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Talking With the Taxman About Poetry 1986

folk 38 min 12 tracks Mushroom Records

Talking with the Taxman About Poetry is the third album by Billy Bragg, released in September 1986. With production by John Porter and Kenny Jones, Talking with the Taxman About Poetry featured more musicians than Bragg's previous works, which were generally little more than Bragg himself and a guitar.

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Character-led, classical in form, spare and intimate.

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classical in formformally daring
sparerichly built

Tracks

1Greetings to the New Brunette3:32
2Train Train2:13
3The Marriage2:32
4Ideology3:27
5Levi Stubbs’ Tears3:32
6Honey I’m a Big Boy Now4:06
7There Is Power in a Union2:49
8Help Save the Youth of America2:49
9Wishing the Days Away2:30
10The Passion2:54
11The Warmest Room3:57
12The Home Front4:10

12 tracks, 38 minutes.

About the album

Artist: Billy Bragg
Label: Mushroom Records
Released: 1986
Type: Album
Format: CD
Country: NZ

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