Back To Basics
June 1987, Go! Discs, AGODP 8
Double album compilation of Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy and Brewing Up With Billy Bragg plus Between The Wars EP
Track Listing
Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy
The Milkman Of Human Kindness
To Have And To Have Not
Richard
A New England
The Man In The Iron Mask
The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
Lovers Town Revisited
Brewing Up With Billy Bragg
It Says Here
Love Gets Dangerous
The Myth of Trust
From a Vauxhall Velox
The Saturday Boy
Island Of No Return
St Swithin's Day
Like Soldiers Do
This Guitar Says Sorry
Strange Things Happen
A Lover Sings
Between The Wars EP
Between The Wars
Which Side Are You On
World Turned Upside Down
It Says Here
It says here that the Unions will never learn
It says here that the economy is on the upturn
And it says here we should be proud
That we are free
And our free press reflects our democracy
Those braying voices on the right of the House
Are echoed down the Street of Shame
Where politics mix with bingo and tits
In a strictly money and numbers game
Where they offer you a feature
On stockings and suspenders
Next to a call for stiffer penalties for sex offenders
It says here that this year's prince is born
It says here do you ever wish
That you were better informed
And it says here that we can only stop the rot
With a large dose of Law and Order
And a touch of the short sharp shock
If this does not reflect your view you should understand
That those who own the papers also own this land
And they'd rather you believe
In Coronation Street capers
In the war of circulation, it sells newspapers
Could it be an infringement
Of the freedom of the press
To print pictures of women in states of undress
When you wake up to the fact
That your paper is Tory
Just remember, there are two sides to every story
