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Music : Brewing Up With Billy Bragg: Expanded Edition
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Brewing Up With Billy Bragg: Expanded Edition by: Billy Bragg List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £4.98 You Save: £5.01 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0711297470321 Label: Cooking Vinyl Manufacturer: Cooking Vinyl Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Cooking Vinyl Release Date: March 06, 2006 Studio: Cooking Vinyl Sales Rank: 6693 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Make Tea Not Love.`Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy' would take some beating without appearing to repeat his self but Billy Bragg managed to put out a further set of Urban Folk on `Brewing Up' which built on the foundations of `Spy vs. Spy' while improving as not only a writer but also as a performer. `Brewing Up' opens perfectly with `It Says Here' setting out his politics and framing them with enough shared experience to ensure we empathise before moving onto the love songs which are rooted in reality with `Love Gets Dangerous', `The Myth of Trust', `From a Vauxhall Velox' and most successfully on `The Saturday Boy' which as a slice of teenage angst is one of the most fully realised songs of all time. As well as the nice cup of tea Billy ... Read More: Rating: - Don't believe the price! Good to see all the Bragg albums in this format. BUT BEWARE, I have tried to buy many of the albums at the quoted price only to find the order deleted and an email explaining that sometimes Amazon price things by mistake. They still have not altered the price on the website, so BEWARE. Rating:  - Stripped back Success.This is Billy Bragg's second album, and these welcome reissues give the opportunity to explore for the uninitiated. I had never really paid too much attention to Billy Bragg until hearing 'The Saturday Boy' on a recent John Peel compilation given away with Mojo magazine. I love the sudden sound of the trumpet to back the harsh trebley electric guitar. It works well. The highlight of this album is probably 'St Swithin's Day' a beautiful love song sung with longing by the young Bragg. The sound is probably a kind of love or hate thing. Billy's albums tend to be just him with a guitar going through a very treble sounding amp. The harsh cockney tone of his voice can be an acquired taste at first, but after a while I really began to enjoy it. At 35 minutes, ... Read More: |
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