Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

by Billy Bragg

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Expanding slightly beyond his purely solo electric guitar sound, Billy Bragg incorporated subtle folk-rock instrumentation and piano flourishes into his deeply political songwriting. The album seamlessly shifts between staunch, socialist protest anthems and incredibly sentimental, poetic love songs. It is a highly conscious, passionately delivered masterpiece of left-wing British folk music.

Genres

  • Folk Rock
  • Singer-Songwriter

Tracklist

  1. Greetings to the New Brunette
  2. Train Train
  3. The Marriage
  4. Ideology
  5. Levi Stubbs' Tears
  6. Honey, I'm a Big Boy Now
  7. There Is Power in a Union
  8. Help Save the Youth of America
  9. Wishing the Days Away
  10. The Passion
  11. The Warmest Room
  12. The Home Front
  13. Sin City
  14. Deportees
  15. There Is Power in a Union - Instrumental
  16. The Tracks of My Tears
  17. Wishing the Days Away - Alternative Version
  18. The Clashing of Ideologies - Alternative Version
  19. Greetings to the New Brunette - Demo
  20. A Nurse's Life Is Full of Woe
  21. Only Bad Signs
  22. Hold the Fort