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Music : Life's a Riot With Spy Vs. Spy: Expanded Edition
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Life's a Riot With Spy Vs. Spy: Expanded Edition by: Billy Bragg List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £6.87 You Save: £3.12 (31%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0711297470222 Label: Cooking Vinyl Manufacturer: Cooking Vinyl Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Cooking Vinyl Release Date: March 06, 2006 Studio: Cooking Vinyl Sales Rank: 11564 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Life's a Riot With The Bard of Barking`Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy' screams for attention with the same originality today as it did in 1983. The `Urban' folk music of Billy Bragg has never gone out of fashion, it was famously, never in fashion and this debut album is a timeless reminder of the electric troubadour who would later dub himself `Johnny Clash' arrived fully formed like the `Milkman of Human Kindness' personified. The songs still stand up today particularly the classic `New England', The Busy Girl Buys Beauty', `Lovers Town Revisited' and `To Have and To Have Not' which is unfortunately as relevant now as it was twenty five years ago. That these seven songs were put out on `Utility' as the last defining act of Charisma Records before being assimilated ... Read More: Rating:  - A New EnglandIt's hard to convey to people just how AUDACIOUS this record was when it was first released. Spandau Duran were spending tens of thousands of pounds on videos and then suddenly this big-nosed bloke with an unashamed Essex accent appears armed with JUST A GUITAR and nothing else. Seething with anger and sexual frustration, Billy's songs spoke to the young and alienated for whom the Thatcher revolution meant nothing. The opening song, 'The Milkman Of Human Kindness', is a 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' for the post-punk generation - "If you are lonely, I will call/ If you are poorly, I will send poetry." 'To Have And To Have Not' is a defiant and dignified anthem for the millions of unemployed at the time. Lyrically, ... Read More: Rating: - The Original And The BestLife's a riot was a coming of age record for me and so this review is tainted with the sentimentality of adolescence seen from middle age. Appearing during a low point in UK music history Bragg took the music back to basics - just him and an electric guitar. His broad Essex accent increases the coarse appeal and accentuates the reality of songs that dip into disappointment but never despair. It's all good - and in just seven songs it should be - and that's not something you can say about any subsequect BB album. 20 years on from its original release the songs are still good and the lyrics don't age. If you like music cut back to the raw and full of emotion this is a great BB album to have. |
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