

From 'You Woke Up My Neighbourhood' (September 1991)

18. Ontario, Quebec And Me
19. Bread And Circuses
20. Heart Like A Wheel

From 'Accident Waiting To Happen' (February 1992)

21. Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star Version)
22. Sulk
23. Revolution

Part 7: 1996 - 1997 - William Bloke Plus...

William Bloke (September 1996)

1. From Red To Blue
2. Upfield
3. Everybody Loves You Babe
4. Sugardaddy
5. A Pict Song
6. Brickbat
7. The Space Race Is Over
8. Northern Industrial Town
9. The Fourteenth Of February
10. King James Version
11. Goalhanger

Album Extras

12. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (Demo)

From 'The Boy Done Good' (May 1997)

13. The Boy Done Good (Extended Edit)
14. Run Out Of Reasons
15. Just One Victory

From 'Bloke On Bloke' (June 1997)

16. The Boy Done Good
17. Qualifications
18. Sugardaddy (Smokey Gets In Your Ears Mix)
19. Never Had No One Ever
20. Rule Nor Reason
21. Thatcherites

Part 8: 1998 - 2012 - The Mermaid Avenue Recordings

From 'Mermaid Avenue' (June 1998)

1. Walt Whitman's Niece (With Wilco)
2. Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key (With Wilco)
3. Birds And Ships (With Natalie Merchant)
4. She Came Along To Me (With Wilco)
5. Ingrid Bergman
6. I Guess I Planted (With Wilco)
7. Eisler On The Go (With Wilco)
8. The Unwelcome Guest (With Wilco)

From 'Mermaid Avenue Volume 2' (November 1999)

9. My Flying Saucer (With Wilco)
10. Hot Rod Hotel (With Wilco)
11. Stetson Kennedy (With Wilco)
12. All You Fascists (With Wilco)
13. Meanest Man (With Wilco)
14. Black Wind Blowing

From 'Mermaid Avenue Volume 3' (June 2012)

15. Bugeye Jim
16. My Thirty Thousand (With Wilco)
17. Ought To Be Satisfied Now
18. Go Down To The Water
19. Jailcell Blues (With Wilco)
20. Don't You Marry
21. Give Me A Nail (With Wilco)
22. Union Prayer
23. Be Kind To The Boy On The Road (With Wilco)
24. I'm Out To Get (With Wilco)

Part 9: 1998 - 2002: Billy Bragg And The Blokes Plus...

England, Half English (March 2002)

1. St. Monday
2. Jane Allen
3. Distant Shore
4. England, Half English
5. NPWA
6. Some Days I See The Point
7. Baby Faroukh
8. Take Down The Union Jack
9. Another Kind Of Judy
10. He'll Go Down
11. Dreadbelly
12. The Tears Of My Tracks

From 'Take Down The Union Jack' (May 2002)

13. Mystery Shoes
14. England, Half English (7" Remix)
15. Take Down The Union Jack (Band Version)
16. Yarra Song
17. You Pulled The Carpet Out

From 'The Mermaid Avenue Tour: You Can Call Me Cupcake' (January 1999)

18. Christ For President (Live in the studio October / November 1999)
19. California Stars (Live in the studio October / November 1999)
20. Hoodoo Ska Voodoo (Live in the studio October / November 1999)
21. My Father's Mansion (from 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone: The Songs Of Pete Seeger', March 1998)
22. England Half English Meets John Barleycorn (With Eliza and Martin Carthy) (from 'The Imagined Village' E.P., (September 2007)

Part 10: 2006 - 2010 Mr. Love & Justice Plus...

Mr. Love & Justice (March 2008)

1. I Keep Faith
2. I Almost Killed You
3. M For Me
4. The Beach Is Free
5. Sing Their Souls Back Home
6. You Make Me Brave
7. Something Happened
8. Mr. Love & Justice
9. If You Ever Leave
10. O Freedom
11. The Johnny Carcinogenic Show
12. Farm Boy
13. Ash Wednesday (Band Version)
14. Like Soldiers Do (Acoustic Version) (from 'I Keep Faith' 7-inch single, March 2008)
15. The Price Of Oil
16. Down In The Willow Garden (from 'The Progressive Patriot: Complimentary Music', November 2006)
17. Old Clash Fan Fight Song (from 'Johnny Clash' single, August 2007)
18. The Big Lie

From 'Six Songs From Pressure Drop' (April 2010)

19. Home
20. Same Again
21. There Will Be A Reckoning (Pressure Drop Version)
22. All You Fascists 2010
23. Tomorrow's Going To Be A Better Day (Pressure Drop Version)
24. The Battle Of Barking
25. A New England (from 'A Concert For Kirsty MacColl', Shepherds Bush Empire 10/10/2010)

Part 11: 2011 - 2015 - Tooth & Nail Plus...

Tooth & Nail (March 2013)

1. January Song
2. No One Knows Nothing Anymore
3. Handyman Blues
4. I Ain't Got No Home
5. Swallow My Pride
6. Do Unto Others
7. Over You
8. Goodbye, Goodbye
9. There Will Be A Reckoning
10. Chasing Rainbows
11. Your Name On My Tongue
12. Tomorrow's Going To Be A Better Day

From 'Fight Songs: A Decade Of Downloads' (November 2011)

13. We're Following The Wrong Star
14. Never Buy The Sun
15. Last Flight To Abu Dhabi
16. Constituition Hill
17. Lay Down Your Weary Tune (from 'Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan', February 2012)
18. Song Of The Iceberg (from 'No One Knows Nothing Anymore' 7-inch Single, April 2013)
19. There Is Power In A Union (recorded for the film Pride, September 2014)
20. Hope St. (With The Levellers) (Single, 2014)
21. Kilroy Was Here (from 'Joy Of Living: A Tribute To Ewan MacColl' October 2015)
22. Sunday Morning (With Courtney Barnett) (from RockWiz Sunday Morning September 2015)

Part 12: 2016 - 2017 - Shine A Light Plus...

Shine A Light: Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad with Joe Henry (September 2016)

1. Rock Island Line
2. The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore
3. The Midnight Special
4. Railroad Bill
5. Lonesome Whistle
6. KC Moan
7. Waiting For A Train
8. In The Pines
9. Gentle On My Mind
10. Hobo's Lullaby
11. Railroading On The Great Divide
12. John Henry
13. Early Morning Rain

Live at Buxton Opera House with Joe Henry 21/01/2017

14. Why We Build The Wall (Live)
15. The Midnight Special (Live)
16. The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore (Live)

Bridges Not Walls (November 2017)

17. The Sleep Of Reason
18. King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood
19. Why We Build The Wall
20. Saffiyah Smiles
21. Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
22. Full English Brexit

Part 13: 2021 - The Million Things Plus...

The Million Things That Never Happened (October 2021)

1. Should Have Seen It Coming
2. Mid-Century Modern
3. Lonesome Ocean
4. Good Days And Bad Days
5. Freedom Doesn't Come For Free
6. Reflections On The Mirth Of Creativity
7. The Million Things That Never Happened
8. The Buck Doesn't Stop Here No More
9. I Believe In You
10. Pass It On
11. I Will Be Your Shield
12. Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained

Lockdown Live: The Million Things Streamed Launch (September 2021)

13. Sulk (Live)
14. Moving The Goalposts (Live)
15. Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained (Live)
16. The Million Things That Never Happened (Live)
17. King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood (Live)
18. Mid-Century Modern (Live)
19. Cindy Of A Thousand Lives (Live)
20. Lonesome Ocean (Live)

Part 14: Rare and Previously Unreleased Recordings 1987 - 2015

1. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) (Live) 
2. The Internationale (with Pete Seeger) 
3. Salt of the Earth (with Peter Buck)  
4. My Youngest Son Came Home Today (with Michael Stipe)
5. PF Sloan Billy Bragg (with Mike Mills)
6. Darling, Let's Have Another Baby (with Kirsty MacColl)
7. If I Had A Hammer Billy Bragg (with Eliza Carthy)
8. Slipknot 
9. Marching Out From Selma 
10. When The Ship Comes In (Live)
11. Don't Do It Liza Billy Bragg (with KT Tunstall) 
12. The Drugs Don't Work Billy Bragg (with KT Tunstall)
13. I Ain't Got No Home (with Foy Vance) 
14. On A Good Day
15. Talkin' World War III Blues 
16. The Rebels of '48 (Live) 
17. An English Revolutionary (Live) 
18. Ballots and Bread (Live) 
19. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (with Joe Henry) 
20. If We Make It Through December (with Joe Henry)
21. Springhill 
22. Can't Be There Today