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Billy Bragg, Workers Playtime
Audio CD
Disk ID: 407302
Disk length: 42m 23s (11 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1988
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. She's Got a New Spell | 3:25 |
| 2. Must I Paint You a Picture | 5:32 |
| 3. Tender Comrade | 2:50 |
| 4. The Price I Pay | 3:34 |
| 5. Little Time Bomb | 2:17 |
| 6. Rotting on Remand | 3:38 |
| 7. Valentine's Day is Over | 4:53 |
| 8. Life with the Lions | 3:06 |
| 9. The Only One | 3:26 |
| 10. The Short Answer | 4:59 |
| 11. Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards | 4:34 |
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Review
Even as a very young man, Billy Bragg tempered his socialist politics with songs about affairs of the heart, a combination that's served him well. But no matter how lovey-dovey he may croon, Bragg can't help but rail at oppression in its many manifestations. On Worker's Playtime, producer Joe Boyd (Fairport Convention, Nick Drake) frames Bragg's ragged voice with sympathetic folk-rock arrangements. But the real strength of this 1988 collection lies in Bragg's songwriting. The album may boast the pedantic "Capitalism Is Killing Music," but Bragg's sense of humor is in evidence throughout. "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" mixes Mao with Mott the Hoople, while the heart-stopping sincerity of "The Short Answer" suffers not a whit for bringing up Karl Marx. --Rob O'Connor
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Tracks: 11, Disk length: 42m 23s
Tracks: 11, Disk length: 42m 24s (+0m 1s)
Tracks: 11, Disk length: 42m 22s (-1m 59s)
Tracks: 11, Disk length: 42m 24s (+0m 1s)
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