The Roaring Forty: 1983-2023 (Super Deluxe Edition) CD / Box Set (Limited Edition)
by Billy Bragg
CD / Box Set (Limited Edition)
Description
The career spanning 14 CD box set, contains more than 300 tracks including highlights from each of Billy's twelve studio albums, non-album singles and B-sides, session tracks, rare live recordings, collaborations and previously unreleased material from across his career. The 14 CD box set is packaged with a 12-inch sized perfect bound book containing images of 40 significant objects from Billy's career, each stunningly photographed and accompanied by descriptions and reminiscences by the man himself. To be expected from a career that has straddled many genres, Billy has worked with a wealth of celebrated musicians from different musical backgrounds that appear on this box set.
Track Listing
Disc 1
- The Milkman of Human Kindness
- To Have and to Have Not
- Richard
- A New England
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
- Lovers Town Revisited
- Strange Things Happen
- The Cloth 1
- Love Lives Here
- Fear Is a Man's Best Friend (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- Love Gets Dangerous (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- Speedway Hero
- Loving You Too Long
- This Guitar Says Sorry (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- Strange Things Happen (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The Guitar Says Sorry
- A New England (Live ICA New York Rock Week, 01/05/84)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (Live ICA New York Rock Week, 01/05/84)
- Love Gets Dangerous
- The Cloth 2
- The Busy Girl Buys Beauty (Live ICA New York Rock Week, 01/05/84)
- A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
- Fear Is a Man's Best Friend
- A New England (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- Strange Things Happen (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- The Guitar Says Sorry (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- Love Gets Dangerous (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- Fear Is a Man's Best Friend (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- A13, Trunk Road to the Sea (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- The Busy Girl Buys Beauty (Live at the ICA, London, 5th January 1984)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (Live at the ICA, London, 5th January 1984)
- A New England (Live at the ICA, London, 5th January 1984)
Disc 2
- It Says Here
- Love Gets Dangerous
- The Myth of Trust
- From a Vauxhall Velox
- The Saturday Boy
- Island of No Return
- St. Swithin's Day
- Like Soldiers Do
- This Guitar Says Sorry
- Strange Things Happen
- A Lover Sings
- It Must Be a River
- Won't Talk About It
- Talking Wag Club Blues
- You Got the Power
- The Last Time
- Back to the Old House
- A Lover Sings
- Between the Wars
- Which Side Are You On?
- The World Turned Upside Down
- It Says Here (Different Version)
- Days Like These
- I Don't Need This Pressure Ron
- Scholarship Is the Enemy of Romance
- Between the Wars (Live at Festival Des Politischen Lides, Berlin GDR, February 1986)
Disc 3
- Greetings to the New Brunette
- Train, Train
- The Marriage
- Ideology
- Levi Stubbs' Tears
- Honey I'm a Big Boy Now
- There Is Power in a Union
- Help Save the Youth of America
- Wishing the Days Away
- The Passion
- The Warmest Room
- The Home Front
- Shirley
- The Tracks of My Tears
- Wishing the Days Away
- The Clashing of Ideologies
- A Nurse's Life Is Full of Woe
- Only Bad Signs
- Hold the Fort
- Think Again
- Walk Away Renee (Feat. Johnny Marr)
- The Tatler
- Deportees (Feat. Hank Wangford)
- Jeane
- Sin City (Feat. Hank Wangford)
Disc 4
- She's Got a New Spell
- Must I Paint You a Picture?
- Tender Comrade
- The Price I Pay
- Little Time Bomb
- Rotting On Remand
- Valentine's Day Is Over
- Life With the Lions
- The Only One
- The Short Answer
- Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
- The Price I Pay
- Love Has No Pride
- That's Entertainment
- She's Got a New Spell
- Little Time Bomb
- Bad Penny
- Reason to Believe (Live at Club Soda, Montreal, 11/01/88)
- Raglan Road (Live at Womad Festival Toronto, August 1989)
- She's Leaving Home
- Wishing the Days Away (Ballad Version)
- Won't Talk About It (Feat. Norman Cook)
Disc 5
- The Internationale
- I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
- The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
- Blake's Jerusalem
- Nicaragua Nicaraguita
- The Red Flag
- My Youngest Son Came Home Today
- Joe Hill (Feat. The Pattersons)
- This Land Is Your Land
- Never Cross a Picket Line
- A Change Is Gonna Come
- A Miner's Life
- Introduction
- Help Save the Youth of America
- Think Again
- Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto
- Days Like These (DC Remix)
- To Have and to Have Not
- There Is Power in a Union (Feat. The Pattersons)
- Levi Stubbs Tears (Live in Canada, 1991)
- Idealogy (Live in Canada, 1991)
- The Short Answer (Live in Canada, 1991)
- Seven & Seven Is
Disc 6
- Accident Waiting to Happen
- Moving the Goalposts
- Everywhere
- Cindy of a Thousand Lives
- You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
- Trust
- God's Footballer
- The Few
- Sexuality
- Mother of the Bride
- Tank Park Salute
- Dolphins
- North Sea Bubble
- Rumours of War
- Wish You Were Her
- Body of Water
- Bad Penny
- Ontario, Quebec and Me
- Bread and Circuses
- Heart Like a Wheel
- Accident Waiting to Happen (Red Star Version)
- Sulk
- Revolution
Disc 7
- From Red to Blue
- Upfield
- Everybody Loves You Babe
- Sugardaddy
- A Pict Song
- Brickbat
- The Space Race Is Over
- Northern Industrial Town
- The Fourteenth of February
- King James Version
- Goalhanger
- The Boy Done Good (Extended Edit)
- Run Out of Reasons
- Just One Victory
- The Boy Done Good
- Qualifications
- Sugardaddy (Smokey Gets in Your Ears Mix)
- Never Had No One Ever
- Rule Nor Reason
- Thatcherites
- Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
Disc 8
- Walt Whitman's Niece
- Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
- Birds and Ships (Feat. Natalie Merchant)
- She Came Along to Me
- Ingrid Bergman
- I Guess I Planted
- Eisler On the Go
- The Unwelcome Guest
- My Flying Saucer
- Hot Rod Hotel
- Stetson Kennedy
- All You Fascists
- Meanest Man
- Black Wind Blowing
- Bugeye Jim
- My Thirty Thousand
- Ought to Be Satisfied Now
- Go Down to the Water
- Jailcell Blues
- Don't You Marry
- Give Me a Nail
- Union Prayer
- Be Kind to the Boy On the Road
- I'm Out to Get
Disc 9
- St. Monday
- Jane Allen
- Distant Shore
- England, Half English
- NPWA
- Some Days I See the Point
- Baby Faroukh
- Take Down the Union Jack
- Another Kind of Judy
- He'll Go Down
- Dreadbelly
- The Tears of My Tracks
- Mystery Shoes
- England, Half English (7" Remix)
- Take Down the Union Jack (Band Version)
- Yarra Song
- You Pulled the Carpet Out
- Christ for President (Live October/November 1999)
- California Stars (Live October/November 1999)
- Hoodoo Ska Voodoo (Live October/November 1999)
- My Father's Mansion (Feat. Eliza Carthy)
- England Half English Meets John Barleycorn (Feat. Billy Bragg)
Disc 10
- I Keep Faith
- I Almost Killed You
- M for Me
- The Beach Is Free
- Sing Their Souls Back Home
- You Make Me Brave
- Something Happened
- Mr. Love and Justice
- If You Ever Leave
- O Freedom
- The Johnny Carcinogenic Show
- Farm Boy
- Ash Wednesday (Band Version)
- Like Soldiers Do
- The Price of Oil
- Down in the Willow Garden
- Old Clash Fan Fight Song
- The Big Lie
- Home
- Same Again
- There Will Be a Reckoning (Pressure Drop Version)
- All You Fascists 2010
- Tomorrow's Going to Be a Better Day (Pressure Drop Version)
- The Battle of Barking
- A New England
Disc 11
- January Song
- No One Knows Nothing Anymore
- Handyman Blues
- I Ain't Got No Home
- Swallow My Pride
- Do Unto Others
- Over You
- Goodbye, Goodbye
- There Will Be a Reckoning
- Chasing Rainbows
- Your Name On My Tongue
- Tomorrow's Going to Be a Better Day
- We're Following the Wrong Star
- Never Buy the Sun
- Last Flight to Abu Dhabi
- Constitution Hill
- Lay Down Your Weary Tune
- Song of the Iceberg
- There Is Power in a Union (Pride OST Version)
- Hope St.
- Kilroy Was Here
- Sunday Morning (Feat. Courtney Barnett)
Disc 12
- Rock Island Line
- The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore
- The Midnight Special
- Railroad Bill
- Lonesome Whistle
- KC Moan
- Waiting for a Train
- In the Pines
- Gentle On My Mind
- Hobo's Lullaby
- Railroading On the Great Divide
- John Henry
- Early Morning Rain
- Why We Build the Wall (Live at Buxton Opera House, 21/01/2017)
- The Midnight Special (Live at Buxton Opera House, 21/01/2017)
- The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore (Live at Buxton Opera House, 21/01/2017)
- The Sleep of Reason
- King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood
- Why We Build the Wall
- Saffiyah Smiles
- Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
- Full English Brexit
Disc 13
- Should Have Seen It Coming
- Mid-century Modern
- Lonesome Ocean
- Good Days and Bad Days
- Freedom Doesn't Come for Free
- Reflections On the Mirth of Creativity
- The Million Things That Never Happened
- The Buck Doesn't Stop Here No More
- I Believe in You
- Pass It On
- I Will Be Your Shield
- Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained
- Sulk
- Moving the Goalposts
- Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained
- The Million Things That Never Happened
- King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood
- Mid-century Modern
- Cindy of a Thousand Lives
- Lonesome Ocean
Disc 14
- Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) [live in Australia 1985]
- The Internationale (Feat. Pete Seeger)
- Salt of the Earth (Feat. Peter Buck)
- My Youngest Son Came Home Today (Feat. Michael Stipe)
- PF Sloan (Feat. Mike Mills)
- Darling, Let's Have Another Baby (Feat. Kirsty MacColl)
- If I Had a Hammer (Feat. Eliza Carthy)
- Slipknot
- Martching Out from Selma
- When the Ship Comes In (Live at the Barbican, September 2005)
- Don't Do It Liza (Feat. KT Tunstall) [live at AIR Studio, London, 24th February 2004]
- The Drugs Don't Work (Feat. KT Tunstall) [live at AIR Studio, London, 24th February 2004]
- I Ain't Got No Home (Feat. KT Tunstall) [live at AIR Studio, London, 24th February 2004]
- On a Good Day (Live at AIR Studios, London, 24th February 2004)
- Talkin' World War III Blues (Live at AIR Studios, London, 24th February 2004)
- The Rebels of '48
- An English Revolutionary
- Ballots and Bread
- Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
- If We Make It Through December
- Springhill
- Can't Be There Today
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:CD / Box Set (Limited Edition)
- Label:Cooking Vinyl
- Genre:Rock/Pop
- Release Date:27/10/2023
- Number of Discs:14
- EAN:0711297536256
Track Listing
Disc 1
- The Milkman of Human Kindness
- To Have and to Have Not
- Richard
- A New England
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
- Lovers Town Revisited
- Strange Things Happen
- The Cloth 1
- Love Lives Here
- Fear Is a Man's Best Friend (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- Love Gets Dangerous (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- Speedway Hero
- Loving You Too Long
- This Guitar Says Sorry (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- Strange Things Happen (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The Guitar Says Sorry
- A New England (Live ICA New York Rock Week, 01/05/84)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (Live ICA New York Rock Week, 01/05/84)
- Love Gets Dangerous
- The Cloth 2
- The Busy Girl Buys Beauty (Live ICA New York Rock Week, 01/05/84)
- A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
- Fear Is a Man's Best Friend
- A New England (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- Strange Things Happen (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- The Guitar Says Sorry (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- Love Gets Dangerous (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- Fear Is a Man's Best Friend (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- A13, Trunk Road to the Sea (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
- The Busy Girl Buys Beauty (Live at the ICA, London, 5th January 1984)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (Live at the ICA, London, 5th January 1984)
- A New England (Live at the ICA, London, 5th January 1984)
Disc 2
- It Says Here
- Love Gets Dangerous
- The Myth of Trust
- From a Vauxhall Velox
- The Saturday Boy
- Island of No Return
- St. Swithin's Day
- Like Soldiers Do
- This Guitar Says Sorry
- Strange Things Happen
- A Lover Sings
- It Must Be a River
- Won't Talk About It
- Talking Wag Club Blues
- You Got the Power
- The Last Time
- Back to the Old House
- A Lover Sings
- Between the Wars
- Which Side Are You On?
- The World Turned Upside Down
- It Says Here (Different Version)
- Days Like These
- I Don't Need This Pressure Ron
- Scholarship Is the Enemy of Romance
- Between the Wars (Live at Festival Des Politischen Lides, Berlin GDR, February 1986)
Disc 3
- Greetings to the New Brunette
- Train, Train
- The Marriage
- Ideology
- Levi Stubbs' Tears
- Honey I'm a Big Boy Now
- There Is Power in a Union
- Help Save the Youth of America
- Wishing the Days Away
- The Passion
- The Warmest Room
- The Home Front
- Shirley
- The Tracks of My Tears
- Wishing the Days Away
- The Clashing of Ideologies
- A Nurse's Life Is Full of Woe
- Only Bad Signs
- Hold the Fort
- Think Again
- Walk Away Renee (Feat. Johnny Marr)
- The Tatler
- Deportees (Feat. Hank Wangford)
- Jeane
- Sin City (Feat. Hank Wangford)
Disc 4
- She's Got a New Spell
- Must I Paint You a Picture?
- Tender Comrade
- The Price I Pay
- Little Time Bomb
- Rotting On Remand
- Valentine's Day Is Over
- Life With the Lions
- The Only One
- The Short Answer
- Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
- The Price I Pay
- Love Has No Pride
- That's Entertainment
- She's Got a New Spell
- Little Time Bomb
- Bad Penny
- Reason to Believe (Live at Club Soda, Montreal, 11/01/88)
- Raglan Road (Live at Womad Festival Toronto, August 1989)
- She's Leaving Home
- Wishing the Days Away (Ballad Version)
- Won't Talk About It (Feat. Norman Cook)
Disc 5
- The Internationale
- I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
- The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
- Blake's Jerusalem
- Nicaragua Nicaraguita
- The Red Flag
- My Youngest Son Came Home Today
- Joe Hill (Feat. The Pattersons)
- This Land Is Your Land
- Never Cross a Picket Line
- A Change Is Gonna Come
- A Miner's Life
- Introduction
- Help Save the Youth of America
- Think Again
- Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto
- Days Like These (DC Remix)
- To Have and to Have Not
- There Is Power in a Union (Feat. The Pattersons)
- Levi Stubbs Tears (Live in Canada, 1991)
- Idealogy (Live in Canada, 1991)
- The Short Answer (Live in Canada, 1991)
- Seven & Seven Is
Disc 6
- Accident Waiting to Happen
- Moving the Goalposts
- Everywhere
- Cindy of a Thousand Lives
- You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
- Trust
- God's Footballer
- The Few
- Sexuality
- Mother of the Bride
- Tank Park Salute
- Dolphins
- North Sea Bubble
- Rumours of War
- Wish You Were Her
- Body of Water
- Bad Penny
- Ontario, Quebec and Me
- Bread and Circuses
- Heart Like a Wheel
- Accident Waiting to Happen (Red Star Version)
- Sulk
- Revolution
Disc 7
- From Red to Blue
- Upfield
- Everybody Loves You Babe
- Sugardaddy
- A Pict Song
- Brickbat
- The Space Race Is Over
- Northern Industrial Town
- The Fourteenth of February
- King James Version
- Goalhanger
- The Boy Done Good (Extended Edit)
- Run Out of Reasons
- Just One Victory
- The Boy Done Good
- Qualifications
- Sugardaddy (Smokey Gets in Your Ears Mix)
- Never Had No One Ever
- Rule Nor Reason
- Thatcherites
- Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
Disc 8
- Walt Whitman's Niece
- Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
- Birds and Ships (Feat. Natalie Merchant)
- She Came Along to Me
- Ingrid Bergman
- I Guess I Planted
- Eisler On the Go
- The Unwelcome Guest
- My Flying Saucer
- Hot Rod Hotel
- Stetson Kennedy
- All You Fascists
- Meanest Man
- Black Wind Blowing
- Bugeye Jim
- My Thirty Thousand
- Ought to Be Satisfied Now
- Go Down to the Water
- Jailcell Blues
- Don't You Marry
- Give Me a Nail
- Union Prayer
- Be Kind to the Boy On the Road
- I'm Out to Get
Disc 9
- St. Monday
- Jane Allen
- Distant Shore
- England, Half English
- NPWA
- Some Days I See the Point
- Baby Faroukh
- Take Down the Union Jack
- Another Kind of Judy
- He'll Go Down
- Dreadbelly
- The Tears of My Tracks
- Mystery Shoes
- England, Half English (7" Remix)
- Take Down the Union Jack (Band Version)
- Yarra Song
- You Pulled the Carpet Out
- Christ for President (Live October/November 1999)
- California Stars (Live October/November 1999)
- Hoodoo Ska Voodoo (Live October/November 1999)
- My Father's Mansion (Feat. Eliza Carthy)
- England Half English Meets John Barleycorn (Feat. Billy Bragg)
Disc 10
- I Keep Faith
- I Almost Killed You
- M for Me
- The Beach Is Free
- Sing Their Souls Back Home
- You Make Me Brave
- Something Happened
- Mr. Love and Justice
- If You Ever Leave
- O Freedom
- The Johnny Carcinogenic Show
- Farm Boy
- Ash Wednesday (Band Version)
- Like Soldiers Do
- The Price of Oil
- Down in the Willow Garden
- Old Clash Fan Fight Song
- The Big Lie
- Home
- Same Again
- There Will Be a Reckoning (Pressure Drop Version)
- All You Fascists 2010
- Tomorrow's Going to Be a Better Day (Pressure Drop Version)
- The Battle of Barking
- A New England
Disc 11
- January Song
- No One Knows Nothing Anymore
- Handyman Blues
- I Ain't Got No Home
- Swallow My Pride
- Do Unto Others
- Over You
- Goodbye, Goodbye
- There Will Be a Reckoning
- Chasing Rainbows
- Your Name On My Tongue
- Tomorrow's Going to Be a Better Day
- We're Following the Wrong Star
- Never Buy the Sun
- Last Flight to Abu Dhabi
- Constitution Hill
- Lay Down Your Weary Tune
- Song of the Iceberg
- There Is Power in a Union (Pride OST Version)
- Hope St.
- Kilroy Was Here
- Sunday Morning (Feat. Courtney Barnett)
Disc 12
- Rock Island Line
- The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore
- The Midnight Special
- Railroad Bill
- Lonesome Whistle
- KC Moan
- Waiting for a Train
- In the Pines
- Gentle On My Mind
- Hobo's Lullaby
- Railroading On the Great Divide
- John Henry
- Early Morning Rain
- Why We Build the Wall (Live at Buxton Opera House, 21/01/2017)
- The Midnight Special (Live at Buxton Opera House, 21/01/2017)
- The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore (Live at Buxton Opera House, 21/01/2017)
- The Sleep of Reason
- King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood
- Why We Build the Wall
- Saffiyah Smiles
- Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
- Full English Brexit
Disc 13
- Should Have Seen It Coming
- Mid-century Modern
- Lonesome Ocean
- Good Days and Bad Days
- Freedom Doesn't Come for Free
- Reflections On the Mirth of Creativity
- The Million Things That Never Happened
- The Buck Doesn't Stop Here No More
- I Believe in You
- Pass It On
- I Will Be Your Shield
- Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained
- Sulk
- Moving the Goalposts
- Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained
- The Million Things That Never Happened
- King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood
- Mid-century Modern
- Cindy of a Thousand Lives
- Lonesome Ocean
Disc 14
- Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) [live in Australia 1985]
- The Internationale (Feat. Pete Seeger)
- Salt of the Earth (Feat. Peter Buck)
- My Youngest Son Came Home Today (Feat. Michael Stipe)
- PF Sloan (Feat. Mike Mills)
- Darling, Let's Have Another Baby (Feat. Kirsty MacColl)
- If I Had a Hammer (Feat. Eliza Carthy)
- Slipknot
- Martching Out from Selma
- When the Ship Comes In (Live at the Barbican, September 2005)
- Don't Do It Liza (Feat. KT Tunstall) [live at AIR Studio, London, 24th February 2004]
- The Drugs Don't Work (Feat. KT Tunstall) [live at AIR Studio, London, 24th February 2004]
- I Ain't Got No Home (Feat. KT Tunstall) [live at AIR Studio, London, 24th February 2004]
- On a Good Day (Live at AIR Studios, London, 24th February 2004)
- Talkin' World War III Blues (Live at AIR Studios, London, 24th February 2004)
- The Rebels of '48
- An English Revolutionary
- Ballots and Bread
- Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
- If We Make It Through December
- Springhill
- Can't Be There Today
Information
-
Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:CD / Box Set (Limited Edition)
- Label:Cooking Vinyl
- Genre:Rock/Pop
- Release Date:27/10/2023
- Number of Discs:14
- EAN:0711297536256