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Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg Greatest hits album by Billy Bragg Released October 28, 2003 Recorded 1983-2001 Genre Rock Length 2:47:22 Label Elektra (UK), Rhino (US) Producer Grant Showbiz, Oliver Hitch, Edward de Bono, John Porter, Kenny Jones Professional reviews Billy Bragg chronology England, Half English
(2002)Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg
(2003)Volume 1
(2006)Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg, is a three CD collection of Billy Bragg's greatest hits and b-sides, released on October 28, 2003. It consists of a double album and a disc of ten extras. Subscribers to Billy's website voted on their favourite tracks and these votes were used to compile the CD collection.
Contents
Track listing
Disc one
- "A New England"
- "Man in the Iron Mask"
- "Milkman of Human Kindness"
- "To Have and to Have Not"
- "A Lover Sings"
- "St. Swithin's Day"
- "Saturday Boy"
- "Between the Wars"
- "World Turned Upside Down"
- "Levi Stubbs' Tears"
- "Walk Away Renee"
- "Greetings to the New Brunette"
- "There is Power in a Union"
- "Help Save the Youth of America"
- "Warmest Room"
- "Must I Paint You a Picture?"
- "She's Got a New Spell"
- "Price I Pay"
- "Valentine's Day is Over"
- "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards"
Disc two
- "Sexuality"
- "Cindy of a Thousand Lives"
- "Moving the Goalposts"
- "Tank Park Salute"
- "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood"
- "Accident Waiting to Happen" (Red Star version)
- "Sulk"
- "Upfield"
- "The Fourteenth of February"
- "Brickbat"
- "The Space Race is Over"
- "Boy Done Good"
- "Ingrid Bergman"
- "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key"
- "My Flying Saucer"
- "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" (Blokes version)
- "NPWA" (Blokes version)
- "St. Monday" (Blokes version)
- "Some Days I See the Point" (Blokes version)
- "Take Down the Union Jack" (Band version)
Disc three
- "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea"
- "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend"
- "Cold and Bitter Tears" (Live)
- "Seven and Seven Is"
- "When Will I See You Again?"
- "Rule nor Reason" (Live)
- "Debris" (Live)
- "Dry Bed" (Demo version)
- "She Smiled Sweetly"
- "Take Down the Union Jack" (King Normal & The Rug remix)
Billy Bragg Studio albums Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy · Brewing Up with Billy Bragg · Talking with the Taxman about Poetry · Workers Playtime · The Internationale · Don't Try This at Home · William Bloke · Mermaid Avenue (with Wilco) · Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (with Wilco) · England, Half-English · Mr Love & Justice
Compilations,
and boxsetsBack to Basics · The Peel Sessions Album · Victim of Geography · Life's a Riot Between the Wars · Bloke on Bloke · Reaching to the Converted · Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg · Volume 1 · Volume 2
Singles and EPs "Between the Wars EP" · "Days Like These" · "Levi Stubbs' Tears" · "Greetings to the New Brunette" · "She's Leaving Home" · "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" · "She's Got a New Spell" · "Won't Talk About It" · "Sexuality" · "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood" · "Accident Waiting to Happen EP" · "Upfield" · "The Boy Done Good" / "Sugardaddy" · "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key" (with Wilco) · "She Came Along to Me EP" (with Wilco) · "England Half English" / "St Monday" (with The Blokes) · "Take Down the Union Jack" (with The Blokes) · "We Laughed" (Rosetta Life feat. Billy Bragg) · "I Keep Faith" · "The Beach Is Free" / "I Almost Killed You" · "Never Buy The Sun"
Live albums "Help Save the Youth of America" · "No Pop, No Style, Strictly Roots" · "Mermaid Avenue Tour" · "Going to a Party Way Down South" · "Live at the Barbican"
Related articles Wilco · Discography · Red Wedge · "A New England"
Categories:- 2003 greatest hits albums
- Albums produced by Grant Showbiz
- Billy Bragg compilation albums
- Triple compilation albums
- Elektra Records compilation albums
- Rhino Records compilation albums
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