The Internationale/Live and Dubious
Billy Bragg - CD
- Artist: Billy Bragg
- Format: CD
- Year: 2006
- Number of Discs: 2
- UPC: 711297470529
- Item Number: MSI747052
- Release date: 05/01/2006
- 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, Nicaraguita
- 6. The Red Flag
- 7. My Youngest Son Came Home Today
- 8. Introduction [Live]
- 9. Help Save the Youth of America [Live]
- 10. Think Again [Live]
- 11. Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto [Live]
- 12. Days Like These [DC Remix]
- 13. To Have and to Have Not [Live]
- 14. There Is Power in a Union
- 15. Joe Hill [Bonus Track]
- 16. This Land Is Your Land [Bonus Track]
- 17. Never Cross a Picket Line [Bonus Track]
- 18. A Change Is Gonna Come [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
- 19. A Miner's Life [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
- 1. There Is Power in a Union [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 2. Between the Wars [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 3. Nicaragua, Nicaraguita [Live][Bonus Track][Multimedia Track]
- 4. I Heard It Through the Grapevine [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 5. To Have and to Have Not [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 6. The Milkman of Human Kindness [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 7. Island of No Return [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 8. Between the Wars [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 9. The World Turned Upside Down [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 10. Levi Stubbs' Tears [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 11. Help Save the Youth of America [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 12. A New England [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 13. Wishing the Days Away [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 14. People Get Ready [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 15. Tupelo Honey [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 16. Star [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
- 17. A13, Trunk Road to the Sea [DVD][Live][Bonus Track]
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The Internationale/Live and Dubious by Billy Bragg on CD
Billy Bragg usually strove to strike a balance between populist politics and the affairs of the heart on his best albums (such as Brewing Up with Billy Bragg and Talking with the Taxman About Poetry), but with his 1990 EP, The Internationale, Bragg set aside the notion of balance for the day and recorded seven explicitly political numbers. The material ranges from the openly patriotic (a lovely version of William Blake's "Jerusalem," which Bragg has championed as a candidate for the English national anthem) to the pained and bitter (Eric Bogle's heart-wrenching "My Youngest Son Came Home Today") and the satirically humorous (the anti-capitalist "The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions"), though the latter is the only new-from-the-ground-up song on the EP ("The Internationale" does feature new lyrics from Bragg and "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night" rewrites Earl Robinson's famous tune about Joe Hill). Bragg is clearly putting his heart and soul into all these songs, but there's a certain stiffness to "The Internationale" and "The Red Flag" that he isn't able to shake off, and "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" is in serious need of a translation, since Bragg's passionate bellow all but swallows up whatever meaning it may have in Spanish. Yep Roc's 2006 reissue of The Internationale adds weight to the package with the addition of the 1988 Live and Dubious EP, which includes six more numbers reflecting Bragg's leftist beliefs, among them a revised version of "Days Like These" (reflecting American political concerns) and covers of "Think Again" and "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto." The energy of Bragg's live performances communicates well on plastic, though the street-level rabble-rousing of "To Have and to Have Not" is more than welcome after the somber numbers that precede it. Five more bonus tracks fill out the CD, most of them covers (among them a fine reading of Phil Ochs' "Joe Hill," an Anglicized take on "This Land Is Your Land," and Sam Cooke's beautiful "A Change Is Gonna Come") and one rare Bragg composition, the appropriate "Never Cross a Picket Line." Finally, the package features a bonus DVD of Bragg live in concert. Bragg plays a 45-minute set at a rock festival in Lithuania in 1988 (the performance is great but the sound and image are uneven, and hearing Bragg deliver between-song patter through an interpreter gets old fast), as well as two numbers from a 1986 festival of political song in East Berlin and another from a tour of Nicaragua. Yep Roc gets high marks for the thoroughness of this release, but if you prefer Bragg's songs about love and life in England over his polemic material, you might want to give this package a pass. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Artist: Billy Bragg
- Format: CD
- Year: 2006
- Number of Discs: 2
- UPC: 711297470529
- Item Number: MSI747052
- Release date: 05/01/2006
- Label: Cooking Vinyl Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock, Folk
- Style: Urban Folk, Alternative Pop/Rock, Folk-Rock, British Folk, Alternative/Indie Rock, Anti-Folk, Alternative Folk, College Rock
- Album Time: 62:50
- Billy Bragg, Vol. 1
- Billy Bragg, Vol. 2
- Brewing Up with Billy Bragg [Bonus Disc]
- Don't Try This at Home
- Don't Try This at Home [Bonus Disc]
- England, Half English [Bonus Disc]
- Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy [Bonus Disc]
- Mr. Love & Justice
- Mr. Love & Justice [Bonus Tracks]
- Mr. Love & Justice [Deluxe Edition]
- Must I Paint You a Picture?: The Essential Billy Bragg
- Must I Paint You a Picture?: The Essential Billy Bragg (Import)
- Reaching to the Converted
- Talking with the Taxman About Poetry [Bonus Disc]
- The Internationale
- The Internationale/Live and Dubious
- William Bloke [Bonus Disc]
- Workers Playtime [Bonus CD]
- Mermaid Avenue
- Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions
- Billy Bragg : Life's a Riot with Spy VS Spy (+10 Bo
- Billy Bragg : Workers Playtime (+8 Bonus Tracks) (J
- Tooth & Nail
- Tooth & Nail
- Tooth & Nail - Deluxe Edition
- Mr. Love & Justice
- Back to Basics
- Help Save the Youth of America EP: Live and Dubious
- Workers Playtime
- William Bloke
- Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2
- Brewing Up with Billy Bragg
- Talking with the Taxman About Poetry [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- Don't Try This at Home
- Reaching to the Converted
- Billy Bragg, Vol. 2 (Import)
- England, Half English
- Workers Playtime
- William Bloke
- Mr. Love & Justice (Import)
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- Performers:
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Credits:
- Duncan Cowell - Digital Remastering
- Sabine Troendle - Translation
- Tim Young - Digital Remastering
- Bernice Johnson Reagon - Composer
- Billy Bragg - Composer
- Bobby Troup - Composer
- Carlos Mejia Godoy - Composer
- Curtis Mayfield - Composer
- David Bowie - Composer
- Dick Gaughan - Composer
- Earl Robinson - Composer
- Eric Bogle - Composer
- Grant Showbiz - Compilation Producer, Producer
- Hubert Parry - Composer
- Leon Rosselson - Composer
- Phil Ochs - Composer
- Pierre Degeyter - Composer
- Traditional - Composer
- Van Morrison - Composer
- William Blake - Composer
- Woody Guthrie - Composer
- Charlie Llewellin - Engineer
- Derek Bolland - Engineer
- Kenny Jones - Producer, Engineer
- Peter Haigh - Engineer
- Step Parikian - Engineer
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