Billy Bragg - Back To Basics (Go Discs AGODP 8) (UK 1987) (Vinyl 24-96 & 16-44.1)

Billy Bragg - Back To Basics
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Cat#: Go Discs AGODP 8 | Country/Year: UK 1987

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Billy Bragg - Back To Basics

Label: Go! Discs
Catalog#: AGODP 8
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 1987
Genre: Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Alternative Rock

Tracklist:

A1 The Milkman Of Human Kindness 2:47
A2 To Have And To Have Not 2:32
A3 Richard 2:49
A4 Lovers Town Revisited 1:17
A5 A New England 1:17
A6 The Man In The Iron Mask 2:13

B1 The Busy Girl Buys Beauty 1:57
B2 It Says Here 4:15
B3 Love Gets Dangerous 2:23
B4 From A Vauxhall Velox 2:30
B5 The Myth Of Trust 2:53

C1 The Saturday Boy 3:28
C2 Island Of No Return 3:34
C3 This Guitar Says Sorry 2:29
C4 Like Soldiers Do 2:38
C5 St. Swithin's Day 3:52

D1 Strange Things Happen 2:38
D2 A Lover Sings 3:51
D3 Between The Wars 2:27
D4 The World Turned Upside Down 2:34
Composed By - Leon Rosselson
D5 Which Side Are You On 2:33
Adapted By - Billy Bragg
Composed By - Florence Reece

Credits:

Composed By - Billy Bragg (tracks: A1 to D3)
Producer - Kenny Jones (3) (tracks: D3 to D5) , Oliver Hitch (tracks: A1 to B1) , Edward De Bono (tracks: B2 to D2)

Notes:

Tracks A1 to B1 originally released as "Life's A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy" mini-album (1983).
Tracks B2 to D2 originally released as "Brewing Up With Billy Bragg" LP (1984).
Tracks D3 to D5 originally released as "Between The Wars" EP (1985).

Discogs Url: http://www.discogs.com/Billy-Bragg-Back-To-Basics/release/408892
Wikipedia Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_Basics_%28Billy_Bragg_album%29

Review

by Mark Deming

After Elektra signed Billy Bragg to his first major-label deal and released Talking With the Taxman About Poetry in 1986, the label decided to do a clean-up job on his back catalog and compiled Back to Basics, which combined the material from Bragg's first three records – Life's a Riot With Spy vs Spy, Brewing Up With Billy Bragg, and Between the Wars – into one two-record set (now available on a single CD). The first seven cuts, from the Life's a Riot EP, are Billy Bragg at his most basic; recorded in an afternoon with no overdubs, the audio is rough and Billy's electric guitar often threatens to drown out his voice, but the performances are game, and Bragg was already writing top-notch songs like "A New England" and "The Milkman of Human Kindness." The next 11 songs were originally released on Bragg's first LP, Brewing Up With Billy Bragg; while the sound is still spare and stark, the engineering is a good bit cleaner than on Life's a Riot, and Billy fleshed out his one-man-with-a-guitar approach to include the occasional vocal and/or guitar overdub, and even guest musicians on two tracks (though the trumpet on "The Saturday Boy" and the organ on "A Lover Sings" hardly count as orchestration). Bragg's performances are even stronger, displaying a charm that didn't quite make it through the sloppy sound of his debut, and his love songs resonated more strongly while his political numbers cut deep (especially "It Says Here" and the harrowing "Island of No Return"). Back to Basics closes with three somber political numbers that first surfaced on Bragg's Between the Wars EP, released when tensions over trade union strikes in the U.K. were at their height – one original ("Between the Wars") and two vintage labor anthems. While the tone is downbeat, the performances are strong and compassionate. While Back to Basics fudges a bit with the sequence of the original material, and there's no reason why both of Bragg's recordings of "It Says Here" couldn't have been included, it's still a strong collection of some of Billy Bragg's most engaging work.

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