Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg explained
Italic Title: | force |
Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg |
Type: | greatest |
Artist: | Billy Bragg |
Cover: | Must I Paint You a Picture.jpg |
Released: | October 28, 2003 |
Recorded: | 1983–2001 |
Genre: | Rock |
Length: | 2:47:22 |
Label: | Elektra (UK), Rhino (US) |
Producer: | Grant Showbiz, Oliver Hitch, Edward de Bono, John Porter, Kenny Jones |
Prev Title: | England, Half English |
Prev Year: | 2002 |
Next Title: | Volume 1 |
Next Year: | 2006 |
Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg, is a three CD collection of Billy Bragg's greatest hits and B-sides, released on October 28, 2003. It consists of a double album and a disc of ten extras. Subscribers to Billy's website voted on their favourite tracks and these votes were used to compile the CD collection.
Track listing
Disc one
- "A New England"
- "Man in the Iron Mask"
- "Milkman of Human Kindness"
- "To Have and to Have Not"
- "A Lover Sings"
- "St. Swithin's Day"
- "Saturday Boy"
- "Between the Wars"
- "World Turned Upside Down"
- "Levi Stubbs' Tears"
- "Walk Away Renee"
- "Greetings to the New Brunette"
- "There is Power in a Union"
- "Help Save the Youth of America"
- "Warmest Room"
- "Must I Paint You a Picture?"
- "She's Got a New Spell"
- "Price I Pay"
- "Valentine's Day is Over"
- "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards"
Disc two
- "Sexuality"
- "Cindy of a Thousand Lives"
- "Moving the Goalposts"
- "Tank Park Salute"
- "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood"
- "Accident Waiting to Happen" (Red Stars Version)
- "Sulk"
- "Upfield"
- "The Fourteenth of February"
- "Brickbat"
- "The Space Race is Over"
- "Boy Done Good"
- "Ingrid Bergman"
- "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key"
- "My Flying Saucer"
- "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" (Blokes version)
- "NPWA (No Power Without Accountability)"
- "St. Monday"
- "Some Days I See the Point"
- "Take Down the Union Jack" (Band version)
Disc three
- "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea" (Peel Sessions)
- "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend" (Peel Sessions)
- "Cold and Bitter Tears" (Live)
- "Seven and Seven Is" (, 1990)
- "When Will I See You Again?"
- "Rule nor Reason" (Live)
- "Debris" (Live)
- "Dry Bed" (Demo version)
- "She Smiled Sweetly"
- "Take Down the Union Jack" (King Normal & The Rug remix)
Charts
Notes and References
- Book: Ryan, Gavin. Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. 2011. Moonlight Publishing. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia. pdf. 40.