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Billy Bragg – Workers Playtime (VG+/VG+) – LP, AU 1988
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Workers Playtime is an LP by Billy Bragg from 1988 released on the Liberation Records label.
About this album
Workers Playtime is Billy Bragg at his most assured, balancing blunt political conviction with sharper melodies and more expansive arrangements than his early work. Issued in 1988, the album built on the stripped-back folk-punk of his debut and showed how his songwriting could carry both anger and tenderness without losing directness. Bragg’s voice and guitar remain the centre, but the record’s fuller sound gives songs such as She’s Got a New Spell and Must I Paint You a Picture greater emotional reach. Widely regarded as one of his key albums, it helped confirm him as a distinctive British songwriter with both polemical force and real pop instinct.
Genre: Pop & Rock
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Artist: Billy BraggLabel: Liberation Records – LIB 5153Format: LP, AlbumUnits: 1Country: AustraliaReleased: 1988Genre: Pop & RockStyle: Folk Rock, Indie Rock
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A1 She'S Got A New Spell
A2 Must I Paint You A Picture
A3 Tender Comrade
A4 The Price I Pay
A5 Little Time Bomb
A6 Rotting On Remand
B1 Valentine'S Day Is Over
B2 Life With The Lions
B3 The Only One
B4 The Short Answer
B5 Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards