{"product_id":"bragg-billy-best-of-billy-bragg-at-the-bbc-1983-2019","title":"Bragg, Billy - Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983 ¨C 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW VINYL LP ON COOKING VINYL 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 X 180 GRAM VINYL.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilly Says: ¡°Work in progress. That¡¯s how John Peel thought of his evening sessions, offering artists the opportunity to try out new songs in a studio environment. That¡¯s how I looked at them too. The confirmation of a Peel session date was a signal to get my ideas together, to define material that had hitherto been little more than words scribbled on a page or a tune thrashed out during a sound check. That¡¯s why some of the tracks here have a different phrasing and arrangement to that which appeared on record. The songs were so new, you can hear I¡¯m still feeling my way into them. Several were conceived and written the night before the session. In one case, I actually composed a song from scratch while the show was on air.\u003cbr\u003eThat rawness was always a key component of my BBC sessions, the thrill of putting something out there for the very first time. And here I¡¯ve collected all the best moments across 36 years of my ongoing work in progress.¡±\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIDE ONE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 A New England (John Peel session, 27th July 1983)\u003cbr\u003e2 Fear Is A Man¡¯s Best Friend [Cale] (John Peel session, 27th July 1983)\u003cbr\u003e3 Love Gets Dangerous (John Peel session, 27thJuly 1983)\u003cbr\u003e4 Like Soldiers Do (David Jensen session, 22ndDecember 1983)\u003cbr\u003e5 The Man In The Iron Mask (w\/ Dave Woodhead) (David Jensen session, 22ndDecember 1983)\u003cbr\u003e6 The Saturday Boy (David Jensen session, 22ndDecember 1983)\u003cbr\u003e7 A Lover Sings (John Peel session, 18thSeptember 1984)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIDE TWO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 Between The Wars (John Peel session, 18thSeptember 1984)\u003cbr\u003e9 A13, Trunk Road To The Sea [Troup\/Bragg] (w\/ Wiggy) (Saturday live, 13th October 1984)\u003cbr\u003e10 There Is Power In A Union (John Peel session, 20th August 1985)\u003cbr\u003e11 Days Like These (John Peel session, 20thAugust 1985)\u003cbr\u003e12 Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance (Janice Long session, 18th December 1985)\u003cbr\u003e13 Greetings To The New Brunette (John Peel session, 2nd September 1986)\u003cbr\u003e14 Ideology (John Peel session, 2nd September 1986)\u003cbr\u003e15 The Warmest Room (John Peel session, 2ndSeptember 1986)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIDE THREE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16 She¡¯s Got a New Spell (John Peel session, 30th August 1988)\u003cbr\u003e17 Valentine¡¯s Day Is Over (John Peel session, 30th August 1988)\u003cbr\u003e18 The Short Answer (John Peel session, 30th August 1988)\u003cbr\u003e19 Rotting On Remand (John Peel session, 30th August 1988)\u003cbr\u003e20 The Few (John Peel session, 12th May 1991)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIDE FOUR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e21 Accident Waiting To Happen (w\/ Wiggy) (John Peel session, 12th May 1991)\u003cbr\u003e22 Tank Park Salute (w\/ Cara Tivey) (John Peel session, 12th May 1991)\u003cbr\u003e23 Brickbat (John Peel session, 13th October 1995)\u003cbr\u003e24 This Gulf Between Us (John Peel session, 13thOctober 1995)\u003cbr\u003e25 Goal Hanger (London Music Week live, 1st May 1997)\u003cbr\u003e26 The Boy Done Good [Bragg\/Marr] (London Music Week live, 1st May 1997)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIDE FIVE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e27 From Red To Blue (London Music Week live, 1st May 1997)\u003cbr\u003e28 The Busy Girl Buys Beauty (Janice Long Paris Theatre London Live, October 1999)\u003cbr\u003e29 It Says Here (Janice Long Paris Theatre London Live, October 1999)\u003cbr\u003e30 Lonesome Traveller [Hays] (John Peel session, 8thDecember 2004)\u003cbr\u003e31 Goodbye, Goodbye (Phill Jupitus live, 30th March 2007)\u003cbr\u003e32 Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key [Guthrie\/Bragg] (Bob Harris live, 6th May 2012)\u003cbr\u003e33 No-One Knows Nothing Anymore (Latitude Festival live, 18th July 2014)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSIDE SIX\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e34 Levi Stubbs¡¯ Tears (Glastonbury live, 26th June 2015)\u003cbr\u003e35 Why We Build The Wall [Anais Mitchell] (Tom Robinson live Buxton Opera House, 21st January 2017)\u003cbr\u003e36 I Ain¡¯t Got No Home [Guthrie] (w\/ CJ Hillman) (Radio 2 Folk Awards live, 5th April 2017)\u003cbr\u003e37 The Space Race Is Over (Tom Robinson Now Playing 6Music ¡®Billy Bragg Takeover¡¯, 14th July 2019)\u003cbr\u003e38 St. Swithin¡¯s Day (Tom Robinson Now Playing 6Music ¡®Billy Bragg Takeover¡¯, 14th July 2019)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ay56B3oKw6M\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"mysite","offers":[{"title":"2015\/11\/19","offer_id":57471107826008,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0964\/8324\/6424\/files\/COOKLP734_Frontb.png?v=1780903964","url":"https:\/\/ateliervinyls.com\/products\/bragg-billy-best-of-billy-bragg-at-the-bbc-1983-2019","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}