Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
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Artist: Billy BraggEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Music Label: Yep Roc Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- 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
- SIN CITY
- DEPORTEES
- THERE IS POWER IN A UNION (inst.)
- TRACKS OF MY TEARS
- WISHING THE DAYS AWAY (alt.)
- THE CLASHING OF IDEOLOGIES
- GREETINGS TO THE NEW BRUNETTE (demo)
- A NURSE'S LIFE IS FULL OF WOE
- ONLY BAD SIGNS
- HOLD THE FORT
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Free Music Review: Billy Bragg's Crowning Acheivement
Hit: 5 Stars
He was edgier when he first got started, more produced later on, but this would be the moment when Billy Bragg arrived and America finally started to pay attention. Levi Stubbs' Tears is, without a doubt, one of the finest love songs in the English language.
A one man Clash, indeed.
I was lucky enough to see him at UCLA in 1987. He is even better live.
Talking with the Taxman About Poetry Poster
Billy Bragg, once-described as a "one-man Clash," has spent the last two decades writing and performing passionate, witty, socially conscious music. This is a reissue of Talking with the Taxman About Poetry, Billy's 1985 album, about which Rolling Stone glowed, "On this album, cheerfully subtitled 'The difficult Third Album,' Bragg expands his pared-down sound ever-so-slightly (violin here, piano and tambourine there). While purists might bitch, the result is a winning mesh, as clever as Elvis Costello, as melodic as Ray Davies and as rocking as Chuck Berry."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 McGonigal
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