Billy Bragg: Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
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Billy Bragg, once-described as a "one-man Clash," has spent the last two decades writing and performing passionate, witty, socially conscious music. On September 6, Yep Roc Records will re-issue 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."
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TRACK LISTING
| Disc 1: | |||
| 1 | Greetings To The New Brunette | (3:31) | |
| 2 | Train Train | (2:13) | |
| 3 | The Marriage | (2:32) | |
| 4 | Ideology | (3:27) | |
| 5 | Levi Stubbs Tears | (3:32) | |
| 6 | Honey I'M A Big Boy Now | (4:08) | |
| 7 | Power In A Union | (2:49) | |
| 8 | Help Save The Youth Of America | (2:49) | |
| 9 | Wishing The Days Away | (2:30) | |
| 10 | The Passion | (2:54) | |
| 11 | The Warmest Room | (3:57) | |
| 12 | The Home Front | (4:12) | |
| Disc 2: | |||
| 1 | Sin City | (3:32) | |
| 2 | Deportees | (4:00) | |
| 3 | There Is Power In A Union (Inst) | (3:15) | |
| 4 | Tracks Of My Tears | (2:54) | |
| 5 | Wishing The Days Away (Alternative Version) | (2:30) | |
| 6 | The Clashing Of Ideologies | (2:49) | |
| 7 | Greetings To The New Brunette (Demo) | (3:55) | |
| 8 | A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe | (2:46) | |
| 9 | Only Bad Signs | (3:09) | |
| 10 | Hold The Fort | (1:48) | |



