The Internationale/Live and Dubious

Billy Bragg

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 21, 2006)
• Original Release Date: February 21, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yep Roc Records
• ASIN: B000B5KRR0
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #66,348 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. THE INTERNATIONALE

2. I DREAMED I SAW PHIL OCHS LAST NIGHT

3. THE MARCHING SONG OF THE COVERT BATTALIONS

4. BLAKES JERUSALEM

5. NICARAGUA NICARAGUITA

6. THE RED FLAG

7. MY YOUNGEST SON CAME HOME TODAY(Original Live And Dubious EP)

8. INTRO (LIVE)

9. HELP SAVE THE YOUTH OF AMERICA (LIVE)

10. THINK AGAIN

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. EAST BERLIN DDR - FEBRUARY 1986 (LIVE CONCERT)

2. THERE IS POWER IN A UNION

3. BETWEEN THE WARS NICARAGUA - JULY 1987 (LIVE)

4. NICARAGUA NICARAGUITALITHUANIA USSR - MAY 1988 (LIVE CONCERT)

5. I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE

6. TO HAVE AND TO HAVE NOT

7. THE MILKMAN OF HUMAN KINDNESS

8. ISLAND OF NO RETURN

9. BETWEEN THE WARS

10. THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Billy Bragg, once-described as a "one-man Clash," has spent the last two decades writing and performing passionate, witty, socially conscious music. This is a reissue of Live and Dubious, Billy's first album containing live material, combined with The Internationale, a 1990 EP of global and historical political anthems and revolutionary ballads. The Internationale features everything from a brass band and a Welsh choir on the title track to the Spanish-language "Nicaragua, Nicaraguita." The equally fiery Live and Dubious, originally released in 1988 with the subtitle "Help Save the Youth of America," came with this message from Billy: "I have no vote in your Presidential election yet its outcome will directly affect my future and the future of millions of people around the world... Remember, when you elect a President, you are electing a President for all of us. Please be more careful this time."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent remastering, but packaging is marginal, November 17, 2006

By	A. Helfer (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

These discs include Bragg's Internationale and Live and Dubious EPs, with some bonus tracks. The second disc is a DVD that contains material from a small handful of Bragg concerts in the 1980s when there were still a few serious communist/socialist countries in the world.

The remastering of the music is great. This is, perhaps, Bragg's most overtly political music, with much of it consisting of his renditions of socialist standards.

Anyway, the content is great. The packaging, however, is marginal. It's just a cardboard sleeve. The discs slide in and out. There is nearly nothing by way of liner notes. For the price, you might hope for more. And Amazon is charging nearly twice what I paid new for this at a local record store (two Hamiltons!). Outrageous, especially when Bragg himself put a legend on the original cover of this disc telling people not to pay more than 3.99 English pounds for it. But, then, we're making the world safe for capitalism, right?

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best, May 22, 2009

By	Paul H. Siegmund (Banner Elk, NC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Loved the original Elektra release but this one far excels, awsome remastering, just blasts forth in all its glory.

4.0 out of 5 stars Different., July 28, 2007

By	Elizabeth L. Hyzy (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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I think Billy Bragg fans would enjoy this album, although it is different from his other releases. It starts of with "The Internationale" - with multiple vocal lines and orchestrated instruments, and then goes into "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night" - which is a capella. Definitely some different stuff going on, but it's worth it if you're fan.