Back to Basics

Tracklist

1. 1The Milkman of Human Kindness2:49
2. 2To Have and to Have Not2:33
3. 3Richard2:50
4. 4Lovers Town Revisited1:18
5. 5A New England2:13
6. 6The Man in the Iron Mask2:14
7. 7The Busy Girl Buys Beauty1:58
8. 8It Says Here4:16
9. 9Love Gets Dangerous2:24
10. 10From a Vauxhall Velox2:30
11. 11The Myth of Trust2:53
12. 12The Saturday Boy3:29
13. 13Island of No Return3:34
14. 14This Guitar Says Sorry2:30
15. 15Like Soldiers Do2:39
16. 16St. Swithin's Day3:53
17. 17Strange Things Happen2:39
18. 18A Lover Sings3:52
19. 19Between the Wars2:27
20. 20The World Turned Upside Down2:34
21. 21Which Side Are You On2:35

Running time 58:08

Tracklist of the first edition, from MusicBrainz.

The story

Back to Basics is a 1987 collection of Billy Bragg's first three releases: The albums Life's a Riot with Spy Vs. Spy and Brewing Up with Billy Bragg, and the EP Between the Wars—all of which make their debut in the United States here. This collection did not contain any new material, but did document Billy Bragg's early "one man and his guitar" approach. The songs collected on this release demonstrate major recurrent themes in Bragg's work: highly critical commentary on Thatcherite Britain, laced with poetic love songs. The collection was re-released in November 1993 on the Cooking Vinyl label.

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Who made it

Played on it

• Billy Braggguitar, vocals · on 7 tracks

Production

• Kenny Jonesengineer, producer · on 10 tracks
• Ted de Bonoproducer · on 8 tracks
• Oliver Hitchengineer, producer, recording · on 7 tracks
• Billy Braggarranger · on 1 track

Credits from MusicBrainz, written by its volunteers.

The record

• First released
  1987
• Labels
  Go! Discs AGOCD8
  Elektra 9 60726-2
  Asylum Records
  Cooking Vinyl COOK CD 060
• Kind
  Album (compilation)
• Formats
  CD 4 editions, Vinyl 2 editions
• Editions
  5 releases in 3 countries
• Running time
  58:08
• Barcode
  5013136153323

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