Life's a Riot With Spy Vs Spy

Billy Bragg | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 21, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yep Roc Records
• ASIN: B000B5KRRA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,806 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #85 in Music > Alternative Rock > New Wave & Post-Punk > Urban Folk

Editorial Reviews

Billy Bragg, once-described as a "one-man Clash," has spent the last two decades writing and performing passionate, witty, socially conscious music. On September 6, Yep Roc Records will re-issue "Life's a Riot With Spy Vs. Spy," 1983's mini-LP that first introduced the world to Billy's style -- roughly strummed electric guitar and stark vocals belying a keen sense of melody and committed, deeply humane lyrics on topics ranging from life and love to social upheaval and the plight of the working class. Recorded live to 2-track tape for free over the course of three afternoons in Chappell Music's tiny demo studio in the modest hope of selling the occasional copy at early gigs, "Life's a Riot..." had initial sales topping 50,000 (ultimately over 120,000) without the aid of advertising. It spent 12 weeks at #1 on the UK indie chart and reached #32 in the national LP chart and featured his first underground anthem -- "A New England." Six-Panel Mini-Jacket. Yep Records. 2006.