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Billy Bragg - Lifes A Riot (30th Anniversary Edition) [Vinyl]

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Format: Vinyl
Label: COOKING VINYL
Catalog: 596
Rel. Date: 10/29/2013
UPC: 711297499612

Lifes A Riot (30th Anniversary Edition) [Vinyl]
Artist: Billy Bragg
Format: Vinyl
New: Not in stock
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. The Milkman of Human Kindness
2. To Have and to Have Not
3. Richard
4. A New England
5. The Man in the Iron Mask
6. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
7. Lovers Town Revisited
8. Intro [Live]
9. Lovers Town Revisited [Live]
10. To Have and to Have Not [Live]
11. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty [Live]
12. The Man in the Iron Mask [Live]
13. Richard [Live]
14. The Milkman of Human Kindness [Live]
15. A New England [Live]

More Info:

Billy Bragg, once-described as a "one-man Clash," has spent the last two decades writing and performing passionate, witty, socially conscious music. This is a remastered 30th Anniversary Edition of "Life's a Riot With Spy Vs. Spy," 1983's mini-LP that first introduced the world to Billy's style -- roughly strummed electric guitar and stark vocals belying a keen sense of melody and committed, deeply humane lyrics on topics ranging from life and love to social upheaval and the plight of the working class.

Reviews:

Recorded live to 2-track tape for free over the course of three afternoons in Chappell Music's tiny demo studio in the modest hope of selling the occasional copy at early gigs, "Life's a Riot..." had initial sales topping 50,000 (ultimately over 120,000) without the aid of advertising. It spent 12 weeks at #1 on the UK indie chart and reached #32 in the national LP chart and featured his first underground anthem

        
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