Top Five Songs of .... Billy Bragg

Henry Irving

The Bard of Barking

5. The Space race is over - The realisation that we aren't moving onwards towards a brave new world

4. Sexuality - Great song and for the line "I had an uncle who once played/for Red Star Belgrade

3. Levi Stubb's Tears - Best song about an abused wife ever

2. Mr Love and Justice - just a great song and from his last album. He's still got it.

1. Waiting for the great leap forward - "the third world is just around the corner"

DaveMehmet

Milkman of Human Kindness
New England
Between the Wars
Levi Stubbs
Sexuality

falconwood_1

What Dave Mehmet said

Prefer Kirsty McColls version of New England

Dave Rudd

Personally I enjoy his song-writing more than his singing. King James Version, especially as sung by Eliza Carthy, is a seriously good song.

http://www.last.fm/music/Eliza+Carthy/_/King+James+Version

DA9

Personally, I'd like to see him in a sack, with some bricks as weight, floating past the thames barrier whilst I enjoy a cold Fosters in the Anchor.

ps... I dont like him much, the anti British, self loathing, angst riddent champagne socialist cretin.

Ormiston_Addick

[cite]Posted By: DA9[/cite]Personally, I'd like to see him in a sack, with some bricks as weight, floating past the thames barrier whilst I enjoy a cold Fosters in the Anchor.

ps... I dont like him much, the anti British, self loathing, angst riddent champagne socialist cretin.

Free speech is such a truly wonderful thing......

Exiled_Addick

Finest Bill Bragg song isn't even a Billy Brag song, its Bill Bailey's tribute to Billy Bragg 'Unisex Chip Shop'

Daggs

[cite]Posted By: DA9[/cite]Personally, I'd like to see him in a sack, with some bricks as weight, floating past the thames barrier whilst I enjoy a cold Fosters in the Anchor.

ps... I dont like him much, the anti British, self loathing, angst riddent champagne socialist cretin.

That's two of us then DA

Salad

A New England
Greetings To The New Brunette
The Saturday Boy
St. Swithin's Day
Milkman Of Human Kindness

Goonerhater

Shoot him

soapy_jones

Why waste amunition on the left wing twat. The sack option is fine.

DA9

[cite]Posted By: Ormiston Addick[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: DA9[/cite]Personally, I'd like to see him in a sack, with some bricks as weight, floating past the thames barrier whilst I enjoy a cold Fosters in the Anchor.

ps... I dont like him much, the anti British, self loathing, angst riddent champagne socialist cretin.

Free speech is such a truly wonderful thing......

I agree wholeheartedly

(doesnt stop me disliking his views & comments though)

HarryAMuse

Tank Park Salute
Waiting For The Great Leap Forward
Levi Stubbs Tears
New England
Greetings To The New Brunette

aliwibble

I have to admit Billy Bragg's vocals are a bit of an acquired taste, but he writes some bloody good lyrics.
Favourites in no particular order are

A New England - "I saw two shooting stars last night, I wished on them but they were only satellites"
Life With The Lions - "It's taken two fools such as we to make love deaf dumb and blind, now you're upset cos I can't read your mind"
Greetings to The New Brunette - "How can you lie there and think of England, when you don't even know who's in the team?"
Sexuality - "Safe sex doesn't mean no sex, it just means use your imagination"
Must I Paint You A Picture - "...virtue never tested is no virtue at all, and so I lost my ignorance"

Salad

"A13, Trunk Road To The Sea" should get a mention too!

BlackForestReds

ps... I dont like him much, the anti British, self loathing, angst riddent champagne socialist cretin.

.......

A bit ironic you calling someone else a cretin isn't it?

BlackForestReds

In no order...

New England (which gives the lie to him hating England, but whatever).
Levi Stubb's Tears
It says here
I dreamed of Phil Ochs last night
There is power in a union

DA9

[cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]ps... I dont like him much, the anti British, self loathing, angst riddent champagne socialist cretin.

.......

A bit ironic you calling someone else a cretin isn't it?

Ooh, the cutting satire is too much for me

Curb_It

Was Henry wishing to start an argument by posting this topic?

DA9

Well, he is a highly controversial artist, was always going to get comments.

I'm sure if I posted the 5 best songs of skrewdriver or the 4skins etc people would react, not that I would, dont know any of their music, but I would imagine its as controversial.

Exiled_Addick

"In my dreams I would see her, running naked through the woods round Rainham,
If I had some Tigers I'd train 'em
to protect her
from the sexual facism that was lurkin',
round the gherkins!"

Genius!

Goonerhater

Da9 well done fella welcome to the BFR`s your a cretin club.

DA9

[cite]Posted By: Goonerhater[/cite]Da9 well done fella welcome to the BFR`s your a cretin club.

I'm honoured, It means so much (this is me doing by Kate Winslet impression), cry sob, cry, sniffle, sob.

Miserableoldgit

Bragg "sold-out" years ago;
the first couple of albums were masterpieces, but then he started "towing" the (new Labour) party line.
Still love the early stuff tho (especially The "Saturday Girl").

Eltham

[cite]Posted By: Daggs[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: DA9[/cite]Personally, I'd like to see him in a sack, with some bricks as weight, floating past the thames barrier whilst I enjoy a cold Fosters in the Anchor.

ps... I dont like him much, the anti British, self loathing, angst riddent champagne socialist cretin.

That's two of us then DA

Make that three! The guy's a total hypocrite to boot!

Henry Irving

[cite]Posted By: Curb_It[/cite]Was Henry wishing to start an argument by posting this topic?

No, I would have included his cover of "All you Fascists are bound to lose" if I wanted to do that. : - )

I think DA9 is still angry cos Billy wouldn't give him one of his guitars to play : - )

DA9

[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Curb_It[/cite]Was Henry wishing to start an argument by posting this topic?

No, I would have included his cover of "All you Fascists are bound to lose" if I wanted to do that. : - )

I think DA9 is still angry cos Billy wouldn't give him one of his guitars to play : - )

No, just that he's still breathing ;-)

Henry Irving

[cite]Posted By: DA9[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: Curb_It[/cite]Was Henry wishing to start an argument by posting this topic?

No, I would have included his cover of "All you Fascists are bound to lose" if I wanted to do that. : - )

I think DA9 is still angry cos Billy wouldn't give him one of his guitars to play : - )

No, just that he's still breathing ;-)

Not wanting to take this thread down a political dead end but he wrote on the best articles I've read on how the left has let down the white working class and how he could see the reasons that they would vote for the BNP in Barking (where he grew up) even if he disagreed with them. His book "The Progressive Patriot: A Search For Belonging" covers a lot of the same ground.

DA9

[cite]Posted By: floydandharvey[/cite]Billy Bragg left wing? You're having a laugh. Google the bloke, you'll find loads of photos of him shaking hands with the Queen. And half his songs have Britain or England in the title. The guy's far right if he's anything. I won't have nothing to do with him.

Are you taking something?

Goonerhater

Ever herd of Red Wedge who Brag was at the for front of ? The gigs where stewarded by Red Action who where extreme marxists and had exiled IRA members on the lead council.


Saw a two page thing about St Georges Day by Brag nearly puked.

Henry Irving

[cite]Posted By: DA9[/cite]

[cite]Posted By: floydandharvey[/cite]Billy Bragg left wing? You're having a laugh. Google the bloke, you'll find loads of photos of him shaking hands with the Queen. And half his songs have Britain or England in the title. The guy's far right if he's anything. I won't have nothing to do with him.

Are you taking something?

I think he's taking the urine : -)