Singer: Billy Bragg
Title: Talking With The Taxman About Poetry
Label: Yep Roc Records ‎– YEP 2603
Type: 2 x CD
Country: US
Date of released: 2006
Category: Rock
Style: Punk
Size MP3 zip: 1257 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1241 mb
Rating: 4.0✭
Format: MP3 MMF AA MP4 MP1 APE MPC WAV FLAC

Tracklist Hide Credits

Disc 1 Original Album
1-1	Greetings To The New Brunette
1-2	Train Train
1-3	The Marriage
1-4	Ideology
1-5	Levi Stubbs' Tears
1-6	Honey I'm A Big Boy Now
1-7	There Is Power In A Union
1-8	Help Save The Youth Of America
1-9	Wishing The Days Away
1-10	The Passion
1-11	The Warmest Room
1-12	The Home Front
Bonus CD Extra Tracks
2-1	Sin City
2-2	Deportees
2-3	There Is Power In A Union (Instrumental) Mandolin – John Porter
2-4	The Tracks Of My Tears
2-5	Wishing The Days Away (Alternative Version)
2-6	The Clashing Of Ideologies (Alternative Version)
2-7	Greetings To The New Brunette (Demo)
2-8	A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe
2-9	Only Bad Signs
2-10	Hold The Fort Vocals – Robert Handley

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Livingston Studios
• Remastered At – Metropolis Mastering
• Remastered At – Sound Mastering
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Billy Bragg
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Elektra Entertainment Group
• Copyright (c) – Billy Bragg
• Copyright (c) – Carbert Music, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – BMG
• Copyright (c) – Irving Music, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – Jobete Music Ltd.
• Copyright (c) – BMG Music Publishing Ltd.
• Published By – Tro Ethics Music Ltd.
• Licensed To – Yep Roc Records
• Licensed From – Elektra Entertainment Group
• Manufactured By – Rhino Entertainment Company
• Distributed By – Redeye

Credits

• Compilation Producer – Grant Showbiz
• Lyrics By – Billy Bragg (tracks: 1-7)
• Mandolin, Vocals – Hank Wangford (tracks: 2-1, 2-2)
• Music By [Tune] – Traditional (tracks: 1-7, 2-3)
• Producer – John Porter (tracks: 1-1 to 1-12), Kenny Jones (tracks: 1-1 to 1-12)
• Remastered By – Duncan Cowell (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Tim Young (tracks: 1-1 to 1-12)
• Written-By – Billy Bragg (tracks: 1-1, 1-3 to 1-6, 1-8 to 1-12, 2-5 to 2-10), Hillman* (tracks: 2-1), Parsons* (tracks: 2-1), Hoffman* (tracks: 2-2), Tarplin* (tracks: 2-4), Moore* (tracks: 2-4), Robinson* (tracks: 2-4), Guthrie* (tracks: 2-2), Zenon Lefleur* (tracks: 1-2)

Notes

Sleeve:
Special Reissue Bonus Edition
DISC ONE digitally re-mastered by Tom Young @ Metropolis Mastering
DISC TWO digitally re-mastered by Duncan Cowell @ Sound Mastering
Designed by Committee
Original recordings ℗ & © 1985 1986 Billy Bragg. This compilation ℗ & © 2006 Billy Bragg and exclusively licensed to Yep Roc in the USA except Disc One tracks 1-11 ℗ 2006 Elektra Entertainment Group. Produced under license from Elektra Entertainment Group. Disc One manufactured by Rhino Entertainment Company.

Booklet:
Disc One - Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Recorded March -July at Livingston Studios, North London.
Released September 1986 AGOLP 6
Train Train © Carbert Music Inc. (BMI)
There Is Power In A Union © BMG (ASCAP)

Bonus CD
Sin City © Irving Music Inc. (BMI)
Recorded during the Taxman sessions.
Released August 1988 as b-side of 'Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards' Go Discs! GOD23

Deportees Published by Tro Ethics Music Ltd.
Recorded during the Taxman sessions.
Released November 1986 as b-sides of 'Greetings to the New Brunette' 12" single Go Discs! GODX15

There Is Power In A Union (instrumental)
Recorded during the Taxman sessions.
Released November 1986 as b-sides of 'Greetings to the New Brunette' 12" single Go Discs! GODX15

The Tracks Of My Tears
© Jobete Music Ltd. (ASCAP)
Wishing The Days Away (Alternative Take)
The Clashing Of Ideologies (Alternative Version)
Greetings To The New Brunette (demo)
A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe
Only Bad Signs
Recorded during the Taxman sessions.
All previously unreleased

Hold The Fort
Recorded November 1985 during 'Days Like These' EP sessions
Released 1986 'Square Roots' LP Froot 001

All songs © BMG Music Publishing Ltd (ASCAP) unless otherwise stated

Disc 1:
℗ 2006 Elektra Entertainment Group.
Tracks 1-12 Produced under license from Elektra Entertainment Group.
Manufactured by Rhino Entertainment Company.
Manufactured in the U.S.A.

Disc 2:
℗ & © 2006 Billy Bragg.
Exclusively licensed to Yep Roc in the USA.
www.yeproc.com

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 6 34457 26032 0
• Matrix / Runout (Disc 1): Z49051 45 YEP2 2603-2 01 M1S3
• Matrix / Runout (Disc 2): R02090445 G1 24 Jan 2006 YEP 2603 4
• Mastering SID Code (Disc 1): ifpi L909
• Mould SID Code (Disc 1): IFPI 2U8E
• Rights Society: BMI
• Rights Society: ASCAP

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
AGOLP 6	Billy Bragg	Talking With The Taxman About Poetry ‎(LP, Album, PRS)	Go! Discs	AGOLP 6	UK	1986
D 21016	Billy Bragg	Talking With The Taxman About Poetry ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Liberation Records	D 21016	Australia	1991
CHR 1533	Billy Bragg	Talking With The Taxman About Poetry ‎(LP, Album, Promo)	Go! Discs, Chrysalis	CHR 1533	Italy	1986
9 60502-1, 60502-1	Billy Bragg	Talking With The Taxman About Poetry ‎(LP, Album, Promo)	Elektra, Elektra	9 60502-1, 60502-1	US	1986
5D-0649	Billy Bragg	Talking With The Taxman About Poetry ‎(Cass, Album)	DRO	5D-0649	Spain	1989

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