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.
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.
