June 2010
Pressure Drop (Bragg Central BB5111)
Tracklisting:
Home/Same Again/There Will Be A Reckoning/All You Fascists 2010/Tomorrow’s Going To Be A Better Day/The Battle of Barking
November 2011
Fight Songs (Bragg Central BB5112)
Tracklisting:
Never Buy The Sun/Last Flight to Abu Dhabi/The Battle of Barking/The Wolf Covers Its Tracks/The Big Lie/Bush War Blues/Constitution Hill/Old Clash Fan Fight Song/The Price of Oil/The Lonesome Death of Rachel Corrie/We’re Following The Wrong Star
March 2013
Tooth & Nail (Cooking Vinyl COOKCD580)
Tracklisting:
January Song/No One Knows Nothing Any More/Handyman Blues/I Ain’t Got No Home/Swallow My Pride/Do Unto Others/Over You/Goodbye, Goodbye/There Will Be A Reckoning/Chasing Rainbows/Your Name On My Tongue/Tomorrow’s Going To Be A Better Day
Singles
February 1985
Between The Wars EP/The World Turned Upside Down/Which Side Are You On?/It Says Here (Solo)
Go! Discs 7″ AGOEP 1
December 1985
Days Like These/I Don’t Need This Pressure Ron/Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance
Go! Discs 7″ GOD 8
Days Like These/I Don’t Need This Pressure Ron/Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance
Go! Discs 12″ GODX 8
June 1986
Levi Stubbs’ Tears/Think Again/Walk Away Renee (Version)
Go! Discs 7″ GOD 12
Levi Stubbs’ Tears/Think Again/Walk Away Renee (Version)/Between The Wars (Live)
Go! Discs 12″ GODX 12
November 1986
Greetings To The New Brunette/Deportees/The Tatler
Go! Discs 7″ GOD 15
Greetings To The New Brunette/Deportees/The Tatler/Jeane/There Is Power In A Union
Go! Discs 12″ GODX 15
May 1988
She’s Leaving Home/With A Little Help From My Friends (Wet Wet Wet) CHILDLINE 7″ CHILD 1
August 1988
Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards/Wishing The Days Away/Sin City Go! Discs 7″ GOD 23
November 1988
She’s Got A New Spell/Must I Paint You A Picture? (Extended version) Go! Discs 7″ GOD 24
June 1991
Sexuality/Bad Penny
Go! Discs 7″ GOD 56 & MC GODMC 56
Sexuality/Sexuality (Manchester remix)/Sexuality (London remix)
Go! Discs 12″ GODX 56 & DJ PROMO GODXDJ 56
Sexuality/Sexuality (Manchester remix)/Sexuality (London remix)/Bad Penny
Go! Discs CD GODCD 56
August 1991
You Woke Up My Neighbourhood/Ontario, Quebec And Me
Go! Discs 7″ GOD 60 & MC GODMC 60
You Woke Up My Neighbourhood/Ontario, Quebec And Me/Bread And Circuses/Heart Like A Wheel
Go! Discs 12″ GODX 60, CD GODCD 60 & DJ PROMO GODXDJ 60
September 1991
Don’t Try This At Home Box Set
The whole album on 8 × 7″ vinyl singles
Go! Discs 869 494
February 1992
Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star version)/Revolution/Sulk/The Warmest Room (Live)
Go! Discs 7″ GOD 67, 12″ GODX 67 & CD GODCD 67
Accident Waiting To Happen (Live)/Levi Stubbs’ Tears (Live)/Valentine’s Day Is Over (Live)/North Sea Bubble (Live)
Go! Discs LIVE CD GOLCD 67
August 1996
Upfield/Rule Nor Reason/Thatcherites
Cooking Vinyl FRY CD 051
April 1997
The Boy Done Good/Sugardaddy/Just One Victory/Qualifications
Cooking Vinyl FRY CD 064
The Boy Done Good/Sugardaddy (Moodswings remix)/Never Had No One Ever/Run Out Of Reasons
Cooking Vinyl FRY CDX 064
2007
Johnny Clash/Old Clash Fan Fight Song/The Big Lie
Bragg Central 7″ JCM01
March 2008
I Keep Faith/Like Soldiers Do (Acoustic Version)
Cooking Vinyl 7″ FRY341
2008
The Beach Is Free/I Almost Killed You
Download only
2010
Never Buy The Sun
Download only
February 2013
No One Knows Nothing Any More/Handyman Blues
Cooking Vinyl FRYDL602
Billy Bragg and Wilco
April 2012
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (Nonesuch B0072X2NHQ)
Tracklisting:
Walt Whitman’s Niece/California Stars/Way Over Yonder in the Minor
Key/Birds and Ships/Hoodoo Voodoo/She Came Along To Me/At My
Window Sad and Lonely/Ingrid Bergman/Christ for President/I Guess I
Planted/One by One/Eisler on the Go/Hesitating Beauty/Another Man’s
Done Gone/The Unwelcome Guest/Airline to Heaven/My Flying
Saucer/Feed of Man/Hot Rod Hotel/I Was Born/Secret of the Sea/Stetson
Kennedy/Remember the Mountain Bed/Blood of the Lamb/Aginst th’
Law/All You Fascists/Joe DiMaggio Done it Again/Meanest Man/Black
Wind Blowing/Someday Dome Morning Sometimes/Bugeye Jim/When
The Roses Bloom Again/Gotta Work/My Thirty Thousand/Ought to be
Satisfied Now/Listening To the Wind that Blows/Go Down to the
Water/Chain of Broken Hearts/Jailcell Blues/Don’t You Marry/Give me a
Nail/The Jolly Banker/Union Prayer/Be Kind to the Boy on the
Road/Ain’ta Gonna Grieve/Tea Bag Blue/I’m Out to Get
Plus DVD: Man In The Sand
Miscellaneous official releases and promo items
1985
Back To Basics Audio Aid
7″ flexi-disc free with Back To Basics album. Gives tips on how to play like Billy.
February 1985
Between The Wars/Between The Wars
Go! Discs 7″ AGO DJ1
June 1987
A New England/St Swithin’s Day
Go! Discs 7″ GOD DJ 20
Promo disc for Back To Basics LP
April 1988
Live And Dubious EP
Help Save The Youth Of America/Think Again/Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto/Days Like These (DC remix)/To Have And To Have Not/There Is Power In A Union
PolyGram Canada 12″/MC 870 306-1. Imported into the UK by Go! Discs, shrink-wrapped and stickered with catalogue number AGOMLP 1
August 1988
Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards/Wishing The Days Away/Sin City The notorious DJ Edit – has the first verse of Great Leap Forwards missing
1989
Reason To Believe (Live)
Utility 12″ USAMP 1
Seven-track promo featuring tracks by each of the Utility artists; later condensed to a free 7″ flexi-disc in The Catalogue magazine.
May 1990
Raglan Road (Live)
Utility 7″ USAMP 2
Utility sampler given free with vinyl copies of The Internationale album
September 1991
5 Tracks From His Forthcoming Album
Go! Discs promo CD, BBPCD 1
Promo CD for Don’t Try This At Home album contains Sexuality/North Sea Bubble/Moving The Goalposts/You Woke Up My Neighbourhood/Tank Park Salute
November 1993
Don’t Play This At Home
Cooking Vinyl Promo CD, FRY CD 026
Promo CD for the Cooking Vinyl 060/061/062.
contains A New England/St Swithin’s Day/Levi Stubbs’ Tears/She’s Got A New Spell/Cindy Of A Thousand Lives
1996
Upfield Promo CD
Cooking Vinyl promo only CD, FRY CD 051
contains Upfield/Rule Nor Reason/Thatcherites
August 1996
William Bloke promotional use only CD, COOK 100
In clear plastic envelope
December 1996
Half Time Hits Vol. 1: Goalhanger
Cooking Vinyl promo CD, FRY CD 056
For use at football grounds. In soft, plastic envelope, often accompanied by a Christmas card from Billy.
May 1997
Half Time Hits Vol. 2: The Boy Done Good
Cooking Vinyl promo CD, FRY CD 066
February 1999
Mermaid Avenue Demos
Billy Bragg, UPCD1
contains Birds And Ships/She Came Along To Me/I Guess I Planted/Eisler On The Go/The Unwelcome Guest
Free with Man In The Sand video
August 1999
Shirley (Greetings To The New Brunette)
Cooking Vinyl promo CD, BBPR01
contains Shirley/Sulk/Walk Away Renee/She’s Leaving Home/I Don’t Need This Pressure Ron
Appearances on other artists’ records
LEON ROSSELSON – BALLAD OF A SPY CATCHER
1987. Single. Upside Down Records UPDO 007
(Track appears on album I DIDN’T MEAN IT 1988 Fuse Records CF392)
THE GANG – BARRICADA
1987. Album. Tam Tam (Italy)
Tracks: Junco Partner – vocals/Goin’ To The Crossroads – guitar
NORMAN COOK – BLAME IT ON THE BASSLINE
1989. Single. Go-Beat GODCD 3
Track: Won’t Talk About It – co-written by and featuring Billy Bragg
10,000 MANIACS – TROUBLE ME
1989. Single. Elektra EKR 93T
Track: Party Of God – duet, co-written with Natalie Merchant
KIRSTY MACCOLL – WALKING DOWN MADISON
1991. Single. Virgin SCDG 1348
Track: Darling Let’s Have Another Baby – duet with Kirsty MacColl
KIRSTY MACCOLL – ALL I EVER WANTED
1991. Single. Virgin VSCDG 1373
Track: A New England (Live) – acoustic duet from Radio 1 Broadcast 26/06/91
R.E.M. – NEAR WILD HEAVEN
1991. Promo single. Warner Bros W0055CDX Track: Tom’s Diner (Live) from Bingo Hand Job show
WEDDINGS, PARTIES, ANYTHING – KINGTIDE
1993. Album. rooArt 4509937732
Track: Island Of Humour – guitar and vocals
JOE HENRY – FIREMAN’S WEDDING
1994. Single. Mammoth MR 0067-2
Track: Dark As A Dungeon – duet with Joe Henry
CARDIFF REDS’ CHOIR/COR COCHION CAERDYDD – THE BEST OF/GORAU
1999. Album.
Track: Mandela – lead vocal
COREY HARRIS – GREENS FROM THE GARDEN
1999. Album. Alligator ALCD4864
Track: Teabag Blues from Mermaid Avenue sessions
IAN ‘MAC’ McLAGAN & THE BUMP BAND – BEST OF BRITISH
1999. Album. MANIAC MRCD-0001
Track: Best Of British – vocal
LESS THAN JAKE – SHE’S GONNA BREAK SOON
2003. Single. Sire 93624 26262
Track: The Brightest Bulb Has Burned Out – vocal
Tracks on various artists compilations
1984
Let The Children Play – Panic PEACE 1
Track: Between The Wars – demo version
A New Optimism – Jamming! SITU 11
Track: The Man In The Iron Mask (With Dave Woodhead on trumpet)
1985
Heroes – Rock ’n’ Dole RDR 2
Track: There Is Power In A Union (With The Pattersons)
Feed The Folk – Temple Records FTP 01
Track: World Turned Upside Down
Out Now! – Chrysalis OUTV1
Track: Between The Wars
1986
16th Festival Des Politischen Liedes – Amiga DDR 8 45 310
Track: Between The Wars (Live)
Now That’s What I Call Music 8 – Virgin/EMI/PolyGram Now 8
Track: Greetings To The New Brunette
Not Just Mandela – Davey Lamp DLLP 4 Track: Africa (With The Neurotics)
1987
Square Roots – Folk Roots FROOT 001
Track: Hold The Fort
Songs In The Struggle For Peace – Melodya (USSR) C90 25707006
Track: Between The Wars (Live in Kiev)
Wake Up! – Wake Up! Records WOMBLE 1 (Re-released on CD in 1997)
Track: A Change Is Gonna Come (Live)/Garageland (Live with Wiggy, The Neurotics and Attila The Stockbroker)
Mixed Peel – Strange Fruit NME PRO6
Track: Love Gets Dangerous (from 1983 Peel session)
1988
Sgt Pepper Knew My Father – NME PEP LP 100
Track: She’s Leaving Home (With Cara Tivey)
Great Moments In Vinyl History – Special Delivery SPM 1009
Track: Cold And Bitter Tears (Live with Ted Hawkins)
1989
New Roots – Stylus Music SMR 972
Track: Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
Obligado Otelo – C.E.D.R.I. LDA 574903/04
Track: Rotting On Remand
19th Festival Des Politischen Liedes – Amiga (DDR) 8 45 362
Track: Valentine’s Day Is Over
1990
Rubiyat – Elektra 9 60940-2
Track: Seven And Seven Is
Don’t Mourn-Organise – Smithsonian Folkways CD SF 40026
Track: Joe Hill (Written by Phil Ochs)
1991
Toms Album – A&M 75021 5363 2
Track: Version of Tom’s Diner from the Bingo Hand Job show
Best Of Mountain Stage Volume Two – This Way Up 514 495-2
Track: Tank Park Salute (With Cara Tivey)
Civilisation Vs Technology: H.E.A.L. – Elektra 9-61141-2
Track: Tighten Up Your Wig (With the Athenians and DJ Woody Dee)
1992
Ruby Trax – NME 40 CD
Track: When Will I See You Again? (With The Red Stars)
In A Field Of Their Own – NME GLASTON 1 DCD
Track: Accident Waiting To Happen (Live with The Red Stars)
1993
Peace Together – Island CID 8018/518 063-2
Track: Religious Persuasion (With Andy White and Sinead O’Connor)
1995
This Is Fort Apache – MCA MCAD-11179
Track: Sulk
Troubadours Of British Folk – Rhino R2 72162
Track: Between The Wars
Out Loud – Knitting Factory Works KFW 169
Glastonbury 25th Anniversary – Chrysalis 7243-8-34455 2 3
Track:
Disagreement Of The People – Cooking Vinyl COOK CD 088
Track: This Land Is Your Land (With Heathens All)
What’s That I Hear: The Songs Of Phil Ochs – Sliced Bread CD-SB71176
Track: Sailors And Soldiers (With Sid Griffin)
1996
In Their Own Words Volume Two – Razor & Tie RT 2824-2
Track: To Have And To Have Not (Live)
The Smiths Is Dead – Les Inrockuptibles 486 745-2
Track: Never Had No One Ever
Agitprop – The Politics of Punk – Dressed To Kill DTK CD 010/011/012
Tracks: It Says Here/Between The Wars
Walking And Talking – TVT Soundtrack TVT 8050
Tracks: She’s Got A New Spell/The Fourteenth Of February/Must I Paint You A Picture?/You Woke Up My Neighbourhood, plus snippets of instrumental score by Billy Bragg
1997
FROOTS 8 1997 – Folk Roots FROOT CD 088
Track: Goalhanger
One Voice – World Music Network RGNET 1014
Track: Tender Comrade
Not With That Clown – Mambo MUSH 33039.2
Track: Walk Away Renee
1998
Where Have All The Flowers Gone?: The Songs of Pete Seeger – Appleseed 1024
Track: My Father’s Mansions (With Eliza Carthy)
Rock The Dock – Creation CRE CD 240
Track: Never Cross A Picket Line (In aid of the Liverpool Dockers)
1999
Playpen: An Album Of New Acoustic Music – Playpen
PLAYPEN1
Track: Must I Paint You A Picture? (Live)
The Panel – Working Dog LIB CD 1001-2
Track: She Came Along To Me (Live)
Ten Years Of Folk: Fleadh – BMG 74321 691532
Track: Sexuality
1999
Radio 107.1 KGSR Austin: Broadcasts Volume 7 – 107.1 KGSR/Radio Austin
Track: Against The Law (Live solo)
Post Punk Chronicles: Going Underground – Rhino CD R2 75334
Track: A New England
2000
Millennium Thoughts – Chrome Dreams MP CD 2000
(Spoken word compilation for charity Jubilee 2000; Billy’s contribution is the phrase ‘Fair trade not free trade’ repeated three times)
Til We Outnumber ’Em – Righteous Babe RBR019-D
Track: Aginst Th’ Law
Festival Des Politischen Liedes Die Achtziger – Plane 88839
Track: Between The Wars
Seka Vol. 2 – Twah! 115/EFA 61115-2
Track: Bad Penny
2001
Uncut: Why Don’t We Do It In The Road – Uncut UG-3137
Track: Revolution
(Given away free with Uncut magazine)
1998
Maximum 80’s [sic] – Elektra/Asylum 62290
Track: A New England
2002
Peace Not War – Peace Not War Project PNW1 CD
Track: The Price of Oil
J Files Presents The Best B Sides Of All Time – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Track: Walk Away Renee (Version)
The Acoustic Folk Box – Topic TSF CD 4001 CD
Track: Moving The Goalposts
Troubadours: The Essential Album – Manteca MANTDCD207
Track: Levi Stubbs’ Tears
Uncut – Uncut 02
Track: She Smiled Sweetly (Free with Uncut magazine)
If I Had A Song: The Songs of Pete Seeger Volume 2 – Appleseed Recordings APR CD 1055
Track: If I Had A Hammer (With Eliza Carthy)
Raise Your Banners Festival of Political Song – RYB Records RYB2001 CD
Track: The Internationale
2003
Hang The DJ: The Alternative 80s – Rajon Music Group, CD TV0082
Track: Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
Live On Stage: Love And The Blues – ABC Music 9 399032 129324
Track: The Price I Pay (recorded at Norwood Concert Hall, Adelaide, 21 October 2001)
Hope – War Child CD 50466 5846 2
Track: The Wolf Covers Its Tracks
Uncut : Rebellious Jukebox – Uncut 2003 02
Track: Eisler On The Go (Demo version)
2004
Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The 80s Underground – Rhino Records
Track: A New England
2005
John Peel: A Tribute – Warners WSM CD 226