The Roaring Forty (1983-2023)

2023 will see Billy Bragg and Cooking Vinyl celebrating forty years of music from the singer, songwriter, activist and author, with a selection of releases to appeal to casual admirers and die hard fans alike.

Each format has been compiled by Billy beginning with a 1LP 13-song ‘primer’ on LTD
Edition orange coloured vinyl, a 40-song LTD Edition Deluxe 3 LP collection on three shades of green vinyl, and a 40-song 2CD in card digisleeve with 16 page booklet. Vinyl formats contain a download card.

14 CD Box Set: contains more than 300 tracks including highlights from each of Billy's twelve studio albums, non-album singles and B-sides, session tracks, rare live recordings, collaborations and previously unreleased material from across his career. The 14 CD box set is packaged with a 12-inch sized perfect bound book containing images of 40 significant objects from Billy's career, each stunningly photographed and accompanied by descriptions and reminiscences by the man himself.

LP (Orange Vinyl)

1. A New England
2. Between The Wars
3. Levi Stubbs' Tears
4. Greetings To The New Brunette
5. Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
6. Sexuality
7. Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star Version)
8. Upfield
9. The Boy Done Good
10. California Stars (Live October / November 1999) - Billy Bragg, The Blokes
11. I Keep Faith
12. The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore - Billy Bragg, Joe Henry
13. I Will Be Your Shield

Deluxe 3LP (Green Vinyl)

DISC 1
1. A New England
2. The Milkman Of Human Kindness
3. To Have And Have Not
4. The Man In The Iron Mask
5. St. Swithin's Day
6. The Saturday Boy
7. Between The Wars
8. The World Turned Upside Down
9. Which Side Are You On?
10. Levi Stubbs' Tears
11. Greetings To The New Brunette
12. There Is Power In A Union
13. Help Save The Youth Of America
14. She's Leaving Home - Billy Bragg, Cara Tivey
15. She's Got A New Spell
16. Must I Paint You A Picture

DISC 2
1. Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
2. The Internationale
3. Tank Park Salute
4. Sexuality
5. Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star Version)
6. Upfield
7. The Boy Done Good
8. Walt Whitman's Niece - Billy Bragg, Wilco
9. Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key - Billy Bragg, Wilco
10. My Flying Saucer - Billy Bragg, Wilco
11. California Stars (Live October / November 1998) - Billy Bragg, The Blokes
12. Some Days I See The Point - Billy Bragg, The Blokes

DISC 3
1. England, Half English - Billy Bragg, The Blokes
2. Take Down The Union Jack (Band Version) - Billy Bragg, The Blokes
3. Old Clash Fan Fight Song
4. I Keep Faith
5. Bugeye Jim - Billy Bragg, Wilco
6. Never Buy The Sun
7. No One Knows Nothing Anymore
8. Handyman Blues
9. The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore - Billy Bragg, Joe Henry
10. King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood
11. Mid-Century Modern
12. I Will Be Your Shield

2CD

DISC 1
1. A New England
2. The Milkman Of Human Kindness
3. To Have And Have Not
4. The Man In The Iron Mask
5. St. Swithin's Day
6. The Saturday Boy
7. Between The Wars
8. The World Turned Upside Down
9. Which Side Are You On?
10. Levi Stubbs' Tears
11. Greetings To The New Brunette
12. There Is Power In A Union
13. Help Save The Youth Of America
14. She's Leaving Home - Billy Bragg, Cara Tivey
15. She's Got A New Spell
16. Must I Paint You A Picture
17. Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
18. The Internationale
19. Tank Park Salute
20. Sexuality
21. Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star Version)

DISC 2
1. Upfield
2. The Boy Done Good
3. Walt Whitman's Niece - Billy Bragg, Wilco
4. Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key - Billy Bragg, Wilco
5. My Flying Saucer - Billy Bragg, Wilco
6. California Stars (Live October / November 1998) - Billy Bragg, The Blokes
7. England, Half English - Billy Bragg, The Blokes
8. Some Days I See The Point - Billy Bragg, The Blokes
9. Take Down The Union Jack (Band Version) - Billy Bragg, The Blokes
10. Old Clash Fan Fight Song
11. I Keep Faith
12. Never Buy The Sun
13. Bugeye Jim - Billy Bragg, Wilco
14. No One Knows Nothing Anymore
15. Handyman Blues
16. The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore - Billy Bragg, Joe Henry
17. King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood
18. Mid-Century Modern
19. I Will Be Your Shield

14CD Box Set:

Disc: 1
1 The Milkman Of Human Kindness
2 Richard
3 To Have And To Have Not
4 The Man In The Iron Mask
5 A New England
6 Lovers Town Revisited
7 The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
8 The Cloth 1
9 Strange Things Happen (Alternative Version)
10 Fear Is A Man's Best Friend (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
11 Love Gets Dangerous (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
12 This Guitar Says Sorry (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
13 Strange Things Happen (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
14 A New England (Live ICA New Year Rock Week, 05/01/84)
15 The Man In The Iron Mask (Live ICA New Year Rock Week 05/01/84)
16 The Busy Girl Buys Beauty (Live ICA New Year Rock Week 05/01/84)
17 A13, Trunk Road To The Sea (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
18 A New England (John Peel Session 27th July 1983)
19 Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
20 A13, Trunk Road To The Sea
21 Loving You Too Long
22 Speedway Hero
23 Love Lives Here
24 The Cloth 2
25 Love Gets Dangerous (Alternative Version)
26 This Guitar Says Sorry (Alternative Version)
27 The Man In The Iron Mask (Alternative Version)
Disc: 2
1 Seven & Seven Is
2 The Short Answer (Live in Canada, 1991)
3 Ideology (Live in Canada, 1991)
4 Levi Stubbs Tears (Live in Canada, 1991)
5 Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (Live)
6 Think Again (Live)
7 Help Save The Youth Of America (Live)
8 Introduction
9 A Miner's Life
10 A Change Is Gonna Come
11 Never Cross A Picket Line
12 There Is Power In A Union (With The Pattersons)
13 To Have And To Have Not (Live)
14 Days Like These (DC Remix)
15 The Internationale
16 The Marching Song On The Covert Battalions
17 I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
18 Nicaragua Nicarauguita
19 Blake's Jerusalem
20 My Youngest Son Came Home Today
21 The Red Flag
22 This Land Is Your Land - Billy Bragg With Heathens All
23 Joe Hill - Billy Bragg With The Pattersons
Disc: 3
1 The Tracks Of My Tears
2 Shirley
3 The Home Front
4 The Warmest Room
5 The Passion
6 The Clashing Of Ideologies (Alternative Version)
7 Wishing The Days Away (Alternative Version)
8 Levi Stubbs' Tears
9 Ideology
10 Wishing The Days Away
11 Help Save The Youth Of America
12 The Marriage
13 Train Train
14 There Is Power In A Union
15 Honey, I'm A Big Boy Now
16 Greetings To The New Brunette
17 Hold The Fort
18 Only Bad Signs
19 A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe
20 Sin City - Billy Bragg With Hank Wangford
21 Jeane
22 Deportees - Billy Bragg With Hank Wangford
23 The Tatler
24 Walk Away Renee (Version) - Billy Bragg (Introducing Duane Tremolo)
25 Think Again
Disc: 4
1 The Price I Pay
2 She's Got A New Spell
3 Life With The Lions
4 Tender Comrade
5 Must I Paint You A Picture
6 Little Time Bomb
7 Valentine's Day Is Over
8 Rotting On Remand
9 The Only One
10 Raglan Road (Live at Womad Festival Toronto August 1989)
11 Bad Penny (Demo)
12 Reason To Believe (Live at Club Soda, Montreal 01/11/88)
13 Love Has No Pride
14 Little Time Bomb (Demo)
15 That's Entertainment
16 Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
17 The Price I Pay (Demo)
18 She's Got A New Spell (Demo)
19 The Short Answer
20 Won't Talk About It - Norman Cook With Billy Bragg
21 She's Leaving Home - Billy Bragg With Cara Tivey
22 Wishing The Days Away (Ballad Version)
Disc: 5
1 California Stars (Live October / November 1999) - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
2 Christ For President (Live October / November 1999) - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
3 You Pulled The Carpet Out - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
4 Distant Shore - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
5 Jane Allen - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
6 NPWA - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
7 England, Half English - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
8 Baby Faroukh - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
9 Some Days I See The Point - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
10 Another Kind Of Judy - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
11 Take Down The Union Jack - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
12 St. Monday - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
13 England Half English Meets John Barleycorn - Billy Bragg, Eliza Carthy, & Martin Carthy
14 My Father's Mansion - Billy Bragg & Eliza Carthy
15 Hoodoo Ska Voodoo (Live October / November 1999) - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
16 The Tears Of My Tracks - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
17 Dreadbelly - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
18 He'll Go Down - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
19 Yarra Song - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
20 Take Down The Union Jack (Band Version) - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
21 England, Half English (7" Remix) - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
22 Mystery Shoes - Billy Bragg & The Blokes
Disc: 6
1 Between The Wars
2 Back To The Old House
3 A Lover Sings (Alternative Version)
4 Talking Wag Club Blues
5 A Lover Sings
6 It Must Be A River
7 You Got The Power
8 Strange Things Happen
9 Won't Talk About It
10 The Last Time
11 Love Gets Dangerous
12 The Saturday Boy
13 From A Vauxhall Velox
14 Island Of No Return
15 This Guitar Says Sorry
16 Like Soldiers Do
17 The Myth Of Trust
18 St. Swithin's Day
19 It Says Here
20 Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance
21 It Says Here (Different Version)
22 Which Side Are You On?
23 Days Like These
24 Between The Wars (Live, Festival Des Politischen Lides, Berlin GDR, February '86)
25 The World Turned Upside Down
26 I Don't Need This Pressure Ron
Disc: 7
1 Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
2 Thatcherites
3 The Boy Done Good (Extended Edit)
4 Goalhanger
5 King James Version
6 Qualifications
7 The Boy Done Good (1999 Remaster)
8 Just One Victory
9 Run Out Of Reasons
10 The Fourteenth Of February
11 Northern Industrial Town
12 Everybody Loves You Babe
13 Upfield
14 The Space Race Is Over
15 Brickbat
16 From Red To Blue
17 A Pict Song
18 Sugardaddy
19 Never Had No One Ever
20 Sugardaddy (Smokey Gets In Your Ears Mix)
21 Rule Nor Reason
Disc: 8
1 Union Prayer - Billy Bragg & Wilco
2 Don't You Marry - Billy Bragg & Wilco
3 Be Kind To The Boy On The Road - Billy Bragg & Wilco
4 Give Me A Nail - Billy Bragg & Wilco
5 I'm Out To Get - Billy Bragg & Wilco
6 The Unwelcome Guest - Billy Bragg & Wilco
7 Birds And Ships - Billy Bragg & Wilco With Natalie Merchant
8 Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key - Billy Bragg & Wilco
9 Ingrid Bergman - Billy Bragg & Wilco
10 Eisler On The Go - Billy Bragg & Wilco
11 I Guess I Planted - Billy Bragg & Wilco
12 My Flying Saucer - Billy Bragg & Wilco
13 She Came Along To Me - Billy Bragg & Wilco
14 Walt Whitman's Niece - Billy Bragg & Wilco
15 Ought To Be Satisfied Now - Billy Bragg & Wilco
16 Go Down To The Water - Billy Bragg & Wilco
17 Jailcell Blues - Billy Bragg & Wilco
18 Stetson Kennedy - Billy Bragg & Wilco
19 All You Fascists - Billy Bragg & Wilco
20 Bugeye Jim - Billy Bragg & Wilco
21 Hot Rod Hotel - Billy Bragg & Wilco
22 Meanest Man - Billy Bragg & Wilco
23 My Thirty Thousand - Billy Bragg & Wilco
24 Black Wind Blowing - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Disc: 9
1 Sulk
2 Heart Like A Wheel
3 Revolution
4 Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star Version)
5 Ontario, Quebec And Me
6 Bread And Circuses
7 Bad Penny
8 Tank Park Salute
9 Dolphins
10 Wish You Were Her
11 Mother Of The Bride
12 North Sea Bubble
13 Body Of Water
14 Rumours Of War
15 Trust
16 Sexuality
17 The Few
18 Everywhere
19 God's Footballer
20 Accident Waiting To Happen
21 Moving The Goalposts
22 You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
23 Cindy Of A Thousand Lives
Disc: 10
1 The Drugs Don't Work - Billy Bragg With KT Tunstall
2 Don't Do It Liza - Billy Bragg With KT Tunstall
3 On A Good Day
4 I Ain't Got No Home - Billy Bragg With Foy Vance
5 When The Ship Comes In (Live)
6 The Rebels of '48 (Live)
7 Talkin' World War III Blues
8 Ballots and Bread (Live)
9 An English Revolutionary (Live)
10 Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You - Billy Bragg With Joe Henry
11 Darling, Let's Have Another Baby - Billy Bragg With Kirsty MacColl
12 If I Had A Hammer - Billy Bragg With Eliza Carthy
13 Slipknot
14 Marching Out From Selma
15 The Internationale (with Pete Seeger) - Billy Bragg With Pete Seeger
16 Salt of the Earth - Billy Bragg With Peter Buck
17 My Youngest Son Came Home Today - Billy Bragg With Michael Stipe
18 PF Sloan - Billy Bragg With Mike Mills
19 Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) (Live)
20 Can't Be There Today
21 Springhill
22 If We Make It Through December - Billy Bragg With Joe Henry
Disc: 11
1 Mid-Century Modern (Live, 18 June 2021)
2 Cindy Of A Thousand Lives (Live, 18 June 2021)
3 King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood (Live, 18 June 2021)
4 The Million Things That Never Happened
5 I Believe In You
6 Reflections On The Mirth Of Creativity
7 Lonesome Ocean
8 The Buck Doesn't Stop Here No More
9 Freedom Doesn't Come For Free
10 Mid-Century Modern
11 Good Days And Bad Days
12 Should Have Seen It Coming
13 I Will Be Your Shield
14 Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained
15 Moving The Goalposts (Live, 18 June 2021)
16 Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained (Live, 18 June 2021)
17 Pass It On
18 Sulk (Live, 18 June 2021)
19 The Million Things That Never Happened (Live, 18 June 2021)
20 Lonesome Ocean (Live, 18 June 2021)
Disc: 12
1 Mr. Love & Justice
2 If You Ever Leave
3 I Almost Killed You
4 M For Me
5 The Beach Is Free
6 Sing Their Souls Back Home
7 You Make Me Brave
8 Something Happened
9 I Keep Faith
10 A New England (From 'A Concert For Kirsty MacColl', Shepherds Bush Empire 10/10/2010) - Billy Bragg & Friends
11 The Battle Of Barking
12 There Will Be A Reckoning (Pressure Drop Version)
13 Same Again
14 Tomorrow's Going To Be A Better Day
15 All You Fascists 2010
16 Like Soldiers Do (Acoustic Version)
17 Ash Wednesday (Album Version)
18 O Freedom
19 Down In The Willow Garden
20 The Price Of Oil
21 Farm Boy
22 The Johnny Carcinogenic Show
23 The Big Lie
24 Old Clash Fan Fight Song
25 Home
Disc: 13
1 Hope St. - The Levellers & Billy Bragg
2 Kilroy Was Here
3 Sunday Morning - Billy Bragg & Courtney Barnett
4 Handyman Blues
5 Goodbye, Goodbye
6 Swallow My Pride
7 No One Knows Nothing Anymore
8 I Ain't Got No Home
9 January Song
10 Over You
11 There Will Be A Reckoning
12 Do Unto Others
13 Lay Down Your Weary Tune
14 Song Of The Iceberg
15 There Is Power In A Union (Pride OST Version)
16 We're Following The Wrong Star
17 Constitution Hill
18 Never Buy The Sun
19 Tomorrow's Going To Be A Better Day
20 Last Flight To Abu Dhabi
21 Chasing Rainbows
22 Your Name On My Tongue
Disc: 14
1 Full English Brexit
2 Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
3 Saffiyah Smiles
4 The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
5 The Midnight Special - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
6 Railroad Bill - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
7 Lonesome Whistle - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
8 Rock Island Line - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
9 KC Moan - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
10 Waiting For A Train - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
11 In The Pines - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
12 Gentle On My Mind - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
13 The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore (Live at Buxton Opera House 21/01/2017) - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
14 The Midnight Special (Live at Buxton Opera House 21/01/2017) - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
15 Why We Build The Wall (Live at Buxton Opera House 21/01/2017) - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
16 Early Morning Rain - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
17 John Henry - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
18 Railroading On The Great Divide - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
19 Hobo's Lullaby - Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
20 Why We Build The Wall
21 King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood
22 The Sleep Of Reason