Volume I

Tracklist

• CD 1: Life's a Riot With Spy vs. Spy
• 1
  The Milkman of Human Kindness
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 2
  To Have and to Have Not
  2:33
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Richard
  2:51
  3.0 ★
• 4
  A New England
  2:14
  4.8 ★
• 5
  The Man in the Iron Mask
  2:13
  3.0 ★
• 6
  The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
  1:58
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Lovers Town Revisited
  1:19
  3.5 ★
• CD 2: Life's a Riot With Spy vs. Spy: bonus disc
• 1
  Strange Things Happen (alternative version)
  3:19
• 2
  The Cloth (1)
  2:50
• 3
  Love Lies Here
  1:42
• 4
  Speedway Hero
  2:39
• 5
  Loving You Too Long
  2:51
• 6
  This Guitar Says Sorry (alternative version)
  2:14
• 7
  Love Gets Dangerous (alternative version)
  2:32
• 8
  The Cloth (2)
  2:47
• 9
  The Man in the Iron Mask (alternative version)
  2:17
• 10
  A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
  2:27
• 11
  Fear Is Man's Best Friend
  2:32
• CD 3: Brewing Up With Billy Bragg
• 1
  It Says Here
  4:18
• 2
  Love Gets Dangerous
  2:23
  4.0 ★
• 3
  The Myth of Trust
  2:54
• 4
  From a Vauxhall Velox
  2:31
• 5
  The Saturday Boy
  3:30
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Island of No Return
  3:37
  4.0 ★
• 7
  St. Swithin's Day
  3:54
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Like Soldiers Do
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 9
  This Guitar Says Sorry
  2:31
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Strange Things Happen
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 11
  A Lover Sings
  3:54
  4.0 ★
• CD 4: Brewing Up With Billy Bragg: bonus disc
• 1
  It Must Be a River
  2:19
• 2
  Won't Talk About It
  5:06
• 3
  Talking Wag Club Blues
  2:59
• 4
  You Got the Power
  3:10
• 5
  The Last Time
  2:55
• 6
  Back to the Old House
  2:53
• 7
  A Lover Sings (alternative version)
  3:58
• 8
  Which Side Are You On?
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 9
  It Says Here (alternative version)
  2:36
• 10
  Between the Wars
  2:30
  4.0 ★
• 11
  The World Turned Upside Down
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• CD 5: Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
• 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
  4:07
  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
  4:12
  4.0 ★
• CD 6: Talking With the Taxman About Poetry: bonus disc
• 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 (alternative version)
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 6
  The Clashing of Ideologies (alternative 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 ★
• CD 7: The Internationale
• 1
  The Internationale
  3:49
  3.0 ★
• 2
  I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
  1:29
  3.0 ★
• 3
  The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
  4:00
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Blake's Jerusalem
  2:31
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Nicaragua Nicaraguita
  1:08
  3.0 ★
• 6
  The Red Flag
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 7
  My Youngest Son Came Home Today
  3:08
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Introduction (live)
  0:57
  2.0 ★
• 9
  Help Save the Youth of America (live)
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Think Again (live)
  4:21
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (live)
  3:09
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Days Like These (DC remix)
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 13
  To Have and to Have Not (live)
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 14
  There Is Power in a Union

  feat. The Pattersons
  3:27
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Joe Hill
  8:23
  3.0 ★
• 16
  This Land Is Your Land
  4:35
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Never Cross a Picket Line
  3:38
  3.0 ★
• 18
  A Change Is Gonna Come
  3:58
  3.0 ★
• 19
  A Miner's Life
  3:01
  3.0 ★

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Reaching to the Converted

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Don’t Try This at Home

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Release credits

• Billy Bragg
  acoustic guitar [1, 8-9], arranger [8], electric guitar [7.3, 7.6, 5.1, 5.3-8, 5.10-12], guitar [7.7, 1.1-7], slide guitar [9], vocal [1.1-7, 5.1-12, 7.1-7]
• Bobby Valentino
  violin [2], violin family [9]
• Cara Tivey
  piano [1, 4, 7], shakuhachi [7], vocal [4]
• Charlie Llewellin
  cymbal [3], membranophone [3]
• Cory Band
  brass [1]
• Côr Cochion Caerdydd
  vocal [1]
• Dave Woodhead
  flugelhorn [3, 5, 12], trumpet [3, 5, 12]
• David Bedford
  arranger [1], conductor [1]
• Dick Gaughan
  vocal [6]
• George Shilling
  percussion [1, 3-12]
• Grant Showbiz
  producer [1-7, 17], vocal [3]
• Jim Sutherland
  bodhrán [6], percussion [6]
• John Porter
  bass guitar [1, 3, 11], mandolin [8-9], producer [1-12], slide guitar [1]
• Johnny Marr
  electric guitar [1, 10], guitar [7], tambourine [7], vocal [7]
• Ken Craddock
  piano [6, 11]
• Kenny Jones
  engineer [4.10-11, 7.8-14, 3.1-11], percussion [1, 3-12], producer [7.8-14, 5.1-12, 4.10-11]
• Kirsty MacColl
  vocal [1, 10]
• Lorraine Bowen
  accordion [3], clarinet [3], piano [3], pipe organ [3], sopranino recorder [3, 7]
• Marc Duff
  tin whistle [6]
• Oliver Hitch
  engineer [1-7], producer [1-7], recording [1-7]
• Simon Moreton
  percussion [1, 5]
• Ted de Bono
  producer [1-11]
• Wiggy
  bass guitar [3], producer [1-7], recording [7], vocal [3]
• Show all credits (23)

Issues

• V
  (Combined release view)
• 

  V
  Volume I

  8x Digital Media
  6 March 2006
• V
  Volume I

  7x CD
  9 October 2006
• 

  V
  Volume I

  7x CD, DVD-Video (The Utility Version)
  2006