Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. She's Got a New Spell
2. Must I Paint You a Picture?
3. Tender Comrade
4. Price I Pay
5. Little Time Bomb
6. Rotting on Remand
7. Valentine's Day Is Over
8. Life with the Lions
9. Only One
10. Short Answer
11. Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

Disc 2:

1. Only One [#][*][Demo Version]
2. Price I Pay [#][*][Demo Version]
3. Love Has No Pride [#][*]
4. That's Entertainment [#][*]
5. She's Got a New Spell [#][*][Demo Version]
6. Short Answer [#][*][Demo Version]
7. Little Time Bomb [#][*][Demo Version]
8. Bad Penny [#][*][Demo Version]
9. Reason to Believe [Live][*]
10. Must I Paint You a Picture? [Extended Version][*]
11. Raglan Road [Live][*]

Disc 3:

1. Accident Waiting to Happen
2. Moving the Goalposts
3. Everywhere
4. Cindy of a Thousand Lives
5. You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
6. Trust
7. God's Footballer
8. Few
9. Sexuality
10. Mother of the Bride
11. Tank Park Salute
12. Dolphins
13. North Sea Bubble
14. Rumours of War
15. Wish You Were Her
16. Body of Water

Disc 4:

1. Party of God [*]
2. North Sea Bubble [#][*][Demo Version]
3. Sexuality [#][*][Demo Version]
4. Just One Victory [Alternative Mix][*]
5. Everywhere [Alternative Version][#][*]
6. Trust [#][*][Demo Version]
7. Bread & Circuses [*]
8. Cindy of a Thousand Lives [*][Demo Version]
9. Few [*][Demo Version]
10. Revolution [*]
11. Tighten Up Your Wig [*] - The Athenians, Billy Bragg,
12. MBH [#][*]
13. Gulf Between Us [#][*]
14. Piccadilly Rambler [#][*]

Disc 5:

1. From Red to Blue
2. Upfield
3. Everybody Loves You Babe
4. Sugardaddy
5. Pict Song
6. Brickbat
7. Space Race Is Over
8. Northern Industrial Town
9. Fourteenth of February
10. King James Version
11. Goalhanger

Disc 6:

1. As Long as You Hold Me [#][*][Demo Version]
2. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? [#][*][Demo Version]
3. Sugar Daddy [#][*][Demo Version]
4. Space Race Is Over [#][*][Demo Version]
5. Goalhanger [#][*][Demo Version]
6. Upfield [#][*][Demo Version]
7. Fourteenth of February [#][*][Demo Version]
8. Qualifications [*]
9. Never Had No One Ever [*]
10. Thatcherites [*]
11. All Fall Down [#][*]

Disc 7:

1. St. Monday - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
2. Jane Allen - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
3. Distant Shore - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
4. England, Half English - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
5. NPWA - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
6. Some Days I See the Point - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
7. Baby Faroukh - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
8. Take Down the Union Jack - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
9. Another Kind of Judy - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
10. He'll Go Down - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
11. Dreadbelly - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
12. Tears of My Tracks - Billy Bragg & the Blokes

Disc 8:

1. Billericay Dickie [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
2. Mansion on the Hill [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
3. Glad and Sorry [#][*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
4. He'll Go Down [#][*][Demo Version] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
5. Yarra Song [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
6. You Pulled the Carpet Out [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
7. Mystery Shoes [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
8. Tears of My Tracks [#][*][Demo Version] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
9. Take Down the Union Jack [Band Version][*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
10. England, Half English [7" Remix][*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
11. 1 2 3 4 [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
12. Dry Bed [Band Version][*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
13. Danny Rose [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes
14. She Smiled Sweetly [*] - Billy Bragg & the Blokes

Disc 9:

1. You Woke Up My Neighbourhood [DVD][Live][*]
2. Saturday Boy [DVD][Live][*]
3. Marching Song of the Covert Battalions [DVD][Live][*]
4. World Turned Upside Down [DVD][Live][*]
5. Dolphins [DVD][Live][*]
6. Valentine's Day Is Over [DVD][Live][*]
7. North Sea Bubble [DVD][Live][*]
8. Body of Water [DVD][Live][*]
9. Levi Stubbs' Tears [DVD][Live][*]
10. Lover Sings [DVD][Live][*]
11. She's Got a New Spell [DVD][Live][*]
12. Cindy of a Thousand Lives [DVD][Live][*]
13. Accident Waiting to Happen [DVD][Live][*]
14. Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards [DVD][Live][*]
15. Tender Comrade [DVD][Live][*]
16. Tank Park Salute [DVD][Live][*]
17. Warmest Room [DVD][Live][*]
18. Sexuality [DVD][Live][*]
19. Lover Sings [DVD][Live][*]
20. Price I Pay [DVD][Live][*]
21. Debris [DVD][Live][*]
22. Tank Park Salute [DVD][Live][*]
23. All You Facists [DVD][Live][*]
24. Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards [DVD][Live][*]
25. A13, Trunk Road to the Sea [DVD][Live][*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #96469 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-17
• Number of discs: 9
• Formats: Box set, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: 1.12 pounds

Amazon.com
English singer/songwriter Billy Bragg's Volume 2 box set picks up where Volume 1 left off, but most of the four albums covering 14 years chronicled here involve alterations in the Bragg repertoire: more love songs to balance his social and political rants, and a full band playing behind him. Bragg is nothing if he isn't revolutionary. He mixes adoration ("She's Got a New Spell") and angst ("Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards") on Workers Playtime (1988); covers Fred Neil ("Dolphins") on Don't Try This at Home (1991); puts music to a Rudyard Kipling poem à la Mermaid Avenue ("A Pict Song") on William Bloke (1996); and takes his home country to the woodshed ("Take Down the Union Jack") on England, Half English (2002). The nine-CD package is jammed with demos, alternate versions, and covers (such as a splendid version of the Faces' "Glad and Sorry"), and a bonus DVD provides a look at Bragg in his most comfortable element: on stage at concerts recorded in 1991 and 2006. --Scott Holter

Customer Reviews

Good value - but where are the liner notes and original artworks?
I owned Bragg's early LPs and have for a long time wanted to acquire his other albums. The coverage of Vol.II box is just what I wanted, and a real bargain at $30 for a new set I bought from your Marketplace seller. Enjoyed every bits of the CDs.

Positive: The live DVD is well produced and recorded and plays for almost 2 hours, captured very well his earlier days (1991) and more recent performance (2002?).

Negative: The missing of the orginal album artworks/liner notes is a HUGH minus (though the lyrics are reprinted here). For example, the highly characterized graphic depictions in the original CD booklet for each individual tracks of "Don't try this at home" are all but gone - A big disppointment.