Biography

Finding inspiration in the righteous anger of punk rock and the socially conscious folk tradition of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg was the leading figure of the anti-folk movement of the '80s. While his lyrics were bitingly intelligent and clever, they were also warm and humane, filled with detail and wit. Throughout the '80s, he managed to chart consistently in Britain, yet he only gathered a cult following in America, which could be due to the fact that he sang about distinctly British subject matter, both politically and socially. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• A Lover Sings

• A New England

• A13, Trunk Road To The Sea

• Accident Waiting To Happen

• All You Fascists

• Baby Faroukh

• Between The Wars

• Billericay Dickie

• Brickbat

• California Stars

• Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto

• England, Half English

• Everybody Loves You Babe

• Farm Boy

• Greetings To The New Brunette

• He'll Go Down

• Help Save The Youth Of America

• I Almost Killed You

• I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night

• Ingrid Bergman

• Levi Stubbs' Tears

• Little Time Bomb

• Love Gets Dangerous

• Lovers Town

• Must I Paint You A Picture?

• My Flying Saucer

• My Youngest Son Came Home Today

• Never Had No One Ever

• Northern Industrial Town

• Npwa

• Ontario, Quebec And Me

• Piccadilly Rambler

• Qualifications

• Revolution

• Rule Nor Reason

• Sexuality

• She's Got A New Spell

• She's Leaving Home

• Shirley

• Sing Their Souls Back Home

• St. Swithin's Day

• Stetson Kennedy

• Sugardaddy

• Sulk

• Take Down The Union Jack

• Tank Park Salute

• That's Entertainment

• The Boy Done Good

• The Fourteenth Of February

• The Marriage

• The Milkman Of Human Kindness

• The Price I Pay

• The Saturday Boy

• There Is Power In A Union

• This Guitar Says Sorry

• Tighten Up Your Wig

• To Have And To Have Not

• Valentine's Day Is Over

• Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

• Walt Whitman's Niece

• Which Side Are You On?

• You Woke Up My Neighbourhood

Discography

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• Mr. Love & Justice

  Anti

  2008

• Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2

  Elektra

  2000

• Mermaid Avenue

  Elektra

  1998

• William Bloke

  Elektra

  1996

• Don't Try This at Home

  Go! Discs/Elektra

  1991

• Talking with the Taxman About Poetry

  Go! Discs/Elektra

  1986

• Brewing Up with Billy Bragg

  Cooking Vinyl Records

  1984