Volume 1 (Billy Bragg album)


Volume 1 is a box set by alternative folk singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, released in 2006. The box set includes 7 CDs and 2 DVDs with a booklet containing song lyrics and an introduction by Wiggy, producer of several of Bragg's albums.
Though Workers Playtime was released in 1988, it has been made part of Volume 2 while The Internationale, which was published in 1990, is the fourth album reprised here. Thus, the two sets are not fully chronological.

Track listing

All songs written by Billy Bragg, except where noted

Disc 1 (''[Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy]'' – Original Album)

  1. "The Milkman of Human Kindness" – 2:49
  2. "To Have and to Have Not" – 2:33
  3. "Richard" – 2:51
  4. "A New England" – 2:14
  5. "The Man in the Iron Mask" – 2:13
  6. "The Busy Girl Buys Beauty" – 1:58
  7. "Lovers Town Revisited" – 1:19

    Disc 2 (''Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy'' – Bonus CD)

  8. "Strange Things Happen" – 3:19
  9. "The Cloth I" – 2:50
  10. "Love Lives Here" – 1:42
  11. "Speedway Hero" – 2:39
  12. "Loving You Too Long" – 2:51
  13. "The Guitar Says Sorry" – 2:14
  14. "Love Gets Dangerous" – 2:32
  15. "The Cloth II" – 2:47
  16. "The Man in the Iron Mask" – 2:17
  17. "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea" – 2:27
  18. "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend" – 2:32

    Disc 3 (''[Brewing Up with Billy Bragg]'' – Original Album)

  19. "It Says Here" - 4:18
  20. "Love Gets Dangerous" - 2:23
  21. "The Myth of Trust" - 2:54
  22. "From a Vauxhall Velox" - 2:31
  23. "The Saturday Boy" - 3:30
  24. "Island of No Return" - 3:37
  25. "St Swithin's Day" - 3:54
  26. "Like Soldiers Do" - 2:39
  27. "This Guitar Says Sorry" - 2:31
  28. "Strange Things Happen" - 2:38
  29. "A Lover Sings" - 3:54

    Disc 4 (''Brewing Up with Billy Bragg'' – Bonus CD)

  30. "It Must Be a River" - 2:19
  31. "I Won't Talk About It" - 5:06
  32. "Talking Wag Club Blues" - 2:59
  33. "You Got the Power" - 3:10
  34. "The Last Time" - 2:55
  35. "Back to the Old House" - 2:53
  36. "A Lover Sings" - 3:58
  37. "Which Side Are You On?" - 2:34
  38. "It Says Here" – 2:36
  39. "Between the Wars" – 2:30
  40. "The World Turned Upside Down" – 2:35

    Disc 5 (''[Talking with the Taxman About Poetry]'' – Original Album)

  41. "Greetings to the New Brunette" - 3:29
  42. "Train Train" - 2:11
  43. "The Marriage" - 2:30
  44. "Ideology" - 3:27
  45. "Levi Stubbs' Tears" - 3:28
  46. "Honey, I'm a Big Boy Now" - 4:05
  47. "There Is Power in a Union" - 2:47
  48. "Help Save the Youth of America" - 2:45
  49. "Wishing the Days Away" - 2:28
  50. "The Passion" - 2:52
  51. "The Warmest Room" - 3:55
  52. "The Home Front" - 4:09

    Disc 6 (''Talking with the Taxman About Poetry'' – Bonus CD)

  53. "Sin City" - 3:34
  54. "Deportees" - 4:03
  55. "There is Power in a Union" - 3:16
  56. "The Tracks of My Tears" - 2:56
  57. "Wishing the Days Away" - 2:32
  58. "The Clashing of Ideologies" - 2:52
  59. "Greetings to the New Brunette" - 3:57
  60. "A Nurse's Life is Full of Woe" - 2:48
  61. "Only Bad Signs" - 3:10
  62. "Hold the Fort" - 1:47

    Disc 7 (''The Internationale">The Internationale (album)">The Internationale'' – Original Album / ''Help Save the Youth of America: Live & Dubious'' EP / Bonus Tracks)

  63. "The Internationale" – 3:45
  64. "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night" – 1:27
  65. "The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions" – 3:59
  66. "Blake's Jerusalem" – 2:30
  67. "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" – 1:06
  68. "The Red Flag" – 3:12
  69. "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" – 3:04
  70. "Introduction" – 0:57
  71. "Help Save the Youth of America" – 2:36
  72. "Think Again" – 4:21
  73. "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" – 3:09
  74. "Days Like These" – 2:40
  75. "To Have and to Have Not" – 2:47
  76. "There Is Power in a Union" – 3:27
  77. "Joe Hill" – 8:23
  78. "This Land Is Your Land" – 4:35
  79. "Never Cross a Picket Line" – 3:38
  80. "A Change Is Gonna Come" – 3:58
  81. "A Miner's Life" – 3:01

    Disc 8 (Bonus DVD – ''Here And There'')

East Berlin DDR – February 1986
  1. "There Is Power in a Union" – 2:35
  2. "Between the Wars" – 2:31
Nicaragua – July 1987
  1. "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" – 1:07
Lithuania USSR – May 1988
  1. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" – 2:07
  2. "To Have and to Have Not" – 2:21
  3. "The Milkman of Human Kindness" – 2:29
  4. "Island of No Return" – 3:24
  5. "Introduction to Between the Wars" – 3:15
  6. "Between the Wars" – 2:21
  7. "The World Turned Upside Down" – 3:02
  8. "Levi Stubbs' Tears" – 3:15
  9. "Help Save the Youth of America" – 2:36
  10. "A New England" – 2:04
  11. "Wishing the Days Away" – 4:15
  12. "People Get Ready" / "Tupelo Honey" – 3:02
  13. "Star" – 1:56
  14. "A13, Trunk Road to The Sea" – 2:17

    Disc: 9 (Boxed Set Bonus DVD – ''From The West Down To The East'')

The South Bank Show, March 1985
  1. "" - 0:37
  2. "To Have And To Have Not" - 2:54
  3. "A13, Trunk Road To The Sea" - 5:30
  4. "Island Of No Return" - 4:12
  5. "A Lover Sings" - 3:56
  6. "A New England" - 2:59
  7. "Which Side Are You On?" - 3:12
  8. "Between The Wars" - 2:19
East Berlin DDR, August 1986
  1. "" - 0:13
  2. "Lovers Town Revisited" - 1:16
  3. "Levi Stubbs' Tears" - 3:27
  4. "The World Turned Upside Down" - 3:07
  5. "It Says Here" - 2:16
  6. "Island Of No Return" - 6:48
  7. "Which Side Are You On?" - 2:24
  8. "Love Gets Dangerous" - 2:53
  9. "Richard" - 2:22
  10. "Train Train" - 2:22
  11. "A New England" - 2:33