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by Andrew Collins


  June 2010

  Pressure Drop (Bragg Central BB5111)

  Tracklisting:

  Home/Same Again/There Will Be A Reckoning/All You Fascists 2010/Tomorrow’s Going To Be A Better Day/The Battle of Barking

  November 2011

  Fight Songs (Bragg Central BB5112)

  Tracklisting:

  Never Buy The Sun/Last Flight to Abu Dhabi/The Battle of Barking/The Wolf Covers Its Tracks/The Big Lie/Bush War Blues/Constitution Hill/Old Clash Fan Fight Song/The Price of Oil/The Lonesome Death of Rachel Corrie/We’re Following The Wrong Star

  March 2013

  Tooth & Nail (Cooking Vinyl COOKCD580)

  Tracklisting:

  January Song/No One Knows Nothing Any More/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

  Singles

  February 1985

  Between The Wars EP/The World Turned Upside Down/Which Side Are You On?/It Says Here (Solo)

  Go! Discs 7″ AGOEP 1

  December 1985

  Days Like These/I Don’t Need This Pressure Ron/Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance

  Go! Discs 7″ GOD 8

  Days Like These/I Don’t Need This Pressure Ron/Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance

  Go! Discs 12″ GODX 8

  June 1986

  Levi Stubbs’ Tears/Think Again/Walk Away Renee (Version)

  Go! Discs 7″ GOD 12

  Levi Stubbs’ Tears/Think Again/Walk Away Renee (Version)/Between The Wars (Live)

  Go! Discs 12″ GODX 12

  November 1986

  Greetings To The New Brunette/Deportees/The Tatler

  Go! Discs 7″ GOD 15

  Greetings To The New Brunette/Deportees/The Tatler/Jeane/There Is Power In A Union

  Go! Discs 12″ GODX 15

  May 1988

  She’s Leaving Home/With A Little Help From My Friends (Wet Wet Wet) CHILDLINE 7″ CHILD 1

  August 1988

  Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards/Wishing The Days Away/Sin City Go! Discs 7″ GOD 23

  November 1988

  She’s Got A New Spell/Must I Paint You A Picture? (Extended version) Go! Discs 7″ GOD 24

  June 1991

  Sexuality/Bad Penny

  Go! Discs 7″ GOD 56 & MC GODMC 56

  Sexuality/Sexuality (Manchester remix)/Sexuality (London remix)

  Go! Discs 12″ GODX 56 & DJ PROMO GODXDJ 56

  Sexuality/Sexuality (Manchester remix)/Sexuality (London remix)/Bad Penny

  Go! Discs CD GODCD 56

  August 1991

  You Woke Up My Neighbourhood/Ontario, Quebec And Me

  Go! Discs 7″ GOD 60 & MC GODMC 60

  You Woke Up My Neighbourhood/Ontario, Quebec And Me/Bread And Circuses/Heart Like A Wheel

  Go! Discs 12″ GODX 60, CD GODCD 60 & DJ PROMO GODXDJ 60

  September 1991

  Don’t Try This At Home Box Set

  The whole album on 8 × 7″ vinyl singles

  Go! Discs 869 494

  February 1992

  Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star version)/Revolution/Sulk/The Warmest Room (Live)

  Go! Discs 7″ GOD 67, 12″ GODX 67 & CD GODCD 67

  Accident Waiting To Happen (Live)/Levi Stubbs’ Tears (Live)/Valentine’s Day Is Over (Live)/North Sea Bubble (Live)

  Go! Discs LIVE CD GOLCD 67

  August 1996

  Upfield/Rule Nor Reason/Thatcherites

  Cooking Vinyl FRY CD 051

  April 1997

  The Boy Done Good/Sugardaddy/Just One Victory/Qualifications

  Cooking Vinyl FRY CD 064

  The Boy Done Good/Sugardaddy (Moodswings remix)/Never Had No One Ever/Run Out Of Reasons

  Cooking Vinyl FRY CDX 064

  2007

  Johnny Clash/Old Clash Fan Fight Song/The Big Lie

  Bragg Central 7″ JCM01

  March 2008

  I Keep Faith/Like Soldiers Do (Acoustic Version)

  Cooking Vinyl 7″ FRY341

  2008

  The Beach Is Free/I Almost Killed You

  Download only

  2010

  Never Buy The Sun

  Download only

  February 2013

  No One Knows Nothing Any More/Handyman Blues

  Cooking Vinyl FRYDL602

  Billy Bragg and Wilco

  April 2012

  Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (Nonesuch B0072X2NHQ)

  Tracklisting:

  Walt Whitman’s Niece/California Stars/Way Over Yonder in the Minor

  Key/Birds and Ships/Hoodoo Voodoo/She Came Along To Me/At My

  Window Sad and Lonely/Ingrid Bergman/Christ for President/I Guess I

  Planted/One by One/Eisler on the Go/Hesitating Beauty/Another Man’s

  Done Gone/The Unwelcome Guest/Airline to Heaven/My Flying

  Saucer/Feed of Man/Hot Rod Hotel/I Was Born/Secret of the Sea/Stetson

  Kennedy/Remember the Mountain Bed/Blood of the Lamb/Aginst th’

  Law/All You Fascists/Joe DiMaggio Done it Again/Meanest Man/Black

  Wind Blowing/Someday Dome Morning Sometimes/Bugeye Jim/When

  The Roses Bloom Again/Gotta Work/My Thirty Thousand/Ought to be

  Satisfied Now/Listening To the Wind that Blows/Go Down to the

  Water/Chain of Broken Hearts/Jailcell Blues/Don’t You Marry/Give me a

  Nail/The Jolly Banker/Union Prayer/Be Kind to the Boy on the

  Road/Ain’ta Gonna Grieve/Tea Bag Blue/I’m Out to Get

  Plus DVD: Man In The Sand

  Miscellaneous official releases and promo items

  1985

  Back To Basics Audio Aid

  7″ flexi-disc free with Back To Basics album. Gives tips on how to play like Billy.

  February 1985

  Between The Wars/Between The Wars

  Go! Discs 7″ AGO DJ1

  June 1987

  A New England/St Swithin’s Day

  Go! Discs 7″ GOD DJ 20

  Promo disc for Back To Basics LP

  April 1988

  Live And Dubious EP

  Help Save The Youth Of America/Think Again/Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto/Days Like These (DC remix)/To Have And To Have Not/There Is Power In A Union

  PolyGram Canada 12″/MC 870 306-1. Imported into the UK by Go! Discs, shrink-wrapped and stickered with catalogue number AGOMLP 1

  August 1988

  Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards/Wishing The Days Away/Sin City The notorious DJ Edit – has the first verse of Great Leap Forwards missing

  1989

  Reason To Believe (Live)

  Utility 12″ USAMP 1

  Seven-track promo featuring tracks by each of the Utility artists; later condensed to a free 7″ flexi-disc in The Catalogue magazine.

  May 1990

  Raglan Road (Live)

  Utility 7″ USAMP 2

  Utility sampler given free with vinyl copies of The Internationale album

  September 1991

  5 Tracks From His Forthcoming Album

  Go! Discs promo CD, BBPCD 1

  Promo CD for Don’t Try This At Home album contains Sexuality/North Sea Bubble/Moving The Goalposts/You Woke Up My Neighbourhood/Tank Park Salute

  November 1993

  Don’t Play This At Home

  Cooking Vinyl Promo CD, FRY CD 026

  Promo CD for the Cooking Vinyl 060/061/062.

  contains A New England/St Swithin’s Day/Levi Stubbs’ Tears/She’s Got A New Spell/Cindy Of A Thousand Lives

  1996

  Upfield Promo CD

  Cooking Vinyl promo only CD, FRY CD 051

  contains Upfield/Rule Nor Reason/Thatcherites

  August 1996

  William Bloke promotional use only CD, COOK 100

  In clear plastic envelope

  December 1996

  Half Time Hits Vol. 1: Goalhanger


  Cooking Vinyl promo CD, FRY CD 056

  For use at football grounds. In soft, plastic envelope, often accompanied by a Christmas card from Billy.

  May 1997

  Half Time Hits Vol. 2: The Boy Done Good

  Cooking Vinyl promo CD, FRY CD 066

  February 1999

  Mermaid Avenue Demos

  Billy Bragg, UPCD1

  contains Birds And Ships/She Came Along To Me/I Guess I Planted/Eisler On The Go/The Unwelcome Guest

  Free with Man In The Sand video

  August 1999

  Shirley (Greetings To The New Brunette)

  Cooking Vinyl promo CD, BBPR01

  contains Shirley/Sulk/Walk Away Renee/She’s Leaving Home/I Don’t Need This Pressure Ron

  Appearances on other artists’ records

  LEON ROSSELSON – BALLAD OF A SPY CATCHER

  1987. Single. Upside Down Records UPDO 007

  (Track appears on album I DIDN’T MEAN IT 1988 Fuse Records CF392)

  THE GANG – BARRICADA

  1987. Album. Tam Tam (Italy)

  Tracks: Junco Partner – vocals/Goin’ To The Crossroads – guitar

  NORMAN COOK – BLAME IT ON THE BASSLINE

  1989. Single. Go-Beat GODCD 3

  Track: Won’t Talk About It – co-written by and featuring Billy Bragg

  10,000 MANIACS – TROUBLE ME

  1989. Single. Elektra EKR 93T

  Track: Party Of God – duet, co-written with Natalie Merchant

  KIRSTY MACCOLL – WALKING DOWN MADISON

  1991. Single. Virgin SCDG 1348

  Track: Darling Let’s Have Another Baby – duet with Kirsty MacColl

  KIRSTY MACCOLL – ALL I EVER WANTED

  1991. Single. Virgin VSCDG 1373

  Track: A New England (Live) – acoustic duet from Radio 1 Broadcast 26/06/91

  R.E.M. – NEAR WILD HEAVEN

  1991. Promo single. Warner Bros W0055CDX Track: Tom’s Diner (Live) from Bingo Hand Job show

  WEDDINGS, PARTIES, ANYTHING – KINGTIDE

  1993. Album. rooArt 4509937732

  Track: Island Of Humour – guitar and vocals

  JOE HENRY – FIREMAN’S WEDDING

  1994. Single. Mammoth MR 0067-2

  Track: Dark As A Dungeon – duet with Joe Henry

  CARDIFF REDS’ CHOIR/COR COCHION CAERDYDD – THE BEST OF/GORAU

  1999. Album.

  Track: Mandela – lead vocal

  COREY HARRIS – GREENS FROM THE GARDEN

  1999. Album. Alligator ALCD4864

  Track: Teabag Blues from Mermaid Avenue sessions

  IAN ‘MAC’ McLAGAN & THE BUMP BAND – BEST OF BRITISH

  1999. Album. MANIAC MRCD-0001

  Track: Best Of British – vocal

  LESS THAN JAKE – SHE’S GONNA BREAK SOON

  2003. Single. Sire 93624 26262

  Track: The Brightest Bulb Has Burned Out – vocal

  Tracks on various artists compilations

  1984

  Let The Children Play – Panic PEACE 1

  Track: Between The Wars – demo version

  A New Optimism – Jamming! SITU 11

  Track: The Man In The Iron Mask (With Dave Woodhead on trumpet)

  1985

  Heroes – Rock ’n’ Dole RDR 2

  Track: There Is Power In A Union (With The Pattersons)

  Feed The Folk – Temple Records FTP 01

  Track: World Turned Upside Down

  Out Now! – Chrysalis OUTV1

  Track: Between The Wars

  1986

  16th Festival Des Politischen Liedes – Amiga DDR 8 45 310

  Track: Between The Wars (Live)

  Now That’s What I Call Music 8 – Virgin/EMI/PolyGram Now 8

  Track: Greetings To The New Brunette

  Not Just Mandela – Davey Lamp DLLP 4 Track: Africa (With The Neurotics)

  1987

  Square Roots – Folk Roots FROOT 001

  Track: Hold The Fort

  Songs In The Struggle For Peace – Melodya (USSR) C90 25707006

  Track: Between The Wars (Live in Kiev)

  Wake Up! – Wake Up! Records WOMBLE 1 (Re-released on CD in 1997)

  Track: A Change Is Gonna Come (Live)/Garageland (Live with Wiggy, The Neurotics and Attila The Stockbroker)

  Mixed Peel – Strange Fruit NME PRO6

  Track: Love Gets Dangerous (from 1983 Peel session)

  1988

  Sgt Pepper Knew My Father – NME PEP LP 100

  Track: She’s Leaving Home (With Cara Tivey)

  Great Moments In Vinyl History – Special Delivery SPM 1009

  Track: Cold And Bitter Tears (Live with Ted Hawkins)

  1989

  New Roots – Stylus Music SMR 972

  Track: Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

  Obligado Otelo – C.E.D.R.I. LDA 574903/04

  Track: Rotting On Remand

  19th Festival Des Politischen Liedes – Amiga (DDR) 8 45 362

  Track: Valentine’s Day Is Over

  1990

  Rubiyat – Elektra 9 60940-2

  Track: Seven And Seven Is

  Don’t Mourn-Organise – Smithsonian Folkways CD SF 40026

  Track: Joe Hill (Written by Phil Ochs)

  1991

  Toms Album – A&M 75021 5363 2

  Track: Version of Tom’s Diner from the Bingo Hand Job show

  Best Of Mountain Stage Volume Two – This Way Up 514 495-2

  Track: Tank Park Salute (With Cara Tivey)

  Civilisation Vs Technology: H.E.A.L. – Elektra 9-61141-2

  Track: Tighten Up Your Wig (With the Athenians and DJ Woody Dee)

  1992

  Ruby Trax – NME 40 CD

  Track: When Will I See You Again? (With The Red Stars)

  In A Field Of Their Own – NME GLASTON 1 DCD

  Track: Accident Waiting To Happen (Live with The Red Stars)

  1993

  Peace Together – Island CID 8018/518 063-2

  Track: Religious Persuasion (With Andy White and Sinead O’Connor)

  1995

  This Is Fort Apache – MCA MCAD-11179

  Track: Sulk

  Troubadours Of British Folk – Rhino R2 72162

  Track: Between The Wars

  Out Loud – Knitting Factory Works KFW 169

  Track: Sexuality

  Glastonbury 25th Anniversary – Chrysalis 7243-8-34455 2 3

  Track:

  Disagreement Of The People – Cooking Vinyl COOK CD 088

  Track: This Land Is Your Land (With Heathens All)

  What’s That I Hear: The Songs Of Phil Ochs – Sliced Bread CD-SB71176

  Track: Sailors And Soldiers (With Sid Griffin)

  1996

  In Their Own Words Volume Two – Razor & Tie RT 2824-2

  Track: To Have And To Have Not (Live)

  The Smiths Is Dead – Les Inrockuptibles 486 745-2

  Track: Never Had No One Ever

  Agitprop – The Politics of Punk – Dressed To Kill DTK CD 010/011/012

  Tracks: It Says Here/Between The Wars

  Walking And Talking – TVT Soundtrack TVT 8050

  Tracks: She’s Got A New Spell/The Fourteenth Of February/Must I Paint You A Picture?/You Woke Up My Neighbourhood, plus snippets of instrumental score by Billy Bragg

  1997

  FROOTS 8 1997 – Folk Roots FROOT CD 088

  Track: Goalhanger

  One Voice – World Music Network RGNET 1014

  Track: Tender Comrade

  Not With That Clown – Mambo MUSH 33039.2

  Track: Walk Away Renee

  1998

  Where Have All The Flowers Gone?: The Songs of Pete Seeger – Appleseed 1024

  Track: My Father’s Mansions (With Eliza Carthy)

  Rock The Dock – Creation CRE CD 240

  Track: Never Cross A Picket Line (In aid of the Liverpool Dockers)

  1999

  Playpen: An Album Of New Acoustic Music – Playpen
PLAYPEN1

  Track: Must I Paint You A Picture? (Live)

  The Panel – Working Dog LIB CD 1001-2

  Track: She Came Along To Me (Live)

  Ten Years Of Folk: Fleadh – BMG 74321 691532

  Track: Sexuality

  1999

  Radio 107.1 KGSR Austin: Broadcasts Volume 7 – 107.1 KGSR/Radio Austin

  Track: Against The Law (Live solo)

  Post Punk Chronicles: Going Underground – Rhino CD R2 75334

  Track: A New England

  2000

  Millennium Thoughts – Chrome Dreams MP CD 2000

  (Spoken word compilation for charity Jubilee 2000; Billy’s contribution is the phrase ‘Fair trade not free trade’ repeated three times)

  Til We Outnumber ’Em – Righteous Babe RBR019-D

  Track: Aginst Th’ Law

  Festival Des Politischen Liedes Die Achtziger – Plane 88839

  Track: Between The Wars

  Seka Vol. 2 – Twah! 115/EFA 61115-2

  Track: Bad Penny

  2001

  Uncut: Why Don’t We Do It In The Road – Uncut UG-3137

  Track: Revolution

  (Given away free with Uncut magazine)

  1998

  Maximum 80’s [sic] – Elektra/Asylum 62290

  Track: A New England

  2002

  Peace Not War – Peace Not War Project PNW1 CD

  Track: The Price of Oil

  J Files Presents The Best B Sides Of All Time – Australian Broadcasting Corporation

  Track: Walk Away Renee (Version)

  The Acoustic Folk Box – Topic TSF CD 4001 CD

  Track: Moving The Goalposts

  Troubadours: The Essential Album – Manteca MANTDCD207

  Track: Levi Stubbs’ Tears

  Uncut – Uncut 02

  Track: She Smiled Sweetly (Free with Uncut magazine)

  If I Had A Song: The Songs of Pete Seeger Volume 2 – Appleseed Recordings APR CD 1055

  Track: If I Had A Hammer (With Eliza Carthy)

  Raise Your Banners Festival of Political Song – RYB Records RYB2001 CD

  Track: The Internationale

  2003

  Hang The DJ: The Alternative 80s – Rajon Music Group, CD TV0082

  Track: Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

  Live On Stage: Love And The Blues – ABC Music 9 399032 129324

  Track: The Price I Pay (recorded at Norwood Concert Hall, Adelaide, 21 October 2001)

  Hope – War Child CD 50466 5846 2

  Track: The Wolf Covers Its Tracks

  Uncut : Rebellious Jukebox – Uncut 2003 02

  Track: Eisler On The Go (Demo version)

  2004

  Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The 80s Underground – Rhino Records

  Track: A New England

  2005

  John Peel: A Tribute – Warners WSM CD 226

 

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