Billy Bragg Discography The Roaring Forty | 1983–2023

The Roaring Forty | 1983–2023

Release date October 26, 2023

Tracklist

1

The Milkman of Human Kindness

2:49

2

To Have and to Have Not

2:33

3

2:51

4

2:14

5

The Man in the Iron Mask

2:14

6

The Busy Girl Buys Beauty

1:58

7

Lover’s Town Revisited

1:19

8

Strange Things Happen (alternative version)

3:17

9

2:50

10

Love Lives Here

1:42

11

2:38

12

Loving You Too Long

2:50

13

The Man in the Iron Mask (alternative version)

2:17

14

This Guitar Says Sorry (alternative version)

2:14

15

Love Gets Dangerous (alternative version)

2:32

16

2:46

17

A13 (Trunk Road to The Sea)

2:27

18

Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend

2:32

19

2:18

20

Strange Things Happen

2:43

21

This Guitar Says Sorry

2:35

22

Love Gets Dangerous

2:18

23

Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend

2:40

24

A13 (Trunk Road to The Sea)

2:26

25

The Busy Girl Buys Beauty

2:03

26

The Man in the Iron Mask

2:08

27

2:11

28

4:18

29

Love Gets Dangerous

2:25

30

The Myth of Trust

2:55

31

From a Vauxhall Velox

2:32

32

The Saturday Boy

3:32

33

Island of No Return

3:36

34

St. Swithin's Day

3:51

35

Like Soldiers Do

2:40

36

This Guitar Says Sorry

2:30

37

Strange Things Happen

2:40

38

3:52

39

It Must Be a River

2:18

40

Won’t Talk About It

5:05

41

Talking Wag Club Blues

2:58

42

You Got the Power

3:09

43

2:54

44

Back to the Old House

2:51

45

A Lover Sings (alternative version)

3:57

46

Between the Wars

2:29

47

Which Side Are You On?

2:34

48

The World Turned Upside Down

2:35

49

It Says Here (alternative version)

2:35

50

Days Like These

2:20

51

I Don't Need This Pressure Ron

1:57

52

Scholarship Is the Enemy of Romance

2:22

53

Between the Wars

2:31

54

Greetings to the New Brunette

3:33

55

2:13

56

2:33

57

3:29

58

Levi Stubbs' Tears

3:32

59

Honey I’m a Big Boy Now

4:09

60

There Is Power in a Union

2:50

61

Help Save the Youth of America

2:50

62

Wishing the Days Away

2:31

63

2:56

64

The Warmest Room

3:59

65

4:11

66

3:34

67

The Tracks of My Tears

2:55

68

Wishing the Days Away (alternate version)

2:31

69

The Clashing of Ideologies (alternate version)

2:50

70

A Nurse’s Life Is Full of Woe

2:47

71

3:10

72

1:47

73

3:33

74

Walk Away Renee (version)

2:25

75

3:39

76

4:01

77

2:52

78

3:33

79

She’s Got a New Spell

3:25

80

Must I Paint You a Picture?

5:30

81

2:48

82

The Price I Pay

3:33

83

Little Time Bomb

2:18

84

Rotting on Remand

3:38

85

Valentine's Day Is Over

4:54

86

Life With the Lions

3:05

87

3:23

88

The Short Answer

4:56

89

Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

4:35

90

The Price I Pay (demo)

3:58

91

Love Has No Pride

3:33

92

That’s Entertainment

3:51

93

She’s Got a New Spell (alt version)

2:42

94

Little Time Bomb (demo)

2:19

95

Bad Penny (demo)

3:04

96

Reason to Believe

2:09

97

3:44

98

She’s Leaving Home

3:00

99

Wishing the Days Away (ballad version)

4:34

100

Won’t Talk About It

4:22

101

The Internationale

3:49

102

I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night

1:30

103

The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions

4:01

104

Blake’s Jerusalem

2:33

105

Nicaragua Nicaraguita

1:09

106

3:14

107

My Youngest Son Came Home Today

3:08

108

8:23

109

This Land Is Your Land

4:35

110

Never Cross a Picket Line

3:37

111

A Change Is Gonna Come

3:57

112

A Miner’s Life

3:00

113

0:58

114

Help Save the Youth of America (live)

2:37

115

Think Again (live)

4:23

116

Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (live)

3:11

117

Days Like These (DC remix)

2:42

118

To Have and to Have Not (live)

2:49

119

There Is Power in a Union

3:27

120

Levi Stubbs’ Tears (live)

3:48

121

4:54

122

The Short Answer (live)

4:41

123

Seven and Seven Is

2:10

124

Accident Waiting to Happen

4:00

125

Moving the Goalposts

2:33

126

4:59

127

Cindy of a Thousand Lives

4:14

128

You Woke Up My Neighbourhood

3:10

129

4:11

130

God’s Footballer

3:04

131

3:27

132

3:46

133

Mother of the Bride

3:34

134

Tank Park Salute

3:29

135

4:19

136

North Sea Bubble

3:18

137

2:49

138

Wish You Were Her

2:47

139

3:54

140

2:31

141

Ontario Quebec and Me

2:42

142

Bread and Circuses

4:26

143

Heart Like a Wheel

2:44

144

Accident Waiting to Happen (Red Star version)

3:46

145

3:46

146

1:49

147

From Red to Blue

3:22

148

4:07

149

Everybody Loves You Babe

3:11

150

4:37

151

4:56

152

3:14

153

The Space Race Is Over

4:26

154

Northern Industrial Town

2:59

155

The Fourteenth of February

3:27

156

King James (alternative version)

3:22

157

3:46

158

Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (demo)

4:56

159

The Boy Done Good

3:22

160

Run Out of Reasons

5:30

161

Just One Victory

3:22

162

The Boy Done Good

1:49

163

4:46

164

Sugardaddy (Smokey Gets in Your Ears mix)

3:39

165

Never Had No One Ever

3:12

166

Rule nor Reason

4:13

167

1:42

168

Walt Whitman’s Niece

3:53

169

Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

4:06

170

Birds and Ships

2:14

171

She Came Along to Me

3:27

172

1:51

173

I Guess I Planted

3:34

174

Eisler on the Go

2:57

175

The Unwelcome Guest

5:07

176

My Flying Saucer

1:46

177

3:18

178

Stetson Kennedy

2:39

179

All You Fascists

2:45

180

3:46

181

Black Wind Blowing

3:00

182

3:15

183

My Thirty Thousand

2:38

184

Ought to Be Satisfied Now

3:32

185

Go Down to the Water

4:33

186

2:25

187

Don’t You Marry

3:16

188

1:40

189

4:10

190

Be Kind to the Boy on the Road

3:44

191

I’m Out to Get

3:58

192

3:02

193

3:57

194

2:28

195

England, Half English

2:26

196

5:30

197

Some Days I See the Point

4:57

198

3:03

199

Take Down the Union Jack

3:18

200

Another Kind of Judy

3:42

201

He’ll Go Down

3:20

202

3:31

203

The Tracks of My Tears

3:52

204

3:08

205

England, Half English (7″ remix)

3:55

206

Take Down the Union Jack (band version)

3:21

207

3:32

208

You Pulled the Carpet Out

2:37

209

Christ for President (live in the studio)

4:12

210

California Stars (live in the studio)

3:58

211

Hoodoo Ska Voodoo (live in the studio)

5:20

212

My Father’s Mansions

2:57

213

England Half English Meets John Barleycorn

2:53

214

4:35

215

I Almost Killed You

2:38

216

2:43

217

The Beach Is Free

2:43

218

Sing Their Souls Back Home

3:28

219

You Make Me Brave

3:04

220

Something Happened

2:38

221

Mr Love & Justice

3:13

222

If You Ever Leave

3:01

223

4:05

224

The Johnny Carcinogenic Show

4:15

225

3:37

226

2:02

227

Like Soldiers Do (acoustic version)

3:42

228

The Price of Oil

4:50

229

Down in the Willow Garden

2:51

230

Old Clash Fan Fight Song

2:34

231

2:04

232

3:20

233

2:05

234

There Will Be a Reckoning

3:44

235

All You Fascists 2010

1:52

236

Tomorrow’s Going to Be a Better Day

2:53

237

The Battle of Barking

2:16

238

A New England (From a Concert for Kirsty Maccoll)

4:07

239

2:21

240

No One Knows Nothing Anymore

4:32

241

3:02

242

I Ain't Got No Home

3:34

243

Swallow My Pride

2:51

244

4:08

245

3:15

246

Goodbye, Goodbye

3:15

247

There Will Be a Reckoning

3:30

248

Chasing Rainbows

3:38

249

Your Name on My Tongue

4:50

250

Tomorrow’s Going to Be a Better Day

3:11

251

We're Following the Wrong Star

4:10

252

Never Buy the Sun

3:45

253

Last Flight to Abu Dhabi

2:06

254

Constituition Hill

2:30

255

Lay Down Your Weary Tune

4:19

256

Song of the Iceberg

3:50

257

There Is Power in a Union

2:51

258

3:38

259

Kilroy Was Here

4:12

260

2:52

261

Rock Island Line

2:56

262

The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore

4:29

263

The Midnight Special

3:35

264

2:49

265

Lonesome Whistle

2:54

266

2:40

267

Waiting for a Train

2:47

268

3:30

269

Gentle on My Mind

3:39

270

Hobo’s Lullaby

3:57

271

Railroading on the Great Divide

3:08

272

2:41

273

Early Morning Rain

4:15

274

Why We Build the Wall (live)

3:45

275

The Midnight Special (live)

3:36

276

The L & N Don’t Stop Here Anymore (live)

4:46

277

The Sleep of Reason

4:33

278

King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood

3:00

279

Why We Build the Wall

3:30

280

Saffiyah Smiles

3:33

281

Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted

4:14

282

Full English Brexit

4:04

283

Should Have Seen It Coming

3:24

284

Mid-Century Modern

5:28

285

3:35

286

Good Days and Bad Days

4:41

287

Freedom Doesn’t Come for Free

3:21

288

Reflections on the Mirth of Creativity

3:08

289

The Million Things That Never Happened

3:46

290

The Buck Doesn’t Stop Here No More

4:44

291

I Believe in You

3:02

292

3:52

293

I Will Be Your Shield

3:31

294

Ten Mysterious Photos That Can’t Be Explained

3:39

295

3:45

296

Moving the Goalposts (live)

2:58

297

Ten Mysterious Photos That Can’t Be Explained (live)

3:19

298

The Million Things That Never Happened (live)

3:49

299

King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood (live)

2:56

300

Mid‐Century Modern (live)

4:55

301

Cindy of a Thousand Lives (live)

4:22

302

Lonesome Ocean (live)

3:42

303

Ever Fallen in Love (with Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) (live)

2:44

304

The Internationale

3:32

305

Salt of the Earth

2:55

306

My Youngest Son Came Home Today

3:39

307

PF Sloan Billy Bragg

4:25

308

Darling, Let’s Have Another Baby

2:47

309

If I Had a Hammer

3:05

310

4:34

311

Marching Out From Selma

3:07

312

When the Ship Comes In (live)

3:25

313

Don’t Do It Liza

3:54

314

The Drugs Don’t Work

4:13

315

I Ain’t Got No Home

4:03

316

2:17

317

Talkin’ World War III Blues

3:11

318

The Rebels of ’48 (live)

3:17

319

An English Revolutionary (live)

3:30

320

Ballots and Bread (live)

4:01

321

Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You

3:22

322

If We Make It Through December

3:13

323

4:51

324

Can’t Be There Today

3:41

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