Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
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Artist: Billy BraggEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Greetings to the New Brunette
- Train Train - Billy Bragg, DeFleur, Zenon
- 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
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Free Music Review: Yes, this album is dangerous
Hit: 5 Stars
This is his second best album, but only slightly. If you do not like unions, equality and taking care of your fellow man, he is not for you! I have had this album since 1991 and still listen to it regularly (I realize that "every day" would be an exageration). I love the "thick" accent and have gotten used to it over time. His web site has covers other bands have done of some of these songs, but I can't get into it without him singing it. Very good listen....
Talking with the Taxman About Poetry Poster
Billy Bragg's third full-length album, 1986's Talking with the Taxman About Poetry, is an uncompromised refinement of his brash, anti-Thatcher, busking-bloke persona. Bragg's palette stretches beyond the jagged-rhythmic-guitar-plus-curious-voice approach of the first two albums: "Ideology" and "Marriage" see the addition of horns and piano, "Train Train" adds violin, and singer Kirsty MacColl and guitarist Johnny Marr make guest appearances. The slashing, lovely "Levi Stubbs' Tears," a sad slice-of-life number told from a woman's perspective, showcases the singer-songwriter's ability to write well beyond protest songs. And only Bragg could pen a love song such as "Greetings to the New Brunette" and pull it off. In an off-key yet warm warble, he almost croons, "Shirley, your sexual politics have left me all of a muddle / Shirley, we are joined in the ideological cuddle," one of pop's most delightfully awkward rhymes. And then of course there are the protest songs, such as bracing, simple, Woody Guthrie-ish "There Is Power in a Union." The record's title is taken from a 1926 poem by the poet of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Mayakovsky. --Mike McGonigalAlternative Rock Music CDs
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