Brewing Up with Billy Bragg

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艺人: Billy Bragg
语种: 其他
厂牌: Go! Discs
发行时间: 1984年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by David Cleary

Bragg's first full album delivers another clutch of memorable, clever songs. Here the rudimentary voice and electric guitar arrangements prevalent in Life's a Riot With Spy Vs. Spy are refined and sweetened by occasional use of overdubbed vocals (&Love Gets Dangerous&), organ (&A Lover Sings&), and trumpet (&The Saturday Boy&); this last selection is a jaunty mid-tempo number about unrequited love that makes reference to the Delfonics' &La-La Means I Love You.& Occasional 1950s influences surface on this album, most notably Bo Diddley in the jittery &This Guitar Says Sorry& and Chuck Berry in the bouncy &From a Vauxhall Velox& (which has the classic couplet &Some people say love is blind/But I just think that it's a bit short-sighted&). In addition to songs about relationships, there are also pointedly critical numbers that deal with social/political issues; examples include &It Says Here& (a ringing gruff tune that lampoons the press) and &Island of No Return& (a gripping and angry antiwar song). This excellent release has been supplanted by Back to Basics, which combines this album with Life's a Riot and Between the Wars into a single entity.

Brewing Up with Billy Bragg

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