billy bragg

What's Bragg's real name? What album did Rolling Stone say was "as political as The Clash , as clever as Elvis Costello, as melodic as Ray Davies and as rocking as Chuck Berry"? What's the only double album Bragg has recorded? Join Stevie Nix as he answers all of these questions and more as he goes through Billy Bragg's back catalogue album by album.

Featured songs:

A New England
The Myth Of Trust
Which Side Are You On
Ideology
The Short Answer
The Marching Song Of The Covert
Everywhere
Everybody Loves You Babe
Sugardubby
Another Man’s Done Gone
Stetson Kennedy
Tears Of My Tracks
M For Me
Handyman Blues
Gentle On My Mind
Why We Build The Wall
I Will Be Your Shield
Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

Curated Spotify Playlist
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A longa carreira de Billy Bragg, cantautor inglês da velha esquerda britânica que odiava Margaret Thatcher, merece destaque neste PBX. Não há duvida nenhuma que Billy Bragg se indigna com as causas que canta: “Billy Brag leva a canção política a um nível de candura e de sinceridade que é muito forte”, afirma Pedro Mexia. Recordamos também a banda inglesa China Crises que ainda continua a dar concertos.

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Big grab of underground/alt drops here at the end of the year, with seminal releases served up for today's listening ears?
 
Also, Dylan and Elton albums?   How do they fare in the early 80s?
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Hootenanny | The Replacements
Life's a Riot with Spy... | Billy Bragg
Head Over Heels | Cocteau Twins
Infidels | Bob Dylan
Too Low For Zero | Elton John


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For Labor Day 2022 we asked our Patrons to send in their favorite work-related songs. It's an impressively eclectic list, with surprisingly NO Bruce Springsteen songs! (although he IS referenced several times throughout the episode)
"There is power in a factory, power in the land
Power in the hand of the worker
But it all amounts to nothing
If together we don't stand
There is power in a Union"
 - Billy Bragg

Songs featured in this episode: Career Opportunities - The Clash with Luke and Ben Gallagher; Finest Worksong - R.E.M.; Paid In Cigarettes - Hot Snakes; Working Girl - The Members; A New Career in a New Town - David Bowie; The Ballad of Dorothy Parker - Prince; Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster - Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon; Working Class - The Defibulators; I Hate My Job - Butthole Surfers; Graveyard Shift - Uncle Tupelo; Morning Train (9 to 5) - Sheena Easton; 16 Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford; Heigh Ho - Tom Waits; Hey! Hey! It's Friday! - Black Snake Halo; Those Men In White Coats - The Diagram Brothers; Working Man - Rush (Live, All The World's A Stage); Bell Boy - The Who; The Working Hour - Tears For Fears; Clockout - Devo; Don't Wanna - All Hits; King Of Ska - Desmond Dekker; Piss Factory - Patti Smith; Factory - Wall Of Voodoo; Vacation - The Go-Go's; The Magnificent Seven - The Clash; There Is Power In A Union - Billy Bragg; Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil

Spotify Playlist:
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Lois Reitzes interviews James Beard award-winning columnist Lucas Kwan Peterson about the his Halloween Candy Rankings; Kabir Sehgal about his new documentary "Fandango at the Wall"; and Billy Bragg about the power of music and social change.

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