Billy Bragg- Roaring Forty 1983-2023 (CD)

The new career-spanning Billy Bragg set fills up 14 CDs, but here we've got the three "best-of" editions that pare down Bragg's voluminous oeuvre to the bare essentials. The limited-edition orange LP includes "A New England," "Between the Wars," "Levi Stubbs' Tears," "Upfield," "The Boy Done Good," "Sexuality," "I Keep Faith," "I Will Be Your Shield," "The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore," "California Stars" (live 1999), "Accident Waiting to Happen" (Red Star Version), "Greetings to the New Brunette" and "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards." The limited-edition 3-LP set (three shades of green vinyl) and 2-CD set (with 16-page booklet) raise the track count to 40 via "Mid-Century Modern," "Never Buy the Sun," "Old Clash Fan Fight Song," "My Flying Saucer," "Walt Whitman's Niece," "The Internationale," "This Saturday Boy," "To Have and Have Not" and more. All the vinyl here includes download cards and all these collection have been personally compiled by Billy Bragg, one of those rare singer-songwriters equally adept at politically charged anthems and lovely love songs! Cooking Vinyl.

Track List

1. A New England
2. The Milkman Of Human Kindness
3. To Have And Have Not
4. The Man In The Iron Mask
5. St Swithin's Day
6. The Saturday Boy
7. Between The Wars
8. The World Turned Upside Down
9. Which Side Are You On?
10. Levi Stubbs' Tears
11. Greetings To The New Brunette
12. There Is Power In A Union
13. Help Save The Youth Of America
14. She's Leaving Home
15. She's Got A New Spell
16. Must I Paint You A Picture
17. Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
18. The Internationale
19. Tank Park Salute
20. Sexuality
21. Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star Version)
22. Upfield
23. The Boy Done Good
24. Walt Whitman's Niece
25. Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
26. My Flying Saucer
27. California Stars (Live October / November )
28. England Half English
29. Some Days I See The Point
30. Take Down The Union Jack (Band Version)
31. Old Clash Fan Fight Song
32. I Keep Faith
33. Never Buy The Sun
34. Bugeye Jim
35. No One Knows Nothing Anymore
36. Handyman Blues
37. The L;N Don't Stop Here Anymore
38. King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood
39. Mid-Century Modern
40. I Will Be Your Shield