Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Greetings to the New Brunette
  3:31
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Train Train
  2:12
  4.0 ★
• 3
  The Marriage
  2:31
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Ideology
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Levi Stubbs’ Tears
  3:31
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Honey I’m a Big Boy Now
  4:06
  3.0 ★
• 7
  There Is Power in a Union
  2:48
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Help Save the Youth of America
  2:48
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Wishing the Days Away
  2:29
  4.0 ★
• 10
  The Passion
  2:54
  4.0 ★
• 11
  The Warmest Room
  3:57
  4.0 ★
• 12
  The Home Front
  4:10
  4.0 ★
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  Sin City
  3:34
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Deportees
  4:03
  4.0 ★
• 3
  There Is Power in a Union (instrumental)
  3:16
  4.0 ★
• 4
  The Tracks of My Tears
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Wishing the Days Away (alternate version)
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 6
  The Clashing of Ideologies (alternate version)
  2:52
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Greetings to the New Brunette (demo)
  3:57
  4.0 ★
• 8
  A Nurse’s Life Is Full of Woe
  2:48
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Only Bad Signs
  3:10
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Hold the Fort
  1:47
  4.0 ★

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Mermaid Avenue, Vol. II

Mermaid Avenue, Vol. II 2000

Reaching to the Converted

Reaching to the Converted 1999

Mermaid Avenue

Mermaid Avenue 1998

Don’t Try This at Home

Don’t Try This at Home 1991

Release credits

• Billy Bragg
  acoustic guitar [1, 8-9], electric guitar [1, 3-8, 10-12], slide guitar [9], vocal [1-12]
• Bobby Valentino
  violin [2], violin family [9]
• Dave Woodhead
  flugelhorn [3, 5, 12], trumpet [3, 5, 12]
• George Shilling
  percussion [1, 3-12]
• John Porter
  bass guitar [1, 3, 11], mandolin [8-9], producer [1-12], slide guitar [1]
• Johnny Marr
  electric guitar [1, 10]
• Ken Craddock
  piano [6, 11]
• Kenny Jones
  percussion [1, 3-12], producer [1-12]
• Kirsty MacColl
  vocal [1, 10]
• Simon Moreton
  percussion [1, 5]

Issues

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  Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

  12" Vinyl
  22 September 1986
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  Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

  CD
  1986
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  Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

  CD
  1986
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  Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

  12" Vinyl
  1986
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  T
  Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

  CD
  1986
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  T
  Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

  12" Vinyl
  1986
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  Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

  CD
  1987
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  Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

  CD
  September 1996
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  Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

  2x CD
  6 March 2006
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  Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

  2x CD
  6 March 2006
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  Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

  2x Digital Media