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01. A New England
02. The Man In The Iron Mask
03. The Milkman of Human Kindness
04. To Have and Have Not
05. A Lover Sings
06. St Swithins Day
07. The Saturday Boy
08. Between The Wars
09. The World Turned Upside Down
10. Levi Stubbs Tears
11. Walk Away Renee
12. Greetings To The New Brunette
13. There is A Power In The Union
14. Help Save The Youth Of America
15. The Warmest Room
16. Must I Paint you A Picture
17. Shes Got a New Spell
18. The Price I Pay
19. Valentines Day Is Over
20. Waiting For The Great Leap Forward
21. Sexuality
22. cindy of a 1000 Lives
23. Moving of The Goalposts
24. Tank Park Salute
25. You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
26. Accident Waiting To Happen
27. Sulk
28. Upfield
29. The Fourteenth of February
30. Brickbat
31. The Space Race Is Over
32. The Boy Done Good
33. Ingrid Bergman
34. Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
35. My Flying saucer
36. All you Fascists Bound To Lose
37. NPWA
38. St Monday
39. Somedays I See The Point
40. Take Down The Union Jack

Must I Paint You a Picture is a generous, two-disc, 40-track survey of Bragg's career to date. The tracklisting was apparently assembled with the help of Bragg's fans, who were asked to vote for their favourites on Bragg's website.

At any rate, though Bragg has always been chiefly characterised as a political songwriter, his best work has always been that which deals with the politics of the personal: there are few more acute summations of the eternal failure of the male and female to make sense to each other than his "How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?" Bragg's superb love songs and love-gone-wrong songs are well represented here, from the angry, naive scratchings of "The Milkman of Human Kindness" to such older, if no wiser, musings as "Moving the Goalposts" and "Sulk". Curiously, his older, politically motivated songs now feel like they've reacquired an urgency they lacked during a 1990s largely devoid of stark ideological boundaries, when they sounded rather like quaint period pieces. The so-called war on terror and the increasing discomfort about global trade both have ready made soundtracks in "Between the Wars" and "There is Power in a Union"

Billy Bragg - Must I Paint You A Picture - The Essential (2 CD)

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