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Workers Playtime (album)

Workers Playtime
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Studio album by Billy Bragg
Released September 20, 1988
Recorded Pavilion Studios, London
Genre Folk punk
Length 42:22
Label Go! Discs
Producer Joe Boyd, Wiggy
Billy Bragg chronology
Talking with the Taxman about Poetry
(1986)Talking with the Taxman about Poetry1986
Workers Playtime
(1988)
The Internationale
(1990)The Internationale1990
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars
Robert Christgau B
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars

Workers Playtime is a 1988 album by Billy Bragg. Originally released on the Go! Discs label, it is his fourth release but third full-length album. It was reissued on compact disc in September 1996 on the Cooking Vinyl label before being remastered, expanded and reissued in 2006 on the Cooking Vinyl label in the UK and on the Yep Roc label in the United States.

The album reached number 18 in the UK albums chart.

The original album cover has the subtitle "Capitalism Is Killing Music".

The album is referenced in the TV series John Safran's Music Jamboree stating that the album originally appeared with text that the album should not be sold for more than $15 - the label was later removed.

All tracks written by Billy Bragg except where noted.

Information from the Official Billy Bragg website discography and the 2006 reissue CD liner notes unless otherwise noted.


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