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

Volume I

Compilation by Billy Bragg

Released 6 March 2006

Tracklist

CD 1: Life's a Riot Why Spy vs Spy
1
The Milkman of Human Kindness
2:48
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
1:20
3.5 ★
CD 2: Bonus CD
1
Strange Things Happen (Alternate Version)
3:19
2
The Cloth (Version 1)
2:50
3
Love Lives Here
1:42
4
Speedway Hero
2:39
5
Loving You Too Long
2:51
6
This Guitar Says Sorry (Alternate Version)
2:14
7
Love Gets Dangerous (Alternate Version)
2:32
8
The Cloth (Version 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 a 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: Bonus CD
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: Bonus CD
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
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 (2)
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 (Live)
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 ★
DVD-Video 8: Here and There
1
There Is A Power In A Union (East Berlin DDR, 1986-02)
2
Between The Wars (East Berlin DDR, 1986-02)
3
Nicaragua Nicaragua (Nicaragua, 1987-07)
4
I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
5
To Have And To Have Not (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
6
The Milkman Of Human Kindness (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
7
Island Of No Return (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
8
Between The Wars (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
9
The World Turned Upside Down (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
10
Levi Stubbs Tears (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
11
Help Save The Youth Of America (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
12
A New England (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
13
Wishing The Days Away (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
14
People Get Ready (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
15
Tupelo Honey (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
16
Star (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)
17
A13, Trunk Road To The Sea (Lithuania USSR, 1988-05)

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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 [5.1-12, 7.1-7, 1.1-7]
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 [7.8-14, 4.10-11, 3.1-11], percussion [1, 3-12], producer [4.10-11, 5.1-12, 7.8-14]
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]

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