2010, Yep Roc Records
Billy Bragg, once-described as a 'one-man Clash,' has spent the last two decades writing and performing passionate, witty, socially conscious music. Yep Roc Records re-issue Talking with the Taxman About Poetry, Billy's 1985 album, about which Rolling Stone glowed, 'On this album, cheerfully subtitled 'The difficult Third Album,' Bragg expands his pared-down sound ever-so-slightly (violin here, piano and tambourine there). While purists might bitch, the result is a winning mesh, as clever as Elvis Costello, as melodic as Ray Davies and as rocking as Chuck Berry.'
Tracklisting
Disc 1
| 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 (Bonus Track) |
| 14 | Deportees (Bonus Track) |
| 15 | There Is Power In A Union (Instrumental) (Bonus Track) |
| 16 | The Tracks Of My Tears (Bonus Track) |
| 17 | Wishing The Days Away (Alternative Version) (Bonus Track) |
| 18 | The Clashing of Ideologies (Alternative Version) (Bonus Track) |
| 19 | Greetings To The New Brunette (Demo) (Bonus Track) |
| 20 | A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe (Bonus Track) |
| 21 | Only Bad Signs (Bonus Track) |
| 22 | Hold The Fort (Bonus Track) |
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