Billy Bragg
Back to Basics
Label:  Elektra 
Date:  1987
Length:  0:00
Format:  CA
Genre:  Rock; Alternative
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Milkman of Human Kindness    
      2.  
      		 To Have and to Have Not    
      3.  
      		 Richard    
      4.  
      		 Lovers Town Revisited    
      5.  
      		 New England    
      6.  
      		 Man in the Iron Mask    
      7.  
      		 Busy Girl Buys Beauty    
      8.  
      		 It Says Here    
      9.  
      		 Love Gets Dangerous    
      10.  
      		 From a Vauxhall Velox    
      11.  
      		 Myth of Trust    
      12.  
      		 Saturday Boy    
      13.  
      		 Island of No Return    
      14.  
      		 This Guitar Says Sorry    
      15.  
      		 Like Soldiers Do    
      16.  
      		 St. Swithin's Day    
      17.  
      		 Strange Things Happen    
      18.  
      		 Lover Sings    
      19.  
      		 Between the Wars    
      20.  
      		 World Turned Upside Down    
      21.  
      		 Which Side Are You On?    
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      This collection of feisty early recordings (the Between the Wars EP and the Brewing Up LP) features England's loudest socialist folkie, usually armed only with an electric guitar and a millennium's worth of outrage, attacking those in power (lazy journalists in "It Says Here," the eternal mining aristocracy in "The World Turned Upside Down") with precision and enough energy to make even the most dogmatic lyrics sound colloquial and persuasive. Bragg is a one-man Clash here, seeking to demolish all he can and then build a better world with his electric guitar and his righteousness as the only tools he'll need. --Jimmy Guterman