Brewing Up with Billy Bragg
| Brewing Up with Billy Bragg | ||||
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| Studio album by Billy Bragg | ||||
| Released | November 1984 | |||
| Recorded | July 1984 Berry Street Studio, London |
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| Genre | Indie, singer-songwriter, anti-folk | |||
| Length | 33:49 | |||
| Label | Go! Discs | |||
| Producer | Edward de Bono | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  |
| The Village Voice | B− |
Brewing Up with Billy Bragg is the second album by Billy Bragg, released in 1984.
While his debut album Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy (1983) was performed by Bragg accompanied only by his guitar, Brewing Up with Billy Bragg began to use subtle overdubs, such as backing vocals on "Love Gets Dangerous", trumpet on "The Saturday Boy" and organ on "A Lover Sings".
The album also continued Bragg's legacy of political songs. "It Says Here" is a bitingly satirical attack on the British tabloid press and "Island of No Return" is a concise anti-war anthem.
In 2000 Q magazine placed Brewing Up with Billy Bragg at number 87 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.
The album reached number 16 in the UK albums chart.
The cover of the original album has the subtitle "A Puckish Satire On Contemporary Mores," a quote from the Woody Allen film Love and Death, in which Allen's character reviews an army play presented to Russian soldiers to prevent them from becoming infected with venereal diseases while at war.
The album was originally released on vinyl in 1984 with 11 tracks. In 1987 the album was again released along with the album Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy (1983) and the EP Between the Wars (1985) and titled Back to Basics. Back to Basics was reissued in 1990. Brewing Up with Billy Bragg was reissued on its own in 1997.[1]
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